Word 5.1a was all the word processor we ever needed.

Get mad at individuals seeking the path of least resistance in their complicated lives about an important but not urgent issue.

Issue is actually a structural issue.

Divide and oligarch wins again, good job!

One of the things that makes me ignore my mastodon account is how quickly people take offence there, even going so far as to try to shut down conversation threads on their posts as though they don’t expect any depth or variant viewpoints. While there are lots of “reply guy” types over there, even the hint of disagreement, perceived or real, is seen as objectionable.

This response is similar.

Well, BF4 still has an active player base at least!

I was just about to hold my nose and buy Battlefield 6, then they did that.

This is now way off thread, but all the proportions look wrong on that car.

Here’s a very boxy car where the lines flow together and it aged well (1988):

The Chevy Spark is uglycute, and a Daewoo in origin. So they tried to gloss up their design game… but made frog cars.

If my clients who rely on computer use to obtain money are reluctant to learn even the basics, if I can get away with it, I will say “imagine your home builders didn’t know the difference between a nail or screw? Learn file types, it’s your screws and nails. Now imagine your bus driver doesn’t understand road markings?”

cf. other primates noticing injustice

There are some near-universals.

Kubrick

Eyes Wide Shut

He was trying to warn us and here we are

Yeah this seems like a time we should be pumping resources into the Federal Business Development Bank, or whatever they call it now, as Canadian business pundit-of-the-day always complains about the lack of investment funds being a barrier to building up local industry.

The BDC (I checked , that’s the latest name) may be making a difference but it’s not enough. Whole sectors should receive massive public attention.

You don’t need to share any server technology names, just that it’s the Matrix protocol or “platform”, or even just “Element” if they are using that app. I don’t tell other matrix users they are on a Synapse server.

Only the host needs to know about the server app name, and is the only one who interacts with it directly.

I’m grey (but still working), and old genX, people my age often retire. I play First Person shooters, mainly. About 12h per week on Destiny 2, all PVP, currently. Destiny is nigh-dead so I’m looking for a replacement soon.

Not a lot of indie games doing that genre well, sadly. I was going to play battlefield 6 then looked at ownership… EA was a nasty company from the beginning but is now owned by Jared the Lich Kushner and some Saudi oilymoney. Woof.

I would be fascinated, while wondering how I screwed up so badly that I wasn’t in intimate communication with my own child.

I’m pretty sure the sigh is not disparaging, but pointed at how you are correct about atrazine, and that in itself is a sad fact for all of us.

I’m using it generally, to refer to skills, knowledge, and understanding of industries and other economic topics, per the thread. We are seeing disrupted chains of knowledge and experience, what amounts to an abdication of tradition, and a surrender of economic power. These specific epistemological systems are the fabric of civilization.

It’s almost like people don’t realize that epistemologies have a time dimension that needs to be sustained to persist.

That epistemologies have a body, which is human behaviour.

The fuckin’ Morlocks are trying to conjure the singularity by a massive and rapid capture of the function of those epistemologies, in code that is now commodified and alienated, before their “only disrupt” ethos pulls the technological rug from under them and us completely.

Weellll, unless you live out in the sticks on an island and all there is is long throw 2.4GHz wifi as your internet connection, at least when the weather cooperates and the rinkydink ISP has staff actually on the job. Then wifi is also a utility level service.

Like satellite internet for some. Hmm I know another equally misanthropic smug techbro who wants to privatize an entire utility sector… Had to set up a SStarlink system for someone recently. Had to make very sure the homeowners understand why we bridged the SStarlink router.

Yeah, essentially the difference is delivery context.

This is only true in an extremely reductionist sense.

Bio availability, matrix of compounding nutritional elements, and many other factors that influence digestion, such as fiber, all change what happens when you consume those molecules.

One good corollary is how the body needs fats to turn beta carotene into vitamin A. You combine foods for complete nutrition.