Germany’s been doing fucked up stuff for a while. People have literally had the police visit and gotten citations for what they said online (for example calling a politician a “penis” on social media.) It’s fucked.

Haha, I was actually going to make fun of the “milk toast” but I thought there were some more substantive issues.

People are applying for refugee status in Canada already, especially LGBTQ people. Which makes it fucking hilarious that there are people in another adjacent comments section yelling at me “AS AN LGBTQ PERSON I CAN’T SUPPORT GAVIN NEWSOM HOW DARE” and expecting me to take them seriously or something.

No, he made it into the news because he’s doing all this attention grabbing shit. And then some geniuses sprung the gotcha of “Aha! He is a high-profile Democrat, therefore nothing he does counts, because he’s just doing it because he wants to be president!” And then they sat back with a satisfied smile.

The article isn’t talking him up as a candidate. I’m not talking him up as a candidate. He’s not in the news because he’s a candidate for the election that’s going to happen in three and a half years. Are you now shifting your stance from “now that he’s being talked up as a candidate” to something different? Or still claiming he’s being talked up as a candidate for the election and that’s why we have to “respond” with this sort of disclaimer? I mean, it’s fine, I actually was as you noted the person who posted this article which is slapping a disclaimer on what he is doing. But IDK where you got the idea that all of a sudden now he’s being talked up as a candidate.

I’m not going to vote for my own demise

If you didn’t vote against Trump in the last election, you literally voted for your own demise. Maybe literally. I hope it turns out okay for you.

Fighting for better than the Democrats is in no way whatsoever incompatible with fighting to survive in the meantime.

now that he’s being talked up as a presidential candidate

I haven’t heard anyone talking him up as a candidate. I mean, people have talked about it periodically and I’m sure they still are, but the reason he’s in the news right now is because he’s trying to fuck up Trump’s planning. The election isn’t for years and years (maybe longer than that, the way things are going) right now.

If you look back on my profile you can see me commenting on a couple of them (including return2ozma reposting something from 2023 because it was a good opportunity to shit on Newsom and then a bunch of people coming in the comments lecturing me on how important it was to shit on Newsom).

Because the opinion pieces were all winging about how Harris lost because she didn’t go on enough podcasts

I mean that part is definitely true. The Democratic campaign machine is a big collection of boomer shit, of which this was one example. I thought that was generally agreed upon on Lemmy?

, and/or because she hadn’t been mean enough to trans people.

Fuckin’ what? Who said that? What are some of these opinion pieces?

at best his milk toast careerism will knee cap the congressional battles that happen at the same time

Sounds like it’s doing literally 100% the exact opposite, because he unlike almost all of the Democratic party is actually trying to fight for proper representation in congress. Right? Or did we read different articles or something?

Yeah. I’m especially suspicious of the big influx of posts that are all of a sudden super-concerned about his progressive credentials, as if the most important thing right now that we’re trying not to go to Trump-prison for making a Democratic campaign contribution, is what Gavin Newsom’s homeless policy was like. But this one I posted because I do feel like it’s pretty accurate to what I don’t like about Gavin Newsom on a general personal level. But yeah, he’s doing fine, it’s good that he’s trying to mess up Trump, I wish more people would.

Inb4 they pretty much don’t do a fucking thing, and we start seeing commercials and public perception about how bad and fake this whole “government internet” thing is

Welcome to the United States, where the rich people get socialism and the poors get prison

Is it opposite day or something? I could swear I literally gave a counterexample in the message you’re replying to lol

Biden: I’m going to have Dept of Education forgive half a trillion dollars in student loans

Supreme Court: Excuse me, fuck no

Trump: Hey I’m just gonna direct the awesome power of the US government to do literally whatever I personally want

Supreme Court: Yeah sounds good

This interview is really phenomenal. Among other things, they talk about why it took so many years to release the game.

“We’ve been having fun,” Gibson said. “This whole thing is just a vehicle for our creativity anyway. It’s nice to make fun things.”

The lengthy production wasn’t the result of development challenges or obstacles, they said. They just needed all these years to ensure that Silksong was exactly the game they wanted to make.

“It was never stuck or anything,” Gibson said. “It was always progressing. It’s just the case that we’re a small team, and games take a lot of time. There wasn’t any big controversial moment behind it.”

“I think we’re always underestimating the amount of time and effort it’ll take us to achieve things,” Gibson said. “It’s also that problem where, because we’re having fun doing it, it’s not like, ‘It’s taking longer, this is awful, we really need to get past this phase.’ It’s, ‘This is a very enjoyable space to be in. Let’s perpetuate this with some new ideas.’”

The longer development lasted, the more pressure Gibson and Pellen felt to ensure that everything was as fine-tuned as possible. They’d already spent four years on it — why would they rush now? The more time they spent polishing some parts, the more time they needed to apply it consistently across the rest.

“There’s a level of finish that has to be met throughout the entire game,” Pellen said. “All the way the systems interact, all the hidden work that pops up later on. It’s multiplicative. As you add stuff, the process of tying it all back together just increases.”

Gibson and Pellen say they’re happy that the game is finally coming out — and even happier that they will get to keep working on it, which they still find enjoyable even after seven years. They haven’t burned out or shown any desire to take a break. Instead, they’re already making big plans to add extra content to Silksong in the months and years to come.

This is, of course, what work is supposed to be. But we have lost the way.

Yeah, and I’m only supposed to use this bong for smoking tobacco. It said so very very clearly when I bought it so you know they mean it.

especially regarding linking (ever-so-slightly progressive) climate policy with blue collar jobs

Yeah, the branding of the whole thing was pure amateur-hour. But he spent about a trillion dollars on climate change and blue-collar jobs, which he raised by big corporate tax increases. It’s wild that no one knows that, and I’d call it a little bit more than ever-so-slightly.

Making a few digits worth of wrong division way down in the not very significant bits of the answer, is way better than encouraging all your users to use an LLM to generate the answers for their quarterly reports / tax forms / do we have enough food for the winter calculations. The Pentium division fuckup was barely worth fixing unless you were doing some kind of numerical analysis or simulation or something, which is why it slipped past all the testing initially. This is astronomically worse of a fuck-up.

It is a good joke but you missed the chance to call back to one of the better gags from Space Quest 3 by writing “Yes / Yes”

“Importance”

That will fix the broken system.

That’s what gets me about this whole thing. There’s plenty of core of truth to the idea that the Democrats are very bad, although yes the alternative currently is infinitely worse. There are thousands of things that any given person could do to try to fix that or work for better things in American politics. Refusing to elect Democrats anymore, no matter what, is 0 of them, and will make things quite a lot worse.

It’s like punishing your child for bad grades by refusing to feed them anymore. One, it doesn’t address the problem, two, it will make even the thing you say you are upset about and trying to fix, infinitely worse.