srav @srav.bsky.social · 08/03/2025at least now countries subjected to imf nonsense know we actually believe all that austerity bullshit, as we are now demonstrating like some inexperienced escape artist drowning themselves 020
srav @srav.bsky.social · 03/03/2025trump is really turning a big dial that says "tariffs" on it and ignoring screams from the audience like a contestant on the price is right 030
srav @srav.bsky.social · 01/03/2025there is no significant ideologically liberal population in this country. the democrats are a center right party representing the interests of the urban educated professional class 120
srav @srav.bsky.social · 28/02/2025it's just natural economic forces that make labor intensive goods like housing cost way more than highly efficient goods like software. one necessary part of the solution to the housing problem is to make construction more labor efficient 000
srav @srav.bsky.social · 26/02/2025a lot of ai maximalists view themselves as Big Ideas people. their great obstacle in life is the creatives who refuse to quickly and cheaply create their vision. 130
srav @srav.bsky.social · 26/02/2025this might be the first recession created solely by excessive layoffs from incompetent executives 020
srav @srav.bsky.social · 26/02/2025look i don't mean to rain on your parade but you don't need a nefarious evil to explain why people are ignorant and hateful. it's the default state of humans and the one they will return to just as soon as any force contrary abates 110
srav @srav.bsky.social · 26/02/2025one of the reasons queer people tend to extremes is that coming out is a microcosm of the broader minority experience of polite liberals meaning nothing they say. 120
srav @srav.bsky.social · 15/02/2025if nothing else the utter recklessness, ignorance, and incompetence of the current admin's government shredding tells me they have no idea how fragile and vulnerable they really are 120
srav @srav.bsky.social · 13/02/2025it is abundantly clear that europe needs to remilitarize. it's totally unclear whether it can 120
srav @srav.bsky.social · 13/02/2025i cannot fathom why it struggled more with 10x10 than 11x10 or why which digit is first seems to matter 220
srav @srav.bsky.social · 13/02/2025something deeply reassuring about seeing accounts i respect getting into fights with accounts that have blocked me 031
srav @srav.bsky.social · 12/02/2025enormously tired of liberals mocking trump and elon by implying they're gay, kinky, making fun of how they look, and on and on. so many people are bigots looking for an excuse 050
srav @srav.bsky.social · 11/02/2025i am begging right wingers to realize foreign aid is indirect support of our defense industry 3330
srav @srav.bsky.social · 11/02/2025i'm fairly sure that large corporations are sufficiently insulated from reality they could replace their entire software engineering staff with ai and not notice the problem for years 120
srav @srav.bsky.social · 11/02/2025i keep hearing that critical thinking and truth are in danger but i'm not convinced there ever was such a time that they existed 000
srav @srav.bsky.social · 10/02/2025it's boring, but the biggest danger the new admin poses isn't that they'll destroy democracy, it's that they'll torpedo the bond markets and send the world into a depression 130
srav @srav.bsky.social · 08/02/2025i dunno if it is possible to describe the total, incandescent love i have for my child. it's actually really weird, phenomenologically speaking. 040
srav @srav.bsky.social · 28/12/2024watching elon have to learn by direct experience that wading into politics would not make him beloved has convinced me that wealth is actually harmful to midwits 151
srav @srav.bsky.social · 26/12/2024one common error is leftists assuming their level of acceptable ideological discord is similar to that of rightists 110
srav @srav.bsky.social · 26/12/2024so $900/hr for this model. just a little more expensive than people. add on what investors expect for margins in tech (~75%) and we're up to a very normal $1600/hr 180
srav @srav.bsky.social · 26/12/2024imagine being so insecure that you need to believe you are in the top 80,000 people in the world lmao 150
srav @srav.bsky.social · 24/12/2024seems europeans missed that the "spend what you're supposed to on defense" was the american position of eight years ago. that deal is gone already. that's not a valid bargaining chip when america now feels that the anti-deterrent effect of european non-spending has already come due 242
srav @srav.bsky.social · 23/12/2024warnings from teachers that kids don't read and have their essays written by bots will always summon to my mind the letter written by an old monk complaining that the kids don't study and can barely read latin anymore. 120
srav @srav.bsky.social · 22/12/2024sometimes i think people forget that the goal is social mobility 040
srav @srav.bsky.social · 21/12/2024generally i think it's reasonable to expect a better argument than "shut up" from people who dedicate their lives to the aesthetic 150
srav @srav.bsky.social · 19/12/2024honestly wild that trump can slap these lawmakers around and he's not even president 170
srav @srav.bsky.social · 19/12/2024fully expect trump to engineer a government shutdown, then say it was not a big deal because many civil servants kept working without pay 141
srav @srav.bsky.social · 18/12/2024the older i get the more people who date and marry significantly younger seem like aliens 1100
srav @srav.bsky.social · 18/12/2024i get the point but america has been really, profoundly corrupt for a long time in incredibly visible ways. most everyone outside of the pmc is keenly aware of how much the wheels are greased. inside, they think it's just how things are done and don't call it corruption till it burns them 011
srav @srav.bsky.social · 18/12/2024canadian government collapsing and yet the ndp still won't vote trudeau out. seems like a deep lack of faith in leftism is common in leftist politicians throughout the west. if you don't believe you can win, what are you doing? 130
srav @srav.bsky.social · 17/12/2024sometimes you can really feel how much they meant that the election was about saving democracy 020
srav @srav.bsky.social · 17/12/2024i will always be against the people who want to turn online life into a self-conscious, clout-seeking, profit-making endeavor 120
srav @srav.bsky.social · 16/12/2024honestly this response is so american she should get immediate citizenship 081
srav @srav.bsky.social · 16/12/2024weird to see left leaning people idolize a past where working class prosperity rested on unsustainable destruction of environment, race and sex discrimination, dirty industrial jobs, the huge destruction of world wars, and massive growth in government debt 141
srav @srav.bsky.social · 16/12/2024i'm kind of amused by people complaining about windows getting shittier like it isn't already the worst os with multiple alternatives 120
srav @srav.bsky.social · 16/12/2024in politics, hate is like energy. it cannot be created or destroyed, only changed from one form to another 120
srav @srav.bsky.social · 15/12/2024i continue to believe the future is in small teams with focused projects that refuse to grow into a "company" 030
srav @srav.bsky.social · 15/12/2024i sometimes wonder if extremists recognize that calling a genuinely moderate position far-something is purely for internal ideological signalling and actively improves the general opinion of people who may well hold Wrong views 140
srav @srav.bsky.social · 13/12/2024bluntly, it's because the vast majority of people don't believe the evidence, regard data with suspicion, and believe their own intuition whenever they are not actively and immediately punished for doing so 180
srav @srav.bsky.social · 13/12/2024it's some type of indictment that even the right wing loonies were able to throw together a social media when they threw a tantum, but the left hasn't managed it 120
srav @srav.bsky.social · 12/12/2024you can very much say that political violence is wrong but also admit there are levels of corporate malfeasance that should be considered fighting words 031
srav @srav.bsky.social · 09/12/2024i think we have now crossed the disorder rubicon. by that i mean it will now take more than words to reassert an internationalist order. that lacking such a "more", the default course will be more regional wars and boundary revisions i also don't think anyone is willing to do that "more" 230
srav @srav.bsky.social · 08/12/2024if you don't understand a civil war, watch which way people flee 110
srav @srav.bsky.social · 06/12/2024the solution to shibboleth democracy and increasing access to the median voter is to insist that your civilization is collapsing 000
