I share your view so I agree with the sentiment but I think the facts say otherwise, unfortunately.

Both sides are contributing to the gerontocracy and the problems associated with it.

• If Ruth Bader Ginsberg had retired during Obama’s term, Trump would have had one less Supreme Court Justice.
• Dianne Feinstein wouldn’t let go while in mental decline.
• Biden is doing the same damn thing as Feinstein but with the freaking presidency. He might’ve been the safe bet to take back the white house in 2020 - but couldn’t the Democrats have coughed up someone who isn’t OLDER than Bill Clinton? That’s fucked up IMO.

Imagine if the older politicians of both sides of politics retired on time.

I was quoting Doctor Who ;)

Don’t you think he looks tired?

Makes sense, maybe he knows exactly what someone like himself is hiding!

He’s kind of given out the secret to defeating MAGA. Pity them, don’t hate them. Challenge them, don’t lower yourself to their level. Beat them at the polls, not with a pole.

The MAGA nuts are victims of the MAGA movement too. They’ve literally been tricked by a failed casino owner nepo baby into thinking that he and other rich people are gonna save the country, share the wealth and fix their sex lives.

I can’t back up that last part, but I feel like it’s implied by all the incel and anti woman shit they keep drumming up. Coincidentally they really are obsessed with penises which I’m sure says something about them I’m not qualified to determine.

That’s one area I’m proud of Australia for. We frequently deny travel for problematic people - most recently Candace Owens was denied entry. Most likely for saying that Australia should be invaded, but she’s said a lot of horrible stuff so who can tell!

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Of course its slower… how else are they gonna con millions of people into buying new smartphones they don’t need?

Good luck getting the Australian government to do anything. We might have the most embarrassingly ineffective government in the western world.

I like the idea social media is for kids only and adults are banned. If that applies to advertisers and bots too then it could be a winner!

It’s always the ones you suspect the most.

I think you went a bit far there…

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Pretty sure a lot more of them will be thinking about homicide! But not of the unborn babies…

So nothing has changed since 2004 when I did youth UN in school…

Check out the Mistborn and Wheel of Time series for books that are waaay better than Harry Potter. Anything by Brandon Sanderson and Neil Gaiman is a good time.

Also highly recommend any comics by Moebius and/or Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Neil Gaiman. Some incredible mind altering works to enjoy there like The Incal and Sandman.

I think the games industry will start to use open source tools like Blender and Godot more and more. These options have really matured over the years and compete on features and productivity with commercial options.

From a business POV - open source makes a lot of sense when you need a guarantee your investment won’t evaporate because a vendor has cancelled a feature or API your game uses. With open source, if you don’t like a path the upstream code is taking you can fork off and make your own!

Part of the dynamic is also how people are inspired and learning skills. You can learn how to do very advanced stuff in Blender for free on Youtube - why would you pay some private college thousands of dollars to learn an expensive program like Maya to do the same thing?

Here are the number of hours I’ve spent on indie games VS AAA titles, according to my Steam library:

• Indie - Valheim - 435 hours
• Indie - Space Haven - 332 hours
• Indie - Satisfactory - 215 hours
• Indie - Dyson Sphere Program - 203 hours
• AAA - Skyrim - 98 hours
• AAA - Control - 47 hours
• AAA - Far Cry 6 - 29 hours
• AAA - Max Payne 3 - 43 minutes

If we’re talking about value - the amount of playtime I’ve gotten out of games with simpler graphics and unique ideas blows the billions spent by the industry out of the water.

My biggest gripe with big tech is how governments of the world encourage their worst behaviours. Governments and businesses have failed to maintain their own level of expertise and understanding of technology.

Today everything relies on tech but all the solutions are outsourced and rely on “guidance” and free hand outs from vendors like Microsoft. This has caused situations where billions are poured into digital transformation efforts with fuck all to show for it but administrative headaches, ballooning costs and security breaches.

I’m so tired of silicon valley frat boys being the leaders of our industry. We need to go back to an engineer and ideas led industry. Focused on solving problems and making lives better. Not making bullshit unsustainable business monopolies with a huge pile of money. Right now big tech is the embodiment of all of capitalisms worst qualities.

P.s. apologies if my comment is a bit simplistic and vague. didn’t want to write a 10 page rant but still wanted to say my 2c about the state of things.

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