People were resistant to cell phones, too. To computers, to the Internet, to online articles and news replacing newspapers and TV programs.
Thid I'd why it sucks that glass was shot down when that technology will soar in a few decades.
People need to be more forward looking and open to change imo. It affects society in very negative ways. Imagine if people had planned for social media when it was first becoming a thing. We'd have safety nets, and an actual fucking plan.
I use it instead of Google searching now but even I double and triple check the hell out of it. It just bullshits the fuck out of semi complex or unique questions.
Like "can a ps2 game use the ps1 hardware" it gave a noncommital, hallucinated answer. Then when asked to list sources it "searched the Internet" where all the links were from searches like "reddit ps2" etc.
I'll take AI over unacknowledged, abused children. I'll take it over the tenuous line between people reluctantly accepting that I'm gay and those same people stoning or beating me to death for it.
I refuse to forget how the parasite leverages animal insecurity.
This is meandering a bit (and I'll once again state that I think Burrito Now Pay Layer is Bad(TM)), but the flow here is (forgive the paraphrasing):
- zug_zug said "we should talk about economics objectively" and claimed "bnpl is one of a dozen services that extracts money from those whose judgment we doubt" , giving examples of other services in that category
- I replied to that claim, saying that I believe their claim that, for example, junk food is a service that extracts money from whose judgement we doubt, is likely to be a subjective analysis and not an objective one.
- I further said that I think you could end up with a believe that it was an objective analysis if you are a person who has reached the conclusion that spending money on leisure is bad
- I am then claiming that I doubt that there's an objective chain of logic that gets you to "spending money on leisure is bad". My reasoning is that I believe that to not be the position held by many people, on top of my belief that generally most people are not extremely smart.
Absent the "spending money on leisure is bad" claim, I don't see a claim to saying that, _objectively_, junk food, sports cars etc is an indicator of people applying bad judgement. And so saying "well BNPL is objectively just yet another stupid tax" is not a well founded argument in my opinion!
"I think Burrito Now Pay Later is bad" is a fine statement, and doesn't try to apply a layer of objectivity that, in my view, crumbles pretty quickly.
You're right, and anybody that tries to convince us otherwise is the enemy, or a friend of the enemy.
Now our world is all about maximum profit extraction. Interest.
How about no more public education, you get a loan for it. What, that's what your taxes pay for? Well, it's not enough, too bad. The masters say that you can't possibly pay enough tax to give your child an education. But they'll give you a loan for it, with interest.
Coming very soon to a reality near you. And I thought we were done with being peasants.
When I turned 30, I was like what the heck, I'll get a game boy color and play some games I played as a kid. That's since spiralled into gbc, gba (all models), psp, ds/3ds, ps1, ps2, xbox, 360 etc. Along with a now fairly sized collection of the requisite games.
I've been picking up all the games I missed on those platforms, because most people seem to have only played 2-6 games per platform when they were kids, same as me. I'm getting recommendations from friends of games I'd just never gotten into and coming out loving them and having many new perspectives on which game mechanics work and which don't. Especially given barely any modern games are coming out that are compelling enough for me; I barely ever gamed anymore before getting all this old stuff - new games just seem like the same old copy+paste for the most part.
Atm I'm playing through coded arms on psp, pikmin 2 on gc and timesplitters fp on xbox.
The gaming world has lost so much magic and fun stuff imo. From weird hardware like the motion sensor in kirby tilt n tumble, light sensor in boktai to game mechanics like the furious lassoing in pokemon ranger, or the unique gameplay of Archer Maclean's Mercury.
I haven't done a game jam in years but I'm so ready to smash it if I end up doing another one!
Thid I'd why it sucks that glass was shot down when that technology will soar in a few decades.
People need to be more forward looking and open to change imo. It affects society in very negative ways. Imagine if people had planned for social media when it was first becoming a thing. We'd have safety nets, and an actual fucking plan.
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