apparently nothing about how the united states takes advantage of video games for propaganda purposes itself.

Peter is the guy who says “No One Dies”. That’s someone who would fight fate itself to save anyone and everyone.

So... do we think it’s more than... like... 7 trolls behind this?

My biggest pet peeve with movie-tv-Superman, as a hero, is that he doesn’t actually deal with difficult choices. If he is presented with two unavoidable bad choices he’ll miraculously pull a third choice out of his butt (or simply reveal some new impossible way of using his powers). The struggle is only ever token. I…

You mean the Jews?

I think it is fair to say that a Luddite is anybody who sees new technology changing their lives and would rather fight the change and delay the inevitable than try to adapt. That can be out of inability, greed, or laziness.

I get that... but those products were ostensibly designed and sold before he took on that massive lease for the neighboring building... which (going by virtually all his videos on it) has proven to be a much more costly investment that, so far as I can tell, hasn’t started producing extra revenue for the company.

I hope…

It’s not about “winning”, it’s about better understanding reality so our arguments and actions have some hope of making sense. I certainly won’t apologize for pointing out that you haven’t actually engaged with my point on any level.

To anyone actually following this exchange, please note the complete absence of content in the two previous replies from daba. This, along with an appeal to imagined realities where humans behave in ways not at all consistent with our actual history, are typical responses from people with rigid far-left socialist…

Claiming, on a tech blog, that you’ve never heard of LTT is the worst humble brag I’ve seen today.

I’m actually surprised he didn’t take the 100m buyout. I had the impression that he’s in a somewhat challenging spot with his new property expansions for creator warehouse... and his income still seems to rely heavily on the whims of Google. Even with Floatplane that has to have cost him a lot of sleep over the years.

The two sentences that immediately followed that statement support it. Socialism, on its own, is evidently inherently unstable. The evidence is that every stable country on the planet mixes socialism and capitalism. I asked for a single example that illustrates otherwise... the fact that you didn’t even try only furthe…

It seems to be that the details matter (like the actual terms of rental, etc) and we don’t have those details. The suitability of the term “company town” hinges entirely on details we don’t have.

This is... well... a good point.

Socialism is evidently unstable. This is why the most stable countries on the planet mix elements of socialism and capitalism. Please... for the sake of your own sanity... point out a real world socialist success story that isn’t embedded in a capitalist framework.

I think the point I’m trying to make could be clarified by analogy. Political movements have overly-simplistic slogans... not because they want to oversimplify... but because that is the only way that public messaging seems to work. For example... if someone were to argue that “Black Lives Matter” is an…

“More food makes you bigger. Bigger people die faster.”

The obesity epidemic, at least in the US, is a result of people eating both crap and too much of it... making a focus on any particular component probably counter productive. The “eat better” campaigns have been failing for decades. The “eat less” campaigns have been failing for decades. The “exercise more” campaigns…

There is no world in which a doctor doesn’t do the (usually) simple tests for a heart condition just because their patient is obese. What your describing is doctors follow standard diagnostic procedures which starts with the most likely explanations with the least invasive treatments (and slowly work towards the least…

There is also a big difference between how a person is and how a couple of people (even people close to them) describe them to be. Sanderson only confirmed the “lack of pain” descriptions in the most tepid of ways yet the author of the article ran with it as though a specific diagnosis was confirmed to them by a…