I think a big part of it is the image of wealth and success he’s cultivated. The tacky gold shit everywhere, always wearing a suit unless he’s golfing, and so on. People with no taste see that and find it attractive and want in.
Strip all that away and he’s a used car salesman or blowhard at the end of the bar who won’t shut the fuck up.
Understandable, I won’t be watching as long as that bunch of genocidal freaks is welcome.
Denis Villenueve’s movies are good examples.
I got curious about The Punisher and why many chuds around here have stickers on their rusted, lifted trucks right next to a blue lives matter flag, so I watched the first season knowing nothing about it.
The show was aggressively average and the chuds don’t seem to understand the character if they think he’s pro law enforcement. Then again, these are the kind of people who rooted for Homelander.
I’m torn, against the death penalty but if that’s what he wants who am I to disagree with him?
Can confirm, was 19 for a year.
It’s accelerating and decelerating to that with every orbit, I think?
Cory Doctorow makes a similar point in that if the execs didn’t show up for work not a whole lot would change. If the workers didn’t show up nothing would get done. The C-Suite chuds deep down know this and hate it and LLMs are sold to these people under the false premise that they can be execs who matter because they can fire these pesky workers and replace them with AI which runs under the direction of the execs, making them relevant and saving money.
Of course, it’s a crock of shit but the AI companies are happy to sell this dream.
Apple tried that, it didn’t work out for them.
You’d think that some who writes such long arguments for nuclear power would know this.
It’s ridiculous and I have no qualms about paying for IPTV to watch my team. Nobody, from the players to the owners to the broadcast rights holders need my money more than I do.
“The keycap is also “the next step towards the ultimate expression of keyboard customisation,” and “a statement of identity,””
I read this in Jonny Ive’s voice.
I noticed that too. The amount of coverage wasn’t even remotely consistent with the newsworthiness of the story.
He should go visit and see for himself.
Oh, wait … https://www.icc-cpi.int/defendant/netanyahu
Do you live in space? I don’t.
True but you get to skip the heating up some water bit.
Boiling water to spin turbines is so last century. We can generate electricity directly through the wind blowing and the sun shining now and it’s way less expensive.
“We didn’t take vacations,” she said. “If they were sick, they had to get up and go to work, because if the doors weren’t open, we weren’t making money.”
This pretty much nails the distinction between left and right. It’s “we had a shit time so everybody else should” vs “we had a shit time, let’s make sure other people don’t have to”