Ravel

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[–] Ravel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Also, I am pretty sure the games main fanbase is probably pretty.. critical of police, to put it mildly.

Beyond that, Zero Parades devs aren't the Disco Elysium devs anyway.

[–] Ravel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

That's not a freak accident, that's death by negligence.

[–] Ravel@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The problem is that under capitalism, which is a competitive ecosystem, over the short term those qualities are selected against, and it constantly, naturally, seeks continuous vertical integration which necessarily puts the wealth and power into fewer and fewer hands over time.

Now you can claim this can be prevented with regulation, but in practice that will only slow the process since even slow centralization of wealth leads to people with vastly disproportionate wealth, and therefore influence over regulatory policies, which they will degrade over time (once again because the corporations which do deregulate themselves will be more selected for in a naturally selective ecosystem than those which fail to do so).

Capitalism as a system basically rewards the most unethical practices in it's ecosystem with more power.

[–] Ravel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

1 house, sure, but only companies with 1 employee? That's just entirely impossible without reverting back to a straight global federation of luddite city states, which would be slim pickings to the first technologically superior predator state (which they will be, since making rockets and guns at a rate necessary for warfare generally requires companies with more than one employee).

The optimal system can't just be an ideal spherical cow, it also has to compete with adversarial predatory nation states that don't follow your ideals.

[–] Ravel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The capitalist part that wants money can build an accurate enough profile with just statistical correlations, but the fascist aspect isn't doing it "for the children" or even just money, it's doing it to completely dismantle all digital privacy, so they can know what everyone is saying and doing online at all times.

[–] Ravel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

If they make their lists too broad however, the lists become useless and we can all hide in the noise.

[–] Ravel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don't think there is any way to actually functionally verify age without either an ID check, or a check that ultimately traces back to an ID check from some entity further up the chain. Any successful age check will either dox your identity to the checker, or it can be trivially bypassed.

[–] Ravel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

I find on a system with minimal RAM that shit gets super expensive really fast.

[–] Ravel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I wish there was more of an active gaming community.

[–] Ravel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

I feel like the intolerable number is probably somewhere around 10mil+

[–] Ravel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Can anyone listen to unedited Trump? It's just straight up word salad.

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