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I spent a good amount of time typing that while doing other things as well. Too much. My bad. Unreasonable for anyone to read it. Gist

We look to people that are too out of touch for leadership. Politicians, artists, university professors and students

We need to look at those with urgent needs for leadership. Impoverished, medical problems they can’t afford, people with limited class and career mobility like tradespeople, gig workers, retail/restaurant workers, factory/warehouse, farmers, etc

The clear majority of people are not in the university, art - living their best life world or ones that follow politic at all. The majority are working hard and too exhausted to follow politics with their limited free time. We need laborers to feel like they’re not walking on eggshells among us

These people are not polished speakers because they’re not practiced. They can’t practice because mistakes are too harshly judged. They can’t practice because the out of touch people dominate the leftist scene

We need these people front and center on stage because they’re the ones people can relate to. They know how to talk normal. Like i am not good at that. I’m too bookish with my speech. I can be unrelatable like my previous post

On our end it’s support poorer less educated people in less glamorous jobs to be our leaders. Don’t be so judgmental on those that say problematic things on occasion. That’s like everyone that isn’t always surrounded by leftist

And in the past like 80s and back, it looks to me that the major activist leaders that got results were normal people on the edge and working at it full time without a backup plan for failure. Wealthier people can leave the country. Go and live a quiet comfortable life barely participating in politics. We need people leading that dont feel like they can have a comfortable life without major change

I’m bewildered locally trying to get leftist to care about local issues. They see something online and get way more worked up and spend way more time thinking of that then the example of a homeless kid with destructive tendencies in pseudo-adoption by someone I know. Or all the people I bring up that are struggling to find work and pay rent. Everyone’s focused on what makes them angry online or what they imagine could be happening or could happen to them rather than what they can effect around them so local communities get no attention. No building. No camaraderie. The people that are in need now have very little concern from them in local or national politics. Not from highly verbal political types. Well actually if a conservative comes across them, they’ll try to speak with them and move them towards to right

Back to artists and why they aren’t good leaders

Artists inevitably make art for other artists. Go to a film festival with a filmmaker Q&A about a movie of some poorer background. It is time and time again very little interest on the films subject matter and when the filmmaker speaks of them, time and time again it sounds to me as someone very out of touch with the people they’re making art about. Even when based on real people, I always get annoyed at artistic liberty they profess to have made to make a more effective art or make it more appealing. Lots of talk about awards and career. Hearing stuff like they added something to add more drama and intrigue. Like people working at fast food restaurants have all sorts of stories of funny/wild nonsense they or patrons have done in the restaurant. Have great conversations with coworkers after some time when there’s time to talk. But that’s seemingly too boring and depressingly small ambition for many high brow art consumers

The difference between an artist saying, “I spoke to people and heard stuff like this and that and I was inspired to make this movie” compared to, “this is what happened to me. This is how I live. This is what I think of in bed, at the grocery store, at a mall, at work.” The first hand account is unsurprising far more visceral and inspiring than the filmmakers however many degrees of separation telling. A university professors interpretation of data/info collected.

Somehow we talk about the importance of lived experience and then put the ones with the lived experiences, the poorer people, at the back of the line in favor of the lefts most comfortable people - the gainfully employed and highly praised people of marketable careers

The phone will be relevant outside of China as well. Most countries with well developed cellular infrastructure, phones from Chinese brands are widely available through normal retailers. Pretty much just the US where you have to import most Chinese phone brands. Same with Chinese EVs. None in the US. Available in a lot of countries though

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Hard to say. What I believe is that in more desperate times, civil rights leaders were average people. They weren’t people working in academia. They weren’t working for political parties. They were laborers, they were people that met and organized at church, people that met at work. Filmmakers, musicians, painters, fashion designers - they were all in their own bubbles making art about people that actually did the work of organizing and were desperate in their situation to feel the need to do so.

The art and career politics world is filled with people that can move neighborhoods, cities, states, countries. That automatically alleviates pressure to succeed in changing politics. The people at the auto shop conceivably can’t buy citizenship elsewhere, don’t have connections to get a “refugee” visa, education to apply for a workers visa for a field the counter considers in high need like tech. You don’t see landscaper visas for successful landscapers like you see governments do for people deemed successful artists.

These people are more successful in organizing people, inspiring people, relating to people than any career (even aspiring artist) artist can. Art as a hobby but no hopes as a career are relatable. The ones selling their postcards at the local farmers market, sorry guys not so relatable compared to the grocery store cashier that after work goes home and watches YouTube shorts

So effective leadership will not come from universities or the art world. Not from documentarians. Not from journalists. It will come from places like the restaurant kitchen, the auto shop, the factory, gig economy workers. No their language is not polished. They may say something crass here and there. But it takes practice to be a public speaker and the well off middle to upper class drown out the lower middle to poor people. Mistakes of crassness are judged to harshly and permanently. I do not think civil rights leaders of the 80s and back would make it today because of how judgmental we are today on the left. Like there’s little avenue to have the wrong/bad/evil opinion one decade of your life and try to join up and be embraced doing good things the next decade. The average adult person unsurprisingly knows how to talk to the average adult person better than university students and professors and politicians. Better than artists.

Anyone that doesn’t vote or skipped a vote get treated like trash by the left. Shouldn’t be the case. Disenfranchisement whether by political machinations or mental exhaustion should not be shamed. They need to be find belonging with us

Conservatives do that. They speak with patience and respect to those that don’t vote. They do that to those that don’t study high brow media. They do that for the non aesthetic. A leftist will own a fence sitter by making fun of visibly poor diet and hygiene if that’s the case and a conservative will step in and say that’s fine as long as you’re good people. Come hang out with us. Play video games with us. Fish with us.

And I call out artists and university students and professors because they’re so deep in their bubbles that they are deeply unaware just how unlikable they are when heard. Like the revulsion they have for the poor and less educated is not well hidden at all. Conservatives hide it very well in comparison

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So for us, stop being obtuse with our communications and be direct. Simple to understand. Also no dunking. Stop the diabetes, small penis, uneducated, trailer park, lol you can’t afford to travel type shaming. Nothing wrong with liking Marvel movies or liking McDonalds.

Too many times I’ve had to console good people to at work 7 days a week because people in the community think it’s funny someone doesn’t know much outside the city they live in. Too many times playing damage control over people making diabetes, small penis, poor people jokes for why conservatives are as they are. All of those have a ton of people that lean left or people that barely follow politics at all. 7 8+ hour work days a week doesn’t let people follow politics much so the dunking on poor people for being dumb and voting against their interest is insanely stupid

It’s not a good thing anytime I see leftist taking joy that the left is more educated and wealthier in comparison to conservatives. That’s an inevitable loss with growing income inequality. Leftism shouldn’t shame others for not reading the right books, not going to university for a humanities degree, not understanding how artists of whatever movement use color gradients for meaning. Most people watch blockbuster movies and play games like fortnite. That doesn’t make them any less of a person than someone who watches Andrew Tarkovsky movies.

When a person who likes average things feels attacked by leftist art/entertainment, that’s avenue for conservatives. Leftist have to step in to and make average interests identifiable as leftist just as much as conservative. Same with stuff like not living in a big city or not caring for travel or living by a beach or not caring about journaling. Leftism these days are expressly too much about self expression. It derails organizational meetings when everyone wants/needs to express how such and such has made them feel and affected them especially when it’s from people that can comfortably afford therapy and to spend so much time of the thought of, am I happy

Look towards poor/working class people as voices that need to be at the forefront rather than university students, professor, celebrities. I don’t think we need 100k people marches where everyone is having a fun time with their protest boards and posters. What’s needed is professionalism. People that have settled into a life of compromise and may not live that beautiful life of travel and creative expression but are good people. They’re normal people. The average person. We care way too much about people that live outspoken lives. They don’t spend so much time of metaphor and meta thought exercises. They’re completely concerned about achieving what were once normal life goals and therefore don’t practice wordplay. Wordplay is annoying for people with limited time out of work and need people to get to the point. Metaphor is annoying. Symbolism is annoying.

It was a problem when Stephen Bannon was talking about how he’d recruit by reaching out to people playing World of Warcraft. Nothing about being a gamer should be conservative but because I suspect gamers not being aesthetic in appearance or lifestyle, we don’t want to associate our images with them. That is foolish. Same with kitchen staff. Same with warehouse workers. Same with farmers and fisherman. Vegans are largely leftist but their food comes from mostly conservative farmers. There is common interest here for common working class action rather than culture war splits. That Bannon recruiting 20 years ago on WoW wasn’t call to action on the left to do the same is insanely dumb.

That nuclear average family influencers are a conservative thing shouldn’t be the case. It should be politically neutral. The same with much of the cultural examples of conservatives taking over. A countries flag shouldn’t be synonymous with the countries conservatives/racist. Basic black and white idiosyncratic Tolkien medieval fantasy wouldn’t be so dominated by conservative fandom if on the left we weren’t so obsessed with doing real world inserts and prefacing that medieval such and such was evil and racist and the getting back to to story until the next time to remind people that such and such is racist and evil. Let fantasy be fantasy. It’s a stupid low yield battle that we on the left for some reason always have to force ourselves to fight

Escapism doesn’t have to bad. High brow art is itself high brow escapism/surrogate activism at best, poverty tourism at worst. We need to stop spending so much time and energy fighting battles that we imagine. Holy hell every time I listen to a conversation derail for what feels like eternity because someone reads a fictional book and they feel it’s problematic because it’s a period piece that is too realistic for the time. It should adopt modern demographics and language because it’s fantasy so it shouldn’t be a problem to modernize the content

Average people don’t care about modernizing their fantasy media and the conversation exhausts them. And it’s such a waste of energy compared to convincing people to join a union and pay union dues. To attend city council town halls and badger them for local problems they should address

Stop wanting local politicians to be national politicians. If there are any politicians that have potential to be locally in touch and conversationally persuasive, it’s the local ones. But we want national politics remakes from everyone and vote on that, that local politics is unknown to locals the average person doesn’t feel like they have anyone speaking to issues like local safety, bad roads, rent price, childcare costs, etc. Your city treasurer will be campaigning on on opposing fascism and justice for Palestine. It’s asinine. It’s asinine for most mayors to be campaigning on national politics but thats where we’re at now. Not even local politicians feel the need to campaign on local issues anymore

Don’t know if it’s just me doing crappy human pattern matching or when I was studying art history, I noticed that “peak” art periods were often “late” republic/kingdom/empire eras where the political structure was breaking apart and inequality was growing while the last generation raised on previous generations wealth focused on art/entertainment/self-care. That’s how I feel right now today. Leftists have been mostly trying to live their best lives for the last like 40 years with entertainment while conservatives have been chipping away more and more power. Leftist art doesn’t direct action. Mostly just commentates and serves as mental exercise. Very opaque in purpose and audience. Conservative art is comparatively simple but suggests simple solutions, actions, identity. Art made for targeted audiences

iPhones are too locked down for the hardware they have. I’m writing this on an iPhone 15 …

The foldable I like the most I’ve seen are the Motorola razrs. That’s vertical. The best fat foldables are going to be Android because of all the video game emulators for Android

Does the US even have refinery capacity to make a cost difference for power customers like data centers

I played both on Linux recently. Worked well for me. Steam versions

I'm of the opinion that neither whiskey nor bourbon are worth it even tariffs or country of origin. Became real trendy for a long time now. Overpriced. Drink rum

The bill passed to ban TikTok was terrible bill. A bunch of people ate up the marketing for it and it didn't take even 2 years from passing to start getting abused. Easily predictable outcome

It sets a baseline performance target that is really low. It's an integrated GPU laptop that's not close to high end integrated GPUs anymore. Makes your potential audience pretty much the whole of the steam userbase rather than the like RTX 3060+ userbase

As others, my basic home lab NAS plans are grounding to a stop because of worsening prices. Next up, phones are going to be even more expensive. Video game console price increases again

I loved last.fm. Used it for like a decade until I stopped caring about logging every time I listened to something. Was real good at finding music I liked. I used to view it as a reflection of me and then I got older and stopped caring about public reflections of myself

sequel to ego draconis

This year competition excuted well in the same launch window. Arc Raiders and Battlefield, I have played neither, people seem happy with. Looking at Steam charts, Delta Force looks popular too and CS is always popular. It's taken like 15 years but the not Call of Duty and not sort of weird gunplay in modern times/military shooters compared to Counter Strike (I play counter strike and I know it's gunplay and movement are weird and harsh for newcomers) are hitting their strides. Call of Duty is facing the best most suitable amount of competition since the first modern warfare

It's internet explorer vs Netscape navigator. Even Safari. Gemini gets pushed by Android phones. MS lost the smartphone OS war. Also lost TVs. Also lost home assistant speaker/mics. Microsoft and every other company without a major mobile OS under their unbrella is fighting a battle with a major handicap against Google

The article doesn't read as very concerning. Too much of anything usually means bad. Under the right conditions anything can be bad. Figuring out what can be bad and when it can be bad can often take decades. Don't stress too much on trying to optomize out anything that can do you harm in a diet. You'd have nothing left to eat and even the greatest collective of biologist getting together to make the greatest nutritional shake meal replacement would probably miss something that causes issues decades down the line or people drink too much and overdose

From my memories, the price of appliances haven’t changed much in the last couple of decades. They maintain or increase margins with cheaper parts, less QA, looser performance tolerances while keeping the same sticker price. Whatever the quality sacrifice equivalent word for shrinkflation

I've seen worse at French restaurants. Like that's an appetizer $20-40. Main dish $50-$200. Dessert $20-100. Then drinks. And everything is very small portioned. Restaurants with minimum $300 spent on the meal for a table. Minimal preparation, minimal ingredients, everything takes less than an hour to cook at worst but all very high quality ingredients and played very fancily in a very quiet restaurant. Prep time is long at any restaurant. You're just paying the restaurant to buy the highest end ingredients, far overpriced than normal alcohol, and for an extra quiet restaurant

Then everyone wants to spend $10 for a lot of food where the restaurant spent a day of prep and a day of cooking barbacoa in a hole in the ground with a brick oven inside lined with agave leaves

And luxury restaurants charge so much that they can manage way lower volume of tables served a night while everyone else has to really draw in a lunch rush. Really compete on price and value. So a lot of labor and not much margin for much kitchen staff. Both hard work. But one way worse pay/prestige. Real small cramped kitchen vs large spacious kitchens with larger staff

Pretty much but in the US French food and Italian food succeed across the country with high end restaurants whereas like Mexican or Thai is far more obscure in fine dining. Difference in price between American BBQ and Chinese BBQ when both take similar cook and prep times

edit: Just realized you didn't reply to my comment about price expectations between foods of different ethnicities. This not relevant to your comment

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