I just want to point out that I wasn’t the person calling them morons.

To be fair, I think a lot of this is people being self-centered (which I get is an insult too), but perhaps I’m being pedantic at this point. Lol

On that point though, people that voted for Trump I feel are self-centered because they think it will help them personally, ignoring all the other lies and/or bigotry he’s said. The people that didn’t vote though are just as self-centered for not taking the time or being too apathetic to get their vote in, knowing that he would harm people if he got elected.

While education and public services that promote education are being funded less, the average American has access to the internet via a computer or smartphone.

Yes, you still need to be educated on knowing how to do proper research, but a simple search of, “how do I research” gives some good results.

At this point, people just want to think they’re right and never check other viewpoints or even look at themselves and why they believe their own beliefs. In my opinion it’s a culturally inherent thing about “rugged individualism” instead of anything about a failing education system.

Finally, being empathetic towards other races and cultures takes 0 education. And if you want to know if you’re on the right or wrong side of something, it takes barely any effort to search and learn about it.

I watched it about a month ago. I thought the story wasn’t anything super new, though having no dialogue made it a bit more interesting. The visuals were really good, and I liked the world-building. Without spoiling too much for other readers, the ending was a bit weird for me, and I’m not sure if there was really a message the creators were trying to tell in the last 10-ish minutes.

Yeah, but that’s basically the point. Posts like this are nice to have because they inspire a different way of thinking of what could be. I would love for democratically-elected leaders that are well-educated and actually serve those they represent and vote/make policies that are backed by facts and research. The system we have now realistically works well to an extent, though there are large problems. And as much as most people don’t want to admit, it’s going to take large, slow efforts at the bottom in order for the changes at the top to happen.

Also, back to the point about elected officials not representing the people, I actually think they do for the most part. The bad part is that the people that vote those politicians in are people that reject facts and research themselves and/or blame others for their problems. But again, the large, slow effort is needed at the bottom to talk to neighbors and family members that they are wrong and try and help them see things not from a hateful world view.

All that to basically say that I understand reality, but I can still wish for a better system and better people haha

I think just using “science” as a catch-all term makes it harder to comprehend what a society would look like. Instead, I try and think of it by using research-backed policies.

• This research shows that providing free childcare results in better educated students, happier families, and less crime later in life.

• This research shows that having walkable cities reduces pollution, better supports small businesses, and makes our population healthier.

• This research shows that getting yearly vaccinations, washing hands, and wearing masks when sick greatly reduces the spread of germs.

• Banning abortion makes women more at-risk for dying during childbirth and ends up having families make risky decisions since a fetus isn’t actually a person yet.

Then after all the research and actual peer-reviews (not just for-profit journals having a say), policies would be made to support what makes for a better society.

My wife and I played it. Lots of fun! Forcing ourselves not to look at each others’ screens for the puzzles and dialogue was hard, but definitely made it more enjoyable from a communication aspect!

I’m a bit surprised nobody mentioned the kernel-level anti-cheat, especially with Lemmy being a very security/privacy-centric place. That was implemented years after people spent money on the game and then basically stole the game/content unless you agreed to a huge change to the policy.

I stopped playing because they implemented that. There’s zero reason for that to ever be a thing in order to just play a game. Especially with the amount of machine-learning we have on what is and isn’t possible for humans to do, detection is completely possible server-side.

Half a million… Yeah, it’s California, but that’s still crazy.

I did get a chuckle out of “Has view: Yes” 🤣

My wife and I saw this ad in the theatres before the movie and just looked at each other like, “what the fuck?”.

Even making it from the daughter’s perspective would have made it so much better. AI is helpful for writing to get some ideas, but why is it so hard for companies to understand people want human interaction in their projects… Who was that ad even for?

As a final note, the “just like you” felt so weird and made me uncomfortable; it took the daughter’s voice away basically.

While I understand that I’m giving up “owning” the game, Steam has a good track record of trying to make users happy. It being a private company means that it’s beholden to users rather than shareholders. In this instance, the benefits outweigh the drawbacks, at least for me. I don’t have enough space in my home for the 100s of games I have on top of not having to worry about disks getting scratched or corrupted. Then I also don’t have to worry about downloading game patches from a 20 year old site that may or may not still be up (AoE 2) to keep playing on a modern OS. Also, there’s a centralized space for users to communicate, upload mods, host servers, etc. without having to jump through different hoops for different games (Hamachi, GameSpy, etc.).

That being said, I appreciate that there are alternatives for people that feel differently. And I appreciate there are alternatives and competition (even people like you) keeping corporate greed in check and making Valve have to work to stay good for users.

When Gabe Newell dies or leaves the company though, I’ll be watching closely to see who the new CEO will be and figure it out from there.

I’m glad their chatbot is at least smarter than themselves.

The US desperately needs to rework its citizen ID system. I’m tired of having to spend hours freezing and unfreezing multiple credit accounts after so many of these breaches. It’s not too hard to have a secure system since companies don’t care to protect confidential information.

Also, it was disclosed to AT&T in 2021 and they’re just now admitting to it? Then only offering 1 year of identity theft protection?? If a SSN breach occurs, they should be made to pay for lifetime identity theft protection. Then if they don’t want to pay that, they can use the good ol’ lobbying system to advocate for a more secure citizen ID.

I really liked the atmosphere and world of Vesper, but the story was contrived and bland I felt.

I’ve seen District 9 mentioned as kind of biopunk, so maybe if that counts, I’d say that’s my favorite.