Which also highlights a problem with the way media licenses, and IP more broadly, work.

I don’t know if “improved” is as accurate as “accelerated” in that case. Oculus was already doing cool stuff they just needed the resources to really get going, and now Meta is all up in it so the service kinda blows.

And… move to a non-Western country with social issues and a corrupt government? What fairyland are you proposing?

Oh I never listened to the podcast, it was mostly a refuge for people who got banned from LateStageCapitalism for whatever garbage reasons. (In my case, it was suggesting that just because North Korea was at odds with the Capitalist West didn’t mean we had to take their propaganda at face value.) So it was a place where non-tankie leftists accumulated. Mostly meme trash and simmering resentment.

The Gaia economy shitshow is absolutely crazy. I had quit before it really fell apart but even in like 2006 it was clear the market was unhealthy.

Frankly I’m surprised they didn’t ban a ton of users, myself included, when they nuked CTH.

Younger people should solve it for themselves.

This is the boomer mindset that got us all into this mess. Fuck you.

Just part of a long trend of devaluing all artistic pursuits.

There’s lot to be said for physical safety features like side and curtain airbags, or better crumple zones that don’t crush your feet, but those were pretty much standard by 2012 so you can have those without all the computer nightmares.

Neither of these men would go to Costco. Dale because they require membership with a photo ID and he doesn’t want to be tracked, Hank because it’s essentially collective bargaining with manufacturers and that’s Communism. (Peggy would absolutely love it, Bobby is excited by all the free samples, and Hank might be swayed by the end of the episode because of the principled stance on what things “ought to cost”.)

ETA: Rusty Shackleford might go to Costco.

Sounds like the solution is slower night driving, not brighter lights. Blinding the oncoming driver gets stupider the faster you’re going.

I’m used to the Pacific Northwest and don’t do real mountaineering so the 2-3km+ summits are beyond me. Even the 10 mile (whoops, switching units) glacier hike I did in Alaska only went up about 2000 feet. I prefer long walks over steep ones.

I was ready to poke fun at the UK because 1km is an unimpressive peak but I see that most the trails start pretty much at sea level so that is one hell of a walk. (And half a million people do it every year!)

There’s other kinds of updrafts (as I’m sure you know, flying seems like an especially dangerous hobby if you don’t understand wind and airflow) and they can travel quite a long distance in higher currents. There’s a butterfly that gets up to like 20k feet.

There’s loads of flying insects up much higher than that, they catch thermals. https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/06/01/128389587/look-up-the-billion-bug-highway-you-cant-see

This is the kind of stuff the “don’t tell me what to do with my land” crowd doesn’t know or care about. Everything affects everything on this planet.

You’ve gotta compromise somewhere dude. Sound quality, neighbors’ opinions of you, cost, solitude, something but there is no perfect answer here.

Get a decent pair of headphones then.

I’m also here to support dynamic range. I don’t want the volume “normalized”, I want loud louds and quiet quiets.

Ah yes, so I can be constantly distracted by reading instead of enjoying the acting and cinematography.