Snowden already showed us the database exists over a decade ago.

All the national intelligence agencies have a database with an entry for every person they can gain any information about. So yeah, a photo and citizenship status are in a govt database for sure.

At that point it’s a slave rebellion.

Which part makes no sense? You don’t believe that climate spending needs to be considered in terms of overall human welfare? Or you believe that statement doesn’t make sense to you? Or…

Please re-read. I said ASD is Developmental Disorder. My correction was that you are misusing the term Developmental Disorder to mean Prenatal Development. Your second link agrees with my correction.

I think this is my bad. You said “the brain didn’t form normally” and I interpreted that to mean prenatal. But you are referring to during youth, which the paper is about. TIL, thanks 👍

But I will still say, “abnormal” doesn’t mean “bad” here, which the right seem to be conflating in all their rhetoric. As I understand it, ASD is just an evolutionary mutation. The extent to which it helps/hinders each person is up to their environment. And the right, by saying ASD is abnormal and therefore bad, are creating a hindering environment.

“Developmental Disorder” refers to a child’s development after birth, not before. ASD is a developmental disorder yes, but afaik there’s no evidence it is caused by a prenatal issue, ex. the brain not “forming normally”.

Neurotypically, there is no “normal”, there’s only “does it cause issues”. My understanding is that, so far, it just seems like some human brains have ASD, and the spectrum is a measure of how much it causes them issues (more specifically, is a measure of how much assistance they need to function). But there’s nothing “abnormal” about having ASD any more than it’s “abnormal” to be born tone deaf.

Ask me how I know you only read the headline.

more money should go toward “improving lives” and curbing disease and poverty.

“Climate is super important but has to be considered in terms of overall human welfare,”

The headline is deliberately misleading and honestly should be corrected or removed.

Please put in slightly more effort next time, thanks.

I’ll be the first to say I don’t like Linux gaming’s dependence on valve. I wish steam wasn’t the best experience, and I applaud all the effort that the FOSS community puts in to keep them honest.

But for the “gambling” monetization in particular, this is really a “don’t hate the player, hate the game” situation. It’s on people/govts to regulate this. If Valve said tomorrow, “you’re right, we’re not going to monetize gambling anymore because we think it is unethical”, they would just lose to a competitor who is less ethical.

It’s the same as saying, “if you’re rich and are pro higher taxes, why don’t you just choose to pay more? Nothing is stopping you.” Because that’s not going to fix anything, it’s just a losing strategy. What you need is a system where everyone is required by law to behave in a way that benefits the society.

To that end, Valve’s most ethical move would be to lobby the govt to ban unethical monetization. I know they’re making bank, but whether they’re making enough to out-lobby all the others who are also doing this, I don’t know…also we all know the US is not exactly positioned for effective FTC policies right now…

Guaranteed, he’s going to count the Console Wars in his list of wars he’s ended.

Isn’t Overwolf’s business model literally monetizing and profiting from modding communities? Curseforge and Overwolf are the epitome of enshittification.

Ah yes, the key to decentralized currencies: banks.

You should always be skeptical and critical of all candidates. So for you to whip it out like a novel argument for why you don’t think anyone should vote for the most progressive option is absurd.

If there is a better candidate to vote for, absolutely do it. If this convinces YOU to run against him, that’s great! But every candidate is going to have flaws, and as we hold out for the perfect person, fascism will continue to roll us over. It’s a strategy that clearly doesn’t help.

Yeah you’ve got the right idea there. I too never vote for the candidate that markets themselves as progressive ever since Sinema. I’m playing the 4D chess route, always voting for the fascist just in case they’re secretly a closet progressive.

Interesting, so how did the military not reprimand him for it? Do you think his ignorance is unlikely then, and that he actually made an effort to conceal it?

Well, you can now read his full reddit comment history if you wanna know what he’s about.

What if it DOES matter if they did it deliberately or accidentally, and it DOES matter how they respond when confronted about it? What if they’re humans who make mistakes, and are able to own them like an adult?

Don’t let perfection be the enemy of the good, that’s the left wing cat herding part that earned us this fascist takeover in the first place. If you have someone better to vote for, by all means. But you can always convince yourself that the progressive candidate is secretly a right wing extremist. Always. That’s right there with QAnon rational.

Behold, the master race.

AW2 was incredible, but I knew it wouldn’t do well when I played it, because it’s too niche. I love the Weird Fiction universe they’re building, but it’s just not pulling the Resident Evil audience.

Firebreak I think was their attempt to monetize the IP, but oof, it’s just not fun. I feel like they could have gone more “friend slop” in tone and been much more successful. Imagine a game loop like Repo or Lethal Company, but set in the Oldest House, interacting with weird, goofy phenomena. Instead it’s a very dry shooting experience wrapped in a very dry upgrade system. I want to support them, but it feels like work to play this game…

The problem is that they kept propping things up and mitigating losses from those with wealth, i.e. protecting boomers.

Recessions hurt, but they are historically a natural method of wealth redistribution. In a recession, people with stuff lose much more than the people without stuff, and then on the way back out the people without stuff now have a better chance to capture some of that wealth.

Same for war. Historically speaking.

Covid wasn’t a “bubble”.

Or if it was, it was all the over investment in entertainment and productivity tools. In which case, that popped around 2023 when everything got cancelled and RTO layoffs started.

More accurately, PCs are becoming consoles, but yes, they want to converge it all into a locked down hardware as a service industry.