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(holy fuck that clip is so fucking bad)

finally, AI has delivered unto us Progress: all-genre elevator music

yeah you make a valid point there on the social angle, that kind of vibes club shit has definitely clung to a lot of the recent shit

gonna have to do some digging sometime to see how this was swung with some of these propositions in the past. and, probably, find some translators, given how many of these will have been in places whose languages I don’t speak

you may wish to read the sidebar

that's almost certainly a thing on the supporter/stan side, and probably not not a thing with the people that suggest these citybuilding, but I don't know if it's necessarily the prime motivation (or one of the primaries, as it were)

armchair analysis: the broad stroke of it is that suggesting a whole new thing instead of figuring out how to fix a thing sells simpler. on the face of it, "start fresh" means none of that messy "figure out how to address problems and work around them", none of the politics, etc. of course this rarely holds up to scrutiny or realworld interaction at all, but the pitch is nice and clean. it's a really big part of why we've seen a lot of these things (and a major driver behind the then-popularity of the many coins (alongside the lies of a golden payday)). but as to why it is so frequently cities, instead of anything even a bit smaller (new railways! new ports! new airlines! new $x...), that's the thing that's a standout wtf for me in this

tangentially, I think about this thread every so often too. this just made me think of it again.

I keep wanting to give zed a serious go (even just to try it out because it looks interesting) but there's some design decisions that are raisedeyebrow.gif and feel like a very telling thing about the mindset of the devs

fresh install:

• at start, it immediately attempts to start making connections to github copilot and a couple of other network sources. no user prompt, no indication that it's going to be doing this, no indication that it is doing it
• figuring out how to turn said undesired features off was not documented and just by the by semi answered elsewhere (also: I applied those settings and it still did a bunch of shit, so I had to pull the repo and scratch through it myself...)

while I'm certainly from the older guard of crotchety, I still think it's fucking reasonable to ask the user before your software goes off and does shit. you don't even have to overload them with requests, you can make it granular with a customize button. this shit has been solved in fucking windows application installers since the goddamn 00s

christ I'm gonna stay angry at the last decade for a long time

some years ago I wanted to build a bot that tracks all these loons, but the twitter API reqs are onerous as fuck so I never bothered

feel like there's probably still a need for something like that. perhaps even more so than before, given how mask-off the snakepit is getting

lol their last comment made it through to my client notifications, and the utter “it’s you not me” vibe to it is beyond. no need to repeat it I guess but just fucking wow

wow we get changelogs now, fancy

it continues to be weird how many of these things want to Just Build A New City as magic solutionism. the same strain of “that’ll fix it” it shows up with Neom and some others too. dunno if I have a conclusion with that really, just that picking cities of all things seems like the fucking weirdest all-in-one pick to go with

anyone happen to know if there’s someone that’s studied this and written a bit about it?

but all this spicy food I ate still has to go through my system - just like you still have to make good posts

seriously, you show up here sight unseen and your very first posts are to take up weird stances on other people’s comments? the fuck