What do they do for you, scavenger hunts? Literary mysteries? Maybe the old it’s burried at the bottom of a lake challenge?

I was going to beat my wife… but she’s all the way on the other side of the couch… and there’s chips right here.

Nah it’s practical… it’s for convenience… you know when you ask a girl for her number and she answers it with

(123×4567×8910)−(423×5)+(9876×54321)−6789

So in the event of that situation once you solve it, you want to call it right away!

I’m not even talking linux incompatibility… but lets just say they use a super underpowered graphics card. or very little ram, or hard drives too small to install most games on etc…

Fact is manufacturers have made comperably stupid decisions. I’ve seen a lot of laptops for sale with windows 10, and 32 GB hard drives that can’t even be updated simply because even with nothing on them windows can’t fit both itself and an update. Generally speaking… when allowed to, manufacturers can release some pretty damn stupid builds that often aren’t designed to run what they are marketed to run.

I fully agree that was “a problem”. but I fully hold to the fragmented hardware also being a significant problem. IMO the steam deck still significantly makes gains from being a consistant hardware target for dev’s to base things on, in addition to basically having little to no consumer confusion, if a game says “will run on steam deck”, it’s safe to assume, it will run on a steam deck. This time around valve specifically hasn’t released a steam deck 2, because they want to avoid any hardware confusion.

While I like the concept… isn’t that a bit of what killed the initial steam machines. IE they basically encouraged everyone and their grandmother to release one… and the end result was the name was dilluted down so badly that no one knew what a steam machine was.

and, what happens when say the community overwhelms, say a conservative facebook group, could add a community note saying “the geese are dissapearing near hatian communities, and there are x missing cats and dogs”. While voting against notes actually reporting the Mayor, Police etc… having denied the claims and also noting that the missing animals are normal for any region of said size.

I mean that’s a problem… but it sounds like the problem gets worse.

Realistically fact checking always lies in the problem of how do we know the fact checkers aren’t corrupted. Unfortunately popular vote seems just as dangerous way of trying to back it.

Well in some ways there’s double meanings.

Fact is almost universally people lie to make themselves sound better. When someone says “I like to backstab people who put their trust in me, and I love to take loans and never pay them back, by the way can I borrow $200”. You probably don’t need to loan the person the money to find out if he was really just lying.

To me the biggest hypocracy in general when it came to forms of communism.

It’s a failed ideology, it will always collapse in on itself as soon as it grows.

Followed with

We need to destroy it at all costs to keep it from taking hold anywhere in the world.

You don’t need to stop something that’s self defeating. It’s like the tower of babel story in the bible. Mankind was building up a great tower because they thought uniting they would be a powerful as gods, so god knocked over their tower, scrambled their languages to divide and conquer the world… Isn’t that kind of an admission that, God believed without his interference man can be as strong as he is?

I disagree, I think nuclear is a half decent stop gap. Especially when noting renewables aren’t a universal perfect solution for every location. (IE not everywhere has good sun or wind). Doesn’t mean we should 100% move to nuclear, but the faster we can get rid of coal the better.

I don’t think they’ve really changed, they still get their hands dirty and work to overthrow any leaders that might not be super open to US exploitation.

I’m always torn on this topic because, yeah there’s hundreds of biases that can be attributed to this phenominon.

IE something becomes a popular topic in your area. Meaning more people in the area start searching the topic in that area, thus advertisers start pushing it to that location.

Obviously ads are also tracking you in 100 ways on what you’ve searched for, looked at etc… which means it could have a good guess of what you are going to talk about, before you do.

But at the same time, I think everyone can think of a lot of stories of things that just seemed to perfect, to out of the blue. For me the big one was 10 years ago when I walked into an attic, said “man it’s fucking dark up here”, opened my phone, and a big ad for a flashlight app popped up.

In other news, self driving cars will be reliable and trustworthy in 1-2 years.

Namely what the features are and the functionality of it. I mean if you are expecting to use it in a closed controlled area, then for the most part the pass through side isn’t necessary, the screen showing your eyes to outsiders is completely meaningless. So I guess the point is, there isn’t really a defined ideal place to use it. It isn’t super useful in one place, it’s made to be slightly helpful, everywhere.

Which of course begs the question, where is it intended to be used. when is the ideal time to put it on, and then how long should a session be before you take it off.

I mean did anyone think of the vision pro as more than a very expensive tech demo? It was always too big, too heavy to be viewed as something people were expected to wear all day long.

well whether popular doesn’t neceserally mean ungood. though I’m pretty skeptical when it comes to search engines as the amount they have to build up information wise to potentially be good is pretty extreme, it’s unlikely that someone could accomplish it without actually being known

edit: oh shit, it’s just AI crap… nevermind any of my potential it’s not impossible that a hidden gem would be feasilble it’s AI crap. No nobody needs a search engine to bring up something that you can’t verify if it’s credible information or just random guesses made by what’s popular on the internet… completely worthless.

Pre-existing condition, lead poisoning in a boomer.