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@hachi @ArdainianRight @PhenomX6 @Gerfand You realize that shit would require cataloging every human being on the planet and giving them some sort of digital ID + wallet, right? Even with all the mass surveillance in the world, I doubt that it is even possible right now. You still have remote tribes, people living completely off-grid and undocumented, etc.

How about instead of fantasizing about some fairy-tale solution that you think would help the world, help out your local community where you can actually make a positive difference. World government is a scam that only benefits the ultra-wealthy. All these "young world federalists" are just pawns.

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There's a really complex dance going on. In 2021/2022, people just needed workers. Signs were up saying they'd get sign-on bonuses and get paid $14 or $16 .. but at the same time, they needed to keep workers who were getting $11/$12 before Scamdemic-flation.

You hire someone for $15 just to fill a spot and all your $11 are like "Why are they getting $4/more when I've been loyal." So they leave. A lot of these owners can't afford to hire someone else at that price, so they gotta squeeze people for more hours. People who leave quickly find out that $15 at the new place ... also are asked to work 50~60 hours/week. They need the money, because inflation is insane. (hence this is why you have that screenshot of the person getting fired for discussing income ... shitty, but that's why).

In the small town I lived in last year, I knew gas station owners who were working 80+ hours a week because they couldn't find staff they could afford. Remember: low unemployment is really good for workers. Smaller pool meaning shops need to pay a good price. But with the jumbled up scamdemic+inflation, you have a weird people shuffle that kept driving up wages .. wages a lot of shop owners couldn't actually afford (because unemployment was actually high), leaving them understaffed and just picking up the work themselves to keep the business afloat until they could afford workers again.

They cycle is just gonna get worse, because the current market isn't remotely natural. It's been propped up by printing money, reducing limits to unemployment and devaluation across the board. Now Former Vice President Biden has hired a small army of IRS agents and dropped the hobby income ceiling from $10k all the way down to $600, and wants everyone from Venmo, Cashapp and PayPal to report the same crap Square and Credit Card processors report! His handlers make him say he's going after the rich, but really this is part one of individual social credit scores (use more cash and Craigslist kids!)

Anecdotal: my HVAC just went out a month ago. I got a tech recommended by a friend (actually a high school classmate's dad). HVAC was almost 20 yeas old and had holes in the heat ex changer, but I was able to get a replacement that week and he had a crew of three for the install. They were fast, and also seemed to have other jobs lined up. 🤷‍♂️

@ArdainianRight @hachi @PhenomX6 He did let them get away with purging gays in Chechnya. But he also defended the Bosnian massacres committed by Serbia.

@charliebrownau @PhenomX6 I'm not pro-Putin nor anti-Putin. I knew this war was just a scam from day one.

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gamedev.place apparently blocks SPC it’s fucking insane SPC is so chill 99.9% of the time…

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@PhenomX6 Is there any evidence that Russia wants to invade the rest of Europe?

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how the fuck is normie programming real and why does it reek of being funnier than the white helmet propaganda
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software engineering: :comfydouble: there is so much webshit we will never run out of ways to rewrite the same framework
hardware engineering:
> lead time 52 weeks
:cirno_doubt: gentlemen this is all the resistors we get for 2023

@lanodan I immediately think of the cyclops spiders from the Zelda games.

I've added projectiles that the player can shoot. I was originally just going to make a simple maze game but I got carried away after getting a hand with SFML.

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@ArdainianRight @RupertvonRipp @zombiefinatic It doesn't change the fact that depopulation is a long term goal of the elites and we all need to unite to put a stop to it.

@ArdainianRight @RupertvonRipp They didn't get boosted that's why. It probably only affects fertility for a short while.

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>No snip, no job.

I would never advocate such thing, but it would actually be hilarious if some company made this a policy.

@lanodan Stop using engines and just use frameworks, at least for 2D games. SDL, SFML, Allegro, Pygame, MonoGame, and Love2D (calls itself an engine but is really a framework) are all FOSS. You just need to implement your own physics, level formats, etc but it's really not that hard to do.

@lanodan I don't know why proprietary software has to have an EULA. I think most would be fine with just all-rights reserved.

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