My takeaway wasn’t that humans are self-centered or that in and of itself is bad/wrong - in a core way, we have to be. I guess it’s cliche, but we have to eat and sleep. It’s that when you have organizations with specific mandates that are stuck in a loop of prioritizing effort towards short term survival versus long…

I woulda thunk centrism by it’s very definition is a middle ground, often accompanied by a belief that required change unaccompanied by friction is inherently destabilizing. That it’s “half-assed” or imperfect is a known and acceptable property of it, particularly if one believes that what a just system looks like is…

A lot of people may mock paywalls, but it’s clearly a viable business model today. I pay for nytimes and the toronto star, for instance, and am happy to do so. 30 bucks total a month for high quality journalism? That’s a buck a day.

Put another way, my belief is that a reasonably high % of people watching Fox News watch it to get “the truth those other networks are too corporate/elitist to give you” which invites the sort of disabling of critical filtering associated with being part of an in group, while a reasonably high % of people watching CNN…

Not a single human who buys this rig will ever take it down more than a dirt trail, and that’s really a shame.

To some degree stars are commercial entities, and therefore there are vested interests in the people around them not to jeopardize their economic or social relationship with the product. (Although I allow for the fact that with an eye towards sustainable employ, one may wish to ensure the product isn’t set to self…

I feel like people don’t really appreciate that’s it quite common for people to both hold certain beliefs while violating those beliefs, thereby making them hypocrites of the aware or unaware variety. They may also violate other beliefs that we place under ill defined umbrella terms like “progressive” which may make…

yes it very much sounds apocryphal to me

they may have run basically alongside the building in question is what he’s saying .. in this case 2nd floor probably does mean one flight up, high enough for there to be power lines below (besides, whatever we think is “abnormal” these days when it comes to things like electrical infrastructure which today is…

It’s rare for a game to ship these days on consoles that doesn’t offer volume sliders for music, voices, and often time even more granularity is available. I’m not certain but I’d guess it’s included in the certification requirements on MS and Sony platforms.

You do a pretty good job of demonstrating why kids are put in a position of harm if the only people allowed to talk to them about certain things they may be experiencing are their parents or guardians, so, congrats?

“It takes two to fight”

They were all the best kind of TV parents. They didn’t just “fit in” the world, but they were all so good, you could actually *think about it* and go, “Yup, those are definitely their parents.”

The novel aspect of this is it would be a service available at the platform sdk level, not publisher/developer specific. Which makes sense because publishers and developers don’t really wanna have to bother to be in the business of selling ad inventory or manage relationships with suitable ad publishing partners, and…

I feel like I’ve seen the video that’s supposedly the “smoking gun” of this widely parroted angle of attack (it’s obviously incredibly benign, a real political Rorschach test), and I’ve always had a laugh imagining Project Veritas covering kids’ heads in peanut butter and launching them into functions where they may…

Yeah, I didn’t really make it clear in my post that I was saying this is the impression people got, like most things like this I’m sure contextually it’s not as bad as the way it goes around. It still feels like a “thar be dragons” thing to say - even if his exact words are “it might have been different”. I don’t feel…

He once implied he would have stopped one of the 9/11 planes if he’d been aboard. That rubbed people the wrong way, although I can’t imagine why. (said sarcastically)

I imagine lots of people who are not pure assholes who don’t necessarily have the luxury of choosing what they work on also worked on this. That said, I personally wouldn’t judge anyone that doesn’t want to watch the movie because of his involvement. That’s a legit choice to me. But maybe for other people who don’t…

holy smokes, there are 3 main sections on Indi’s webpage, one of which is “blockchain” and it is a glorious read (if you enjoy laughing):