It’s a tried and true method. Mine can’t really listen to anything long winded that isn’t terribly exciting, or somehow related to Minecraft.

Do you have any kids’ media literacy edu content you like?

I was treating the exercise as “certainties we held a decade or more ago”.

I mean you’re not wrong, for some people in some cases. But it’s not so easy to teach yourself how to learn, nor why to learn it.

Pessimistically I thought for sure autonomous war drones would have become way more prolific by now.

I also felt pretty sure that some kind of massive CRISPR/Cas9 catastrophe was bound to occur by now.

I think there’s valuable nuance in noting exceptions to the rule about Dems, but also, the parties are systemically entrenched and the insiders certainly collude on behalf of the status quo.

Exactly, I don’t play my games to finish them. I gnaw on them for hundreds of hours like a dog with a dinosaur bone. I’m the bane of the game industry and proud of it.

Lemmy has something of an irony deficiency, don’t you find? 🫤

Roblox didn’t become a $53 billion company by respecting minors, but it’s still pretty odd that the solution to child predators is making questionable demands of kids who can’t give consent. Be careful when you fight monsters, I guess.

No, but fair enough. We’ll try to keep it down, sorry

I don’t think we disagree on a great deal, except in terms of the interpretation, and how much hope is left.

Personally I think people are cottoning onto the fact that the nuclear sabre-rattling is empty terrorism, and I think that just as war in the 2010s isn’t war in the 20s, war in the 20s isn’t going to be war in the 30s. We might be near a point at which production rather than manpower is the sole decisive factor in a conflict. That said I’m a Protomen fan, and I do feel that the willingness to stand up to your oppressors with your own skin in the game - and never any machine by proxy - will always be the final deciding factor. But I do see the way war is changing.

The main thing people forget in situations like this is that nothing is vouchsafed to us, no matter how much we know about history, no matter how well we can apply its lessons. The future is forever unwritten, and there is more potential in the infinite present than can be known. We only diminish it with despair.

I still don’t think we’ve seen the upper limits of what western countries will do to support Ukraine. It’s becoming clear that what we’re up against is an attempt to re-establish the right of conquest by force as a norm. If Ukraine falls, then the Baltic states are clearly next and they know it, given the depth of defenses they’ve been preparing.

And look, I’m as sour as anyone about how Obama handled 2014. All I can say is, back then it was easier to pretend that Putin was a tolerable regional power, and not an existential threat to the international rules-based order. I don’t think anyone who actually understands Russia was tricked.

I mean yeah. Russia attacked a country that merely glanced at NATO with eyes that yearn, and we’re still sending Ukraine money and weapons.

Whatever the case may be, Trump’s main tactic is to spread despair; do not oblige him.

I think you have sense on your side there about outlawry. It existed as the photo negative of the golden rule, and it’s a great way to make an example of people who break the social contract.

Based

Just sell me a wireless telephone receiver that I can plug a wired handset into. I used to love taking calls like that, wire coming out of my jacket, walking around. Huge asshole I probably looked like, but it was funny.

The neighbour we can’t make eye contact with anymore

Agreed, the steam deck belongs on this list or the switch doesn’t.

Maximum Derek!

Yeah go fuck yourself, best form of legitimate media ownership!

Like if your stance is that everything should be free at the point of consumption I get it, that’s a choice. But at least make it sound good!