IMO, consumers aren’t necessarily stupid as much as corporations have very expertly learned to weaponize FOMO through advertising; allowing companies like apple to inflate their profit margin from something reasonable to “whatever the consumer is willing to pay.”

Is that “capitalism”? Yes…technically. But to me, it goes against the spirit of capitalism, which at its heart sums up as “Farmer has a cow that produces milk. Farmer sells the chicken farmer down the road his extra milk and charges enough to be reasonable but doesn’t get greedy because he needs eggs.”

Corporations don’t need our eggs. They don’t believe they need anything from us and so don’t care about being reasonable about profit.

Its “capitalism”, but in my opinion, a perverse, stilted form that should have been kicked to the curb the moment Reaganomics started making it popular.

Life tip: No matter where you are, always seek out the weirdos. You’ll have a much better time.

I’m ready to move to a commune. But like… not a hippie Luddite commune that shirks all technology. Just one that isn’t fucking insane about the tech in their lives. basically one that rewinds a bit back towards maybe the early to mid 2000s. Where we had a of the tech in a still mostly uncorrupted form.

Its like “the village” for people who are utterly exhausted by corporate greed. Someone get M. Night Shammalamma or whatever on the phone.

6.5 Drachma, can be converted to 6 sesterces or six ducats.

Obviously I’m kidding.

simple solution. Either he gives up his business interests or the election is declared null and void. Third option is that the people remind him what happens to tsars when soviets rise up.

Those are his only three options.

At first I thought “Goth Clowns”. But then I realized that would just be mimes.

The truest truism that ever did truism is that “power inevitably corrupts”

Doubt I would ever do the VR headset. I simply don’t play the kind of games that work well with (or even need) VR. Although come to think of it, a VR Civilization VI game would be wild.

But the Steam Machine would be interesting to replace the old laptop I currently have running as my multimedia box on my television (streaming, retro gaming, steam mirroring, etc…) It would be more powerful than the well worn old dude I’m currently using.

Trump is too stupid to even know what the Aryan Fist is. My guess is he thinks he’s being iconic by mimicking the gesture he made when he was “shot” during the campaign. Which makes me all the more convinced that the entire thing was an act since everything Conservatives do is completely performative.

“work as much as you can, use as much as you need.”

You don’t need technological advancement to be sustainable if your population remains relatively small and static. Hunter Gatherers actually follow pretty much exactly the formula you described above and ended up with far more leisure time than their agriculturally “advanced” counterparts.

It’s never existed. Not in it’s pure form anyway. But neither has capitalism, or socialism either for that matter.

A theoretical system is always in some way perverted and coopted by the people implementing it. Humans are the weak part of the equation because humans are greedy and focused only on themselves and their own small group of friends/family. So scaling any political system up from theoretical to an actual national policy always ends up with a perverted form where one group ends up over another group despite the original theoretical intent of the system in question. That goes for Communism, Capitalism, Socialism, as well as religion too.

Humans suck and can’t have nice things without fucking them up.

If Jabba the Huts mother was a member of the Bene Gesserit.

I don’t know it it’s underused, but my go to for years gas been League Spartan from The League of Moveable Type

My opinion as a user:

I don’t personally care. I don’t necessarily see GIMP as being a slur at all, since to me it’s more related to a completely consentual sex thing than to something a person has no control over. It’s not called “R-word” or anything like that. If a person wants to be a gimp, more power to 'em. Let their freak flag fly, I say. And I’m not aware of the other use being at all common anymore, having been replaced with other more modern slurs.

However, in the matter of optics, sure, it still comes off as a little odd, possibly immature, etc… But the argument that “No body wants a name change” actually does hold some merit because GIMP is completely open source. There is nothing stopping people from forking it and releasing it with a new name, and even though this has been done (Glimpse) nobody jumps ship to this new, more maturely named alternative that is exactly the same. They stay on GIMP. Why…because no one really cares. We’re all mature enough to say “haha…stupid name” and then move on with our lives without getting into a huff about every little thing.

It shouldn’t be a crime if it’s objectively hilarious.

Or what? Literally OR…FUCKING…WHAT?

It’s called tact. Adults generally have it.

With the number of politicians/mayors who get killed each year in Mexico, how in the hell is someone allowed to get that close to her? Holy shit.

I loved the ending because it fit Sam’s character perfectly. He’s essentially told (by god or whoever) that the only one who controls when Sam goes home is Sam himself. That when Sam truly, deep inside feels that his job is done, he’ll go home. The fact that he never returned home means that He never truly felt his job was done. And Sam wouldn’t. The essence of the heroic journey…always one more person to help.

It made the ending bitter-sweet, sad, heroic and tragic all at once. Just like Sam’s character.

I thought it was brilliantly done for something designed to also be a season finale “just in case”

I don’t hate AI. It can be quite helpful when I go to where IT lives and ask it a question sometimes.

What I don’t want is that AI to have unlimited access to my devices and just be a ‘thing’ that is constantly watching me in the background.

It’s like if my neighbour is a mathematician, and I’m having trouble figuring out a complex equation. It’s very helpful that I can go next door and knock on his door to ask him. But that doesnt mean I want him sitting in my house forever looking over my shoulder.