But without the red circle and arrows how will you know you’re supposed to be looking at the exploding police car?

Also based on words and actions. Fred Durst was the poster boy for “total deuchebag”. He also made the choice to go full d-bag at Woodstock 99 and is at least somewhat complicit into that turning into an arson and sexual assault fest.

Anyone who would willingly listen to an AI-generated podcast is a person I have zero interest in ever interacting with. I feel like once you learn someone is actually doing that, a serious intervention is required.

I’m always blown away by everyday people who want to remove any laws constraining corporations. It’s clear they don’t understand history or the balance of power in this world. They’re essentially saying, “I’d like large groups of people driven entirely by greed to make all the decisions that shape the world around me, and I’d like to remove the only power structure that gives me any recourse when they run roughshod over the environment, my health, and my rights as a consumer.”

I was just thinking about this the other day. When I grew up, bills, books, the news, interesting articles, photos, and every piece of information you needed to work with or keep safe was stored on paper. Almost all electronics were wired, so cords were running everywhere.

They also had less time to manage all that because they were forced to commute every single day for work.

The fact that some people had uncluttered houses is some kind of miracle.

Now, some people, myself included, also had at least one parent who couldn’t throw anything away or keep things properly organized to save their life, but I look back on my cluttered childhood home with a little more grace these days.

Fair. That could be rolled into a computing course and makes sense to me. I

My favorite line was “All high school kids should learn to code.”. What? No they shouldn’t. Maybe a computer literacy course should be required, but there’s no reason for everyone on earth to know how to code.

Exactly. It’s like when people complained that rock and roll died again at the end of the 90’s. Sure, if you don’t seek out better music and just take what’s handed to you by MTV and the radio (or what Spotify shows on its Home screen these days), then music is terrible now. If you go digging, you can find all kinds of amazing stuff. Same goes for gaming. Good studios get too big or bought out and ruined by people who only care about money, but if you dig around you can find all kinds of good stuff.

The stuff that “lands in your lap” was actually shoved there by a multi-million dollar marketing budget. That almost certainly means the product itself is meant for mass consumption and may not be that compelling or interesting. If you’re willing to spend the time and effort to look around and play some bad games along the way, you’ll find the good ones.

Completely true. Even with games where you’re talking about executable code, the best option seems to involve licensing servers and you can’t use them if you’re offline or they shut the servers down.

Honest question: Has anyone invented or proposed a DRM system that would actually meet the needs of both media producers and consumers? We know they can prevent that mass dissemination of media to protect producers/artists/etc., but those DRM methods always have some major drawbacks for consumers and ultimately make the product unusable after a certain period of time or have incredibly annoying restrictions. I can’t quite wrap my mind around how you could have both, but I also haven’t put a lot of time into thinking about it.

Exactly. When it comes to food service, if all you did was make it and bring it to the counter, that’s all just rolled into the price of the meal. If you’re bringing it to my house or refilling my drinks and taking empty plates away while I sit and enjoy myself, then that’s beyond the meal itself and I’ll happily tip for that service.

If Trump had seen them chop off Obama’s head at Riot Fest like I did, he would be celebrating them and feeding them Arby’s at the White House.

It also depicts servers as doing some decadent super easy job when those people work their asses off. I dislike tipping culture, but I factor it into the cost of a night out and make sure someone gets paid fairly from my side if they’re doing a great job and making sure I have everything I need while I sit and enjoy my meal and conversation.

The whole system needs an overhaul, but until that happens, I’m on the side of the working people that make my night out easy and pleasant.

Jim Gaffigan likened making your bed to tying your shoes after you take them off. I do enjoy making my bed every now and then to keep things tidy, but that comparison is absolutely perfect.

True. I once asked myself why people have been so quick to fill the internet with garbage and ruin things for everyone just for a quick buck. The answer that immediately came to me was that they did it with the real world, so why not the virtual one?

Because one of the biggest companies on the planet that has issues with account takeovers clearly has no internal red team working on this stuff.

I just saw these replies now. You have a really good point about cops overseas. I like the UK model where most cops only have non-lethal weapons and they call in the cops with guns only when needed. I retract my point about cops in America needing guns. They don’t in all situations. Well said.

As for violence trumping everything, I just mean someone can walk up with a rifle and start demanding shit and if no one else in your society has a gun, well I guess that guy is in charge now. An egalitarian and peaceful society is always the way to go. Dumb shits with weapons can waltz in and fuck yo that whole thing if you don’t have a plan for that, though.

The one I see more often is “Democrat Party”. I don’t know if they’re insinuating that the party isn’t actually democratic, but in any case it’s weird and always seemed like another way to manipulate speech and signal who is in the in-group vs. the out-group.

These types of photos always do remind me of the fact that we live in an incredibly hostile universe. Helps me to appreciate how lucky we are to have this watery rock with a big bubble around it to live on.

It’s amazing the level of contempt for the average user most tech companies have these days.