Regulatory: Ban advertising.

All of the worst elements of the internet are ad supported. There would be no downside.

“But won’t the heliu-”

“FOREVER!”

‘I just need to make the numbers look good until I can quit this company and level up. Apre moi, le deluge.’ - capitalists without capital

‘I just need to keep things flowing toward me until I can quit this world and level up. Apre moi, le deluge.’ - capitalists with capital

Anyone with a scintilla of awareness knows it has limits, but you can’t ‘level up’ in capitalist games by accepting them.

I really want to see what percentage of ‘users’ licenses are actually paid, and/or what average percentage of ‘users’ titles are just free. I have precisely one game I have paid for on Epic (Satisfactory, because I was excited for first person factorio) but I have over 100 titles in my library. I have to wonder how many of those free games I would have to download before the server costs completely eat the profit from that one copy of Satisfactory.

I’m no fan of banning this or that particular platform (it’s like trying to get rid of cheeseburgers by banning McDonalds; the burgers are still available from all the other burger chains and all the people who use the one will just switch to others) but this is a hilariously wrong way to get to the right answer.

A doctor can arrange a sputum test. Basically, you spit into a container and they check it for active tuberculosis. Oh, wait… consumMAtion.

Get granny some nicotine pouches. She probably doesn’t want to smell like cigarettes either. In the same way you can get your THC without making your whole area smell like brocolli-diarrhea by using gummies and the like, the world would appreciate you finding other ways to ingest your drugs than to stink up the space we all have to share.

The point was not that empire is not villainous, simply that the ‘history will not be kind to’ sentiment is mostly pointless ressentiment. All it does is mollify the slave with the pretense they will get their reward after death and the oppressor will get their punishment. The empire does not care. The ones that care about history will write the history they want the world to remember after their death and live the life of the wealthy conqueror until they do.

A certain subset of people do. There are still lots of Brits who not only don’t hate the idea of empire but think it should come back. There are even people in the former British colonies that romanticise that history. There are people now, and will continue to be, who look at the history of empires, conquerors, and tyrants, and cheer for the ‘great men of history.’ Maybe one day that might change, but it’s going to be a while, if ever.

Didn’t they have ‘drivatars’ in that racing game years ago at this point? An AI imitation of a player should not be patentable.

Sure. Just like how we all villainise Rome, the British empire, the Khanates, and other violent militaristic cultures of conquest… and, of course, no one would look back fondly on governments that enacted policies of hate and murdered their citizens and others… Oh, wait… /s

It’s important to understand, there is no ‘feeling the waters’ with ideas. The response to half of an idea is always separate from the response to the whole idea. e.g. ‘I will’ is understood differently from ‘I will kill, tonight’ and both differently from ‘I will kill, tonight, on stage at the comedy club.’ If you want to know how people will react to the whole idea, you have to express the whole idea.

Bonjour? Pooping is a parting, surely.

Popular opinion among those who write code. Unpopular opinion among those who pay people to write code.

If you are smart enough to be suspicious, you are not their target audience. They feed on the fact many modern societies expect the mentally ill/handicapped to take care of themselves.

Not a good metaphor, though.

Written terminations of contract are not accepted here. Please, bring your petition in writing physically to our offices located at the spot your house will be at 00:00 on Jan 1st, 2027. If this is unacceptable, it can also be delivered to our branch office in your cerebelum.

Use the words that you believe will form the desired image in the listener’s head. If the image you want to convey is closer to the listener’s concept of little boy than any other, use those words, regardless of what an uninvolved third party might think. It is better to speak the language of the listener to the best of your ability than to try to speak every language at once or just speak your native tongue louder, if that makes sense.

Is that AI?

No, just England.

Then you’re not trying hard enough.