Sam Altman says "...", Tim Sweeney is against "..."
I scroll past a headline like that every single day.
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Pizza tastes great. Pineapples taste great. The math solves itself.
I don't eat Hawaiian pizza because of the pineapple. It's because I don't like ham. Pineapple is great
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anything having to do with celebrities
Being upset that female characters in video games don’t have huge boobs and asses and the intelligence of a watermelon.
Taylor Swift. Like, I get that billionaires are a problem, and her carbon footprint is huge. On the list of problematic billionaires, I feel like she really doesn't do that much problematic shit compared to the others.
Musk is a Nazi that gutted the US govt, Ellison has a laundry list of major issues, bezos is killing small businesses and bought a news company to whitewash himself, gates was involved with Epstein and did some shady shit to grow Microsoft, the waltons single handedly massacred thousands (millions?) of small businesses with anticompetitive practices.
I really don't think that Swift rises remotely close to the same level of degeneracy and existential threat that these guys do, yet the only other billionaire I see getting criticised as much as her is Musk.
"Yes, but have you considered the fact that she is a woman, women enjoy her music, and women enjoying things is a problem because they're wrong? It's like you don't even have a vendetta against pumpkin spice! " - general underlying factor
"her music is not deep" - the opinion of men whose only exposure to her music is the pop songs that gets airtime, not the lyrical depths of the rest of the album that directly hits women in the feels
On the first point: yeah, I didn't even want to get into the underlying sexism that drives the critique lol.
On the second: yeah, she made a billion dollars on her music. If you want to appeal to that wide of an audience, you're going to need to pump out some generic shit, at least on occasion. It's not really a great criticism of her, because that's her main skill. She can throw together 10 somewhat specific songs to cater to the fan base, then 2 tracks that get massive airtime and hook more people into the fan base. She's literally the best at it by the numbers.
No different than Lady Gaga's method which I feel took off a little sooner. The pop funds the art. I appreciate Swift's singing ability, but I enjoy Gaga's range when she makes her actual music. The theatrics, peaking with the meat suit? Just marketing to make her name the name to invite.
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Cultural appropriation.
So... You're offended. People are living out of their cars now. I'm more worried about that.
Also, the person being offended usually isn't even from the target culture. They're being vicariously offended on behalf of somebody else, when the actual members of that culture usually dgaf or like it.
Don't get me started on "Latinx."
You're not wrong.
Pineapple on pizza. I don't even like it that much but holy shit, shut the fuck up about it. You must have zero personality if you think it bring it up
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Climate change deniers.
Is climate change bad? Very bad, existentially bad. Do I want it to happen? No. Do I try to take steps to mitigate it? Yes, I put my drop in the bucket and vote for people who support policies that would help.
But we're eyeballs deep in Brandolini's Law at this point and by the time we get ourselves out of the quicksand, massive change will have taken its toll.
I'm not saying we shouldn't take action, but working ourselves in to a spittle-flecked outrage everytime someone says something stupid on social media is a waste of energy when we're already in damage control mode. The battle lines have been drawn for decades and the backlash effect is a very real phenomena.
Economics is going to win this fight before logic and debate does.
I just talk about climate change as if it is settled fact. Especially when I'm talking to someone who I know is a climate change denier, I just don't even consider their position to be worthy of acknowledgment anymore. Sometimes, I'll try to work in a common climate denial phrase as an example of just abject stupidity in modern society.
Example: the other day I was talking to a dude at a bar who was pretty clearly on the coal will save the world wagon, and AI came up. I said: "we lost the AI race to China back around 2008, when some [r-word], said the words 'clean coal' and people clapped instead of laughing at the idiot". Then I watched the gears turn.
Firefox purity testing. Oh no they ran an ad or made a post on a mainstream platform or developed a widget. Look at the state of the world this is such a non issue and compared to the other browsers out there they are fighting the good fight unequivocally.
Like ProtonVPN whos ceo once praised the appointement of some judge who had done good things before (anti big corpo something IIRC), but he was appointed by trump.
Yeah, not super duper smart there, but years and years and years of fantastic experience? Worthless I guess.
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The quandary of whether a taco is a sandwich. That's the kind of thing some college student asked when they were high af.
If a sub is a sandwich, a taco is a sandwich.
Steam. Apparently I'm supposed to be angry they are a locked down monopoly but compared to practically EVERY OTHER GAMING COMPANY IN THE WORLD they are frickin' saints.
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Insert latest corporate shareholder or position event here:
I have found almost none of the backlash or headlines that people on the internet, especially Lemmy, want you to be pissed off about, annoying to me enough to actually Care about.
What a CEO or founder of a company does off the clock. Brave, Mozilla, Mullvad, Proton, GrapheneOS - I just don't care. If I picked a product off of the CEO not being a dick, I wouldnt have any products or services to use.
The Brave one is hilarious because no one bothers to look into it. If they did, they would be embarrassed by how big of a deal they make of it. In like 2009, the current CEO made a one-time, $1000 donation to an anti-prop 8 campaign.
That's it.
No donations to any groups since.
Brave wasn't even a thing when he did it.
He's also the same guy who created JavaScript, yet no one seems to have an issue using that.
Just a giant game of telephone where people hate someone because they were told they should hate them.
"Shitlibs"
Weird fuckin' american paradigm. I've simultaneously been called a shitlib, a tankie, a communist and a capitalist. Piss.
The more someone throws around words like "socialist" or "lib" as an insult pretty but invariably can't even define socialism or liberalism, never mind articulate what about them they dislike.
there are definitely people who treat political labels like religion. Usually from a religious background, they dropped the faith but keep the framework for familiarity. You see it over and over and over again. Politics, fandom, Queer identities...they will be left, but they can't let go of that absolutely punitive purity politicking.
Trans people: I don't care which sportball team you play on or what bathroom you use, just wash your hands when you're done.
Whatever is in your pants is none of my business unless you're trying to make it my business (in which case, I'm flattered, but in a monogamous relationship, sorry).
Ill keep this train going. I don't care about sports, much less who is playing them.
It's all a plot to steal my toilet paper! I'm onto you, trans dudes.
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Reddit. They were irritating, so I left, but I couldn't care less if someone posts content here from teddit or(apparently gods forbid) mentions reddit.
I do not care about whatever happens with that company any more than I care about Apple or McDonald's or any other company with shitty products I don't engage with.
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Most things. The internet is a rage factory these past few years. I got enough real things to be upset about.
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