Posts by uoou@fedi.drew.monster
(DIR) Post #AicfffG5Qom9WW0h0K by uoou@fedi.drew.monster
2024-06-05T14:19:28.884268Z
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@scottsantens I’m in favour of UBI (and I’m in a position to benefit enormously from it) but I do have some concerns about it.Firstly, without supporting policies, it would ultimately just be a permanent fiscal stimulus for business. A further transfer of wealth from public to private hands (when people spend it).Secondly, related to the above, it would likely be used as an excuse to further cut public services and further privatise things like the NHS (UK context obviously). You don’t need public services any more, we’ve given you the money to pay for private ones. At a bare minimum I’d want to see UBI and UBS offered in tandem.Thirdly, as others have mentioned, businesses and rentiers could raise prices and employers could lower wages to compensate. So I’d only want to see UBI coupled with a wealth tax, greatly increased corporation tax, capital controls, a commitment to significantly increased public spending on services and infrastructure, a significantly increased minimum wage and for it to be linked to inflation including property prices.
(DIR) Post #Aiy4JbsqQd2xQT1eL2 by uoou@fedi.drew.monster
2024-06-16T00:04:12.247223Z
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@ChrisWere @pennywhether Yup, me too. I suspect this is true for everyone who knows what’s happening.It’s terrifying. But a little bit of me is happy to see art get its bubble popped a little.I think dealing with this will be healthy for art in the long run.And… age old thing on the left. But automation is good, so long as the fruits of that productivity are shared (which they never are under capitalism).And, why does a robot making art degrade art, but a robot making a car not degrade cars?Everyone who makes or builds or contributes to the making or building of anything is a creative person.
(DIR) Post #Aj9TteOo7BtPbaxtNA by uoou@fedi.drew.monster
2024-06-21T11:56:00.993059Z
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#PeopleToFollowOnFriday@ChrisWere to stay up-to-date on what Youtubers have been elected to which office. Also a smart lad.@sinvega is the only good games writer left. Also very funny.@anjune is one of the smartest people I know and needs to be told her creative stuff is cool. Cos it’s really cool.@hamishtpb does all the nerd stuff. Pretends not to be lovely but is.@ChrisMayLA6 for smarty pants economics and politics stuff.
(DIR) Post #AjO8TZG3Pc1PUpI3YO by uoou@fedi.drew.monster
2024-06-28T13:53:59.691476Z
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#ukpol #uspolWatching the US debate and it’s fucking terrifying.We really are (in both UK and US) creating the perfect conditions for fascism or something very much like it.But can we be fucking clear. This is not the fault of the people refusing to vote for increasingly shitty Labour/Democrat candidates.This is the fault of Labour/The Democrats for being shitty and embracing the exact narratives and economic positions that empower the right.
(DIR) Post #AkOdNbgnbOjoJBCTyK by uoou@fedi.drew.monster
2024-07-28T17:03:26.326470Z
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I know we all agree the modern, enshitified web is shit. But I just want to highlight some specific design features that regularly piss me reet off (aside from the really obvious stuff like subscription popups etc.)Things that expand when you hover over them, obscuring the other things you were looking at. So you have to find the 3px wide column where you can safely rest your cursor when browsing stuff. Fuck you Netflix.Interactable UI elements that only appear when you mouse over them. This one’s actually insane. Wanted to watch that video so you clicked on it, but no, a button appeared in that spot and now you’ve added it to your ‘queue’, whatever the fuck that is. Fuck you so much Youtube.Interactable UI elements that you actually want to use only appearing when you mouse over them. Like the ‘delete this video from my history’ button on youtube because, while every now and then yes I’ll spend 3 hours watching US local news bloopers, I don’t want news bloopers to be all you recommend for the next 18 months. And because the list of videos is a column, and when you delete one it leaves a little message behind, you can’t just keep your cursor in the same place and keep clicking, you have to find the invisible button every time. I fucking hate you Youtube.Videos thumbnails that autoplay when you hover them. Fine, if undesired, in itself, but that also counts as watching for watch history and recommendations. So, again, unless I want nothing but cooking videos for the next 2 years, I have to find the spot where I can safely hover my mouse while scrolling. Why is it always you, Youtube.Elements that load in asynchronously and push the thing you were about to click on down, so that you click on something else instead. Fuck you Steam.Loading ‘spinners’ in general. The fact that they display the exact same thing when ‘something is loading’ and also when ‘the site is completely fucked and nothing is happening’ makes them entirely worthless. Either do it properly (register when you’ve lost connection with the server/backend and tell me) or don’t bother.I get that big screens with actual pointing devices are secondary these days, everything’s designed principally for mobile. But it’s not like the vague, inconsistent touch interfaces are good either.And small personal sites virtually never do this shit. Only the big sites with the incredibly well paid UI/UX designers and consultants. It’s almost like they’re complete charlatans who have no fucking idea what they’re talking about.