MountingSuspicion

Glad you said something. As an American, I know we suck, but so does everyone else (to differing degrees - of course USA is still #1 🥲). We had a target on us for a long time, but Obama was in office when Brexit was happening. We were hoping for change with a black president and the UK was hating immigrants. We're all the same, they just got to us first. I really hope other countries disdain for the US (often deserved) help lead them in different directions. There is a worldwide disinformation campaign, and it's already taken hold in so many places. We are screwed at this point, but there's still hope for other countries. Hearing people act like this is a US specific thing is honestly a little scary. People don't realize how fragile everything is.

A comment above provides context for what those symbols actually stand for economically. It's not just made up (to the extent that economics is not made up).

Kinda depends on your perspective. It costs advertisers money and pays the website you're visiting. If it's a shitty site with a lot of ads, you're effectively encouraging them putting in more ads. Since you're "clicking" on every ad, and it's not affecting your experience, it sends a message that stuffing the page with all those ads is good for revenue. It also just charges advertisers. I don't personally think running ads inherently makes a company bad, so in my opinion clicking on ads out of spite so they get charged for a useless click is kind of not a great solution imho. It seems like it kinda benefits the wrong people, unless you're exclusively going to great websites running ads for terrible companies.

I'm not on this guys side at all, but it's kinda a weird take to talk about the potential wipeout of an entire group of people as bad because they serve as an irreplaceable time capsule of information. I'm sure you care for other reasons too, but it just struck me as odd.

Love him saying he believed they are in shelters now. As if they were camping on the street when shelters were a great a perfectly viable option they were just ignoring. Even if local shelters have the capacity (they likely don't), there are serious issues with the way a lot of them are run. People generally don't want to be camping on the street, but I guess this guy thinks they were living the life and now are all back on the straight and narrow since out of sight is out of mind.

In this post it seems as though smart is being used to mean completely replacing the thing. I think that having both smart and dumb options is ideal, but in this particular context I think the reference point is that the smart object does not allow a manual override.

I agree with the overall sentiment, but a smart switch would be harder to change than a smart bulb most of the time. Smart switch would require electrical work to replace. A smart bulb can just be swapped. If anything the toilet is a good proxy. A smart flush means it won't manually flush. If they had done a smart fill you could just manually fill the tank with water.

Thank you for the suggestions. I've already seen arcane, and apparently scavenger's rain is already on my list, though I don't remember adding it. Just added nimona though. Arcane definitely fits the bill, so I imagine the others will as well. It really is a great example of how the medium affects the message.

Couldn't agree more. If I wanted to watch someone pretend to have magical powers and interact with nonexistent set pieces, I'd assemble my game group. There's so much that you can do with animation that just cannot be done live action. I miss when animated movies had distinct styles that contributed to the atmosphere the fiction was building. Live action is comparatively empty of expression.

Thanks for your insight as an actual Canadian lol. We really are (and have been) trying to get this under control for years at this point. We appreciate you understanding that and seeing that at least it's not all of us.

One of my Canadian friends parents have trump signs in their yard and they are Canadian and have never been American or even to America. It's really crazy that this is happening so many places. At least we can hope that people see where it's left us and start actually changing their minds for the better for their own country. What happened with Le Pen recently might have happened regardless, but after seeing what not punishing officials leads to, I hope other countries learn from our mistakes.

Good luck up there. I'm sorry this is where we are, but hopefully not for long.

Are you Canadian? I have some Canadian friends and their vibe is mostly pity and offering to help if needed. I hope Canadians aren't upset at Americans as a whole, and I generally don't get that vibe. Obviously I only know Canadians that know me, so they're predisposed to being nice to me lol.

I don't know her personal struggles, but I think part of growing up is feeling like that. That's why so much of the music kids listen to has that theme regardless of genre. Pop, punk, country, metal, rap - it's all "no one understands me". Then I think you meet other likeminded people and you grow out of it as you realize the whole world is filled with individuals and they all have their own stuff going on. You're not a special snowflake when you realize everyone is, and then you kinda become an adult who lives in society.