I recently read a story here about someone spending a significant portion of their yearly income on a Fate game in Japan. I think it might be a mistake to assume that the only whales are rich.
A few times a few at least, and that’s only counting extermination in the KZ’s and VZ’s. If you consider the total casualties of the war, including combat deaths (even German) and civilian casualties outside of the camps, it’s more in the realm of 50-80 million. Subtract 3-5 million for the Pacific theater, and it’s still a lot.
It also doesn’t help that neo-Nazis work today under the same banner.
This is arguing dishonestly, as you presumably understand the difference between using examples to illustrate a principle, and a direct comparison. Why not just address the point, instead of being “outraged” by his presentation?
He is arguing that the government of Michigan's laws are bad because the Nazis had bad laws.
There's dishonesty for you.
Yes, you’re being dishonest.
If you use the state as a metric for ethics you'll end up disappointed.
He spelled it out in the post you’re aggressively misinterpreting and it’s decidedly not the fiction you’re peddling. So are you really losing track of what’s been said, in which case it’s time to step back, or are you being dishonest? You don’t seem like you’re losing track, so...
I'm not "misinterpreting" anything, aggressively or otherwise.
He is lumping all states together as "the state", giving an example of some unethical states, and arguing from that that no state is ethical, or pays any attention to ethical concerns.
You said He is arguing that the government of Michigan's laws are bad because the Nazis had bad laws.
Which simply isn’t true. He actually said outright:
If you use the state as a metric for ethics you'll end up disappointed.
Now, you may think that’s garbage, but you’re not free to pretend that he said completely different things he didn’t actually say. Remember how you hate inaccuracy? Do you think that what you were doing before was accurate? How about playing semantic games now with the word “state,” is that accurate?
I’m not sure, but I think you just tried to compare the technological platforms of VR/AR with virtual cat trading for money on existing platforms? I’m not even getting into the huge amounts of time, money, and hard work that’s gone into VR/AR, because as far as I can tell you just compared apples and bricks.
cryptokitties are unique, individually owned assets for digital platforms. how are you going to play with VR/AR without the assets that are needed to make that experience worth it? he just compared the apple tree and the apples.
Too soon for info, too soon to say anything of substance. It might be better if this were not here at all until more is known. In a vacuum, online, things tend to devolve.
Sorry to say that MAgic Leap’s only relation to light fields is in their marketing and now defunct patents. Their actual product apppears to be a less impressive early Hololens.
That sounds about right. Reddit just isn’t a fun place to be, and hasn’t been for years. I’m not sure what the value proposition is for Reddit anymore, other than for the owners of Reddit.
Just because it isn't fun for you doesn't mean it isn't fun for others. Fun, humour, and social interactions in general are very subjective. There's clearly people that do enjoy that kind of humour or else Reddit wouldn't be where it is today considering it's basically always been like what you described.
I stopped using Reddit a while ago when it became clear that they had a pretty adversarial relationship with their users. Their moderation is terrible, the community ranges from unpleasant and repetitive to downright toxic, the content is better found elsewhere, and the administration is incompetent and amoral at best.
I’ve never once felt like I missed out on something by eschewing Reddit, and every time I check to see if it’s changed for the better it is markedly worse. Reddit, Imgur, Instagram, Facebook, are just bad places to be. There are a couple of good subreddits to read occasionally, like askhistorians, but you don’t need an account to read it. Actually participating gets old, fast.
I have a feeling there's a story here. Was there something specific that tipped you over the edge. Reddit itself hasn't changed very much. It's always been a strange mixture of toxic sludge and strangely amazing communities.
> the content is better found elsewhere
I really haven't found this. Every other website is either bloated, editorialized, dumbed down or some mixture of all three. Reddit (and HN) seems to walk a tightrope that reminds me of the best parts of the old days of the internet.
I'm trying to get off of it right now. It's my last online "addiction". I've been there since 2009 and watched most things change for the worst. The community got more toxic and it's clear there is corporate control over some subreddits.
Consider the source: Cressida Dick, and the Met Police. Look into their history, conduct, competence and attitudes, and you’ll understand why. I’m decidedly not a fan of much social media, but this is the usual deflection you get from the usual sources. Dick is so far to the authoritarian Right that she walks with a limp. She’s definitely not going to say that years of failed social and economic policies have predictably led to a rise in violence, but blaming social media? Oh yes.
Note that most knife attacks are during the commission of another felony, usually robbery. Unless social media is somehow being used to coordinate robbing people, you can safely dismiss Dick’s claim.
There is also element of drug prohibition that brings violence. I think I have never heard this on any debate about the problem. It seems like there is a media embargo to talk about this correlation.
