I feel like a healthy dose of skepticism is important lest we end up with only puff pieces. In fact, the Wright Brothers were dismissed for years: https://bigthink.com/the-past/wright-brothers-ignored/

I fear our only hope is states taking on the responsibilities. But with taxes going to the federal gov that’s a tall order.

I know lots of important issues are getting pushed aside for one another, over and over. And Patel’s handling of the FBI is a real issue. I don’t like saying any issue is a distraction. But considering everything else going on, even just with Patel, isn’t personalized bourbon a but of a Dijon-mustard-level distraction?

Indeed, the article confirms this and links a study.

Red reader is pretty good. There’s also patches in revanced to make rif work. But yeah, reddit is a shell of what it once was.

But angry bigot nurses frowning in portraits know best, right?

If that’s what you want, put together a coalition and gather the signatures.

So there is interesting research into prediction markets, both theoretical and experimental.

But I think it’s apparent that nearly everything you can imagine going wrong with it is going wrong with Polymarket and Kalshi, and much of that is indeed intentional on the part of the people running them. Add in the current US gambling epidemic (also intentional by many of the same people) and it’s a mess.

I think saying there’s no purpose undersells the evil nature of the Epstein class who are financing the grift. Almost no successful scam is just a scam. Hiding behind a sliver of legitimacy is how they get so big.

I’m quite anti-smoking and don’t like nicotine in general, but I don’t like this level prohibition of any substance.

They’re not beholden to public investors. If they go public or sell to a public company it will change.

Honestly, I think there is proper Art in the deep exploration of gameplay mechanics through repetition.

There are so many games that explore this in unique and interesting ways. The exploration of the game mechanic itself is beautiful to me. Examples include Celeste, Braid, Hades, Baba is You, The Witness, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Super Meat Boy, Outer Wilds, Against the Storm… I could go on.

Agreed. To me, this blog post felt like a elevated rant. There’s not much meaningful analysis or substantive criticism of actual games or game design. There’s some comparative insight that is worth thinking through, but in the post it’s all wrapped up in rants about how one side of the comparison is bad and doesn’t really hone in on the nuances of the comparisons.

Notably, the discussion of game length (a key point of this post) is thin, especially when discussing the comparison to film and music.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, of course. Overall, for the comparative insight, it’s probably worth reading for people who like to think about these things, despite the issues within.

9 minutes less sleep nightly sounds pretty significant for a single cause. That’s about 2%. If anything I think this article demonstrates that blue light does affect your sleep.

Literally the best case for pinker is accessory after the fact to child abuse. But I don’t give any epstein associates the benefit of the doubt at this point. He probably raped children.

Anti-trans folks really don’t care who suffers or what their policy actually accomplishes as long as they have a scapegoat.

Trying to put logic to it will drive you mad.

Sure it is. Doom is a very optimized program with available source that for almost 20 years has served as a benchmark for demonstrating the ability to hack a piece of electronics with a display.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/principle_of_charity

Not to defend Google, but they have said they will leave a way for people to sideload. Still sucks that they feel justified in making it more annoying https://www.androidauthority.com/google-android-17-sideloading-interview-sameer-samat-3647478/

Civil engineering and aerospace engineering almost always use Z axis to represent the vertical.

I believe there’s been real progress in the Sahel in western Africa. Iirc it involves more than just planting trees but full on land management like having grazing livestock graze in newly forested areas.