Yes

I'm trying to think of countries America is most likely to end up like, but America's military power complicates basically any comparison. But I'm thinking there are so many parallels to Nazi germany. A core difference is the access to information we have. First and foremost historical precedent, but also social media (even though it's also part of the reason we're in this mess).

If Trump can't achieve a critical mass of compliance, a military coup is the most likely salvation. Specifically Trump calling the military on mass peaceful protests and in response the military saying "we'd rather coup the president". Violent resistance would close this avenue off, as it would galvanise the military behind the president.

There's also the question of whether ICE will be sufficiently militarized by the time this happens, and whether it would even occur to Trump to call in ICE to suppress protests. Nobody but the worst of the worst will join ICE, if their personnel and equipment can overwhelm even the local police (ACAB, but like, not ACAMAGA) then it would take gross incompetence for Trump to lose power.

That is domestically. The question now stands:

• Will they actually invade Canada or Greenland (nobody'll pay attention to Panama)?
• Would the rest of the world resist?
• Would they succeed?
• Would it result in nuclear war?

Keep in mind I am not an expert. Also this is all putting aside Trump's narcissism. Trump wants to be seen as a good person and a genius and I'm not sure he'd go as far as to massacre crowds of protesters specifically. If nothing else such violence would look like a failure on his part. Whoever succeeds Trump, a Republican obviously, would need to be Stephen Miller levels of bad.

There are other meats?

Nowadays I mostly, unexpectedly, draw the line at whether the product is good. I haven't really trained my mental ethics muscle because frankly most of the unethical stuff just isn't high quality.

Often I use ethics not as a "line" but as a proxy for the quality of something. In a world where we're bombarded with too many choices boycotting is more of an advantage than disadvantage.

In the rare instance when something is good and unethical, like meat, it becomes a case-by-case thing. In the case of meat I stay away from pork (because that's the most inhumane) and obviously I don't touch any American meat.

EDIT: The topic here was work. Which is a tough one because we're basically not given a choice on jobs. I would never do a job that actively makes the world a worse place, but I would work for a for-profit corporation ... except my quality argument still carries over here. For-profit corporations are horrible places to work.

Are y'all trying to lure me to the dark side (i.e. hermit life)?

But Tactical Breach Wizards, I played the Next Fest demo and enjoyed it but removed it from my wishlist because they took down the demo. More than games that just never put out a demo, a game that puts one out and then consciously decides to take it down, those tend to be bad more often than not.

They put the demo back up so now it's back on the list. Not a fan of complicated time-travel plots, I've been burnt before with them, but I'm intending to give it the benefit of the doubt.

These are just the ones released this year. Next year there'll be more. And there are games from last year I haven't gotten to (and the classics on top of that). Leaving the list too big means I miss a lot of them and the ones I do play would be based on gut instinct.

Perhaps at this point there's no better option than gut instinct, now that I've exhausted basically all other criteria. I guess there are more fundamental questions I should be asking myself about how to handle the post-scarcity world of art.

• Phones won't start including a Linux desktop.
• Browser apps will be a thing of the past, you'll need to install either a mobile or desktop app to use YouTube or Netflix or whatever.
• Sites like YouTube will also probably remove the subscriptions feed (which only like 1-2% of people use).
• Vendor lock-in efforts will be more forceful.
• I think more people will start touching grass.

And putting AI aside is a bit weird since it's the big news story so:

• Companies will replace workers with generative AI, and as a result essential services will be worse (but more profitable).
• Generative AI will outside of the above be used as a (low-reliability but low-effort) search engine, for memes, and in animation.

My first thought was standardization. Install all the fonts in the world (or only say you have the default Windows fonts installed), lie about the OS and say you use Windows 11, pick a standard canvas, etc.

Randomization, that is also an approach that can work too, and probably with basically no compromises except having your activity be frequently flagged as suspicious by Proton Mail, presumably.

I have some rewrites I'd like to make to the US constitution.

When using the web installer, I recommend scrolling down to the bottom and clicking the download button before starting.

Spent like 30 minutes with my phone just sitting there in the bootloader waiting for it to download.

Bluetooth didn't work on my laptop. Got new bluetooth card (exact same type). Bluetooth still didn't work.

Turns out:

1. The specific card doesn't support Linux.
2. My laptop has a hardware whitelist in the BIOS that prevents me from installing any other card.
3. My headphones don't support USB bluetooth.

Was gonna say this, although not the part about their "country of origin" (Russian does not automatically mean gullible).