Half of US adults can’t read at a 6th grade level. This is haunting.

Some strikingly high percentage can’t complete complicated tasks on a computer (eg: find 3 user email addresses and add them to a spreadsheet).

Reading the manual is good advice but I think some people are just left behind

I like the game but I never finished it. I got pretty far when setting it to checkpoint mode, but lost interest near the end.

I don’t really understand the game in detail so I don’t know all the good builds. Extra legs and guns seemed strong.

Yeah I noticed that, too. Not sure why. Using apt on the command line is probably an alternative, at least.

Also switched to Linux (popos) this month. It’s been fine. Games work. Browser works. No complaints, really.

I think there are protests but coverage and communication is limited. Probably because a lot of news and platforms are owned by shitty, rich, people.

I think most computer users now don’t know that file systems exist

Ok so there’s like 0 chance the person who wrote that knows this, but with a browser plugin like adblock or scriptmonkey, or probably even a custom css sheet thing, you could change the color.

Or they were being a troll and don’t care.

She’s a very selfish person who doesn’t care about other people. She only cares about what benefits her. So when someone says “there’s no material benefit to me” they sound like that kind of asshole.

Also it was a critically acclaimed show, not some obscure media.

That doesn’t logically follow. No more than saying “Building more highways is bad for the environment, ergo the highway administrators benefit from having more cars on the road.” You’re looking at a problem of induced demand and concluding the problem is on the demand-side of the equation.

What? Yes it does. Facebook needs users to generate revenue. With no users, they can’t sell ads or user data. How else do you think they make money? Do you not think making money is a benefit for the owners of facebook?

It’s one node in a massive web. And it’s easy to say “Well, you have to do your part because <insert consumerist morality here>”. But mostly it’s just some random asshole on the internet telling me not to use my telephone because AT&T is run by a richer set of random assholes. There’s no material benefit to me and no collective coordinated action that I’m seriously participating in.

You’re reminding me of Eleanor from the good place. Do you also litter? Refuse to return shopping carts?

Well, there’s no going back and changing the past, so the best you can do is learn. Glad you’ve come around!

I haven’t seen any real evidence to that effect.

Do you accept that facebook is harmful to the world, or would I need to try to prove that? There’s the time they tried to see if they could make people sad by adjusting the feed. (They could)

If you accept that, it’s a small step to “They benefit from having more users on their platform”. More users means more engagement, which means more ads, and advertisers pay more money for those ads. No one’s going to pay big bucks to advertise their stuff to an empty platform. Facebook’s going to have a harder time selling user data and metadata if users aren’t on there.

Now, getting one family to stop using facebook is a drop in the bucket. But every family that leaves makes it easier for the next family to leave.

Can you share what lead you to support Adams, and what changed your mind?

Those aren’t the only email providers, and using email is less harmful than using Facebook.

email exists and isn’t run by the worst people on earth

Adams is trash. No one I know (here in NYC) voted for him or even likes him, but I hang out in pretty left wing circles.

Fascists are lucky it was just a sandwich.

Someone’s going to throw a molotov and I am going to laugh and laugh and laugh when those fascists burn to death while sobbing.

One of the many things I’ve cut down on because of unemployment. I used to socialize in bars more often.

People need to fight back. I don’t know the best way to do that. Unfortunately, many platforms are owned by the rich who don’t care about this, and collaborators that are happy to “removed by mod” anything too spicy.

Contrary opinion: I really enjoyed it. I 100% want to hang out playing video games with spider man and lifting weights with Captain Marvel. The book club story arc was silly and fun.

I don’t remember the UI or currencies being bad. I enjoyed playing all the missions. I did extra just for fun instead of rushing for the plot. I don’t remember any micro transactions, either.

The different characters have pretty different decks. The game encourages you to use different teams, but I mostly used the protagonist, captain marvel, and the girl from the runaways. Captain marvel I think gets a lot of armor and energy beams. The runaways girl has a big random factor in her cards. The blonde girl moves enemies around more, and I think Spiderman can play off scenery better.

I had fun. I’m sad they’re not making a sequel despite the teaser at the end

Yeah I don’t know about the down votes. I tried to be clear I was talking about a preference and personal experience, but I guess some people took offense.

The last non fiction book I read that was really interesting was “The Ghost Map”. It’s about when people figured out Cholera. That’s kind of technology adjacent.