roseateOculi [she/her,none/use name]
You are nitpicking and biased. Bye bye 👋
My take: This game has a little something for everyone, 10/10
Yes. Field hands would work out in the sun all day while rich assholes would sit inside. This tended to mean that poor people had darker skin than nobles. In other cultures you see similar manifestations of this. For example, some places consider having long fingernails to be a status symbol because working in agriculture tended to result in people’s nails getting broken or naturally filed down if they were too long.
I learned to code and all I got was an inbox full of spam and no job offers.
Sure anyone can “learn to code” but thats not what software development is. I’m in my final year at university and haven’t taken a “coding” course in two and a half years. Hell, the last time I programed anything was 18 months ago. The real meat of computer science and “coding” is actually a shitload of discrete math thats already super hard to learn in structured classes. Theres no fucking way its realistic to expect someone working two jobs, or even one miserable job, to be able to take the time to teach it to themselves through some bullshit online courses.
“Learn to code” is the biggest fucking neolib scam that exists. Sure you finished the Codecademy python course and it took you days and weeks of effort, but when the interviewer asks “cool, so how could we optimize this to run in O(n * log(n)) time” youre probably gonna be fucked if you havent studied algorithms. How do you know which algorithms to study? You dont. Because they dont teach you that when you learn to “code”. “Coding” isn’t even a real thing. You don’t just learn a language and suddenly magically know how to make everything. Just because I have the entire Java syntax memorized doesn’t mean I can make you shit if I don’t know how the hell to accomplish what youre asking. Its not that fucking simple.
“Coding” also really fucking blows if youre not into it and it still kinda fucking blows if you are. Wanna know what sucks worse than coding, though? Having the code you write make someone else millions upon millions of dollars and seeing only pennies of it. Nothing is more soul-sucking than knowing that 99% of your surplus value is being sucked away as you see another post about how the CEO of your company is on his way to becoming a xnzjcillionaire or whatever the fuck.
Computers are cool if youre into them. Programming can be fun if thats your thing. “Learning to code” while youre already being constantly exploited is a stupid fucking unrealistic expectation that neolibs who know nothing about “coding” invented so that they could sell you dreams, and then exploit you even harder if you achieve them.
Fuck anyone who tells you to learn to code, and fuck me for falling for it. I wanted to be an artist. I wanted to make fucking music. Now I make other people millions for pennies at the cost of my soul.
Say what you will about his presentation and drama or whatever, but Philosophy Tube has single handedly helped me radicalize at least three or four people, and was one of the big reasons that I radicalized, personally. He’s perfect for people who are firmly in the “John Oliver” phase of liberalism who are aware capitalism is a fuck but dont understand anything about actual leftism (aka, not being a liberal). He presents things as philosophical and is very gentle with his broaching of ideas, serving a lot of content in a palatable way. Say what you want about other breadtubers, but Ollie is ay-okay by me.
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Genocide understander indeed
“Heartbeat away from the presidency” is misleading, as joe biden died sometime in 2019 and was quickly converted into a Weekend at Bernie’s style puppet that the DNC controls using a professional muppet choreographer and scripts with the top minds from The Big Bang Theory writing room
“Any script that isnt cyrillic or latin is chinese” ~Republicans