I agree … ish

I think sex identification is useful for medical stuff, until it isn’t. If I was born with testicles, and I have a motorcycle accident that removes them. I don’t have testicular cancer. The bit here isn’t that I am “male” so I might have testicular cancer, the importance is “do I have testicles”.

Sex is an overall term that may align with certain likelyhoods, chances or diagnosis. But even then, it’s not a guarantee.

Plenty of electric cars out there now that can do 300 miles to a single charge.

Plenty of places you could drive to, plug the vehicle in, go about your day and let it charge while you’re busy doing something else. Fuel stations meant we had to be with our cars while they were refueling. That’s no longer a necessity.

In the event that you are in the extreme minority that really cannot work with an electric vehicle shrug stick with liquid fuel until that changes. But there’s no reason to stop the other 90% of the population getting on with a better technology for the vast majority of drives out there. It takes a small change in thinking, that’s all.

My partner (in the UK) has a 110 mile a day round trip commute. Work got her an electric van with a 150ish mile range. Annoyingly she also has to do 30-40 miles a day while at work. The math just doesn’t work out. However, if her work put a charger on the house (which has tax implications) a fast charger in the work yard, it would work out just fine.

The tech isn’t impossible, the tech just needs a little refinement to cover the small percentage of uses cases left that it doesn’t work. Yet people focus on the handful of times it’s a minor inconvenience, to write off a while developing and improving technology.

Great. Charge at home, then you can spend as long or as little in a gas station as you want.

I am an IT bod with a mountain rescue team in the UK. Personally I would bin starlink in a heartbeat. I dislike Elon, I dislike the privatisation of satellite garbage. The impact it had on the night sky, on astronomy. I dislike the pettish for abuse from a fascist American oligarchy and government.

However… For now it is by far the single best option when cell communications are out of range.

Did the most damage… But I’m not sure he’s villainous. Just competently dangerous. Happy to be corrected but I thought tmjr was trying to improve the world. He just got massively unlucky… Multiple times.

This. So much of this.

I see the same with any federated platform. People are excited to explain how complicated and clever and different services and integrations and… Shut the fuck up.

App, sign-up, post, like, subscribe. Done.

People will learn the rest if it is important enough to them to master

Constrained supply

But there are empty properties now. There is supply. House prices are too high for all of the property to be affordable. That is because property as an appreciating investment is valuable. You can only live in one house, to buy multiple properties and have that appreciated investment, you are a landlord.

Low interest rates

allow you to buy a property. They allow people investing in housing to buy many. It results in the above.

Banks pushing bigger mortgages

Sure

Help to buy

Allows affordable housing to become an investment. See my first point.

Rich people were losing to much money

Yep, some of those people were landlords who were finding city prices dropping.

Clearly landlord culture isn’t the “only” problem. But fuck me it’s a big part of the issue.

Ban landlord culture and property prices drop.

Kinda sucks for those already with a mortgage. Defending rental culture because someone might lose out now only guarantees that an ever increasing majority lose out in the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwcHQfLY

In short … America (and largely europe) no longer makes dies for things. We’ve even exported the knowledge of the die making process.

“Made in America” “Made in the UK” “Made in France” all mean largely the same thing. Imported materials, imported dies, imported components assembled in “<x>”

Which flag do we use for English?

I won’t allow the stars and stripes

Needs v wants

Needs: healthcare, utilities, public transport, even a minimal but quality food source. Even to the point of utilitarian but working phones/devices. State ownership where profits are minimal but go back into the state. The services aren’t necessarily free, but are run without massive shareholder payouts.

Wants: upgrades and luxuries. iPhones, treat foods, nice cars, silk bedding and those ridiculous marshmallow shoes everyone loves. Regulated but free market.

Now all your basic needs are covered by the community together. You could probably live a simple life with very little income. If you want luxury or fancy, feel free to work too get it.

Well done sir. Well done.

If we ever meet in a pub I owe you a pint

You’ve started on a completely false assumption.

TBH some of the best art, music and creativity in games comes from small indie studios and developers. Who put creativity and skill into their project. They make it good by actually making it all. Games with a unique style and fun ideas come from small indie studios who need supporting.

AI is a shortcut to stealing others work by proxy. It creates content that is non-novel by its very design and by the very limitations of the tool.

artists, programmers and musicians that can lovingly hand craft the loot boxes

What are you on about? It’s the companies churning out loot box after loot box that are programmatically producing them. You’re actively invalidating your own point in your rant.

At this point, reading your comment again. I’m really hoping I just missed some dry sarcasm.

AI’s current writing style on topics like this, is to repeat the same thing in subtly different ways. If you find yourself reading the same paragraph 3 times in a row, then it’s probably AI.

Im being a huge guy - can go to the women bathroom

OK

People will exploit this.

Do you? Who is currently stopping you?

Why would someone who wants to batter, rape or abuse another person be stopped by an unlocked door with a little cartoon sign on it?

Yeah… I can see how owning “owning it” works when someone has been convicted of standup up for Human rights or something…

But, his convictions are mostly “being a lying sack of shit”

Are people really taking pride in “voting for a convicted felon”?

Na… Honestly

Baldurs gate and bgII had an open world where you could go anywhere. Go to certain places early game, you’d get hard fucked up. Go there later, you could make progress.

I loved the feeling of getting more powerful and that was what unlocked more of the game.

But but but… Muh carncer kooltoor

Going public would mean gaben has sold out. Which would make sense for him at some point. If he’s still working there he’ll be stuck with the worst of both worlds.

Whoever comes in under him will want to make their pie and ready it too.