Carl

Something else I considered while reading about this is that the stories of third party docks frying your Switch 1 might be Nintendo propaganda. Wouldn't surprise me but that's pure baseless speculation on my part. Either way I agree that what Nintendo should do is just conform to the USB spec, I'm just trying to read into their motivations a little bit.

So after reading a bunch of stuff on this it seems to me like Nintendo's aim here is quality control. There is a third party dock that's approved and out for the Switch 2 (and a version of it that's cheaper and literally the same product), and the Switch does a bunch of checks before it connects to test the hardware of whatever it's plugged into before drawing voltage.

Back when the Switch 1 released there was no such quality control, and third party docks got a reputation for frying your system if you used them because some of them would supply dirty voltage to the Switch when it was in its high power draw mode.

The device it's plugged into also needs a specific code from Nintendo to complete the software handshake, which is the big issue in my book. Nintendo could change the code at any time via a mandatory software update and break compatibility with your third party device, for example right before releasing their own version of whatever it is they will no longer be supporting.

The Switch 1 didn't have the same lockout that the Switch 2 has, but decent third-party docks took a year or so to come out for the Switch 1 which is part of the reason why they developed a reputation for either not existing or being dangerous for your system.

That would be the funniest thing ever, of course I'm sure the racists would just move the goal posts.

As for time scale, I'm not sure if anyone knows the time scale of the initial development of lighter skin tones. Could have been thousands of years, could have been hundreds of thousands. It probably wasn't faster than that, because if it was then we would have enough data by now to see the effect in certain populations that have migrated latitudes within written memory.

But here's something to consider: sometimes evolution can produce effects over surprisingly short periods of time, so it is theoretically possible for this to happen as a result of climate change even if it's very unlikely, so don't lose hope.

That's why revolutionary communists sent their guys to liberal parliaments with reforms as a nice complement, but agitation as the main objective.

Isn't a major part of the idea here that pushing for popular things and getting stopped by the capitalist state has a class consciousness building effect? Like imagine if a substantial fraction of Mamdani supporters see his populist energy break against the sea wall of capitalist institutions and get even further radicalized. That's not a bad thing.

:mother-nature: I'm sorry but

the carnism will stop.

Should be noted that Europe had commons for hundreds and hundreds of years before they all got enclosured and they managed them just fine with local-level spontaneous democracy.

Also the "tragedy of the commons" as we know it today was invented by a malthusian in the 1960s and everybody who invokes it as an argument against socialism ignores the part of the essay where the author advocates for central planning

If there's any discounts they probably take the form of a link on a website that gets you 10% off (clicking the link installs a cookie that increases your prices on that website by 10%)

Put my dog on my back and fly around the world with her!

(then when she's sleeping happily I start punching billionaires)

My reaction.

Yeah there are plenty of handheld games being made right now they're just all mobile games. Dig through the slop I'm sure there's gems in there.

It's a good as hell solution though. My phone is already a perfectly good computer that can play up to PS1 era old games and pretty much all modern mobile ones, why should I buy another?