My experience has been that most people only use a computer at work and use their phone or a smart TV for everything else. Although, they usually also own a laptop for when a computer is required

“I prefer jovial” would’ve become the goto rainbow capitalist phrase

I think it’s a bit more hopeful than that(America is still fucked short term, but humanity might be better off long term). Throughout history, people have been misinformed idiots that don’t think critically. It’s just that prior to about 2008, people didn’t really have access to the deluge of information that is social media and we’re still trying to figure that out.

The reason misinformation on social media works so well is that people want to learn things, and if someone tells them a believable enough lie, they’ll take that as fact doing only minimal checks(eg: my friend whom I trust shared this article saying that it’s the Mexican’s fault I see so many homeless people, so it must be true).

Stuff like this has happened throughout history. People published absolutely insane things in books and presented them as fact for hundreds of years, and it set back things like science and medicine for equivalently long, as people didn’t fact check things then either.

The fact that people are already hammering on about trying to fact check social media means that people are educated enough now to start, and we as a species just need another small push in that direction

I honestly prefer Valve’s method. You as a consumer should be reading what you’re buying before you purchase anyway, and you can still use their refund system if you somehow missed the warning.

Removing unfinished games from the storefront just increases the amount of lost media out there. These projects should be available for as long as possible simply for archival reasons.

Dont forget that USAID played a role in dismantling Apartheid South Africa, which Musk has a personal grudge against.

Against this specifically?

• Don’t ever expose your firewall/router management access to the Internet.
• Install firmware updates asap.
• Don’t be a an attractive target for nation-state hackers.

Additionally, ensure that you are following best practices for your own data by enabling MFA wherever you can and dont re-use passwords for any service.

I wish you guys could have President Camacho. He at least cared about things enough to trust running the country to the smartest man on earth

Mostly it’s their attitude to controversy.

Brave has had several major issues over the past few years and they didn’t reverse course until press got bad enough for them to make a statement and try for damage control. This includes:

• Replacing ads on websites with their own, and collecting that revenue

• Inserting their own referral codes into auto complete when users navigate to Binance

• Installing an extra VPN service on Windows machines without user consent

• Sending DNS requests to the local ISP when in TOR mode effectively removing protection against spying

On top of all that, it’s based on Chromium, which means that Google is in control of their upstream source code.

Yeah, but then you have to use Brave

Its original owners, Mark and Barbara Blasch, sought permission from the commission in 2018 to build a 241-foot-wide seawall to stave off erosion. The commission’s seven members — all volunteers — rejected the seawall on the grounds that it might have unintended effects on the beach and the way water carries nutrients in the bay. They also questioned whether it would actually save the house.

Sounds like they tried and were denied approval. A collapsing house is probably going to have unintended effects on the beach too

This is only obvious because you didn’t escape the news cycle.

There were a shocking number of people that didn’t even know Biden dropped out. Don’t underestimate how out of touch people can be before making an important decision

That would solve the problem about not getting high, but cannabutter still tastes pretty bad. That’s why it’s usually hidden in baked goods with stronger flavors like chocolate.

This is tragic, but we dont want the American health care system here, despite what the conservatives are trying to push

At this point, it’s not really about maximizing profits, it’s about trying to undo every change Biden made

Kind of. Because the game was technically owned by the USSR he was not eligible to receive any royalties until his prior contracts expired. He has received royalties on it starting around 1996.

Other people have already said it, but it’s Tetris.

Its the only game ever made that I would describe as “perfect”.

It takes seconds to learn how to play, while the skill ceiling is in the stratosphere. It’s endlessly replayable, the music is iconic, and it’s available for basically any platform made in the last 40 years.

Oh god, please dont give Danielle Smith any ideas

All they need to do is let people keep their original bsky handle when they switch to domain verification. You’d still see some copycat accounts, but the barrier of entry is now higher as it would require someone to purchase a lookalike domain name

“Tech bros reinvent trains, but worse” makes perfect sense if your end goal is to grift people.

Everyone knows what a train is, and any investment firm will be able to understand the material, land, and labor costs because all of that is well known and documented.

When you have an idea that no one has ever done before, then the costs get nebulous. Getting funding turns into a marketing problem, and thats a lot easier when the person paying doesn’t know exactly what they’re getting. Every investor wants to be on the ground floor of the next major innovation, and your job is to convince them that’s what this is.

You couldn’t make this movie today. It was already made in 1982.