My only hope is that AI like early social media and web services is supported by mountains of vc cash offering services at a loss in order to build users and familiarity, and while it’ll continue to exist after it has to shift to a profitable business model, it’ll essentially be relagated to corners of the economy where it makes sense and they’ll stop trying to hamstring it into everything.

Was that real?

Probably, it’s super common as a union busting tactic. Because once labor is organized you can’t really put that cat back in the bag.

up to you, and your sense of style. I think it looks fine.

They came on TV every day for a year and a half telling us about Iraq’s WMD’s and we were scared and confused after 9/11.

Now there was no inciting incident, we have the internet with alternative narratives to the state lies, we have a massively depressed economy from decades of wars gutting our middle class and transferring wealth from the middle class to the elite, and they are trying to speed run there propaganda about Iran in like two weeks using the same tired lies they pushed for during Iraq.

So, in their mind it’s just like Iraq, but there is a reason this war only has about 16% support with 64% against. This war will break maga and will break the US before it breaks Iran. That’s my guess anyways.

Oh, and Iran has almost 4 times the population as Iraq did when we invaded it, has witnessed Iraq and Lybia and have been developing and importing weapons independent of the US sphere of influence for decades while Saddam was a US puppet until he wasn’t. So yeah, I don’t think it’ll go the same.

It was super attentive to d&d details such as almost all the classes of the party using intelligence as dump stats or the specifics of the spells mechanics while also not needing the audience to know any of that to have a good time and understand what was going on.

And the use of d&d lore and mechanics were woven into the characters and narrative, it wasn’t just hey remember this thing from d&d. Way underrated, probably bad marketing.

Trust no one. Using the framework of Noam chomskys manufacturing consent to help identify biases and read between the lines is a pretty good strategy though.