There are a small subset of people who legitimately just don’t understand game development fundamentals though, and they actually believe that things would just be fully interchangeable. As in, you buy a skin in Fortnite, and you can then open up Roblox and set it as your player model.

Those ones are especially not the brightest.

The people who are like “you can just take your skin from Skyrim and put it in gta5 and it’ll just work!!” people really are baffling. The hubris and ignorance is so much

I feel like “using them responsibly” includes not using them in class

Verdi and Rey voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 election, saying they supported his pledge to bring order to the southern border and crack down on immigrants without legal status.

Oh so they wanted cruelty for other people. Fuck them.

There was recently a story of someone whose kid died of measles, but they were still anti-vax in the interviews afterwards.

There are two main ways people change their mind. One is in-group pressure. If your friends and trusted people are telling you a thing, you’ll probably believe it. None of us are immune to this. Who you consider part of your in-group varies- some people fall for celebrity endorsements more than others, or view bad sources like Fox News as trustworthy.

The other thing that can change people’s minds is trauma. If you’ve been an anti-climate-change guy and your house gets destroyed by a freak super hurricane, you might reevaluate. Maybe. Of if a big KKK guy gets hit by a car and left a dead, and a black guy saves your life, they might reevaluate.

But there’s no guarantee.

I really want people to roll up on the factory, shoot the management, and then shut it down.

This shit is a crime against the environment and humanity.

On the one hand: Good. Google is a monopoly and they suck, too.

On the other, I don’t trust the trump administration to do anything correctly. They’ll probably try to give google to Musk or something.

I’m pretty sure Trump could eat maga’s babies in front of them and they’d still vote for him.

Like that anti-vaxxer lady whose kid died of measles and is still anti-vax.

No material effects will change them. Their identity and fragile ego is wrapped up in this.

We can’t fix it but we could probably fix Miller so he can’t hurt anyone ever again.

That’s one of the recurring ironies. Most of the stuff anti-car-culture people are pushing for (eg: more trains, this photo, etc) make it better for the people who do drive

Maybe the design is bad, then.

Javascript could throw an error to alert you that the input is supposed to be a string, like most languages would do.

I’m not sure if it’s possible to build a healthy social network.

Smaller communities can work, if they’re well moderated. The small size also helps norms become established.

Once the network gets really big, you have eternal September problems. You have too many bad actors in absolute numbers to deal with.

So yeah, the problem is us but we suck.

Maybe federation would work, since that can keep the moderation workload smaller and distributed.

Javascript is like Dungeons and dragons. It’s a mess, weighed down by legacy decisions, too heavy in some places and too light in others, and used in far more places than it should be. It also has some diehard fans, and some diehard fans who have never used anything else.

Saint Luigi deliver us from villains like Facebook

Conservatives tend to live in an eternal now- what’s good for me now? This explains why they don’t care about hypocrisy.

You proud now MAGAts? Does this make you proud?

They don’t care. All they care about is their in-group is strong and the out-group is punished. They’re shitty people.

I feel like if a car is parked in a bus lane or bike lane, people should be allowed to do what they want to it. Sure , go ahead and park there, I’ve got my baseball bat ready.

I guess riots break out all around the world?

I feel like this idea that people are just going to riot and do mass violence is some right wing fear.

Most people, most of the time, are pretty social cooperative creatures.

Public funding shouldn’t go to private schools. We shouldn’t even have private schools.

I had an issue with installing mint. Never figured it out. Got the older LTS and it worked fine though. Maybe try a different version?