wideopenarms

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wideopenarms [he/him] @hexbear.net 2mo ago

Call me unc, idk, I still listen to the song sometimes just cause I kinda like it and find glados' character funny even though I find it cringe to say "the cake is a lie" irl

wideopenarms [he/him] @hexbear.net 2mo ago

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wideopenarms [he/him] @hexbear.net 3mo ago

May 1st release date

wideopenarms [he/him] @hexbear.net 3mo ago

My brother in Christ, the conservative brain worms are already here and they didn't need to understand English to get them

wideopenarms [he/him] @hexbear.net 3mo ago

Another big issue, which is a bit more insidious, is drive for cost reduction. Language learning apps and AI aren't great for gaining fluency, but it is cheaper, which drives down the price for language teachers and assistants. This drives down the price for "native" English teachers, which wouldn't be so bad on its own, but that cost reduction effect is amplified for non-native English speakers - Japan takes a lot of English speakers from the Phillipines, for example, and pays them damn near NOTHING.

Speaking of gross imperialist hiring practices in Japan, I know of a few manufacturing companies which hire immigrant labor abroad. The pay is bad enough, but since this immigrant labor is usually contracted through a scouting company, a percentage of all their paychecks is going to these leeches. Not only that, but these same companies I'm aware of only hire Japanese descendants in poor countries, namely Brazil. Additionally, if these descendants are more than 3rd or 4th gen descendants, they will not be hired.

wideopenarms [he/him] @hexbear.net 3mo ago

Buh bye

wideopenarms [he/him] @hexbear.net 3mo ago

For the small small price of me not dying while my country gets bombed, these rubes could have US corporations buying all of our national industries while buying me off and making me rich, how could these peasants be so blind and shortsighted as to not support me???

wideopenarms [he/him] @hexbear.net 3mo ago

Do not, my friends, become addicted to affordable food!

wideopenarms [he/him] @hexbear.net 3mo ago

Finally, a war I can get behind

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wideopenarms [he/him] @hexbear.net 3mo ago

I was wondering why more people weren't talking about the show and was hoping for some discussion about it on here.

Now I'd rather you guys go back to Mamdani struggle sessions, at least that bait is easier to ignore. The takes here and everywhere else are garbage and a waste of time to read.

wideopenarms [he/him] @hexbear.net 3mo ago

The gamer named coomer4wesker taking first chase and getting tunneled out

wideopenarms [he/him] @hexbear.net 3mo ago

If you wanted people to think it's a bicep, you should have added more veins

wideopenarms [he/him] @hexbear.net 4mo ago

or a dumb American

That's the point. It's a line Carol, the dumb American, says.

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wideopenarms [he/him] @hexbear.net 4mo ago

That would be part or the critique - taking the stereotypical American idea of communism to its extreme and then asking "what's so wrong with this, even if what you believe about it is even true?"

saying Stalin is a mass murderer

Again, part of the critique - Carol is the chauvinistic American in this story, these are the things Americans believe.

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wideopenarms [he/him] @hexbear.net 4mo ago

I haven't completely organized my thoughts on this but

spoiler

The show's title is literally pluribus, as in "e pluribus, unum" or w/e the american motto is

Out of all other immune people, she is the only american and the only one that has a problem with the new world

Carol's tantrums kill millions of people and she's the only one that does it

This show seems like it's exploring the many contradictions of american thought/ideology and the psychosis it imparts on its subjects. I'd say it's just like Breaking Bad and BCS in that way. As you said with the grenade convo, Carol is dumbfounded that the hivemind would be so willing to give her dangerous weapons, but what was the status quo in america before if not that? Maybe not as extreme as handing over a nuclear weapon (not that she'd realistically be able to use it even if she did have one), but I see that as a contradiction. In that same episode, the hive mind points out Carol donated to environmental causes, yet she's set off by the city lights being turned off to conserve power and resources. There's a lot of things americans say they want for the world and themselves, but once it's realized in any form they have nothing but criticisms and complaints, as if they seek unhappiness as much as Carol herself does.

All that to say, I can not see this being about AI (and Gilligan has already said it's not himself as well).

I'd also say it's not anti-communist - in fact, a friend pointed out to me this is one of the only shows that is engaging with the ideas of socialism/communism and offering some nuanced ideas/critiques on what a world like that can look like. Capitalist critique shows are a dime a dozen at this point, but Pluribus is unique in this way.