Although you have the start of a point here all you’ve done is stereotype a class of people. Hate people that abuse welfare, whether immigrant or not.

I hate welfare abusers -> some immigrants are welfare abusers -> I hate immigrants as a class of person

That’s not rational

different corporations

that solves the paywall issue but the poor guy still can’t read

I haven’t been following this and didn’t see any mention in the article, what makes you say it can control your body? The only applications I’ve seen mentioned read from the body to control external devices, and manipulating the brain/body (with precision) would be a much harder problem I’d think.

Censorship isn’t policing people’s feelings, you’re allowed to hate. Why should you be allowed to express hate, and make those people feel unwelcome?

Your questions are also not as morally grey as you think. Manchester United isn’t hated for a core part of their being, they’re not victims of violence, they’re not a class of person who has been enslaved or erased or mistreated throughout their existence.

Individual freedom needs to take a back seat to collective freedom, and the freedom to self expression, identity, and well being for all. Freedom to oppress isn’t freedom. Nobody is free unless we’re all free.

I see your point now and agree

I think “thought it was a great idea to hand over the power […] to private companies” is a misrepresentation. Some moderation was better than no moderation, but obviously "the political left"would have preferred regulation rather than self regulation.

What’s the point you’re making? That nothing should have been done?

“Do things the way they do” like accept people’s right to exist and be themselves. You’re the ones enforcing things on people, your revulsion at seeing a black person isn’t equal to that person’s suffering under a racist system.

You entitled piece of shit.

We certainly wish you were silent

Supposing your team had won, these people would go back to only paying lip service. Better, no doubt, but not a solution. How long did fascists and racists and misogynists lay dormant in US culture before seizing control now?

You need cleansing and systemic change. People need to internalize “no one is free until everyone is free.” Fascists and ethno-nationalists need to be afraid and culturally eliminated over generations.

Fascism is enabled by liberalism, and its capitalist ideology, and it’s promoted by capitalists when capital is threatened. Capitalism is the underlying force here, and capitalists are behaving in exactly the same way they’ve done at similar points in history and as described and predicted by leftists.

Yes Democrats losing the vote sucks and we’re all paying for it, globally, but their win would have been a delay at best. That doesn’t mean winning votes isn’t important, but it means that it can’t be your one and only political action once every 4 years. It’s time to get serious.

I suspect most people will consider that a bad take still and I agree rationally but I’m emotionally there with you. In the face of powerlessness (at least at the individual level: organize if you can!), schadenfreude is the next best thing (actually the next best thing would be deleted and investigated)

Fascism and business always go hand in hand, did we all forget? This isn’t any different than at other times in history

yes and no, ray tracing still requires decisions about fidelity, the same poor decisions can be made in either rendering system

I also really enjoyed them (and the legacy of kain series) and would love to see a resurgence, but I’m skeptical about the quality of the remaster. Hoping to be pleasantly surprised by reviews and gameplay footage

yes and if human well being was the goal over profit. profit benefits the few, and it’s an amoral driving force. unfortunately it’s been conflated with freedom and fairness.

If your goal is to achieve realistic looking city streets the best way to do that isn’t an expensive online infrastructure and much more advanced simulation.

If the developers had the skills and time to do that they could more easily have more dense NPC crowds and richer local simulation.

The reason the games aren’t already like that is likely just cost, talent, and target performance, which you’d need a lot more of to execute your plan.

there are lots of systemic forces that incentivize being an asshole as well

That’s giving the algorithms too much credit. They don’t encode user desires they encode user engagement bait. Like everything under our capitalist system the motivation is profit: in this case ad revenue. Sometimes positive things or agreeable things drive engagement, sometimes negative or divisive things. As long as users spend time scrolling on the platform they’ll both be given equal weight.

As with anything profit motive driven it’s just about what makes more money not what makes more sense or what makes better outcomes. The core assumption of capitalism (at least how it’s sold) is that profit causing activity correlates with improvements to human well-being. How anyone still believes that, I’m not sure.

they’re so quirky let’s normalize their rhetoric, those weirdos are so silly. you wouldn’t wanna be seen as lame by voting for them.

I’m so glad Democrats pulled out all the stops

haha they’re so WEIRD said the liberal on the way to the concentration camp