It’s not that cut and dry. Yes, it brings the ad industry ever so slightly closer to collapse…

But until then, you’re just helping Google sell ad buys faster and pumping up their metrics

Google has gotten fined for doing exactly this fraudulently multiple times to juice their numbers

True… Except there’s a big problem with that

There’s not many things I would want that I’m not aware of

So would they going to show me 2 ads a day, or would the same 4 things be plastered everywhere each week?

Any term we pick is going to be offensive. We’re gesturing at the concept of them being less human than us

But like… It’s kind of true. It’s like they don’t experience the world around them, they just adapt to it without comment like a Sim

They just seem like they’re missing the spark. NPC is probably a kinder term than what we’d come up with otherwise

I think a better takeaway is this… Hiring runs on nepotism. It always has, but for a while you could go through an application process and land a decent job

You have to work your social connections to find a job these days. People are just way more willing to put in the energy to evaluate you if they have someone vouching for you

Especially now with remote work and AI… The screening process has devolved into nonsense. If they’re not pulling your resume out of the stack, it’s very likely no human is looking at it

And you don’t understand what being effective means.

You’re why we’re fucked.

It’s perception. Like I said, hide the praxis. It must not be perceivable

Hell, discard it even. It’s more important to focus on immediate material issues than loudly dream about a better world

Praxis is not useful in this day and age, it’s a liability. If it’s your driving force, learn to pretend it’s not

Yeah… I’m using the word very intentionally

Praxis is academic. It scares people. We must hide the fact our arguments are driven by ideology and focus on the material conditions and how they can be immediately improved

We need to stop with the praxis. It’s a playbook written in another era, further warped by decades of midwits and sabotage

And it just scares off the masses. No one is going to read your pamphlet unless they already mostly agree with you, in which case why are you talking to them?

Every successful political movement is evangelical

I do feel like sampling your own farts is helpful… Like it’s a gut biome health check

I’m sure it smells like shit though

They taste great to most Americans, the sugar is mostly in there to cover up low quality ingredients

Why I signed up to go through this hellscape

This is the fucker who put us on the worst timeline! Get their ass!

Whenever someone says they turned out fine, I don’t believe them

It’s a very cope thing to say

Which one? There were three series, and only sg-1 had a real conclusion

Both Atlantis and universe were meant to keep going, they just got cancelled because of production costs

Certs don’t mean much, if they help open the door that’s fine. The goal is to get a job.

Get one job fixing computers, and you’re a computer repair technician. Get one job designing networks, and you’re a network engineer

No one will be impressed by a long list of certs. Focus on the ones you want for your first job, and once you get it the certs will stop mattering

He really wasn’t. He had been out of the writing process for multiple seasons, they had him recording off site

The cracks have been showing for years now, I won’t deny he has an energy to his voice acting, but the replacements are fine. The problem is the writing

No, humans can’t, scholars can. Most humans could learn historical materialism to the level they could pass a course on it, but the vast majority can’t apply this type of analytical lens in practice.

It’s a matter of disposition, the ability to look at a situation from multiple angles and question your beliefs about it isn’t something that can be taught, only learned. You can walk someone through it step by step over and over, even train them to go through a process when prompted, but without a certain disposition they’ll never actually use this ability without promoting

Ironically, that would probably end up with a different season of slop

The writers haven’t been subtle, though the episodes they’ve been directly saying they don’t know what people want from them and they keep getting told to be more like season 1

Well, we got something like season 1. The characters undid their character development and the episodes are aimless riffs off of classic sci-fi and cosmic horror

I think I’d just get the writing staff off of social media and pay them to hang out in a comfy room until they have an idea they’re excited about again

Because that’s not how people think. Not anyone.

You can study history, and if you do it right you’ll see how stupid and individually directed most things are. It’s all conspiracies, that’s how the world has worked for millennia

One realization doesn’t free your mind and make you a scholar… That’s just not how humans work

Yeah, honestly I think it’s a little dumb, but they seemed to be having fun with it. It’s not even like it’s that hard to read, they put way more effort into it than it takes to read it

We need to be way more ok with people getting a little weird with it