I wish “a lot of rubes” were hyperbolic. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/14/americans-believe-climate-change-study

Fox & Co are doing a splendid job of growing rubes.

It kinda does feel like spez is just testing how much he can squeeze out of the leftover marks at reddit before leaving the carcass out to dry.

“But you can’t trust the government to be put in charge of what’s best for the general populace - instead, you should trust private companies who are legally obligated to maximise their shareholders’ profits to use their monopolistic position in a way that’s best for their victims, sorry, I mean regular people.”

a multiplayer game

No.

Not *A * multiplayer game. A multiplayer STAR WARS game. And not just any multiplayer Star Wars game - no, the single best received Star Wars game of its kind in the last two decades, coupled with its prequel… And they estimated around 200 people to play it at launch.

Like.

What.

How hard is it to just release a game that works?

Harder than delivering shit and cashing in just as much. The grab&run simply is more profitable than actually putting in the work - especially since there seem to be no palpable negative consequences.

He is and he’s living on an island retreat with Elvis.

I dunno, is he related to Leibniz by any chance?

The drones might have time to think and get ideas above their station. Next thing you know, they’ll start objecting to being maximally exploited at every turn! Letting them off the leash, even a little, will have disastrous effects for their owners, I tell you!

The richest 1% own almost half the world’s wealth. The hoarders have mostly dug in and ensured that their hoarding is legal, will stop at nothing, is easier than ever, and is well defended and unopposed.

We live in the joke where the billionaire takes 99 cookies from the table, leaves one and says “Careful, peon, the [member of the minority you dislike] is after your cookie”.