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Apple. Not the most evil, for certain, but they have the highest percentage of high level business choices that piss me off. Just so antithetical to my philosophy and consumer preferences. All closed, all hyper controlled, low customization, anti-repairable.

Do it their way or go fuck yourself. Something break? Fuck you, it's your fault, buy another one. Want to play games on their very capable hardware? Grow up, no compatibility. Want to make their OS work on other machines? How dare you. Thief.

The only thing happening in the industry is the same thing happening in every industry and most of the first world:

The wealthy owners and executive leader roles have learned that COVID, COVID supply lines, interest rates, 'consumer sentiment', and inflation, are all very easy scapegoats that both the public and investors will easily buy as reasons for lowering product quality and availability, while also firing employees, squeezing the non-fired ones to death, and raising prices. This has lead to almost 2 straight years of corporations showing record profits (even adjusting for the inflation that they are largely responsible for in the first place).

This downward spiral will continue until some force with nearly as much power pushes back.

This is typically and ideally a representative government in the form of regulation or taxation. But the US government has suffered decades of regulatory capture and congressional gridlock.

So the only other potential option is a large amount of highly populated unions. Which have to fight against nearly 100 years of media and political demonization and nearly 150 years of 'american independent attitude'.

The perfect modern system has all 3 parties; unions, government, and corporations, equally strong and antagonistic. Just as the perfect modern government would have the executive, legislative, and judicial branches equally strong and antagonistic. Neither could be much farther from the case here.

Stronger bigger unions. Weaker smaller corporations. And a government that actually functions. All are necessary to fix our current shit show.

VRchat is similar to second life in terms of what it provides to the player, and is very popular with VR users. Second life is still around but it looks like puke and has an impenetrable culture.

Yeah VR is a good thing to point at as a message for “this is where we are heading and it will make the problem worse” but the current problems stem from the broad internet (the big apps) taking away real socialization time without giving much in return, and also cultural identity problems that are vast and complex.

The fact that it’s Chinese really isn’t even a blip on the radar imo. The censorship sucks and a lot of US platforms do it too ( I mean shit look at YouTubes content rules).

Their content algorithm being really good at showing you what your brain craves in an endless stream is the real big problem. It’s creating such strange micro cultures. Live streams of people slowly filling balloons with food coloring and water, on a bunch of white printer paper. Teasing the water. Like an hour before it pops. 1,200,000 views. It feels insidious in such a weird way.

Brb, putting “suckfull software developer - 12 years” on my resume.

Extreme gridlock and, sadly, bigger fish to fry with a complete Inability to pass core-function bills like budgets due to that gridlock. Why gridlock? Ask McConnell and McCarthy

Have fun! it really does fix such a ridiculous amount of annoyances. I agree that making private co-op and running the server itself on another computer are the two things i want most from it, both of those may be possible with little work but AKI has to be very careful to avoid any ire from BSG

Outer Wilds would 100% be on my list but i played it close to release, so more than 365 days lol

Its actually really easy to set up.

-install the bsg launcher, update, install the base game

use this, following its instructions >

https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/672-spt-aki-installer/

IF there is a version mismatch with live, which happens, this is a really easy patcher that downgrades https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/204-aki-patcher/

thats it, really easy. As for the mods and changes ive listed, here

KMC server value tool. read instructions, you have to run it first to make it work right. This is the main tool for tweaking the games settings, and there are a lot of options. Be sure to make your own profile and save and load it, its a bit of a weird set up. Here are my current settings.

https://pixelfed.social/p/BDBoris/593146651199822769

If a tab isnt shown then i probably havent changed anything in it.

https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/379-kmc-server-value-modifier-svm/

Amands graphics, unfucks the game visually. defog, makes it less grey. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/813-amands-s-graphics/

More checkmarks. gives you way more on the fly info about what items you need, what they barter for, etc. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1159-morecheckmarks/

SAIN, AI rework. Has two dependencies, be sure to get them. This is my prefered AI option, there are others but this one makes the most sense with the least problems imo. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1062-sain-2-0-solarint-s-ai-modifications-full-ai-combat-system-replacement/

Amands hitmarkers. nice to have, not necessary at all, but i like it for the immediate feedback. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/798-amands-s-hitmarker/

Visceral dismemberment. Really over the top and gross but fun. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1092-visceral-dismemberment/

ammo stats in description. shows you what the actual fuck ammo is without sitting on eft monster or wiki. color coded too. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/284-ammo-stats-in-description/

gunsmith, not technically up to date with SPT but it works anyway. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1022-gunsmith/?highlight=gunsmith

I freed myself from these chains years ago now, It was definitely worth it. understandable if you are locked in for work though.

This is a big one for me, I currently have NVIDIA gpus on all my machines, (i am going to avoid them in the future, the corporate price gouging is unacceptable) but at the moment that makes switching to linux for my gaming pc quite a bit more obnoxious.

This entire topic, and the scientific data surrounding it, is truly pretty complex and nuanced.

https://youtu.be/K4Ze-Sp6aUE?t=7914

This links to a 10 minute or so section of the (very long in total) Huberman Labs podcast with Layne Norton going over processed food, sugar, and the obesity epidemic, and how we haven’t really done a good job educating people on the way sugar is interacting with CICO and the epidemic.

I think a lot of people curious about the subject can learn a lot from just that segment.

ice sheets form as snow builds up, with each year’s snowfall preserved as a single, visible layer. There are measurable chemical differences in snow formed at different temperatures, so ice cores provide a record of polar temperature going back around 250,000 years for Greenland and 800,000 years for Antarctica.

Yearly banding is also found in fossilised corals and lake sediment deposits, and each band has a specific chemistry that reflects the temperature when it formed. Growth rings in tree trunks can be wider or thinner depending on the climate at the time of growth, so fossilised trees can reveal the length of growing seasons. And fossilised or frozen pollen grains allow scientists to determine what plants were growing in the past, which can give us a good idea of the climate at the time.

Marine sediment cores provide temperature records spanning millions of years. They contain the fossilised shells of tiny marine creatures that preserve a chemical record of the sea temperature when they lived.

-the guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/mar/07/past-climate-temperature-proxies

I really dont understand how anyone can look at the modern era of politics without a consideration for game theory, it is so useful for resolving these more nebulous or philosophical idea when it comes to thought conflicts. If your ‘opponent’ is constantly escalating and you arent responding, you are functionally forfeiting. and we all know the fascists are escalating as often and as hard as they can. if you seek peace or de-escalation you have to negotiate, and they wont do that. if you seek neutral ground you have to respond with equal escalation. and if you want to win you have to apply overwhelming force.

most conflicts in politics are not zero sum like this so its not a useful tool most of the time, but fascists are literally out for the destruction of democracy by definition, its existential by nature.

Melatonin is an oral hormone too, doesnt really mean its unsafe inherently, i think maybe its best to listen to the expert panel for now

This whole thing is so deranged it’s hard to choose what to highlight, but

Politics is about compromise" is liberal propaganda that has very little to do with reality

Ahh yes, the famous liberal propagandist, Otto Von Bismarck(politics is the art of compromise is derived from his quote “politics is the art of the possible”). I suppose Machiavelli is also a liberal propagandist for writing the Prince in 1512, or any of Jeremy Benthoms works. An entire branch of political philosophy is not propaganda just because you disagree with it.

The viewpoint that politics should be examined from a practical or utilitarian viewpoint is so much older than even the modern concept of Liberal Politics that it’s such a clear and intense revelation of your personal obsessive bias against modern liberals. Which is whatever, I’m sick and tired of not having true leftist representitives myself. But c’mon man this whole reply is off the rails.

You should really read more literature by people like Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn

Yeah, people who has a different viewpoint on political nuance are unread and not properly educated, this is definitely going to fix the problem. If I read rules for radicals again, maybe this time it will finally erase the information in my brain about political history.

I think its a bit more reasonable to say that “the centrists in France need to step the fuck up and realize that the left is a superior option to Diet Nazi”

There is no reasonable rational analysis where Joe Biden is a fascist lol. He’s a neoliberal and I think he sucks, and I truly wish for a different candidate for the Democratic Party. But there is no comparison there between him and the other guy. Not even the same stratosphere.

I think the world’s nation-states are widely adopting the “lesser-evil” faux-choice strategy these days. This is by design

Politics has been an exercise in finding compromise from day 1, thousands of years ago. Any, ANY, system of politics that could reasonably exist, will result in candidates that huge percentages of the country aren’t happy about. Now, I would LOVE any ranked voting method for this country to minimize this effect. We definitely don’t have an amazing system of politics. But “this is by design” is literally untrue unless you believe in some weird conspiracy thing. The US constitution is mega old, most of it’s failures are related to that, imo.