zifnab25

joined 5 years ago
[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts

Obviously, the problem with this system is that Indians are asking for too much money.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Experts went to China to count robots

You'll never guess what they found

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

yes-honey-left Healthcare, please

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (10 children)

There is a huge need for kidneys.

Shove tons of salt and sugar into every available fast food venue

"Damn, son, there sure are a lot of failed kidneys happening all of a sudden. Maybe we should legalize cannibalism to alleviate the problem?"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Puppy.jpg, Sunshine.webp, GentleBreeze.wav

Headline: The government is getting in the way of your path to personal fortune by making it illegal to sell your children for some quick cash

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Return to Tradition" I chant, as I mobilize my population for Total War.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Holy shit. They turned Dogcatcher Inutaro into an actual anime.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Conservatives are getting better at comedy, and it's making the left nervous

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

god I'm not going to have some few hours long argument about some shitty anime

Then you are in the wrong thread.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You turn the gas station into a "tEsLa LiFeStYlE dEsTiNaTiOn" where you offer overpriced trendy food, rentable WeWork style office spaces, and fucking sleeping pods or VR rooms idk.

The problem with so much of this Bazinga shit is that as soon as it's in practice it looks like dog shit.

The Cybertruck, the Twitter overhaul, the failed Solar City Business, the failed Boering Company, his stupid automatons...

Yeah, in theory you can brainstorm all sorts of "good ideas". But then you actually have to do them, even if you're just doing a Disneyfied demo version.

Elon can't deliver any of it. All he can do is buy other companies and hype their stocks.

I guess I'm just glad that Elon missed this opportunity because he was too preoccupied with berating his underpaid workers on the factory floor or demanding that his engineers redesign his rockets so the shape "looks cooler"

I think it's easy to overlook how many failed businesses this man has had. He's tried (or at least promised) a lot of the stuff you suggested. It's just all died out so long ago that we've forgotten about it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

but that's how fascism introduces itself, as your friend

No. You don't get to say "I only saw the first episode but I can tell you it's Hitler" and then come back with "Hitler was pretty good in his first season".

from the second season onward the show grows in fascist logic and apologia concluding with the final arc that literally is trying to make a race war the only solution

The second season is mostly filler. Lots of long run combats and Top 10 Anime Betrayals. Relatively thin on politics, outside the triumphalism of the expansionists over the aristocrats.

By the third season, you're into the island civil war and the collapse of the monarchists.

Season 4 is the real fascist turn, and by then everyone hates Eren and is fighting to stop him.

the author also said the axis should have won ww2 so like

Care to link that?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Which is to say, the straightest possible portrayal of the fascist world view.

I had a completely different reading, even before the end of the first season.

The Titans were a kind of environmental threat, but they were held back by the walls of the city. Humanity's chronic impulse to expand beyond the borders brought the wrath of the Titans into the city. And their chronic need to expand was driven by the aristocratic government, which exploited and abused and cannibalized it's own people by way of the state police force.

Titans were only a problem because the people within the city could not coexist peacefully. And as these people grew strong enough to face the Titans, what they discovered was only more war and more betrayal and more destruction.

The promise of an exploitable frontier was an illusion, because they would never be satisfied no matter how much they consumed.

Not unlike the Titans themselves.

view more: ‹ prev next ›