Careful. The last time I spoke ill of Gamebryo+++++++ I was the subject of a short-lived harassment campaign. Bethesda fans are bizarrely protective of this Frankenstein engine. Get this: you still can't climb ladders! It's fucking 2023.
This is one of the more biting criticisms I've heard of the game. It results in a lack of feeling of scale and scope. The universe just feels like connected places, instead of worlds within a galaxy. No Mans Sky got this right, and it's surprising that Bethesda would fumble such a core mechanic. It looks like they tried to cover up this wart by... removing city maps.
In some cases the data sets were only white, but engineers have been cognisant of this issue for decades so I don’t think that’s as common as you might believe. More frequently it’s just physics.
As for “putting in the effort,” companies are doing this, to their detriment. Ensuring that a small proportion of their customer base has a perfect experience is very expensive. In business the calculation between cost and profit is very important. If you’re arguing that companies should provide unprofitable products so that your sensibilities can be assuaged then I disagree. No company has a duty to provide a product to you.
It's a shame they didn't have the funding to keep the libraries open. On the other hand, schools desperately need more discipline. There are horror stories from teachers on /r/teachers. Physical assault. Guns. Drugs. It's insane, and there are almost no repercussions. If the previous system didn't provide a high quality of education, I'm all for using a proven model instead.
A quick primer in colour: recall that light colours reflect more light than dark colours. This means image recognition devices relying on cameras using standard spectrums (i.e. not infrared) receive less light into the sensor when pointed at someone with dark skin. The problem is constant, but less pronounced depending on the background. That is, a black person against a white background would be easier for an algorithm to identify as a person than said black person against a mixed or dark background.
This place is just as bad as Reddit. Sometimes it's like being on r/Politics. I'm not sure why they left if they just brought the hyper political toxicity with them.
Most of human history would say freedom of speech (and most of the concept of natural rights) is a rather newish ideology.
It's "newish" for Homo sapiens, but it originated during the Enlightenment in the 17th century. I struggle to call that "new." However I don't subscribe to the concept of natural rights. Rights are what people afford each other in a society. In a democracy, we vote on rights. In anarchy, rights are given and taken at the end of a gun.
That's terrible, but it's not like similar mistakes don't happen in publicly run hospitals. There doesn't appear to be clear and compelling evidence that private hospitals are any worse than public hospitals in the U.K. Studies repeatedly find mixed results at best [see citations below]. I am generally opposed to public services being privatised, but if the level of care is better for the same cost, I support it. The issue, as outlined by Kruse et al. (2018), is the incentive structure. With private hospitals responding more efficiently to financial incentives, it becomes critical that policy carefully align public health outcomes with financial incentives.
You asked the right question, and no, the data presented isn't causative.
More than half of people who died in England last year were on an NHS waiting list, according to statistics.
Unsurprisingly, old people are often on waiting lists for things like knee and hip replacements, and these can be long. They sometimes die while on these waiting lists. In total, around 600,000 people die each year in the U.K. It would be unbelievable if half of those people died because they didn't receive medical care in time.
The article has merit, but the headline is total clickbait.
This is one of the reasons MRAs are hostile to feminists. Feminists claim that men's rights movements shouldn't exist because feminism is the de facto equality movement. However, whenever men have tried to raise men's issues in feminist spaces, they are shouted down. Feminism has done wonderful and necessary things for women, but it's a movement focused on and about women. Men are facing serious systemic issues across the board, and they need their own movement too.
I've been volunteering at my local men's support group for many years. You wouldn't believe how many men are abused, but people like you shame them into staying silent. You don't know about the movement because the media you consume doesn't offer you competing perspectives. Lots of abused people complain on the internet, and there's nothing wrong with that.
It’s unfortunate that a lot of left wing spaces are openly anti-male. The same people who pretend to care about equality and inclusivity. That’s okay. Hate never wins. The movement is gaining traction and people are openly talking about the major issues men face today like sky high suicide, systemic educational system failures, and homelessness.
With all due respect, that’s not accurate at all. MRAs are analogous to feminists. The core of the movement is about addressing systemic issues men face in society. It’s not pro-feminist, but then feminism isn’t pro-MRA either. Like both movements, some people are angry and say unkind things. TERFs are a subset of feminism. MGTOW is a subset of men’s rights. The “men’s liberation movement” is a subset of feminism. Its proponents subscribe to feminist theory, including patriarchy theory.
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has been very vocal about its ideological descent into left-wing populism. He's used words like "propaganda." I used to moderate the Men's Rights page. Eventually I was blocked by some senior moderators (who also heavily moderated the Feminism page, incidentally). You can go and review the difference between those pages yourself.
The Men's Rights page now includes criticism of the movement in the summary section. Note how that is entirely absent in the Feminism page. Over the years they've stripped more and more useful information out of the Men's Rights page. Especially anything which portrays the movement in a positive light. Almost anything without a citation, for example. While this is technically within Wikipedia's rules, this level of scrutiny isn't applied to the Feminism page. Not even close. Take a look at the section for suicide on the Men's Rights page:
Studies have also found an over-representation of women in attempted or incomplete suicides and men in complete suicides.
I mean, what the fuck? On a page for men's issues like suicide, the person who moderates the Feminism page added stuff about attempted suicide for women. Many other sections contain a similar tone of, "but women also..."
The real cherry on top is the byline at the very top of the article directing people elsewhere with a hyperlink. Because how dare you research a movement which isn't pro-feminist:
Not to be confused with the pro-feminist Men's liberation movement.
You'll note no similar byline on the Feminism page, directing people to pro men's rights feminist movements.
I could go on, but you get the picture. Over the years I've heard from dozens of people who have experienced similar issues, and have either been blocked, banned, or constructively cut out of moderating the pages they've been passionate about for so many years. ALL of them cite the same reason: ideology. Wikipedia long ago abandoned truth. Ideological compliance is now baked into the complex moderation structure. You would be horrified to learn how much is deleted and suppressed now. Just take a look through the moderation logs of any politically contentious pages for a seriously eye opening experience.
Only 13% of my Steam library is verified. That's still plenty of games, but it's a lot more limited than "all games on Steam." More than half of the top 20 games on Twitch are unplayable or run terribly on Linux.
It opens some doors if you're willing to accept "playable" games. That's another 14% of my library. The vast majority are a crapshoot for me on the Deck. Most of the issues revolve around text illegibility and clunky controls.
You're attacking the concept of loans. Banks wouldn't offer loans if they couldn't claw back their investment for non-payment. If you want to eliminate loans then the people hit hardest will be those without capital.
So 800% is bad, right? Thing is, we secured the debt at 1% over 30 years, so it’s not hard to service. Thanks to inflation we’re basically being paid to have the loan. I think mortgage debt is in a very different bucket to other kinds of debt.
Careful. The last time I spoke ill of Gamebryo+++++++ I was the subject of a short-lived harassment campaign. Bethesda fans are bizarrely protective of this Frankenstein engine. Get this: you still can't climb ladders! It's fucking 2023.