So you think running a video game through a jpeg compressor would be a bad idea?

I’m ready to roll up my sleeves, man. A little elbow grease can work miracles.

This isn’t a fair comparison.

The game should get to go through the same compression algorithms first.

I believe this is the article that kicked off support for the idea. Thankfully it’s not a Medium-requires-an-account article (ugh).

One thing I’m not sure about: when academic ideas filter through other parts of society, they’re often stripped of most of their nuance. “Toxic masculinity,” for instance, a lot of people misunderstand to mean that masculinity is toxic.

I can say that I view this article as a general response to questions from conservatives circa 2005 about why the left was antagonistic to, I don’t know, racism. But I don’t know if this challenge to them is the same as a challenge to Popper.

I think I have to admit I don’t actually know what Popper has to say on the matter. Though, I get the impression these two authors might agree, at least broadly, and are simply viewing the same problem through different lenses.

That is, resolving the paradox might be interesting to someone if paradoxes bother them, and perhaps “but it’s not a paradox” is something they could say on a Fox News panel, but I’m not sure it will otherwise inform their political strategy.

None of those things replace that content, though.

Look, I dunno if this is legally a copyrights issue, but as a society, I think a lot of people have decided they’re willing to yield to social media and search engine indexers, but not to AI training, you know? The same way I might consent to eating a mango but not a banana.

I’m proud of this guy! I’m trying to click follow, but it’s not working.

Exactly! I’m always complaining about the illiterate. I like to write them letters because I know it makes them sad.

I think the point, though, is there should be a redundant system to handle failures, like a mechanical-only door handle.

Another example: your dashboard touchscreen fails, there should still be a button to turn on the AC. Or off. Whatever makes this analogous to the safety concern about doors.

I will let myself bleed out in a Safeway parking lot before installing McDonald’s stupid fucking app to get a 1.99 boiling hot coffee to cauterize the wound with.

How do you feel about negotiating the price of a new car down?

Personally, I think it’s really cool that people without social skills are charged more. It’s like “take that! ya fuckin loser.”

I read the first bullet point and immediately had a prophetic, future-sight vision of the comments before even scrolling down. I’m so sorry, man, haha.

I know a few people who have become more anti green because of JSO,

And you let them? What kind of limp-dick shit is this.

Oh, wow. What a journey this was.

It starts in a pretty unassuming place: a big, black void (Final Fantasy VII) (Star Wars) (The Thing (2011) 0:00:37–0:00:38).

As with any great horror, the first step is to lower our expectations. Put us at ease. This is done wonderfully here. It’s almost peaceful. But, the wisps of forehead color that rise like flames foreshadow the nightmare to come.

As we venture downward (The Descent), we enter a vast desert (Dune) that feels very alienating. Though we haven’t gone far, the framing that seems to put us on one of Saturn’s rings tells us that we’re very far from home (E.T.).

Further in and things really seem to crescendo as we fall over eerily dark hills into the lair of the desert’s greatest monster: some… thing we can’t even fully perceive. But we can perceive its eyes, and those eyes might be the most violent eyes my eyes have ever laid eyes on.

From here, the narrative takes a turn: it’s all about our escape. We make our way over rolling hills, sun-bleached landscapes. But it’s soon after this that I think things start to fall apart. The lips were incredibly funny. Me and my viewing party spent hours staring and laughing at the lips. But, they’re also a stark departure from what we’ve been shown so far, and I’m left not really knowing what the author is trying to say. Personally, I think it would have been great if there were another set of eyes instead.

Things drag on, but it’s not long until we’re struck out of nowhere by an ending sequence right out of 2001: A Space Odyssey (2001: A Space Odyssey) that really doesn’t work and fails to resolve any of the narrative threads.

All in all, I’d give this work a 19 out of 31 and a nice slap on the bum.

No way. :o
I was so confused.

The trailer certainly failed at making his apparition exciting in any case.

I… completely disagree, but you know, whatever.

My friend,

Trans women are women but they aren’t female.

Female atheletes understandably feel that it is unfair to have male atheletes breaking female atheletic records

where I said that it was unfair for trans women atheletes to play against female atheletes.

Explain to me how I am supposed to resolve these.

If you’re not anti trans athletes, then whatever, but come on.

And the ones I’ve made can be double-checked by taking a sociology class.

If I am to be charitable, I think you’re just glazing over the elephant in the room. When a little girl is told “they’re not as able,” they’re not as likely to continue. If only 13% of players are women at all, then yeah, duh, they won’t be represented in the grandmasters.

What are you even talking about, then? “The problem is sex, but it isn’t sex actually”?

If trans women can play in women’s leagues just fine (after hormonal treatment I think is the typical rule), what is “females don’t want to play with males” supposed to mean?

Is it just the hormonal treatment? You have to understand how confusing it is to phrase this point that way.

like abolishing womens sports

My man never heard of co-ed.

Is any of this true? Or is it just post-hoc, evo-psych bullshit taken from the era of scientific racism to justify the results men see after gatekeeping their very special hobby.

Oh, hi, wikipedia.

You are the market economy.