RustyVenture [he/him]

Atlantic Ocean to Florida:

Frankly I don’t think most people will ever want to strap goggles to their head to check their fucking emails or even do any real creative work, and that’s why this is one of the dumbest products ever to be shat out of Cupertino. No amount of iterating on the design will change this fact, and no, this will never all be contained in a contact lens or a normal pair of glasses because physics will still exist in the future lol. What we’re seeing is the usual hype from fanboys, stockholders, and paid reviewers that will fizzle out within a couple of months.

People comparing it to something like the first iPhone or a smartwatch is also stupid because A) while one can spend a whole day with their face pressed up against a screen, it’s not mandatory in order to use them, and B) those devices had inherent value to people right out of the gate. It’s almost a no-brainer to see the perks of having a full web browser and responsive touch keyboard on a phone when you’re coming from the awful hellworld of the “mobile web,” static physical buttons, and the shitty touchscreens of yore. The fuck does a pair of ski goggles do to improve computing compared to my existing laptop, phone, or tablet? On top of it, the Vision Pro seems like the most isolating, lonely, and dystopian sort of device that, like all of the similar facehugging gadgets that came before it, will people off just by looking at it. Just can’t see how this gains traction in any form outside of the nichest niches, and Apple doesn’t build shit for niche markets for long. This isn’t 2001 anymore; they’re a multi-trillion dollar phone company that sells computers on the side.

Really wish Apple instead poured their dragon’s hoard of cash into optimizing their existing hardware and software instead of this garbage. Hell, there’s actually some cool gestures and conventions they’ve demoed with AVP that could be developed into a device that helps people who require alternate input methods. Imagine if they actually made the Magic Leap but it wasn’t just astroturf! I fear other product lines will languish because capitalism is a fuck and they “must” go all in on “the next big thing” or else Tim Cook won’t have a “revolutionary” product category under his belt to retire on and/or they’ll be facing the repo men by the end of the quarter unless line go up 🙃.

In short, I wouldn’t worry about it; this too will flop. The only way people are going to stop using their existing workflow and drop it for this shit is if manufacturers/developers stop supporting them entirely and go all in on goggle computing, which would be suicidal for the industry and probably be met by tremendous backlash from anyone who does anything even mildly productive on a computer or who values doing what they want with the gear they own.

This doesn’t matter to them and you’ll be browbeaten and talked down to regardless. Every counts and they want to be able to hold that meaningless popular vote up as proof that their choice was actually just cheated out of victory by the dastardly Electoral College.

I remember how smug libs were when they were dangling that $2,000 carrot over everyone’s heads in 2020, saying things like “at least we know Biden won’t be vain enough to hold up the process just so the IRS can put his name on the check.”

Then we were shorted $600 (or more, if the clattering neoliberal machine deemed you unworthy of additional help during a pandemic) and that check came with an additional piece of paper with a long winded thing about where this money came from, concluding with “this [$1,400] fulfills a promise I made to you.” So on top of getting fleeced by these slimeballs and gaslit about how “600+1400=2000,” those of us who received our crumbs were treated to a full page ad where Biden congratulates himself for a job mediocrely done. I remember thinking, “surely this was an unnecessary waste of time and ink, and likely delayed the distribution of the checks” but of course because it wasn’t done by a it was fine, and there’s probably an obscure rule that required it so he’s just showing us how a real president is supposed to act, or something .

I have a turbolib friend that was needlessly combative with me when I brought up Joe’s long history of scumbaggery prior to even getting the nomination. I’ve been practicing for this year’s inevitable arguments, but I feel a lot more secure articulating my positions now that I’ve fully broken out of the lib cage.

Stopped reading at “Communist Russia.” Who do I for in order to get that?

The response should be that they’re lucky they’re making it out with only their cash flow destroyed

Man, that thread . I’ve been dinged for the same reason but only caught a temporary ban, but it was enough to leave for good, and I’m better off because of it. Why would I stick around a site that bans me for reporting blatantly racist and/or murderous comments?

On a related note, I see so many “these dumb terrorist-sympathizing kids only heard about Palestine from TikTok” comments in there. Where did this piss-tier talking point come from? My father used it in an argument recently and I know he has no clue what TikTok is, so my presumption was that it originated on Fox, but I’ve seen plenty of libs using the same line. Is it just today’s version of “the kids don’t know anything because their minds are rotten from watching too much dang TV?” Where do these clowns think their blind defense of Israel came from anyway?

pretty hard right here.

Also off the charts. Liberals should follow their leader.

No you see, when Democrats are d for, they swear to uphold the party’s progressive platform unquestioningly (and frankly, we wouldn’t ever for a politician that wouldn’t). We can trust they did and do the things we d for them to do, thus obviating any need to participate further until it’s time to again.

That’s the difference when the good guys are in charge

It must be embarrassing that a bunch of teenagers can expose just how devoid of any value liberal “ideology” is simply because they’re capable of reading books.

Bill Hicks continues to have the only moral and correct take on advertising and marketers.

My first thought was actually Nickelodeon’s Doug lol.

Because it’s going on their permanent record if they don’t.

Say the line, Bernie!

When did my personal opinions on Russia or China come into any of this lol all I said was that “tankie” has no definitive meaning as used and that leftists using it is dumb and makes them sound like liberals. That the term to you equates to uncritical support of AES and Russia kind of proves the point in both respects.

How do you build a future for leftism if you’re going to just call people tankies and tell them to fuck off back to hexbear and lemmygrad? They’re about the last place I’d expect fascism to be celebrated based on my experience.

It’d be tough to get everyone to sign on, but I’d be down for your definition. It sounds like it better matches the word itself. Feels like a term I could use as a synonym for brainstorming, or when I talk about transit expansions in my city

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It’s a vibes-based invective liberals use the same way chuds use “woke” to dispel any cognitive dissonance that might crop up whenever they discover information they find displeasing because it might mean the rest of the delusions they’re immersed in might not be all that airtight. Just a thought-terminating word with absolutely no meaning. Just like “whataboutism,” it’s a weasel’s way out of addressing someone else’s argument in good faith (which I have yet to see you display in this thread).

Personally, it’s absolutely fucking hilarious to see how much these words get thrown around, especially when it comes from so-called “leftists.” If you truly are one, you ought to quit it with that bullshit.

Nothing disingenuous about it. Biden’s entire shtick was about following the science and doing the right thing (and being able to win over Republicans on controversial issues, that was the whole reason why we couldn’t gamble on anyone else) and he almost immediately tossed that out and adopted his predecessor’s “ignore it and it’ll go away” attitude. The White House pushed a vax-only approach which was proven to be ineffective before he even took office and then went out to brunch. For fuck’s sake, the man had to be publicly shamed into sending out masks and tests during a surge his feckless ass engendered because he pretended the pandemic was over in April 2021, when less than half of the adult population got their first round of shots.

I’d be willing to give him the benefit of the doubt considering how poorly even the states that did give half a fuck in 2020 were managing and there is no doubt that it is a complex job, but once you start mimicking the guy you lambasted a few months prior for exacerbating the problem (not to mention spending the next year and a half prematurely stripping people of basic protections and the ability to reliably test and track within their own communities), you lost what little sympathy I could muster. For all intents and purposes, he owns all of the deaths from the day he stepped into the Oval Office. Worst of all, it’s both set the tone for how future leaders will be able to respond to crises, as well as reinforced the notion that our government is ontologically incapable of providing anything for its own citizens besides more terror.

As for which one of these shitstains is more apathetic: Trump gave me more cash (and it wasn’t means-tested), suspended my student loan payments, afforded me a rent moratorium if I had lost my job, and didn’t end federal mask or testing mandates for traveling because his buddy at Delta Airlines whined to him in a letter. Nothing spells “apathy” like going on 60 Minutes amid yet another surge in cases and saying “the pandemic is over,” or cutting off extended UI prematurely, or instructing cities to use their unused Covid funds to give to the pigs.

If Trump was smart enough to even utter the words “wear a mask” at any point in 2020 he would still be in office today. This is not an endorsement, for the record. I don’t doubt Trump would have done all of this and worse eventually as well, but the difference is that his callousness was consistently met with resistance and vocal opposition. For Joe Biden, whose callousness is every bit as harmful, there is no effective resistance, no organized campaign to combat the president’s anti-science blathering. We all have to get over it and live even more precariously in this shithole lest we be accused of helping Trump win again.

Gaslighting is telling people that Covid isn’t a threat even though you know it’s not and you deliberately cooked the books to sell that delusion. Gaslighting is telling people you’re supposed to be responsible for governing that a vaccine that was never shown to stop the spread of a disease does, in fact, do that. Gaslighting is telling people that you must personally assess your own risk to a collective, public health crisis with the paltry tools that have been provided, then strip away or sabotage every last one of those tools so they cannot provide even a sliver of usefulness to anyone but the most bad faith interpretations.

All of these things are things both Amerikkka’s fascist wing and liberal, fascist-enabling wing have done and are currently doing (if they’re not outright ignoring it). To anyone with a pulse, there is no meaningful difference, and indeed they are so often intertwined.

Also, Marx was based.