5% active users on Steam... way too many people, I'm switching to punch cards to be annoyingly persnickety about my personal technology and signal how much of tech hipster I am.

It's almost like all the promises by AI boosters that the inevitable totalitarian AI dictatorship won't actually be benevolent, because the individual wellbeing of the little people is something that is preemptively discarded before totalitarian AI dictatorship even gets implemented.

What is the background of that statue? Who was the artist? I'm dying of curiosity

Seems like the British Empire spread "civilization" around the world, while USA rebranded it to be spreading "democracy and liberty" around the world. The Brits called everyone that stood against them as savages, and the US called everyone that stood against them as commies/terrorists; new boss same as the old boss.

And certainly we can't get behind a guy who won the plurality in the first round of RCV voting with his message of tackling the high living expenses, because billionaires and millionaires with permanent residences outside of the city (for tax purposes) don't want to pay anymore taxes that might give the serfs a hope to a better daily life like universal childcare or free busses. Mamdani isn't even hiring any consultants to waste tens of millions of dollars on that have had a horrible record for the past 3 decades.

Well what's the suppositional didactic of the tits versus ass? One must ask what is the metaphysical substrates for each?