Nah mate. Stop eating sugar for a while and suddenly sweet fruits can be too much sometimes. I can’t eat sugary foods anymore. Adding some salt to a dish brings out flavour, adding sugar makes it sweet.

I think you can still draw the parallel. As in, palantir the company is a mechanism for villains to corrupt the society around them. Or something like that

What point are you trying to make here? That we should execute people based on feels rather than law? It ain’t perfect, it’s maybe not even good, but it’s logical and can be improved upon if we decide we want to. It’s the best we got

I’m guessing the same reason people don’t always reroof their own house, or replace their own home electrical, or build their own bike. Sometimes it’s worth spending money to avoid doing a thing you either don’t want to or don’t know how to do. As I’ve gotten older and more financially secure that’s definitely been the case with me at least

When did op say anything about their value as a human being tied to intelligence? They said insecure about their intelligence. You just totally projected something that wasn’t there then were an ass about it.

Do you know what power stations feed your electrical circuit? Do you know which transformers are most critical to keep you in service? Do you know who manufactured them?

Do you know where your water comes from? Which facilities treat it? How it’s treated?

Can you name your senators, house rep, state senators, state rep, and local officials?

Everyone can’t know everything. I doubt you do, but I wouldn’t call you a fucking idiot for that. I would call you a fucking idiot for being such a small-minded asshole though. You’re not the smartest person in the room, and even if you were, you still wouldn’t understand how 99% of human technology works. We’re in this together and we lean on each other. That’s the beauty and curse of being human

Umm, yes it is? When I was an intern I was making more money than I ever had in any service job. What are you on about?

It gives the populous more ‘room’ to intercede. Basically, a normal person at a cafe feels they have some permission structure to stand up to ice, after all, the governor and the mayor told them to. So they aren’t rebelling, they are helping uphold the law. I think things like this actually goes a long way in moving the general public. At the very least it doesn’t hurt

Mate I don’t have any love for the democratic party but when one side decides to do a fascism and you call yourself a centrist then you’re enabling fascism. Or at least admitting you’d like some light fascism. You can be independent without being centrist

I mean if I’m going to spend time practicing something it’s certainly going to be an instrument and not a video game.

For some people ‘fun’ is the primary reason they play games. If they aren’t fun, they better have a whole lot else going for them. Personally I play games to unwind, so any type of ‘frustrating’ is a hard no from me. I get plenty of that in my day job. But not all games need to be for me and that’s fine. I just wish people could understand that not all of us are looking for a ‘sense of accomplishment’ from playing a video game. I get that some people value that, great, stop acting like everyone needs to be the same

Honestly, I think he might actually fall into the category of cares more about appearing smart than being smart. Not to say he’s dumb, but I do get the sense the reputation is very important to him

Omg. ‘look at all this lack of evidence!’. Shes so close

I’m not celebrating his death, I’m celebrating the fact that he will no longer be calling for violence. Don’t see how that makes me the bad guy

Yeah I think as long as the devs are forward about it no problem. I have plenty of ‘hard things’ in my day to day life and I’m not looking for more of that in a videogame. Give me a Stardew or Factorio everytime - I want to relax and design things. Different games are for different people and that’s a good thing. Any game made to satisfy everyone will almost certainly satisfy no one.

Yeah I lived abroad for a while and it sure was fun having a bunch of randos lecture me in how awful America is. Like, dude, I grew up there, I’m aware of all these things. Also notice I left?

Good thing there’s no corners or enclosed areas in malls