I’m happy not using blizzard or other Microsoft products.

I bet they’ll try to buy discord soon.

I read the meaning as someone thinking it weird to text back immediately. That was the offense. As if you should play it cool and wait to respond.

I personally respond quickly if I’m holding my phone and the message comes in, usually.

Most people don’t really care about abstract or long term things. You can tell them that buying the game supports bad stuff, and they could at least wait for a sale, but they’re no better than a toddler.

I vaguely remember something from The Power Broker where an engineer said to Robert Moses with a slight change to the design, at no real cost, they would build the roads so trains could be put in easier at any time in the future. Moses said no. Cars only.

Capitalism is pretty inherently authoritarian. The boss calls the shots.

I mostly get music from Bandcamp. They have a pretty big library, but it’s mostly newer and independent bands on there. You won’t find, like, the beatles or taylor swift.

Sometimes I’ll buy stuff directly from bands, if it’s not on bandcamp, via their store or label or whatever. I used to get CDs, too, and rip them, but I haven’t done that in a while.

Stop using reddit. You can’t fix it through any reasonable means. (You’re not going to be an action movie hero that fixes it that way, but I would consume media showing that)

I will continue to not use Spotify. Buying drm free music is a long term win.

Well, if you don’t ban or otherwise moderate unpleasant people, your community will rot until it’s nothing but unpleasant people and those who can tolerate them. So that’s not a desirable outcome.

Communities should have rules. People who repeatedly break those rules should be banned. This is true online and offline.

The more challenging question is “what are the best rules to make?”

Most places will disallow porn and gore, or require them to be appropriately labeled or quarantined. That makes sense to me.

Many places will ban anything too violent. Threats against individuals I understand. Saying you can’t even imagine violence against organizations doing violence (eg: ice, the Republican party) is lending support to horrible people, so I’m not keen on that. I can see wanting to keep it from turning into revenge porn, or wanting to avoid drawing the attention of the state.

“No personal attacks on members” was a rule on a place I used to post. Was pretty nice, usually.

You cannot assume that the people making decisions are rational, smart, people. They may believe falsehoods, and act accordingly. They may be chasing a hidden goal (eg: “I get a bonus if I hit X metric, so I’ll kill good parts of the site to do it”)

I worked at a place where management was like “we want to increase time on site”, and the lead dev was like “I can just add loading spinners everywhere then”. Luckily management was a little smarter and move involved than that, and didn’t approve that strategy.

Conservatives value in-group solidarity more than almost anything else. That’s like their defining characteristic.

Incidentally, that’s almost always characteristic of a bad person. The antithesis of “love your neighbor”, for example.

The Silicon Valley billionaire’s yacht, worth a reported $300m, is said to have “repeatedly” declined to assist when a nearby boat called for help last week.

Does calling for help not count as a distress call?

Even if the electricity was renewable sources, there’s the opportunity cost. You spent that electricity on AI instead of something more useful and immediate.

Unfortunately, most people wouldn’t even understand what that means. And many wouldn’t care. People don’t seem to care about things, even as those things chew them up.

Getting peers on board is probably the way to go.

Elden Ring and “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead”. That’s… interesting. Elden Ring is very self serious, so I don’t know what happens when you add in semi self aware satire.

Because they’re assholes. They don’t care about making a good product. They care about making money. Even though they already have a lot of money, they need more. No matter the cost.

No shit.

One of the problems is all the people who were fucking wrong don’t suffer any lasting consequences. They will be listened to again.

Sadly, most people won’t learn anything from this. We need a way to get the average idiot informed.

Good. The penalty should be enough that it’s not something you can just shrug off. Scale it with wealth. Make repeat offenses lead to the license being revoked. Mandatory community service.

Many people are worse than toddlers and their moral framework doesn’t go past “I shouldn’t do that because I’ll be punished”