Airfried

“Americans” as in white Europeans?

You know, going by this and other comments I think you have the right idea. Like, we all are wearing blinkers as we go about our day because our whole world would fall apart if we fully realize our part in this mess. I imagine some older folks lie to themselves about global warming because their whole world view would fall apart completely.

It felt surreal arguing with boomers about record breaking temperatures the other day. Like, a new record was just broken for the highest temperatures in many European countries while we’re sitting there, sweating our balls off in the middle of a 2 week long heat wave. “Nah” they kept saying “We’ve had hot days before.” When I showed them statistics they refused to look at them. Instead they changed the topic instantly and ignored me for a good 15 minutes. Those weren’t some strangers I just met, mind you. I’ve known these guys for my entire life.

Too many people but especially older people (at least from my experience) are completely delusional about climate. They aren’t interested in facts, not interested in other people telling them they’re wrong and they even ignore what they’re experiencing themselves right now in favor of a severely distorted, rather vague idea of what a summer used to be 50 years ago.

China has far more money than Italy. Especially in sports. They’re just traditionally bad at team sports. As a nation, that is. There are of course Chinese star athletes playing in a team on the international stage but not enough to actually compete in most things as a national team.

I think the friendslop trend is great. It brings the couch gaming experience into the modern era after a long time in coma.

This is the only plausible prediction for AAA gaming. They’ll go full cloud gaming. None of the computing will be done in your living room or even your phone anymore because the little hardware that consumers will be allowed to own is going to be too shitty to do anything meaningful. Inputs will be send to the server and the server streams frames back. That’s it. No ownership. No control. But full surveillance.

EA is toast. They got bought out and loaded with debt they could never pay by operating normally. Stake holders got a nice golden parachute before the company is being sold for parts.

Such a hassle when Xitter is right there and lets them spread propaganda without any hacking.