How did this get normalized?

The average user doesn’t know or understand technical details, and don’t believe they have any power to change anything

Also capitalism means a small number of assholes make most of the decisions for reasons that benefit them

I feel like you could make an argument that “money” is ambiguous here. Bobby has more monetary value, but Amy has more items that are considered money. In a contrived example of like a DND puzzle where you need to put money on a floor tiles to disarm the traps, Amy can disable 30 and bobby only 4

I understood that reference

One of the things that makes open world games and especially Elder Scrolls so successful is the sense of exploration and place

Someone wrote that comment elsewhere and I needed to quote it in order to argue that Bethesda doesn’t even do a good job of that. Level scaling really kneecaps it

I just use my phone to look stuff up if I’m on my steam deck.

I don’t understand why you’d want an AI browser to begin with. Most web tasks aren’t hard.

You and someone else got hung up on the specific example. I’m sure I could have come up with a better example where the raw and nice version conveyed the same amount of information.

There are many ways to express any given truth, or facets of the truth.

“That dress makes you look fat”

“That dress doesn’t flatter you”

I don’t think I’ve ever gone much out of my way for achievements for their own sake. Games where they also unlock stuff (eg: binding of isaac), sure, but that’s for the unlock.

I may have done some challenge stuff that I learned about for the achievement, but only because it seemed fun. I wouldn’t go very far into anti-fun just for an digital badge on my profile.

All tools are not equally safe nor should they all be publicly available.

A chainsaw is a tool that you might cause harm with if you use it in stupid ways. We don’t give chainsaws out to children. We don’t use chainsaws for cutting dinner.

There are human elements to the problem but that’s not a big reveal.

Seems fair. Was a pretty big fuck up. Might deter others from making similar fuck ups.

That was always a bad idea and feeds my mild Cassandra complex.

No government should be relying on private platforms like that.

The suits at Microsoft are out of their fucking minds.

Yes. They are stupid and don’t deserve their huge paychecks.

They could’ve done basically nothing. Maybe security updates. And they would’ve had a decent brand that kept bringing in money. Their leadership is worse than doing nothing. A dog would make a better ceo.

I would be more than willing to carry around my own spoon, fork, and more, if it meant less plastic crap everywhere

I like the idea. I don’t want to use facebook or similar, but that’s where stuff like “BuyNothing” is most active.

Unfortunately, I don’t know much about self hosting (beyond what I’ve picked up working in software development) so I don’t see myself running one of these myself. I’d probably use it if it came to my neck of the woods (NYC)

This experience helps users quickly understand content

They really think we’re stupid. Unfortunately, they may be mostly right.

Platforms could moderate their content. They choose not to.

I mean it’s horrible but the only way people change their mind is from social pressure.

I had a coworker that was very right wing and months of talking I got him to accept queer people can be filed under “live and let live”. That was a big improvement from where he started.

Most developers I’ve looked at would happily just paste the curl|bash thing into the terminal.

I often would skim the script in the browser, but a. This post shows that’s not fool proof and b. a sufficiently sophisticated malicious script would fool a casual read