Reading comprehension, how does it work?

I literally said that in this case it’s almost certainly just because they know they can get away with it and make more money

I don’t disagree entirely but removing clothing stops being an option at some point and if I’m expected to get work done I’ll be far better at it if the temperature isn’t making me miserable

If game prices had adjusted for inflation, we’d be paying 250-300 for one now.

That doesn’t mean it isn’t just greed especially in this case (from what I heard some pretty basic features like car customization are locked behind the “ultimate edition”), but in general it’s more of a miracle (and result of the massive market growth combined with no unit cost) that game prices have ignored inflation for this long.

I have spent every single one of the past 10 summers in a room that did not dip below 25C for a second over those months. Most of the time closer to 30. I still want to die at 25.

My heat sensitivity is definitely abnormal, but I still have to work just like everyone else. Though even our office with barely existent AC is cooler than my apartment at least. What’s worse is that the office sometimes gets to 23C in winter which has lead to me wearing shorts whenever it’s above 5C outside, because otherwise I suffer in the office.

This might surprise you but people’s perception of temperature varies wildly. 25 degrees for me is fine without clothing, but that’s not really an option in the office. I’ll survive, but it noticably drains my energy and impairs my ability to work.

Conversely I could say anyone should be fine with 15C inside during winter, but a lot of people would disagree with that too I’d imagine.

That still doesn’t excuse that level of wastefulness whatsoever. Oh no, a mild inconvenience!

I just wanna add for humor and to prove the point that I am not voting blue because blue here is the fashos. Because not everywhere is the US, and if that slogan escapes places where everyone expects US-defaultism, things could get very funny.

Statement: “There is no indication that the human brain cannot be modeled as a turing machine”

To disprove this, evidence to the contrary is required. It’s not at all the same as saying “The human brain can be modeled as a turing machine”. In that case they would need to prove that.

We simply do not know. Humans cling to their idea of somehow being “special” very hard with thought experiments like chinese room, and at all points neglect that there is no evidence that a human brain is actually different.

Generally I’d argue that the continuous nature of animal brains makes them quite fundamentally different from the very much discrete states of anything we program, but that still doesn’t mean it’d be impossible to simulate.

Even with an announcement ahead of time it’s so much better imo. Doesn’t penalize people for having to work or just living in a timezone where it’s the middle of the night.

Sure it feels like you have less agency over when you get it but it’s so much fairer.

That’s not what fascism is either lol

I wouldn’t call china fascist, though doubtlessly authoritarian. But I don’t have nearly as much info on china, it seems to me the persecution of minorities is less of a central political scapegoat and more some weird side thing. But without speaking chinese, I might be wrong. The US had plenty of fascist characteristics at this point and is rather open about the persecution.