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 · 07/03/2025i feel privileged to have religion because it always lends perspective 020
srav @srav.bsky.social · 04/03/2025it's a bit odd to suggest you should only prepare for what you will be doing imminently. 120
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 · 03/03/2025but not being able to read their expression so just turning it up and hoping for the best 140
srav @srav.bsky.social · 01/03/2025appeals to "first they came for..." will win nothing and no one, because we are a materially oriented culture totally alienated from the idea that civil society exists, much less that there are principles undergirding it 010
srav @srav.bsky.social · 01/03/2025the idea that any significant portion of americans are ideological in any real sense is laughable, much less that they are liberal. we don't have an ideologically oriented system, it's all about tribal identities and cultural allegiances 110
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 · 01/03/2025what if i told you military industry is a perfect case for subsidized domestic industry and reliable jobs 020
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 · 27/02/2025i still question why so many small government people think it's important for official documents to record sex 050
srav @srav.bsky.social · 27/02/2025agreed. the problem is that traditional democrats and republicans have managed to please very few people. in operating the civil service, the democrats are owned by corporate interests and do a poor job 020
srav @srav.bsky.social · 27/02/2025i think civilians tend to not understand how much time the most competent civil servants spend working around incompetents and redundant contractors. i'm not suggesting that it is broadly believed that doge is effective in fighting it, but many feel something ought to be done 130
srav @srav.bsky.social · 26/02/2025many can't see that ai is shit because (1) they've never cultivated a sense of taste distinct from marketing and hype and (2) this is as close as they've ever come to making something 020
srav @srav.bsky.social · 26/02/2025as with many things it doesn't matter if it's really going to happen. it only matters if it is sufficiently credible to their fragile egos. 120
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 · 26/02/2025the problems of this age are not what we have added, it's what we have taken away. the relations and modes of relation between people which no longer prevail upon we weak creatures to be something more 010
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 · 26/02/2025the minority experience is to be a type of luxury or cultural statement piece. a thing which stands for moral success and material comfort when actual righteousness and security are lacking 020
srav @srav.bsky.social · 26/02/2025when friends and family evaporate with no more threat than who you are, one knows they will never stand up for others when it costs them anything at all 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 · 15/02/2025honestly kind of wild to see people who hide behind the law flout it and open the door for people held back by law to fuck up their shit 020
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 · 14/02/2025the internet feels like an estuary that got developed for chemical plants 020
srav @srav.bsky.social · 14/02/2025i feel like the way to turn money into improving the lives of homeless is to employ them, not the children of elites working at NGOs 110
srav @srav.bsky.social · 14/02/2025a lot of scifi books have an internet that's been destroyed by rogue ai, but i didn't picture this 020
srav @srav.bsky.social · 13/02/2025i've no idea what european leaders can really do to convince young people into dying for the true beneficiaries of the state: corporate interests and retirees 020
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 · 13/02/2025ah so i'm illiterate. still don't know why either should be true though 110
srav @srav.bsky.social · 13/02/2025to be clear i don't think there is any level of malfunctioning that will stop widespread adoption of ai 020
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 · 12/02/2025well yes. why would one do anything for themselves which is not their salaried job? 040
srav @srav.bsky.social · 12/02/2025it's really as simple as they imagined they wouldn't be the subject of oppression. in their mind there can be a fascist government they heroically oppose but also there's still brunch 190
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
