They upset and turned away people who were not willing to pay. Not a big loss. In the meantime they added tons of people who would pay if given a small push.
I have never really been sure how exactly “the internet” thought they would be punished for this move. It seemed kind of bullet proof to me. Like, sure you’re leaving and never coming back, but you were not really a paying customer and never would be.
The only difference between Haley and trump is that I am slightly more confident that Haley will leave the office when her term ends. Beyond that, same shit.
Studying evolutionary biology in my undergrad had a big impact on how I look at systems. Judge them by their effect, and not their parsimony. If the mess inside starts to negatively impact efficacy, it will almost always get replaced and almost never get fixed.
Getting obsessed with “how the sausage is made” is a pointless endeavor. If it’s good, eat it, if not make something that tastes better.
Consumer VR is over, it didn’t work. nobody really wants it, at any price. Wtf was Apple thinking? This should have been scrapped and left for dead. Good money after bad.
I have put this on the internet so it can age like fine milk if this thing manages to find an enthusiastic audience. I feel pretty good about my odds here though.
The 21st century geopolitical boundaries are getting weird!!
Like who would have thought that India ends up with the Russians and Iranians and Pakistan ends up with “the west”.
Get your popcorn folks, the next 20yrs are gonna be some wild shit to watch. Putins ability to spread human suffering around the globe is fascinating and terrifying. We are all dancing to his music right now.
It’s weird, I didn’t say I found those prices in your town. In MY town a 60s palace is ~ 100k and a middle class home as described by the author is 400k
My point is that what is called a middle class home has slid way the fuck up market since the salad days of the 1960s.
Fair, I didn’t feel like writing out a long disclaimer about your local market. The point is that what you call a middle class home and what your grandparents probably called a middle class home are very different buildings.
Do a search for homes in your area that are between 50 and 75 yrs old. These are the houses of the American dream. They are small and they are cheap. When I look in my town I see dozens that can be bought for less than 100k. We’ve got housing affordability problems to be sure. But also, a person in the 1960s living on a factory wage would have looked at a modern 3k sq ft “middle class” home and thought that the richest guy in town must live there.
Sure my grandfather raised 5 kids on a GM salary, but he did it in a 900 sq foot 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath house. His house is still standing, Zillow says I could expect to pay 115k for it. The average GM line worker today would turn his nose up at it.
Plenty of people, in fact almost everyone who will read your comment are rooting for population decline.
When you say that our global economic system requires indefinite growth, you are not talking about global capitalism. You are talking about settled human communities. From the moment the first seed was put in the ground, we have been on a trajectory that requires more labor next year than the last to keep the wheels on the track. More technology to support more people to develop more technology to support more people.
We could get off this ride, but we’ve been on it for 10s of thousands of years. Assuming it is as simple as changing our mindset is folly. This isn’t changing the icing on the cake, it’s changing the stones under the house while trying not to disturb the cake.
I know everyone hates it, but I fucking love snowy weather. I like the way it looks, I like the deadened sound. I like shoveling, I like that life is forced to slow down a bit for a day or two. If lower MI stops having weather like this, I’m going north.
Agree, is there some rule that says progressives have to show their whole ass today? Super disappointed. Lying to our faces or woefully underprepared to do the job. Both looks suck. These people are damaging the future of the cause to score some own goals today.
In general the green left has a hatred toward things called carbon capture. It has been a buzzword used to try and avoid renewable energy investment. It deserves some of the hate. BUT, the truth is we will need to pull a bunch of co2 out of the atmosphere to stave off the worst effects of century and a half of fossil fuel use.
It is time to stop protesting this stuff. Renewable energy is finally getting on track and we HAVE to deal with historical emissions at some point. The time is now.
The way that they were able to use their toolset to make space, actually super cool. Especially when you start to poke at it a little and see how the clock actually ticks. BUT, it doesn’t really serve fun. Like I bet there is a morrowind technical dev somewhere who shit their pants when they saw it but for the rest of us, it ends up feeling bland.
So there was some interesting innovation, but it did not serve gameplay. Strange award to give that game. The strongest thing they do is level design and all the bespoke levels are really good. That is a compliment I can give starfield without any reservation.
Isle royal isn’t very easy to visit. But the parks department operates 2 “national lakeshores” in MI that everyone should see. Sleeping bear dunes is west of traverse city and is super accessible and close to lots of lodging in TC. Pictured rocks is perhaps my favorite place on earth. But, driving up to the UP is a bit of a trek.
This year we deployed a CURE for sickle cell! Cured a congenital disease with gene editing. It’s hard to do and crazy expensive, but the end of suffering from this disease is actually in sight.
The mRNA vaccine tech that got a boost from Covid is now being used to cure certain melanoma cancers. This is a potential sea change in the fight against cancer.
More and more of our energy is coming from fully renewable sources. We are behind (way behind tbh) but humanity is actually moving the right direction at this point. We could honestly be seeing peak carbon in the next few years. The climate will change, probably already has, but we might actually survive this.
We’ve got problems, lots of them, and some pretty nasty. But you are almost certainly better off living today than just about any time in human history.
Most states already require it from what I know. It’s just not a big deal, buy or rent a home in the district and you’re off to the races. They live in DC, the home in their district is just a permanent address.
They upset and turned away people who were not willing to pay. Not a big loss. In the meantime they added tons of people who would pay if given a small push.
I have never really been sure how exactly “the internet” thought they would be punished for this move. It seemed kind of bullet proof to me. Like, sure you’re leaving and never coming back, but you were not really a paying customer and never would be.