Distractions. There are a lot of them and most of us are replying to the distractions with emotional messages and Hitler/nazi-musk memes instead of doing our due diligence to find out what’s going on and how we can stop it. The memes, they do nothing but give us the sense of camaraderie without direction or objective. And any time you tell the people making them that, they get mad and block you or downvote you.

To be fair, it also just launched on steam.

Yeah. I think part of it is that I’ve played so many and even ones that I thought weren’t particularly difficult still had sections that got progressively harder over time, or required me to think about what I was supposed to do. It’s perhaps conditioning as much as anything.

I don’t think it is. And it does have a cozy game vibe. I guess I was expecting a little bit more resistance getting to new areas and stuff… A lot of rougelites and metroidvanias and such that I’ve played are much harder. The art is adorable. The puzzles are pretty easy so far. And I guess I just expected it to be harder because of other games I’ve played.

I actually started playing Crypt Custodian on a whim and it’s pretty fun. It’s not super hard or challenging yet though and I wonder about that.

There are problems with the law as well. The main one is that Tik Tok buys a whole lot of data about Americans and their browser history etc from data brokers. So they don’t necessarily need the app to gather information. Comparisons of the Tik Tok app vs it’s counterpart in China exist and they paint a pretty significant picture of the differences and similarities that explain how it could be used to push a narrative or propaganda. Barring that though two things can be true. It can be true that Tik Tok is a danger to national security, and also be lobbied against by American Tech companies.

What we’re seeing is that this law was the result of several things and doesn’t just have one singular aim. Anyone who says it’s just about one singular thing just doesn’t want to admit the validity of the other arguments because it ruins how they feel about the federal government, Tik Tok, China, Trump, Biden etc.

Can you give some hard examples of what you mean, and a contrast of what you would expect from a non-american please? I’m reading through this post and I don’t know what you’re seeing. It’s not clear to me given what you wrote so it’s hard to pinpoint which behaviors you’re referring to.

A lot of the things you bring up (about guns and walking safety at night and sending kids to school) doesn’t jive and sounds quite a bit like media washing the entire country. Like. Yes. Guns are legal and lots of people have them. I don’t see guns on a daily basis and even when I lived in a particularly crime prone area for the most part gun violence wasn’t my main concern.

The thing about corporal punishment of children is that what’s legal and illegal varies by state but it’s not outright outlawed to spank children (and I was absolutely not spanked, but beaten as a kid).

But there’s a reason the public hasn’t broken out in violent opposition of the government as a whole (the liberal majority I mean) and it’s twofold. Americans don’t generally want to have to do violence to force change. If we did there would be a lot more Luigi’s, Trump shooters, and BLM founders out there advocating in public for violence against the system and the people who uphold it.

Additionally, people don’t want to get involved with that if it means that it will significantly detrimentally affect their lives (which in a lot of cases is very much true). Living in between the “eat the rich/guillotine” idealism and the realism of making it day to day is hard and it doesn’t allow a lot of fertile ground for empathy and perhaps that’s what you’re seeing.

People have too much still to lose for a civil war to be particularly viable. They haven’t reached a level of desperation that will allow most of them to commit indiscriminate violence against the system. But also, the education system has been decimated and so they don’t think they understand the system well enough to effect change and that goes hand in hand with not getting involved in politics, lobbying, or playing the long game to indoctrinate liberals in a similar fashion to the way conservatives have been indoctrinated (but for the opposite view point, meaning incensing them to make change via a more long and arduous process that has lasting effects). We didn’t see Roe v Wade get dismantled overnight. That was the result of decades of conservative movement. We haven’t been actively and cohesively trying to counter that with our own movements.

I’d also like to add that the vast majority of people live in cities where nature isn’t easily accessible and time isn’t given to them to enjoy it. I work something like 60 hours a week. Some people work more than that. The system is directly designed to keep people tired, poor, ignorant, and just desperate enough to continue to participate in the system. So yes, we are disconnected from nature in a lot of ways.

100%.

This is basically the history of the Ford Pinto.

It’s for identification, navigation, as well as light. You can tell which way a plane is facing/ which way it’s moving, and which side of the plane you’re looking at based solely on the lights and their color. That’s important for night flights. The other commenter is correct that most planes have lights on either side and the lights correspond to the colors standard for that side. So, right side is green, left side is red, etc.

The article below has more information on what the lights do if you’re interested still.

https://pilotinstitute.com/airplane-lights/

That’s fair.

You responded to a comment directly about the Palworld thing.

Nah. Not in the Palworld thing. They applied for those patents after Palworld was already being produced and sold as an excuse to sue the company and the fact that the law allows this is bogus. That being said, boycott if you want, or don’t. That’s your business.

It absolutely is a chemical generator. Because it’s actually pure oxygen, and carrying that onboard a plane in any other form (oxygen bottles etc) at an amount that would keep 300 or so people alive would make the plane even more of an explosion hazard than it already is.

If it’s a game I’m not sure I’m going to like, or it’s a collectors item I’ll buy physical. Other than that, digital. If it’s physical I can pass it on to someone who does want it (this has happened mostly with switch games that I give to friends kids etc). But I own a Switch, a PS5, and a computer. All my computer games are digital at this point. Any physical copies I did have I’ve lost or sold so I didn’t have to move them.

An assumption isn’t good enough. If you want to implement this you’ll need a plan. It won’t be successful unless the community interacts with it.

No offense but this was explained many a time during the pandemic, especially in relation to immunocompromised people. If op can’t mask I doubt there are any breathing techniques they can use to prevent them from getting sick. But cleaning anything they touch and washing their hands is as good a solution as any.

I know that breathing through your nose is generally better than breathing through your mouth for the simple fact that your nose has special follicles that act as a filter. But honestly the eyes and nose are most sensitive to infection and that’s part of the reason people are suggesting masks. It’s to lower the number of mucus membrane vectors for infection.

Op is more likely to get sick, especially if the other sick person isn’t washing their hands and cleaning surfaces they touch, and limiting the amount of time touching their own mucus membranes.

How do you plan to prevent bot user comments? I think that’s an important part of how this goes. Several users (including myself) have had hit and miss success with blocking instances. Block evasion is absolutely a thing here with users too. I really do want to understand what the plan is for implementation, if the communities and instances are going to be warned, and if this instance will have admins and moderators and most importantly tools to combat some of the problems I foresee from this.

If you’ve ever tried to read something off a label in the dark and outshined what you were looking at because the light was too bright, you know why.