You see, the — the thing about Star Wars is — is that it’s — it's like poetry, you know — it rhymes. Every stanza kind of — kind of rhymes with the last one.

There's — there's no underwear in space. That's — that's the rule. We didn't — we didn't have bras in space. So — so she had to tape them down. It's just — you know — it’s a space thing.

Well — you know — the music, uh — it's not like rock music, or — or electronic stuff. It's — it's very classical. Very old-fashioned. Because — because it's set in space, but — but it’s not futuristic. It’s — it’s more like a — like a space opera. That’s what it is — a space opera It’s — it’s why the music is what we — well I call it jizz.

Can you not get life guidance, community and inclusion without having to believe in the supernatural?

Rebuilding the Nazi system of documentation while claiming the legacy of their opponents. Good work everyone. At least egg prices are...

Seems unlikely considering the whole tariff situation

Influencer endorsements can actually be even less effective than traditional ads, despite their outsized budgets.

The industry has also been expressing concerns about the validity of social media ‘vanity’ measures, documenting that engagement for most social media platforms and for collaborations with influencers can be very low (Influencer Marketing, 2020)

https://sponsors.marketingscience.info/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/c_pub/2023/03/2023-03-20-A-comparison-of-Social-Media-Influencers%E2%80%99-KPIs-Patterns-Across-Platforms.pdf

You're not missing anything. You got it right. The entire funding model for tech is destined for a financial collapse that will make 2008 look like child's play.

https://www.fsgoriginals.com/books/subprime-attention-crisis

From the unreliability of advertising numbers and the unregulated automation of advertising bidding wars, to the simple fact that online ads mostly fail to work, Hwang demonstrates that while consumers’ attention has never been more prized, the true value of that attention itself—much like subprime mortgages—is wildly misrepresented. And if online advertising goes belly-up, the internet—and its free services—will suddenly be accessible only to those who can afford it.

Pretty much any immersive-sim, Prey, Deus Ex, Thief, Dishonored, System Shock Remake.

Probably worth doing if you can afford it

I remember when I first started working full time. The exhaustion is real. It doesn't ever really go away but you will eventually learn to live with it.

That cope at the end 😂

We're now trying pump and dump capitalism

6 to 10 years? What kind of risk were they taking on? I've lost about 3 months worth of value in my superannuation fund.

Nobody born after 1985 has ever experienced 'average temperatures'.

https://theconversation.com/lets-call-it-30-years-of-above-average-temperatures-means-the-climate-has-changed-36175

This was a news article from 2015. Since then nearly every year has set a record for being the warmest ever recorded.

We've had a decade of pumping more money into the money machine while our ecology falls apart around us.

I just prefer Lemmy. I started exploring Lemmy about 6 months before the API fiasco. The content on Lemmy has just kept improving since.

Given the number of kids Elon has had. His death would be one of the greatest acts of wealth redistribution humanity has ever seen.

He's supporting one policy that he's always supported and lobbied for consistently over a decade. That doesn't mean he's suddenly 'pro-Trump'.

We’ve said all along that no matter who is in the White House, our fight remains the same. The fight to fix our broken trade laws like the USMCA continues. The fight for good union jobs and U.S. leadership in the emerging battery industry continues. The fight for a secure retirement for everyone in this country continues. The fight for a living wage, affordable health care, and time for our families continues.

It's time for Washington, DC to put up or shut up, no matter the party, no matter the candidate. Will our government stand with the working class, or keep doing the bidding of the billionaires? That’s the question we face today. And that’s the question we’ll face tomorrow. The answer lies with us. No matter who’s in office.

November 6, 2024

And then in February

The UAW supports aggressive tariff action to protect American manufacturing jobs as a good first step to undoing decades of anti-worker trade policy. We do not support using factory workers as pawns in a fight over immigration or drug policy. We are willing to support the Trump Administration’s use of tariffs to stop plant closures and curb the power of corporations that pit US workers against workers in other countries. But so far, Trump’s anti-worker policy at home, including dissolving collective bargaining agreements and gutting the National Labor Relations Board, leaves American workers facing worsening wages and working conditions even while the administration takes aggressive tariff action.

“If Trump is serious about bringing back good blue collar jobs destroyed by NAFTA, the USMCA, and the WTO, he should go a step further and immediately seek to renegotiate our broken trade deals. The national emergency we face is not about drugs or immigration, but about a working class that has fallen behind for generations while corporate America exploits workers abroad and consumers at home for massive Wall Street paydays. We need to stop plant closures, bring back American jobs, and stop the global race to the bottom immediately. Any tariff action must be followed with a renegotiation of the USMCA, and a full review of the corporate trade regime that has devastated the American and global working class.”

Meanwhile here's a statement from March 28, 2025

Yesterday, President Trump signed an order that tramples on the union rights of more than a million federal workers, stripping them of their ability to negotiate over their working conditions. The 1 million members of the UAW stand with federal workers and their union, AFGE, against the attacks from the Trump administration.

When I was 12, the Reagan administration famously busted the air traffic controllers’ union, PATCO, firing over 11,000 striking controllers and blacklisting them from federal jobs. It wasn’t just about PATCO – it sent a message to employers everywhere that it was open season on the working class. The labor movement failed to act in that moment, and we have been paying the price ever since.

The actions the administration has taken today are many times worse than PATCO, affecting over 1 million federal employees across at least 18 agencies. These actions are not just an attack on unions—it’s an attack on free speech, on workers’ right to organize, on the very idea that people should have a say in their own jobs and futures. Our own members are affected by these actions, including hundreds of UAW members at National Institutes of Health.

We have learned from the past and won’t sit back quietly while unions are dismantled. The labor movement is not about party politics. We aren’t Democrats or Republicans. We’re trade unionists.  And when you come after workers, you’re going to find us standing shoulder to shoulder, ready to fight back.

It's actually super consistent..he's always been and always will be anti NAFTA.

I love thylacines. Such goofy looking but totally rad creatures. We've done so so much damage...