Pretty silly to think “Oh that’s the human’s true motive, self-preservation! I got you now, you sly humans!”

What are video games? And what about books?

We are pretty dumb though. On the whole. We’ve had a lot of our higher education people emigrate.

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A good analogy to this is the emperor of America. He was just some homeless crazy dude in San Francisco in the 1860s. He attempted to price gouge the Chinese during their rice famine but shortly found himself under water on his rice contracts. This left him homeless and bitter so he named himself emperor of the United States. He somehow started printing his own money and some places feeling bad for him took it.

That’s how the world sees America. Oh, the crazy folk are just down on their luck. They’ll likely either die or end the world in a few years but at least they’re making record profits.

Equally can be said about Reddit, Twitter, lemmy, the rest of the fediverse, in fact anytime humans seem to have a large communication network they end up full of lies.

I’ve never lived in a city proper. Only suburbs and never been more than 15 minutes away from a store walking. Closer if you count the many corner stores attached to every gas station. Maybe this is coast living vs inner America though.

“most Americans” don’t live in a city that dense and certainly drive to the store for groceries.

Nah, they certainly do.

this is half America’s population and each of those places is centered around major cities in the area.

when I say “to the store” it’s not the same as what Europeans think. It’s not a little corner store where you get your groceries for the day. It’s a giant Walmart/Kroger where you load up for the whole week so you don’t have to go as often.

Sure, that’s what the bulk of Americans do because it’s easier but it’s certainly possible for them to walk to the store. Everyone drives because they are lazy. I’m American, you can’t tell me we are lazy and fat and thus only want to go to the store once a week or less. Also compared to European stores, our stores are huge and purposely confusing. So they can get you to walk around the store more. So your fat lazy ass will get hungry and impulse buy a bunch of stuff. Also, the things at eye level have the most markup which tend to be the most processed foods.

We are really mimicking Reddit.

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Yeah for the majority that live in the cities. Less people live in the country and most of the country towns still have a food mart. So most Americans don’t live that far from a store.

Exactly, humans are the issue. Not the platforms. It’s a society issue.

It’s not that it’s easier it’s that it allows the companies to gouge you. If the store said the bottle of coke was 2.15 instead of 1.99 you might realize that it’s not a good price for acidic sugar water and pick something else. Like the free water out of the faucet. This also means public water would be higher quality because people would actually use it and demand cleaner water.

I’m in America and I’ve always lived a 10 to 15 minute walk away from the store. It’s that a long walk compared to Europeans? I think I was further from a store when I was in Germany for a week. Like 30 minute walk.

Honestly it’s really pointed to the fact that human are the issue, not the platform.

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Game developer. I’m one now and I have 10 years of experience making great games. It’s highly competitive but I could see myself getting it.

If I couldn’t be one I’d them be a math teacher and apply game development to make algebra fun and interesting.

Literally the comment above this one is talking about wanting to be a farmer because they grown good weed. A lot of people actually want to just clean up stuff. A lot of people like being a plumber. That said communism doesn’t mean everyone just does what they want.

If you have a wireless Xbox controller it becomes far harder. Xone is what I want to use but then I have xow, xbdrvr and a bunch of other things to deal with. Or if I want to actually use my Nvidia video card to it’s fullest ability, well good luck.

Linux is awesome but has a bit to go for me. Although it’s been that was since it stopped being my daily driver in 2014.

Some mini black holes do not grow into black holes. They collapse. The issue is that they aren’t stable for any decent length of time. Fractions of a nanosecond.