This… requires a person to look at the profit numbers. To care about them, even. I’m not really sure what you’re getting at.

I think you’re saying that computers can be very good at chess, but we are the ones who decide what the rules to chess are.

I thought you were referring to Disney’s live action remakes, which are ass and way the fuck more sexist, but do have one black woman in them, so congratulations to Rob Marshall.

Imagine however, that a machine objectively makes the better decisions than any person.

You can’t know if a decision is good or bad without a person to evaluate it. The situation you’re describing isn’t possible.

the people who deploy a machine […] should be accountable for those actions.

How is this meaningfully different from just having them make the decisions in the first place? Are they too stupid?

The comparison is the door-to-door evangelism, i.e., it’s really easy to tell that that phrasing has an ulterior motive. Kinda like how “Netflix and chill” does not mean “let’s watch Netflix.”

What I’m suggesting is that if we’re going to pretend that consumers are never victims of company practices, then emeralddawn specifically should never, ever, ever complain about shrinkflation. Or $80 video games, as far as I’m concerned.

But who knows. Perhaps they don’t.

Let’s ask some research, then.

Seems pretty unpopular.

Getting around people’s lack of willingness is the only way the year of the linux desktop will ever happen.

Like with global warming, people can just choose not to, you know.

“Uh, I bought my computer from Alienware. I don’t know what a GPU is.”

You aren’t being paid to give IT advice either.

The thing I love about linux people is their inability to abstract or do any kind of analysis.

— Me to somebody complaining about their depression.

I would like to imagine you say these same things every single time grocery store packaging gets a little bit smaller.

This makes you sound like a Jehova’s witness.

The main problem is that linux people are politically linux people, their morals and identity are strongly attached to their OS choice, and they have no social skills.

You can advocate for linux to windows people all you like, you just can’t be annoying. A lot of linux people are really fucking annoying.

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

Because I’m halfway through it right now, and I think it’d be really funny if I started the game “for the first time” only to find that 1. there was already a save, 2. named what I name him, 3. with 12 hearts, and 4. on a Wii used only by me.

But do you expect different results when doing that? I think the point of that would be to get the same result every time.

Yeah, they do. You never heard of a crime of opportunity?

Why do you lock your doors at night? You know that anyone who wants to get in can just rake the god damn lock, right? Most people don’t want to get into your house, and the ones who do will be able to enter anyway, so what pathology drives you to waste your time like this?

Why wouldn’t they pay $0 for the can of shit and $100 for something else? Like, a can of juice, maybe.

I’m gonna ramble a bit because I’m not entirely sure what you’re asking:

Emotional intelligence comes from understanding what you’re feeling, when, and why. A lot of people, particularly those who never introspect, skip this step, or maybe don’t even know how to do it.

A lot of therapy ultimately comes down to helping a person navigate the disagreements between the values they supposedly hold and the actions they actually take (or alternatively, the things that have happened to them). You can’t really navigate (I use “can’t” somewhat loosely) the dissonance between these two things without knowing what your mind (shame, frustration, jealousy) is telling you.

To intellectualize your feelings is to distance yourself from them by remaining cold and logical. So, it would be fine, naturally, if something traumatic happened, but it never actually made you feel angry. You could just mozy on with your life, I suppose. It would be another thing entirely if it did anger you greatly, and instead of processing that anger, you just went right to funeral scheduling or other busy work—stuff that solves the problem but not your problem, you know? This is the kind of thing that gets people to explode on Thanksgiving over their uncle not passing the salt fast enough or something.

So, if there weren’t canned shits, people would be willing to pay for illustrators more often?

Haha, no problem, friend. :p