Both

Probably get more return on resources investing in therapy to address phobias, in that case.

That doesn’t sound much different than a traditional vaccine, unless you can self administer it

I don’t enjoy it. I think it’s sad when people get addicted to it.

I don’t even like big random factors in games. One of the things I like about the dark souls franchise is there’s very little randomness. You never win or lose because “lol critical hit”, like you might in something closer to D&D

I think there’s something with age and lead poisoning that makes people short sighted, easily manipulated with emotional appeals, and short tempered.

I don’t disagree with you but it’s comforting to me to hold onto the fantasy that the something else would be better, like exchanging a quality good for money in a one time deal.

But yes, capitalism is a common source of many problems. (Though I guess a worker owned collective could produce loot boxes, too. )

Sometimes I get really depressed when I think about problems that could be solved if people would just behave slightly differently.

If people would just stop buying lootbox slop, it wouldn’t be a problem. it’s not asking a lot. It’s not asking you to change your diet, or ride a bike twenty miles in the snow. Just stop buying that shit. I just want to smack impulse buyers on the nose with a newspaper, or squirt them with a spray bottle. Stop it!

But that’s not how people work. We barely function at all.

• They still put crap in the environment from the tires
• much of the energy powering them isn’t green
• car culture still creates horrible spaces to live in
• crashes are still a common, ruinous, event
• doesn’t solve DUI
• still is expensive to own, maintain, insure
• car culture promotes isolated, sedentary life, which is bad for physical and mental health

Just off the top of my head. If you swapped all the gas cars for electric cars, you still have all those problems.

I think some people enjoy the thrill of discovery more than the depth of experience. Which is fine. No judgment.

Personally I’d rather have 10 albums that mean a lot than 100,000 albums I listen to once.

EVs mitigate one tiny slice of the problems caused by car culture.

Bus lanes and trams are a symbol of “communism” and car is a sign of “freedom”

This is basically it.

I saw a post the other day that argued to the conservative mind there must be an underclass. There must be poor people whose lives suck. If you try to make things good for everyone, you’re going against nature and will just make things bad for everyone.

Thus good public transit is bad. If different classes of people all mingle then it’s like mixing your food up on the plate and that’s just wrong!

They really are like children

People may have heard of these things, but I don’t think most people could give an accurate description of what they are.

why don’t they look into ways that cars might cause fewer injuries instead of abandoning the injured?

I’m pissed they’re repaving the streets near me but they’re not taking the time to make them any safer. No curb extensions or daylighting. Certainly nothing so extreme as a separate bike lane.

I’m optimistic that they’re more likely to learn something during that process, but that might not be a well founded belief.

I think a lot about the time a junior developer on the team was like “I’ll use chat GPT to reverse this list” and I was just like my guy we’re working in Python that’s a one line expression.

I use keyword arguments in Python to minimize this pain. Instead of

create_user("Bob", True, False)

it’s

create_user(name="Bob", admin=True, send_email=False)

JavaScript makes that more cumbersome with the object thing , but it’s better than nothing.

Right?

It drives me nuts that they want to spend trillions of dollars on technology to write for people instead of teaching people how to write.

They don’t care. They don’t care about making sense or being internally consistent.

They care about their in-group being on top, and everyone else subjugated or dead. That’s it. Conservatives are bad people.

Well, yes, “why don’t you care about things?” is a timeless problem. People don’t like to see beyond the immediate. Probably because in pre-history, the creatures that focused on right now did better than the ones who went “but if we keep cutting down the trees, eventually it’s going to cause problems.”

Well, now we have many problems, and our brains have not advanced.

“Exactly”. “Truly”. “Literally, in the traditional sense not the post modern sense where it means emphatically or figuratively”