what simplicity? solid state is simplicity, a weight on a guide attached thru a cable and a bunch of gears to a generator/motor + the necessary safety features is the very antithesis of simplicity.
The great man theory shit is especially insane here because Putin was literally allowed into power by Russian and western oligarchs as a compromise to the Russian people to prevent communism from coming back. Its actually hard to even imagine a more clear example of important people being a result of their societies and conditions rather than the other way around.
I never found eggs to be expensive but i do hate eggs and only use them to make desserts, and some people i know have been complaining that they have gotten expensive so idk. Much more interestingly at least for me how much is rice in Vietnam i used to be able to get a 20 lbs sack for like $3 here (on sale but it last so long that u can always get it on sale before u need more) but after covid even $15 is rare, its still ok cuz it was so cheap to begin with but 5x the price in 4 years hurts.
imma be real with u i can not comprehend how u can hold that view unless u only play "aaa" slop or very few games at all. because this just doesnt hold with reality, i dont think i even know of a single successful indie game where the love for the medium itself doesnt come across perfectly clear, there are indie games out there that were clearly just made for money but guess what those dont go anywhere because people can tell its soulless, its also true for most AA/small studios. And while someone just fucking around with a medium in their free time could maybe express themselves more (tho that is debatable too) i dont think it shows that they love games more than someone who made it their fucking life. Also being able to express themselves more because they arent limited by capital is a far cry from loving or caring about the medium more.
Also this doesnt even make sense, most of the biggest open source games out there are extremely derivative, basically copies of popular games and if anything display more of appreciation for the concept of open source software than video games.
Also also genuinely curious how does this view extend into other mediums do u regard all professional authors are hacks because they make money from what they write, what about musicians and other kinds of artists. Or is it only video games cuz u like open source stuff.
i mean theres also no disadvantage to keeping it whatever country u move to will almost certainly have a higher tax rate than the federal tax rate so its not like u loose anything. Renouncing ur citizenship is mostly a symbolic thing anyways, some countries dont even let u do it.
Bruh just because people gotta eat doesnt mean game devs dont love the art form. Actually game dev is like THE worst job a software developer could have people only do it BECAUSE they love video games, the corpos is charge dont give a fuck obiusly but indie game devs do and the actual devs in game studios do too again its not a good job to make money.
If we were talking about a world were people didnt need to money to eat then this would be a different conversation but here and now what u said is just ridiculous.
To clarify when u say "AI" do u mean llms and diffusion models cuz if u mean ai as a whole then u are simply wrong ai is hugely useful, has been around for decades, and is widely used in basically everything u can imagine. If by ai u specifically mean llms and diffusion models, then let me clarify that yes these models do in fact exists and let me further clarify that "AI" is just a term these models are in no way "intelligent" just in case thats what u mean by "exists", and yeah many of their purported uses are scams tho some are not, the REAL use of llms and diffusion models from the perspective of capitalist is to fire a bunch of people because "ai can do their jobs now" and then hire them right back at a much lower salary to do the same job but as prompt engineers, just like they did with translators back when google translate became viable(which is also ai btw).
ima be real with u i didnt even know there was a snowpircer tv show i thought this was about the movie, i thought it looked a bit weird but it has been a while since i saw the movie so i thought i was just forgetting things.
Also yeah For All Mankind completely fucking lost its mind after a while, i also had to stop watching it half way thru, for me it was the show trying to make me give a shit about the veteran guy's struggle with the fact that he almost faced consequences for being a murderer in Korea, and talking about gulags it drove me nuts that they had russian guy tell an african american woman about how bad gulags are, years after the gulag system had already been abolished, just pure projection and delusion.
To play devils advocate and because i like this guys films... there is a reason the gulag system was abolished, some of them were pretty fucking bad. And also gulag has a common meaning which is beyond the reality of what they actually were, it would be careless to use it this way as a leftist but a reasonable mistake.
I mean most people have pretty boring lives, at least withing the context of making a story out of them. Tell u the truth if im experiencing a story set in a medieval fantasy world im not really all that interested in the life of some random farmer, not unless they are about to become world shaping important.
Also how do u feel about a character starting out in a low socioeconomic position and then becoming a noble or the like.
Also also i think this is more of u thing or maybe its less of a thing for me, cuz i just looked thru the last 20 or so fiction books/book series i read and most of them have either lower/middle class mcs or a literal fantasy monster as mc so idk it may not be as uncommon as u perceive.
Literally why would they, like actually why would they? would anyone care, would it change anything at all about the way the west talks about them would, it change anything about the way its own citizens think. No, so why would they lie why would they go out of their way to make a problem harder to solve by not acknowledging it.
The DPRK is a normal country like any other why would u expect them specifically to lie about a random statistic, i mean i know why because ur brain is full of nonsensical propaganda about the it but actually think for just a second in ur life, why the fuck would anyone bother to lie about this.
alien didnt go out of circulation as a term to describe people they literally assign u an alien number when migrate to the us and its used sometimes in communication by the us government interchangeably with immigrant and a few other more specific terms, it is alienating and kinda rude for sure, but quite common, they are trynna make it sound like this is a new weird thing but, this is just what america has always been and still is trump or not.
you heretic, i demand satisfaction for this insult