1st Gear: Rising inflation and rising interest rates are usually what come before a recession. And that’s what is going on right now. So his ‘bad feeling’ does have some basis in reality.

This was a damn good article. And even though it solidifies my belief that this stuff isn’t for me, I’m glad folks who enjoy this stuff are enjoying it.

Maybe the FTC should look into “Full Self-Driving”

Youtube videos showing people riding in the back seats of their self-driving cars should be met with derision and shame criminal charges rather than the fan-boy response they seem to get instead.

Saying she’s morbidly obese - which she is - is no more ‘wrong’ than calling a person with red hair a red haired person.

I will never understand the purpose of carplay or android auto. If you’re driving, you don’t need to be using your phone. At most you’ll want to switch radio station or skip a music track once every few minutes, that’s it.

The simplest way to control something does not always mean the best.

It was baroque and impractical and weird and beautiful and stupid and still one of my favorite things. Mainly because I loved the idea of him sitting alone in the dark, brooding and waiting. I respect the objections to this iteration of Batman! I also love it.

Two people can simultaneously be differing degrees of wrong. You don’t have to cheer for either.

I’ve heard that Power of the Dog was about toxic masculinity. Mostly I thought it was boring-as-fuck cheese nonsense that had almost nothing to do with real people or real life.

Absolutely. It was a joke in terrible taste. But… you can’t hit people because they made you mad. That’s still assault.

Yeah, there needs to be another arrow that says “Can you do this with a simple, secure SQL database?” -> no -> “Yes you can.”

There is absolutely NOTHING of value nfts could bring into a video game, they serve no gameplay purpose and whatever could be done with them can absolutely be done without, more efficiently and with less impact on the environement. And frankly speaking, the notions of “profit” or “ownership” are of no interest to the…

No NFTs get such a bad rap because no one can present a compelling argument for what they’re actually good for. Worth noting that you make a point about what they’re not good for without even bothering to try and say what they are good for.

There are no applications that we can’t already do better in a more efficient way.

If the company wanted to let you sell rare cards, they could just let you sell rare cards. Not like NFT has ever been necessary for that. Plenty of property and things have been bought and sold in games such as Second Life with cash and that came out 19 years ago, though I’m sure it’s existed far longer. E-mail and…

Because you can do all this already without NFTs. You’re adding complexity for zero added value, something that in any other industry would result in you getting your walking papers.

Loud pipes do not, in fact, save lives.

It means you've been spotted.