I'm glad his term is ending this year. I hope we get the opportunity to vote for a more progressive governor who will protect trans people and prioritize affordability.

California needs a Mamdani-esque leader imo.

He's an opportunistic conservative who pretends to still be progressive solely to keep California from turning on him while he's still the governor of the state (and even then he's doing a piss poor job at it)

As a Californian, I can confirm that I will not vote for Newsom. He's too quick to concede to the right, especially on issues like trans rights, he's against taxing billionaires, at best, he's a coward who backs down at the slightest confrontation, the epitome of all bark and no bite, and at worst

As if he needs to, when the democratic party is already eagerly shifting to the right, and just letting "republican-lite" and "not as bad as the other guy" be their entire party platform, having learned absolutely nothing from their failures in 2024.

This always seemed to me like a decision that some dumb Amazon exec made on their own, not realizing (or simply not caring) that they'd need that approval to begin with.

And it seems that's exactly what it was.

I never thought for a second that the parent companies had approved the AI dubs. Especially because two of the three series that Amazon did this to already had good English dubs.

Hell, Vinland Saga has two English dubs, I think.

And I was already anti-AI, but seeing them do this to one of my favorite anime is just beyond infuriating.

Dollars every year as the owner of THE biggest online shopping service in the world? Hell, if they wanted to, they could afford to get the proper licensing to produce their own dub, and I would respect that. But relying on AI to do this shit pisses me off.

And the fact that AMAZON is doing this to a series that already has a very good dub (aside from some minor localization issues) makes it even more offensive.

Like, you're telling me they couldn't be bothered to pay to license Sentai Filmworks' dub? The company that rakes in hundreds of billions of

I agree, but the quality is also just the easiest part to criticize, and it's the part that the average consumer who might not know or care about other issues with genAI dubs WILL notice and care about.

No one wants to watch a dub where the voices sound like Google Translate's text-to-speech.

Although it does appear to describe the Mystery Man sprite from Undertale (which many fans believe to be Gaster)

For what it's worth, he knew the dataminers would share it with the rest of the community because of abc_123.ogg.

I consider this to be useless knowledge because this text doesn't appear in the game (and if it did, that would mean something is wrong), and as of now, it doesn't seem to mean anything

(Not sure if this is technically my "most woke opinion", but it definitely feels like one of my more radical ones, on account of the fact that most leftists seem to view "just build more houses" as the solution to the housing crisis, failing to acknowledge why that solves absolutely nothing)

Affordable homes before anyone else can, and invest in making them unaffordable. There's no point in taking one step forward if you're just gonna be thrown ten steps back for every step you take. You need to weaken the person pushing back until they're harmless, so that you can make real progress.

Of money that many of us will never see in our entire lifetimes. An amount that's impossible for many to save for due to many economic factors.

And until all of that is done, no amount of "just build affordable housing" will mean anything, because the investors and corporations will buy up the

Will be screwed over by those policies. I don't care that a majority of them will eventually have to sell their homes for significantly less money than they bought them for. Real estate should not be treated as an investment, and no home should cost over a million dollars, period. That's an amount

bad. That's not "just hating without nuance", that IS the logical, nuanced take for the world we live in. Anything else is pure delusion and/or stupidity. A lack of critical thinking, or unironic bootlicking from a moron who thinks corporations will ever have your best interest at heart.

over everything else, where people CAN just do what they're passionate about without having to worry about money, where the usage of AI is specifically a creative choice rather than a cost-saving measure, there is no ethical use case for generative AI, and the technology as a concept IS inherently

than hiring new actors, that's what the companies will do.

My generation is already so used to being screwed by the 1% and the corporations, and watching older generations pull the ladder up behind them every chance they get. Unless and until we get to live in a society that doesn't value profit