I had a very similar experience. I went for an interview doing what I thought was going to be a call centre job, only to arrive at a supermarket where some shady guy was trying to convince me to hand out pamphlets. It was only my second or third interview ever and even then I knew that it was some sort of scam.

Ideology will always trump education. That’s just how human brains work.

I like duck if it’s done properly, but eat kangaroo more often.

I discovered Prey (2017) a few years back. It is so my shit.

It’s probably the worst named game of all time. It’s essentially a sequel to System Shock 2 and Bioshock. Should have been called Xenoshock or something because it’s generic name is nothing like the really original game underneath.

You are fully in the driver’s seat, with a crazy amount of freedom in how you want to get from one section of the space station to the next.

The opening scene, once I discovered the reality behind the scenes, I was hooked.

Tech bros reinventing the train again

They targeted gamers.

Gamers.

We’re a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.

We’ll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it’s fun.

We’ll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.

Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.

Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We’re already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren’t shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We’ve been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that’s already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they’ve threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can’t is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You’re not special, you’re not original, you’re not the first; this is just another boss fight.

That’s monsterous.

Historically, additional military spending has always correlated with less aggressive behaviour right? Right guys? Ṟ̸̡͝ì̶̪ğ̴͙̩h̷̺̣͑t̴̢̪̊? Ŕ̷̢̩̤̲̥̳͙̠̫̼̟̯͎́̈͒͛͌͒̍̋͋͝͠͝ͅi̵̢̛͖̘̪̠̝̘͑̽̿́͗͊̾͊̚͘̕͜͝ğ̷̳̤̤͚̼͙̞̥̄̑͘̚͜͝h̵̤͑̒̓̓̃͂̂̾͆̏̚͘̚͝ṭ̵͍̮͚͈͖͖̫̙͎͑͌̔̆̈́͗̑̔́̑̊̏͘͜͠͝?̶̙͎͇͒̄̄͐̎̀̓́̇̽͐̆͒̑̊̍??

Oshkoshmigosh

I am too stupid. This is true. Too stupid to buy an iPhone too.

It’s already proven and decided. Not only was it proven. He’s continued to make the same claims post-judgement. Completely unrepentant.

It’s getting him to actually pay the penalties that’s turning out to be the difficult part.

He shifts assets to under his father’s name. He lies about the size of his assets. He makes side deals with external funders to outbid buyers and gift assets back to him. He’s just a bad dude.

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Called it

Yeah there are much more intelligent takes on this, but they’re arriving at similar conclusions.

https://www.404media.co/why-did-grok-start-talking-about-white-genocide/

Electrician. Everyone needs an electrician.

Australia tried this approach already - https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-baby-bonus-generation-is-starting-to-turn-18-has-it-saved-australia-s-population-20220624-p5awfg.html

‘We don’t care about their market’ is such a self indictment of his understanding of global trade.

It’s a big dish as there’s 2kg of carbohydrates there and celery salt isn’t as strong flavoured as sea salt.