Odd Dimensions
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Unity/C# Gamedev with 20+ years XP https://t.co/3x76q3r1fk Discord: Starcommander#0913
San Jose, CA
Joined March 2011
@unusual_whales Force private equity to put their properties on the market or face a massive hoarding tax that will bankrupt them. As properties go on the market, prices fall and young people can buy homes. China banned rentier capitalism, and 95% of the population owns a home. Good example to
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Corporations and billionaires buying elections because of Citizens United.
What is something unfair that everyone has simply accepted at this point?
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Did you know Nintendo’s ongoing "lateral thinking with withered technology" philosophy—repurposing cheap, mature tech for fun—is a mantra that came from the mind of Gunpei Yokoi, the inventor of the Game Boy? He joined Nintendo in 1965. He had a degree as a maintenance
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China's 5-Year Plan: Tech self-reliance, infrastructure improvements, further economic digitization USA's 5-Year Plan: 50-year mortgages, 15-year car loans, performative fascism, infinite H1Bs, gold card visa, new wars.. and now adult entertainment support
The Trump admin's new debanking report indicates they are going to pressure big banks to do business with PORN companies who they claim were inappropriately discriminated against
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I actually built some of my first "games" like this, in 6th grade, before learning how to program and beginning my long professional career in #gamedevelopment, 40 years ago.
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These properties should be seized and redistributed to the people. Landlordism should be abolished. Landlords should get jobs like everyone else and become productive members of society rather than leeching off the labor of others.
NYC LANDLORDS NEED $1B TO AVOID DEFAULTS The New York Housing Conference warned that affordable housing landlords in New York City need about $1 billion from the mayor to avoid widespread defaults. It said tens of thousands of the city’s roughly 213,000 subsidized,
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“Luxuries” have become cheaper but basic necessities are now very expensive.
"The middle class is buckling under almost five year sof persistent inflation... workers growing tired of economy in which everything seems to get more expensive," per WSJ.
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@middle_class_us This is what marked the end of the USSR, right? They pretend to pay you and you pretend to work. Your pay doesn’t keep up with inflation so why have pride in the job? Real jobs and wages have been exported. While everything else is a government strip mining racket
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@middle_class_us Been saying the exact same thing for a couple years now and every shuts down on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs cause they’re clueless
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Everyone keeps saying nobody wants to work. The truth is nobody wants to work a full time job that doesn’t even pay for food, rent, child care and a doctor visit. If a job can’t cover the bottom of Maslow’s hierarchy, it's forced survival with a payroll department.
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They pay $16.50/hr for home caregivers here in northern California. Won't even negotiate if you have experience. I can make $20/hr as a fast food worker. I guarantee you won't get 40/hr a week, or benefits, or mileage, working for a home health care agency.
In-home elder care cost is rising more than three times faster than inflation, per Axios:
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I know multiple senior/principal level American tech professionals who have credentials that are insane. None can find a job, yet many are told by contacts that are still working at their previous job that Indians have been hired and don’t know even basic things. This is
Forever layoffs are real. This isn't 2008. It's worse. Layoffs are flying under the radar and U.S. policy makers are blind to reality. Congress must act now to end OPT, H-1B, and J-1.
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Stanley Kubrick explaining the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey in a rare 1980 interview
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The chart is wild, but the real story is this: The average job gets 242 applications now. Your odds? 0.4 percent. But somehow the narrative is still that American workers are the problem … not the layoffs, not the outsourcing, not the visa pipelines, not the hiring freezes.
When someone submits a resume today, they have the abysmally low 0.4% chance of actually getting the job, per Business Insider.
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@willmenaker Conceding the fantasy, an American AGI would give us the super computer from I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream
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Holy shit I now want a Red Alert 4 video game where China invented Time Travel first and went back in time to assassinate various U.S. leaders. 🤣 What would that even look like?!
A much more important question: What if China develops time travel or warp speed before we do?
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