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Pretty much all successful companies are like that. Because that’s the system they want, and they’ve tricked the general populace into believe that’s a good thing.

You really live in a truly binary world, don’t you? Either it’s all one thing or it’s all another.

No, it’s not likely that mega-corporations are suddenly going to magically decide to be okay guys. Yes, it’s mostly likely going to take a great deal of communication and organization of workers and/or government intervention to make things better.

That does not preclude that the people running those mega-corporations made that choice. It is not a forgone conclusion that they are going to be shitheels. They are specifically making that choice. Believing otherwise removes that onus from them, and whatever blame can be laid at their feet.

If you want to live in a black and white world, and just assume that everything as a good or bad trait, that everything has a yes or no answer, feel free. But just know that you are not living in reality, but some fantasy you have created to try and explain the world away.

Just because you don’t recognize them doesn’t mean no one else would be able to. I couldn’t name an athlete I hadn’t read about in the last five minutes if I tried. That doesn’t mean they don’t have name recognition.

Interesting that you only chose one of the three names as something you didn’t recognize.

It’s not all of medical science, no. We know a great deal. But that only pertains to general study, and not specific cases. We don’t know shit about someone, medically, until we do tests. Even then, we can’t do an in-depth dissection of them (because that would be wildly inhumane) so we can mostly only go off surface level information. Even for more in-depth information, say with x-rays and MRIs or blood tests, it still only general knowledge. Each person is unique, and has unique characteristics. So we need to take what information we have and try and match it to previous cases to determine what it could be.

Sometimes it’s really easy. “You have a cold, go drink some water and get some rest”. Sometimes it’s not, they have some obscure neurological disorder that only affects .0000001% of the population (at a guess).

99% of medicine is throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.

Social distancing was an easy way to make it less likely to spread based on similar viruses. Until they had more verifiable ways it was a quick and cheap answer to a complex problem. Sometimes those are necessary, especially when millions of lives are on the line.

There’s tons of recognition in game development as well. Notch? ConcernedApe? Peter Molyneux?

There’s tons of no-name actors and athletes to go with the big names as well.

Retirement, these days, is a scam to get people to waste their most fruitful years slaving away for corporations who care little for them in the vain hope that they’ll finally get to live their lives when they’re old and broken.

The entire point of capitalism (for the capitalists) is to be the last person standing, and have the market all to themselves.

To believe otherwise is delusion.

“It’s exclusively the workers fault that their employers are shitheels”

You can acknowledge that workers need to do more to better their own working conditions without placing all the blame on them. The publishers have as much free will as the developers, they choose to be awful as much as developers choose to work for them. And they have a lot more power to influence change.

If all those downloads were from 2005 to 2015, and there’s only been a few hundred in the last nine years, that would mean the popularity has declined.

But we don’t know that. We don’t know if the downloads have increased, decreased, or stayed the same based on the proffered numbers. We only know a flat number from the last twenty years.

Thats the point theyre making, not that its unequivocally unpopular now.

Also you’re about three billion shy of one download for everyone on earth.

Things that can not be replicated, or are too complex to replicate easily.

I’m sure, given enough energy and processing power, you could replicated just about anything… but if they already exist naturally, why bother? If it takes less energy to mine, or mix, or harvest latinum than it takes to replicate it, then replication doesn’t make sense for it. That goes for just about every other physical thing as well.

Doubly apt because he basically wins because everyone else explodes.

I recall a post about resting your foot on its side while sitting in a chair meaning you’re autistic.

I still don’t know if that one was facetious or not.

If it’s intimidating to us… are we the predators?

You attribute too much malice to stupidity.

Just because someone doesn’t hold your same values doesn’t mean their an idiot. It just means they don’t care about what you care about, and don’t share your moral/ethical values.

Sometimes that means they’re a shitbag. That doesn’t mean they’re an idiot.

Of the two, the second looks easier to use. The first looks like everything is buried under “child-safe” menus you have to dig through to do anything. That said, they both kind of suck.

Just because they look all bubbly doesn’t mean it’s a better UI.

They’ve been buying Teslas for years.

Are… we looking at the same article? This isn’t about AI generated CSAM, it’s about redirecting those who are searching for CSAM to support services.

Did they make Jamie less of a tool in the show or something? Cause in the books he basically just goes back to doing what he was doing before, minus one hand and plus lots of moping.

Yeah, upholding the current ruling because it’s the current ruling order is definitely more lawful neutral than lawful good.