The case of remote work shows that the CEO class as a whole failed to pick up an innovation yielding massive benefits before it was forced on them by the pandemic, and have continued to resist and resent it ever since.

Hey, look! It’s the whole of what’s going on here. The bosses were forced into letting us have a thing, and, as a result, they will never accept us having it, and will do everything they can – including destroying the business, if they’re privately held – to take it back.

They lost a minuscule slice of power over our lives, and they will never forgive us for that.

What’s that? I’m not spending any more money on ZeniMax games? And I’m getting a Margaret Thatcher Doom mod?

What a marvelous day it is!

Is great until you need a job. It solves the 2 language problem right up until you’re working with others.

Things didn’t go right this session, but with some new players…

We could less-figuratively use O’Leary as the signal fires of Gondor.

The canon is anything that appears in the games. There are clear timelines between many of the games, asserted within the game text or game subtext.

Producers have gone on record echoing what’s states in the HH, both before and after it was published.

Do not mistake the canon for something the producers and designers feel in any way bound by. That’s not what the term means when discussing media.

If it’s still 9 months away, there’s no real reason to announce it publicly before the Christmas season. The fact that the original Switch’s sales are flagging is not a reason to announce, since it’s not launching in time for the holidays. Its announcement isn’t going to spurr Switch 1 sales.

When it’s announces will be entirely deoendent on when retailers need to know launch details. Once it’s outside of Nintendo, they’ll have to announce things publicly or risk losing control over the narrative.

Weirdly enough, language largelt evolves independently from other species.

Yeah, it’s so unbelievable. The acre is much too large a unit to fit into the astrophysical canon.

You can’t truly degoogle chromium without a hard fork. Soft forks are still enabling them and their grip on the web, even if they’re not specifically spying on you in particular.

What they mean is “I use woefully malformed websites loaded up with all sorts of weird shit that eats ram on the regular, and somehow that’s my browser’s fault”

And you don’t get the tax receipt for them

Ugh. I feel dirty for defending economists, but…

Laws are just commonly observed relationships, and observed relationships always exist within a given set of boundaries and assumptions.

Change the boundaries or the context, and the law may no longer apply.

Consider Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation:

F ~ Mm/r^2

This observed relationship doesn’t hold under very large M or very small r. In those contexts, a different relationship is required. That doesn’t invalidate this one, though. It just maks it situationally useful.

Which all of these laws are.

I see someone is asking to be dumped in the middle of the atlantic alone to test whether they “cut it” or not.

Don’t tell me you Lost it

My 11 year old desktop’s starting to go a little senile. I need to find it some new(ish) DDR3 sticks, I think.

It’d feel better if I was paid the full value of my labour, and if the ownership didn’t keep trying to hamstring the people trying to do good with products I help make by locking them behind weirder and weirder licenses.

Look at the positions of d and k on the keyboard. _ema_es.

No? I said the opposite of that.

The question I was answering was “why aren’t there more employee owned companies?” And the answer is it’s a lot harder to get seed money for those, because the rent seeking parasites don’t want them to exist.

They don’t fulfill the fantasy of being a rent-seeking social parasite.