I don’t even know if it’s that.

Gen Z didn’t give up on dating, that would imply that they ever tried it to begin with.

1. Historically only men showing up

2. Only desperate people showing up

3. Has anything good ever come from a speed dating event? I haven’t heard of one.

They just don’t have a great reputation in general. I went to a speed friending event once and, ugh, that was not fun.

To make matters even crazier, younger generations are also just… not even trying to hook up. Some studies are showing 45% of men age 18-25 have never even approached a woman romantically.

Not succeeded, just even tried.

Dating be incredibly fucking weird right now.

It’s starting to change. It’s hardly the norm but speed dating events in New York, LA have had shortages of men.

Especially with the terrible press and stories coming from them… men are starting to just not attend.

It totally is in my experience. I have literally sat in meetings pushing AI… but absolutely NO steering or discussion on what we ought to do with it. They will relabel related things that have existed for years as AI.

It’s like instead of having a bunch of nails and needing a way to pound them in, we’ve been given a nail gun and a requirement to use it.

“But we sell balloons”

“Dont worry, the nail gun will make everything better”

Currently using ubuntu, switched in January because my computer can’t swap to 11. I can still dual boot to windows if necessary, but so far it hasn’t been necessary.

So far, haven’t run into issues. Gaming through steam has been minimal effort. Gaming outside of steam a bit more so. VR has been somewhat persnickety, discord needs to be uninstalled and reinstalled to update.

I am in a very weird position because I use my PC on the couch with a 4k projector. Oddly enough linux has nailed the proper text sizing across applications better than windows ever did. Which is weird because my requirements for this kind of setup is kinda niche.

Mostly I swapped because I cannot upgrade to 11 without a hardware update, and new electronics are gonna be painful over the next 4 years.

If you aren’t getting a free update to windows 11, then it’s definitely worth as a protest. Even if you get it for free, it’s less of a stranglehold that windows has over the computer space, and it’s less data they farm off you.

… that’s a really compelling reason for linux.

I mean the next few years are going to be rough. Being able to recycle these things for basic use is going to be huge. Windows, mac, people need the internet more than anything else. It’s a sad way to gain adoption but it could be insanely impactful…

Yeah, but the concept also has a LOT of space to play in but most writers play it safe. Way too many just treat is as a handwavy checkpoint system and move on with the plot they care about.

Soma (video game, not a book) was a really horrifying dive into being able to save and upload a consciousness. Not a lot of stories try to dive into how do you know if a “copy” of you is truly a copy. It’s like a Turing test on steroids trying to figure this out. Being able to practically test just how different someone can be from a single different event.

It’s one of the things I really enjoyed about the Bobiverse series (although apparently later on they added the idea of a soul, which just kinda seems like a cop out to me)

In practice, you’re probably right.

But in terms of “I wanna cut waste, and make the government lean! So I am gonna delete the space part of the government and replace it with my own!”

Just sounds bad, like really bad. Even worse than the armored Teslas. I can’t imagine NASA is the top of people’s lists of “utter wastes of time” It’s not a regulator, it’s not in the “known enemies” list unless you’re a flat earther. I dunno how you spin it to be palatable.

… I mean that would’ve been the clearest conflict of interest you could’ve possibly summoned.

… I mean… It is though. Their whole channel is about technology, potential scams, and new inventions that could be helpful or hopeless.

It’s like, if Steve Irwin discovered a unicorn that eats toes, yeah I expect Steve Irwin to tell us. This is straight up his alley, he’s gonna teach us about animals, and if it’s a particularly terrifying one that I shouldn’t be near, all the more reason. This is quite literally how the man makes his money and the fact that he doesn’t wanna talk about it is really weird.

Did he instead discover a random cannibal living under a bridge that eats toes? Yeah I can see why he doesn’t make that an episode. It’s not really on topic, it’s for a very different crowd.

There actually is a case that the scam affected the users. One of the selling points of Honey’s partnership programs with sellers (not content creators, but actual store fronts) was that you could top out the maximum savings honey could “find” so you might have a 20% coupon but honey can promise to find only 15%.

Oh I found it, but it also was on eastern time. I’m in the central time zone. So without a syncronize step it was an hour ahead.

I was just looking for something to put in the background while my wife and I chilled. I just like to have that 10 second countdown ya know?

It’s like a 90s kid designed it so the hot lady could get the pizza rolls out of the microwave swing on the pole and serve it to them in the hot tub 🤣

Except it needs a lot more colors and jagged shapes on the walls.

I was literally just thinking that. Must’ve been built by a rich guy who likes maids and twitch streamers

Oh god it’s a live action remake??? This is depressing.

yeah 28 Years Later I could see potential with. the rest I’m kinda… meh.

Although there have been titles that surprised me the last few years. Puss in boots 2 in particular. I expected nothing from that and found an amazing gem.

Ordinarily I would agree, but there are a few issues with that.

For one, he’s not just an actor. He’s also credited as one of the 13 producers and co-producers. That producer hat does not disappear once the director yells action. That alone should open up a door for all 13 of these guys to get charges applied if they ignored warnings about safety. Not saying it’s an open and shut case, hell maybe he’s only producer in name for bragging rights and never attended a meeting, it’s a valid argument he can make. But I think it definitely opens the door.

Secondly, the amount of star power he has does give him some power in this film. If people are complaining about safety and he’s domineering over people going “Shut up! I need filming done in 3 months so I can move to x film, give me the gun lets go”. He’s culpable in my eyes. He actively silenced and ignored concerns in that hypothetical and proceeded to roll the dice himself. Again no idea if that happened but it would absolutely open the door for charges.

The fact that the case is being dropped suggests that maybe they thought they had a case in these two veins, but ultimately couldn’t make the argument to a reliable degree.

I don’t think it’s an unreasonable ask either, but from what I understand, Valve is incredibly libertarian, like more than the libertarian party libertarian. Their politics and policies are freedom freedom freedom, and any form of regulation is sheer anathema to them.