mynachmadarch

I'd argue TV is a side effect of the same thing that killed strong communities in the US, not the cause. Look at Europe, they all have TV's and screens, plenty laying video games, but they still have active third spaces.

I think your comment on cars is more right. Americans "embraced" (thanks car companies for buying and killing our public transit) suburban sprawl through our embrace of cars. This meant we moved away from denser downtown areas where people could intermingle by chance and moved instead to splintered specialized places (thanks for having the way to our modern hell Edward Bassett). This got mixed with the American dream picket fence and lawn pushed by Monsanto post WWII and sprinkled with some casual racism and other issues to become a death spiral away from mixed use zoning and into large separate houses and plots of land. So life became "simple". Home, grocery store, work.

You can't just walk five minutes down the street anymore to a coffee shop or jazz club and find yourself rubbing elbows with people, and everyone driving cars to a dense social area just doesn't work, if everyone tried to go to their city's downtown the parking would just not support it. So we replaced this socializing with TV. A symptom sprouted from the root cause, not the cause itself.

There's been a push to change zoning laws back to allowing mixed zoning which would directly improve this, but NIMBYs are out in force against it because it will lower the value of their home, which is a whole other related issue.

Excuse me, I think you meant to say the Rules of Acquisition. Gotta give them a competitive advantage by teaching them early.

A lot of people are asking for AI. Mostly I run in programmer circles and the amount of people there going crazy for AI to enter everything so it can do everything for them is insane. This leeches across to tech savvy people who don't understand the mechanics of it, but they see the programmers going bananas and so they want in on it too.

Okay, so great comic book kingdom, not so great real place. Cool, glad to see I'm not that crazy yet

Wait, Lemuria was an actual place? I admit I've never looked it up and was raised by fundamentalist Christian parents about as crazy as this person, but I always thought it was just a place in the Conan the Barbarian world.

Option 3: pull up a list of the developers and venmo them each 10¢ then go pirate the game?

I'm only half kidding.

It's either something gummy like swedish fish or sour patch kids, or I take the time to properly make some cookies.

Call it "Sky gate" and control the tube with a $15 cheapo gamepad and I'm in.

Underrated post right here.

Honestly not even brownouts. I was so hyped for the potential of IOT to let distributed power management be a bigger thing. Throw your laundry in the wash when you have enough and just let the electric company trigger it when they've got excess or low consumption periods to help balance things.

Instead we get unsecure cameras or DDOS botfarms piggybacking "smart" thermostats or fridges that let you tweet.

Congrats, you found EA's outreach representative. Those lootboxes ain't gonna gamble themselves (yet. AI might change that).

A lot of them around me don't even own, just rent. They'd save money by just not having to keep that infrastructure up and running at max and getting out of their contract when it ends.