scratchee

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[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 1 points 24 minutes ago

Fair, we certainly won’t see any perfect or even good solutions given human nature and the large population, but I do think we can achieve mediocre success if we really work hard

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 6 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

If you’re worried about cultural factors, you might find removing any significant percentage of the total population will likely run into even more implacable “cultural factors” than meat reduction would.

This is regardless of the method of population reduction, save perhaps “slow decline” which seems to be promising atm, but that obviously has the downside that it’ll take a few generations to really have an impact.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

Oh for sure, I was being tongue in cheek. I do think they should make a system for returning things stolen that would be appreciated more where they came from (I’m fine with guarantees of quality preservation and public display, but I think that’s as far as can be justified). We really can’t justify keeping things that we couldn’t buy today because they mean more than money to the people we stole them from.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

To be fair, I’m sure there’s some British things in the British museum, I assume those could be kept.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I really think we need to distinguish between terrorism in the sense of “are they going to keep blowing people up?” and “terrorism” in the sense of “are my taxes going to go up because of this?” I feel like the word is being stretched for the second example…

 
[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 5 points 4 days ago

Yeah, “I don’t like this proposed change to the law because it has an effect” is not the compelling narrative they seem to think it is.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are 2 schools of thought. Those that are against the entire concept of software that tries to control how you use it, drm/anticheat/etc in any form is malware to them. And those that accept it might be acceptable in principle (eg for anticheat especially), but believe denouvo and certain other drm programs go too far and cross a line (especially when they hook into the kernel or start tracking things outside the game that they have no business tracking).

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Agreed they have a monopoly. But given the modern pattern of digital services always racing to the bottom with enshitification, it’s apparent that we are all very fortunate that the game didtribution market is not an efficient market right now.

Steam would not survive in a competitive market, they’d be outcompeted by loss leaders running on infinite venture capital which would inevitably start turning the screws to draw profit from their captive audience before eventually collapsing and taking all their games with them.

That monopoly is a win for consumers because it is lazy and predictable, it’s a win for game devs because it’s vaguely pleasant to use over a long period which keeps piracy down, and it’s very good for valve, obviously.

Monopoly’s are usually bad when you assume you’re the customer, but with modern services we’re generally the product, a fat and happy monopoly is sometimes better than the alternative.

This comment is only slightly tongue in cheek.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago

Yeah, only men can consent to strangulation because men are adults who can make their own choices, and we must protect the ladies since this is the mid 20th century and equality doesn’t extend to the bedroom don’t you know.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That was in Greek times, it’s been thousands of years. These days he’s the embodiment of the mid life crisis.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 1 points 3 weeks ago

Sounds like they need to speed up the test, if it takes 10 years then they won’t be babies anymore by the time they get results.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

Yup. Johnson and Truss were “worse” leaders, but that just means they were ineffective leaders. Cameron was disastrously effective and will be remembered for the devastating effect he had on the nation, fundamentally Johnson and Truss were his fault.

 
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