/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!
The only reason it’s possible in voice acting is because actors have unions. I’d see nothing wrong with other labor unions demanding that studios hire minorities to write, design, and animate too
We should be expanding the standard, not tearing it down.
How is that true in a way different from other industries?
It is the same in other industries, the dominant race always has better employment opportunities. It’s not really specific to voice acting.
At least in VA we are able to actually force companies to hire minorities.
The race of a voice actor doesn’t matter
This is a one-way ticket to everyone being the dominant race behind the scenes because studios won’t hire other races.
Central authority is a tool. In different hands it does different things, but if you disarm yourself you’ll lose.
If you do not choose your leaders they will choose themselves. We tried the whole leaderless, decentralized anti-authority thing throughout the 2010s. At best you might be able to collapse the central authority of the currently existing government regime, but what comes after that is always much much worse: civil war, invasion, or an even more repressive government regime. But, more likely, the movement will just collapse because it lacks the structure to actually sustain itself.
We need to be centralized and we need to be ready to assert our authority when the old one is destroyed, or we will lose.
Imagine believing you can defeat capitalism without central authority.
Big problem with the 3rd world cubical farms - how do you evaluate their performance? You’d have to hire even more people to double-check their work, otherwise people will do the smart thing and cut corners to make their job easier.
Using books is definitely a way to keep out contamination, though.
Where do you get the real data, though? They just scrap data from websites, but now that chatbots have proliferated this will only introduce contaminated data. Keeping it clean would require hiring people to scrub contamination from the data sets.
ICE is under Homeland Security. Besides, being new doesn’t really make them not the Gestapo. The Gestapo was new at one point as well after all.
It was bad in 2004 too, people just didn’t realize that ICE was the Gestapo back then.
The mask is off. That’s all.
And yet they never catch up. Why do you think that is?
The goal is to keep them weak and dependent, not help them stand as equals with France and Germany.
It isn’t to help them catch up, it’s to keep them limping along without collapsing entirely, while at the same time keeping them dependent so they don’t think of trying to escape. It has the same function as the IMF/World Bank.
In terms of larger countries, it has been beneficial for France and Germany, less so for Italy
It’s just a way for the wealthy metropoles to turn poorer members of the EU into neocolonies. Yeah, it’s great for rich Europeans! Not so much for everyone else. Without the ability to deficit spend (because they lack currency sovereignity) they are forced to do austerity and privatization. It’s just financial imperialism.
It’s a bad system and it will collapse.
Ask Greece or the other Mediterranean nations if they are better off without their own currency (hint: they absolutely aren’t)
Death to US is a basic statement of understanding that the US empire is the primary contradiction.
The EU as a whole is an interesting project, but the Eurozone currency bloc was a mistake. All it did was surrender everyone else’s currency sovereignty to Germany and France.
And death to the US.
Don’t give up sovereignity, even to allies! Alliances change, but even ignoring that, it’s akin to letting allies run your infrastructure or make your policies or own your water. It’s giving part of yourself away.
Data sovereignty is going to be key to maintaining any sovereignity going forward, it’s so vital to the function of society and the economy that outsourcing it to another country is just giving part of yourself away.
Chelsea* Manning
But, yeah, most people just do not care if they are spied on because they don’t think it will be used for anything besides advertising. Trump is going to wake a lot of people up to the immense power we’ve handed over to our tech overlords.
You could dab it with a little paint or glue or something.
It helps when you reframe math as a puzzle, because then it becomes a game. It’s not interesting unless you make it interesting.
“New Math” kind of tries to do this, although then you run into the problem of parents being unable to help their kids with homework.
The month tells you more about conditions like weather but that’s kinda it.