I have never understood the appeal of marvel universe movies. It just always came across as bad world building.

The whole reason super heroes with secret identities works is they are unique, and not a fundamental change to society.

Having a world that’s basically the same, with truck loads of super heroes makes no sense at all.

I have seen only a handful of these movies.

Calling critics of a state and a polity racists is some high level bullshit

Did you criticise the Nazis? Pretty sure that means you hate all modern day Germans /s

I’m a big defender of China when the “China Bad” crowd comes out, but this graph is meaningless beyond what people’s perceptions are.

Real trade unions are banned. All must be part of the party, workers rights are routinely not enforced, and given the lattitude the government has to act, there isn’t really much of an excuse.

The CCP enjoy massive support, though, this is undeniable. The reasons for this support is debatable and vary from person to person.

I for one, very much enjoy when the Chinese government does things in line with my socialist ideals. But let’s not pretend like they’re actually keeping the capitalists in check. There are many, many billionaires in China, something that ought not be possible under an actual socialist country.

It doesn’t take a genius to look at their system of voting to quickly conclude that you don’t really have a say, the People’s Congress functions as a rubber stamp for what the inner party has already decided.

Again, my opinions aside, people in China generally are supportive of the government at this present time.

I feel like this is shifting the focus to imperialism, where the US is overwhelmingly and undeniably worse.

However, domestically, if you wanna pretend that someone as a random citizen, has any chance of receiving political representation in China, well you enjoy your fantasy.

The US and China are both deeply undemocratic places. I’m saying this as someone from neither country.

Anyone who’s actually been to China would know this. It is authoritarian. It’s not even something viewed as bad by most people in China. It’s just the way things are there.

There is pretty strong support for the government there, albeit that could be argued as product of censorship, repression and also genuine support. Many see the CCP as having done a lot of good things which they are grateful for, which in addition to the bad things, in fairness, they have done.

I’m getting kinda tired of some leftists knee jerking “China Good”, just as much as I’m getting kinda tired of the “China Bad” crowd, when the truth is neither wholly good nor wholly bad.

We can be leftists and not have a hard-on for any country claiming to be socialist, you know

I can’t help but associate a W which should be an M with Wario.

McWario’s

What the hell

Because of using Shelter, this will make my phone practically unusable.

This is fucking ridiculous

Yeah I’m the same (not really into that type of posting).

I basically want what Facebook once was, but with e2ee. Something like: you make a post, only people you’ve added can see it. They can comment, and if they choose, your friends can see that comment also.

Something to prevent mass scraping and data collection, while retaining the ‘keeping up with old aquitances’ vibe old Facebook used to have.

I really wish we had an end-to-end encrypted option where posts are only shared and accessible to people you’ve added. Some of us don’t wish to post our personal photos to everyone on the internet.

What I hate most about this attitude is a disregard for the fundamentals that make a film hold up over time: the story/plot/world building, way, way, way more than the graphics or other bells and whistles.

Sound design and graphics are very important, but if you’re sacrificing dialogue for the vast majority of watchers, for you to have a wank over dynamic range, then you don’t have your priorities straight.

They really ought to release multiple audio mixes. This is really getting annoying, and if wanting to hear dialogue is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.

Me too, I cannot believe it. How garish

I’m gonna 180 on this and agree the above comic is fine because our kick off meetings go: “I’m XYZ, I’m this discipline, I’ve mostly worked on these projects recently”

I somehow got it in my head it was “and tell us something fun about yourself” as well

@phutatorius@lemmy.zip @the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world

Depends, even if you’re a nice landlord who treats tenants fairly, if you’re voting for things that make house prices higher, or the rental market tighter, then you’re an arsehole.

If you’re using periods of rapid rental inflation to also massively raise the rent, then fuck you. If you’re standing in the way of up-zoning, fuck you. If you leave your rental empty for a long time because you’re looking for at or above market rents, fuck you.

However, if you’re just playing the capitalist game at the kiddie tables (2 properties like juuuuuust counts, maybe), while doing everything else in your power to work against capitalism, then I’m willing to grant there being landlords who aren’t arseholes, just people living in the system.

Don’t hate the player, hate the game, and hate the players who aren’t trying to undo the game in some way.

I’m inclined to agree not all landlords are bad, just most.

WHO IS USING AI TO RESPOND TO EMAILS? Like, by the time to “craft” the ultimate response, you could have just written the email.

This may be my bias as an engineer (not software, but chemical), there’s not really much faffing about in an email. You just politely respond, or politely make a query. It’s not very long, typically, and even if it is, an LLM isn’t gonna help you.

You don’t have to sugar coat anything unless there’s some fuck up you’re trying to soften. You just go “Hi xyz, could you please clarify when the design temperature is changing here?”.

Wtf is there you can use an LLM for in an email?

I have only used it for software troubleshooting, as it’s quite nifty there, even if it’s information is out of date, it gets versions confused, etc, still gets me out of a bind or spits out random ideas to try.

But emails? Those short form messages, just barely longer than texts?

Are we actually serious? It’s not a report

I’m kinda mad they didn’t give him a contrasting smile line

Ice breaking is so much easier when you’re just chatting, people just chat at the start of the meeting and it performs the same function. It’s weird if you make everyone go around the circle and force people into it

He did nothing wrong, and even if he did murder the executive, he still did nothing morally wrong all things considered.

It was self-defence of the people.

Violence shouldn’t be the answer, but sometimes it just is the answer.

Either LLM or quality trolling

Damn, this is some serious beef if y’all are taking it between posts.

Surely internet arguments are siloed to the post. I literally remember none of the usernames of people I’ve had arguments with haha

We really need some consumer protections around emails.

Imagine if your landlord could just intercept your mail on the same way.

It’s part of our identities.

We’re living in the Wild-West of the internet