Drewelite @ Drewelite @lemmynsfw.com

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So, shouldn't the pretense that images are sources of truth evaporating, be a good thing?

If you're getting your truth from somewhere you don't trust, you've already lost the plot. Having a medium to convey absolute truth is NOT the exception, because it never existed. Not with first hand accounts, not with photos, not with videos. Anything, from its inception, has been able to be faked by someone motivated enough.

What we need is an industry of independent ethically driven individuals to investigate and be a trusted source of truth on the world's important events. Then they can release journals about their findings. We can call them journalers or something, I don't know, I don't have all the answers. Too bad nothing like that exists when we need it most 🥲

I think this comment misses the point that even one doctored photo created by a team of highly skilled individuals can change the course of history. And when that's what it takes, it's easier to sell it to the public.

What matters is the source. What we're being forced to reckon with now is: the assumption that photos capture indisputable reality has never and will never be true. That's why we invented journalism. Ethically driven people to investigate and be impartial sources of truth on what's happening in the world. But we've neglected and abused the profession so much that it's a shell of what we need it to be.

Big question with a lot of nuance and different angles you could approach from. What I think will clarify some things: the emotional side of liberal vs conservatives is that one side sees how humanity could be better and strives for that change, while the other worries that we'll get worse and resist the change.

Well for quite some time, things have been rapidly changing like no other time in history due in large part to advancements in technology. Both sides can see that we've ended up in some dark places as a result and generally the world is more confusing, divided, and stressful than ever.

In reality there is a lot of great progress that we've made in recent times. But people who are slow to adapt don't see it that way, which makes them extremely uncomfortable and left feeling like it totally justifies their philosophy. But nobody is listening because the popular media shuts them out.

So basically they're throwing a huge temper tantrum and trying to kick over the sand castle everyone else has worked so hard to build, because they feel fed up, self-righteous, and ignored. They don't see it that way, of course, they feel they're renegades tearing down a godless society and saving the world. They vote for a buffoon because they're tired of that idea being weaponized against them, so they're owning it. With him they're able to take center stage and be so loud and in your face that you can't ignore them.

If you engineer for it, you can send up a machine to fabricate the miners with raw resources. Then you just have to send up a couple starter miners and you never have to send another rocket up. Infinite resources down (limited by time). Solar power to drive the machines. Hell the manufacturer can double as basic initial processing plant and drop purified metals.

"I wish we could mine without destroying the environment"

"Well what if we mined in space instead?"

"Why don't you focus on the problems here on Earth buddy. Wow what an idiot. Can you believe that guy?"

Yeah, why would a farmer need a fancy calculator the size of a room? 🙄

There are tons of artists that copy others very closely. There are plenty of examples of A.I. making all kinds of unique and quirky artwork despite drawing from artworks. Feels like you're backing into the grey area of option so that you can stick to a framework that fits a narrative.

That's what they want to focus on. And hey, that's great. But there's no reason they need to limit how a user installed plugin can filter API requests. Ad blockers and the like were tools to help with the ads and tracking issue. So it's great Google's trying to help. But it mostly just seems like PR at this point.

God I hope it ends up splitting off Chrome. I think Google has done a great job with Chrome. But the recent Manifest v3 makes it clear they're going to greatly degrade their users' experience for Google's bottom line. And they're using their market dominance to do it.

Microsoft is declared a monopoly (again). Firefox has to find new funding (again)

Yeah I agree with the single player bit. And even multiplayer if it's as simple as releasing the server app. But I think Thor's point and what's being debated here is that live service games often aren't like that. So why is this law seemingly including them?

If you don't like live service games and don't feel like they should exist, then don't buy them. I can see some legislation around clear marketing. But if people want to pay for an ephemeral service, that's up to the consumer.

I'm aware that exists. But the experience of an MMO on a community server must be pretty different (but I don't know).

If the desire is to not lose the experience after the company shutters the project, I'm not really sure that's possible. Maybe it is for WoW. But I can certainly imagine a game like Pokemon Go or something being developed by an indie dev that works by orchestrating live real-time events depending on players locations. Would this game even be allowed in the EU following this law? They can't allow users personal locations to be released, they can't create a game they can't eventually fully release to the public. Even if they found a way to strip out users locations, the experience would be completely broken. So what's the answer? Just don't innovate in that space?

Are you saying in 80 years when Blizzard is no more they should release all the code to run your own WoW MMO servers?

Well it sounds like they're doing something to make their products better, you just disagree that it's going to be successful.

Why are liberals being so negative about Kamala's progress? I get that we need people to not be complacent and go vote. But feeling like it's hopeless is just as good as getting people to stay at home. We need to celebrate the support if we want to keep it, you know.

"Why won't women just accept that men should be in charge?!"

Thing is, that's how a lot of people treat games. They play them for a few days when they come out to extract the novelty of the new experience. They get annoyed that it isn't as novel or new as when they were kids and experiencing it for the first time. Then they buy a new game. Rinse and repeat.

Games as a service just take advantage of that by promising that experience but in one convenient package: We'll change the game every now and then to keep you interested instead of satisfied.

Sci-fi is a little more about theorizing science before it gets there. I feel like philosophy is more like: "Why are we looking for the cat?"

It ascribes meaning to the actions that science makes possible. I can find that cat if I use science. But why do I want the cat and what will I do once I have it?

Watching old commercials is hilarious. "If YOU would like to see our locations on the world-wide-web, visit our website on your web browser by typing in w, w, w, dot, appliance, dash, direct, dot, com!"