One thing that I really wonder is if things have at all improved amongst men. It’s gone downhill with any Andrew Tate fans but like, if a group of 18 year olds watched Animal House or Revenge of the Nerds today, how many would be outright appalled?

They were popular in the day. Specifically among men. I just feel like it would be a fascinating experiment that could demonstrate some progress is being made. Perhaps people can breathe a bit easier.

Why this is not brought up every other day whenever Schumer or Pelosi think they are out of touch, I will never know.

I’m not,

I’m genuinely skeptical that most polls are an accurate sampling of the population. Most people I know would never sit through a phone poll. Most polls reek of phishing. One of the very first phone polls said that Dewy would beat Truman in a landslide. It was completely wrong because it was predominantly rich people who had the phones to even answer the polls.

Who has the time for polls? Who drops by the candidate booths at the state fair? It’s a type for sure.

The only poll I have been a part of all last year was a phone poll entirely about optometrists and eye appointments and how they should be handled in the healthcare system. I couldn’t even finish it because the entire things was just… painful to go through.

Back in college I used to be friends with a guy who volunteered in an indie record label, so I’d go to a lot of indie concerts.

Nowadays I usually just go to caravan palace, whatever plays at an anime convention, a few bar crawls, and VGM con. So maybe every other month or so?

See, that’s the better option. If they see Sean Hannity, they’re gonna instantly dismiss it and move to the next name.

You gotta have names that require a little research. Stuff that can’t be dismissed until the second or third page of a google search.

So… is there any relation to the Marathon that came out in 1994 by Bungie?

Because… the art style genuinely looks awesome but I don’t see anything that reminds me of the original. Not in enemies, or gameplay, or plot, it also seems entirely online multi-player, I see no rogue AI.

Honestly I would be intrigued by the art style alone but… the shameless name grab makes me think it’s gonna flop.

Elite dangerous is also a great game I use it with. Double it with VR for maximum effect

There’s a much simpler reason.

CNN is hemorrhaging viewers. Bernie draws crowds. If you want people to tune in so advertisers think you’re useful you gotta find something to bring an audience.

It’s even worse today. The amount of interconnected systems we have in play would be absolutely chaos to try and separate.

We didn’t have to worry about power grids, networking, food was FAR more local, it would take years to try to isolate yourself from it all on a statewide scale.

I don’t even know if it’s that.

Gen Z didn’t give up on dating, that would imply that they ever tried it to begin with.

1. Historically only men showing up

2. Only desperate people showing up

3. Has anything good ever come from a speed dating event? I haven’t heard of one.

They just don’t have a great reputation in general. I went to a speed friending event once and, ugh, that was not fun.

To make matters even crazier, younger generations are also just… not even trying to hook up. Some studies are showing 45% of men age 18-25 have never even approached a woman romantically.

Not succeeded, just even tried.

Dating be incredibly fucking weird right now.

It’s starting to change. It’s hardly the norm but speed dating events in New York, LA have had shortages of men.

Especially with the terrible press and stories coming from them… men are starting to just not attend.

Reminds me of the door knockers who got paid to shill some libertarian a while back. So Many reports of people with absolutely no motivation, reading the scripts, and sometimes even leaving with a vote for bernie.

It totally is in my experience. I have literally sat in meetings pushing AI… but absolutely NO steering or discussion on what we ought to do with it. They will relabel related things that have existed for years as AI.

It’s like instead of having a bunch of nails and needing a way to pound them in, we’ve been given a nail gun and a requirement to use it.

“But we sell balloons”

“Dont worry, the nail gun will make everything better”

Admittedly, charging ports are the first to break on any electronic unless it has a joystick. Wireless charging is a lot more robust, more water resistant, and allows you to do sleek shit without a weird hole in it

If it makes you feel better, that hand has 7 fingers so it’s probably AI.

At least a human didn’t draw it

Nah nah nah, it’s just a different paradigm. It’s like… it’s a different meta, but for programming.

If I was to ELI5, I’d say it’s the difference between making a series of objects that interact with each other (OOP) and and creating a very large console with lots of buttons (functional)

Some problems are much easier object oriented. If you have a video game, building a projectile class and adding different types of projectiles makes things suuuper easy to build. Arrows move slow and deal x damage, beams move super fast and deal y.

Functional can be easier to troubleshoot, also easier to crank out novel things, easier to make secure, and even make simultaneous operations trivial. It has very different problems though. You need to put more effort into eliminating dependencies.

The two do not play well together at all they’re like fire and water. Sometimes you need water to soak something and make it easier to work, sometimes you need heat to melt something and make it easier to work.

Telecommunications like phones or military applications tend to the functional languages, data, video games, and a lot of the popular languages tend to OOP.

The transition between the two is jarring, and infuriating, but a knowledge of both can really improve your design skills.

So what is the point of an email client? I’ve only ever really used web pages because it did everything I need.

Honestly the flaws I have the biggest complaints about is the God awful UI.

Incorrect tool tips, no drag and drop, no ui for city connectivity, no renaming cities, disappearing entities.

It’s genuinely painful at times.

I mean, the ages thing grew on me. It was way too common in other civs to just snowball early and dominate the rest. Any modern civilization was just bad, because by the time they got online it was over.