I’d probably carry on life as normal, but start peppering my conversations with things like “I’m finally looking forward to spending time with my family,” and “I just nailed a huge promotion,” and “I finally just had an offer accepted on a house,” and “I just beat cancer, so we’re finally going to get married!”

If I see my death coming and there’s nothing I can do about it, I want it to seem like the most unfortunate, tragically timed event possible.

Star Trek says that we shouldn’t expect World War 3 until 2026, so we’ve got 1 more year to live to the fullest before then.

“Marsfucker. Now take some suggestive promo pictures of me with it in the background so it looks like my penis.”

0, and happy to keep it that way.

Cheese.

Sadly, most cheese does not enjoy me.

The all-consuming mission to look at boobies is essentially universal for all pubescent boys from about 12 all the way to the age of majority.

Not true. Some boys also want to look at dicks.

They’re aristocatic.

It’s like the Trolley Problem, though. If the death of one person might cause fewer other people to die, could it be justified?

Assuming a person eats ~1.8kg of food per day, that would be ~72 grams. Basing that math off of a number I had heard previously stating that adults eat anywhere from 3-5lbs of food daily.

I definitely see your point. A good game is not just the tools that make it, but the vision to use them the right way.

People still love Fallout New Vegas, even though it was built on the same tools as Fallout 3 (and most other Bethesda games), but that’s because Obsidian were able to build a better game out of those tools than Bethesda could.

I know it’s cool to call out Bethesda for how buggy their engine is, but Starfield launched relatively bug-free. It’s the gameplay systems, story, and repetitive world design people had issues with. A better developer could probably make a better game out of Starfield’s tech.

Had to skim through a bit, but it appears to be this one:

https://lemmy.world/comment/9834772

I suggested that people could use throwaway temporary email accounts if they didn’t want to risk using their real email to register for Sony’s annoying forced PSN registration for their PC games.

I’ve shared a few hot takes here and there on Lemmy so I am surprised that this one ended up being my lowest (so far).

I don’t know if I was downvoted for angering the Sony fans by notion that there could be security concerns with PSN, or people who disliked the suggestion that they didn’t have to use their real emails to still register for an account, or both.

Tim Apple donated to the guy who wants to make DEI illegal though, so if Apple does stay the course, I just hope it ends up being under someone else’s leadership.

What is David’s Tea?

Meanwhile the state will do nothing to help any of the displaced, letting them sit in camps and temporary shelters until the shelters close due to lack of funding/public interest and the camps get broken up by police. Then they just go from being “displaced” to “homeless” and it becomes their fault this happened. On the bright side, after they are arrested for being homeless, they can be enslaved as firefighters for the next wildfire to come.

I don’t think a lot of people are necessarily using it wrong, though. Doctorow illustrated his concept in the context of online services but I think it really applies to a broader dynamic of modern markets in general.

Take films. Film studios want to maximize profits. They buy up competitors to reduce the number of players in the market, cut costs by producing more formulaic content, increase profits by upping their cut from theaters and expediting their premieres onto their individual streaming platforms, and spend more on advertising and cross promotions than they do on just making good movies. Couple that with a ceaseless focus on universes and crossover content and TV adaptations to ensure that it’s not possible to just enjoy a movie, you need to invest in a line of products. Theaters in turn make their experiences worse because they’re at the mercy of film studios throwing their weight around unchecked and are bleeding money, so they cut corners and charge more for tickets and are still closing left and right leaving only the small handful of big players. The end result for the consumer is that movies cost more, the theater experience sucks, the quality of films have gotten worse, there are fewer options with less originality, and the only way to enjoy them when they leave theaters is to subscribe to a streaming service or buy them digitally for 3x more than they used to cost physically.

Just about every major industry these days has a comparable dynamic at play. It’s the inevitable outcome of infinite growth models realizing that markets are finite.

It might be good but it can’t be amazing unless the name of the restaurant has a number in it.

And occupy Panama.

At this rate, it might be easier to start keeping a list of the countries that Trump hasn’t threatened the sovereignty of.

Star Trek: The Next Generation season 5 episode 18 “Cause and Effect”

Chance he runs for vice president and wins, with the presidential candidate promising to resign promptly, and is betrayed: 10%

For this one, it also depends on how the Supreme Court rules on the 12th amendment. That amendment states that anyone who is unqualified to be president is likewise unqualified to be vice president, but there is some uncertainty as to whether or not it only applies to people unqualified to be president or if it includes people unqualified to run as president.

I’d say 90% chance the conservative-stacked Supreme Court side with Trump because the conservative justices are originalists and the 12th’s interaction with the 22nd was not intended when the 12th was written, but 10% chance they decide he’s unqualified to be Vice President so as to keep the door closed for Dems who might try the same thing.

Addition to the above, since someone pointed out that my Korea comment appears to assume a South Korean default:

Best Korea: Your music industry is uncomfortably close to slavery. And despite America’s best efforts, you still have the closest thing to a government owned by corporations.