People get mad when things make them feel bad. They don’t want to fix anything they just don’t want to feel bad.

Yeah if AI was actually good you wouldn’t need to mandate it. No one was like “everyone here must use Google search”.

I’ve pretty much always preferred PC. The backlog stretches back decades. Fewer subscription fees. With modern stuff like proton and dosbox, you can keep playing older games.

Exclusives were always a shitty incentive.

Modern consoles aren’t even plug and play like SNES or PS1 era. Still need patches and shit.

I assume the person who made the video did more than just read the cited papers, but added some of their own analysis and commentary on top. Like, for any paper that cites sources you cannot get the its meaning merely by reading the cited sources. That’s absurd.

Presumably you thought the video’s content was worthwhile, because you linked it instead of the papers directly (which aren’t even about DND).

Video is a shitty medium for many use cases, but is popular because it is monetized more, and many people are only semi-literate.

On the one hand, omnipresent surveillance is bad and ripe for abuse.

On the other, I feel like the haphazard and selective enforcement of traffic laws by police officers is also really bad. Cops can selectively enforce laws so poor people or black people or whatever out-group suffers more. A machine should be impartial.

On the last hand, no traffic enforcement is probably going to get people killed. So that’s not desirable.

Also, fines are problematic. Fines should probably scale with wealth, but also it shouldn’t be a revenue source because that’s a perverse incentive.

Companies fill up with idiots and parasites. People who are adept at thriving in the role without actually producing value. Google is no exception.

I don’t know who or what SciShow is. i guess it’s good they linked their sources that’s not really the contention.

I believe there was an entire episode that was just Beatles references and jokes. The villains made a group called the “beat alls” I think.

There are dozens of us reading rock paper shotgun!

But yeah, the modern web sucks. It’s all soulless algorithms and profit/rent seeking.

Even if someone tried to make forums again, they’d probably fill up with AI slop.

Weird that it’s unsupported on steam deck. Doesn’t look that demanding technically.

I really liked CrossCode’s art and vibe and everything. The puzzles are good, too. But the puzzles are kind of hard in a way that tires me out.

I guess that’s how some people feel about dark souls. “Oh, I’m glad that’s over”. That’s not quite the vibe I’m aiming for.

Maybe I’ll play it with a friend who’s good at puzzles so I can just do the fighty parts.

One of the reasons I’m not really friends with a dude is he’d ask questions, I’d go look up the answers, and then he wouldn’t read them.

Eventually I was like, “if I go look this up are you going to read it? Or ask follow up questions?”

He was like, “is it going to be bite sized?”

I said, “I don’t think I can answer your complicated politics and history question in a way that’s all of fast complete and accurate.”

He admitted no. He wasn’t going to engage further. So I stopped looking stuff up for him, and we don’t talk much anymore.

I also am really tired of whole ass videos that could be a three paragraph blog post.

We’ve all read Pet Semetary, right?

Assuming what you’re saying about the harms of consuming pornography, is it the state’s responsibility? Is it a top priority? Do we trust conservatives to implement a solution in good faith?

The answer to all of those I think is no.

There’s no analogous ID check for violent media, so far as I know.

There could be a raging wildfire and I would hesitate if a Republican said “let me deal with it”. They are fundamentally untrustworthy.

That’s on top of the deep irony of the same party that goes on about “small government” and “parents rights” is typically the same one pushing draconian anti-porn laws. It’s a joke. “A government small enough to fit in your bedroom”. Their motivations are so corrupt I am extremely skeptical of anything they propose.

Maybe some sort of service so when you want to buy something, it sends the request out to a bunch of anonymous peers acting as judges. You can’t make the purchase unless a significant majority approve.

Sure, when you see the Funko pop you’re tempted, but a bunch of detached people are more likely to go “no that’s a waste of money. Rejected.”

I feel like I would have nullified, had I been on the jury.

The us is really stupid for many reasons. 50+ patchwork systems for stuff everyone needs, like ID, is one of them. Using a driver’s license for ID is another.

Adding websearch to the start bar’s search was solving a problem that didn’t exist.

Maybe the average user is so ignorant and bad at computers they don’t understand this. They don’t know what a browser is. They don’t know what a website is. They don’t know what a program is. It’s all just stuff.

Personally, I’d rather spend billions on education than AI slop and other patches on “people are kind of dull”

I saw her give a talk once. Someone asked her about the environment or climate change, and she said something like “There’s like 100 people responsible for most of the problem, and we know where they live.”

The crowd loved this answer. The guy moderating the event made nervous noises.