I doubt I will ever be able to train my brain to stop this. Also it's just doing it's job to protect me. Hard to blame it for taking this a little too far...

So instead I just try and balance it out by asking myself: What is the best thing that might happen? What's the most likely thing to happen? Which in most cases is simply nothing of note. The important thing is not to keep thinking only about the worst outcomes.

The first time I saw a bag like that, I was shocked as well. Seems like just the worst idea to use plastic to create tea bags. Turns out it is and they weren't made out of plastic. It's a starch based fiber that is biodegradable. I don't think you could have plastic tea bags here in the EU in any case. I'd wager yours isn't plastic either. Yeah, so you probably got mildly infuriated over nothing, just like I did the first time I saw one of these 🤷

Yes, the settiings are different than the settings. You also need to be careful with those.

Someone called it "soft eugenics" and that makes the most sense to me. It's probably too much bad press and effort to do the old school active eugenics of preventing undesirable peoples from reproducing. So instead you remove health and safety services so "nature" will take care of them. While you simultaneously make it "easier" for the others to reproduce by handing out benefits and preventing birth control.

I'm sure that makes sense to the "utilitarian" crowd or whatever they are called, that believe that the goal of humanity's survival against whatever hypothetical future scenario they think of justifies any means today. Well, except to those who paid attention in biology and know that diversity is actually our best strategy to do just that.

Not necessarily, it is likely that a tourist is just not used to these specific pathogens. While the people living there are used to them. So their immune system isn't better per se just more adapted to the environment.

This is exactly the Cyberpunk we expected. Cyberpunk has never been shy about being a dystopia.

I think it is important to add that even though no system is perfect and every system has it's pros and cons, that doesn't make them equal. As soon as we define goals, for example equal rights, some systems will be better equipped at achieving those while others might be actively hostile to them.

Söder war die Demo gegen rechts zu links? Alter, ich krieg mich nicht mehr ein 🤣

Ist das wirklich nicht vom Postillon?

Absolutely, here is the part for the lazy:

I should add that, for all her cheerleading of gen Z, Foster isn’t above being irritated by them. “They’re really annoying, especially in the workplace. They’re like, ‘Nah, I’m not feeling it today, I’m gonna come in at 10.30am.’ Or, like, in emails, I’ll tell them this is all grammatically incorrect, did you not check your spelling? And they’re like, ‘Why would I do that, isn’t that kind of limiting?’”

What's going on with that bottle? It's ai generated, isn't it?

Wenn ich das richtig verstanden habe, dann ist die Polizei eigentlich verpflichtet so wenig Gewalt wie möglich anzuwenden, um ihr Ziel zu erreichen. Das sehe ich hier nicht.

Frage mich, wie man zu zweit nicht in der Lage sein kann eine Person, die sich nicht wehrt, schmerzfrei von der Straße zu tragen? Da kann man nur froh sein, dass die keine Sanitäter geworden sind...

If your games are on steam, you're already not owning them. The only difference seems to be that steam doesn't demand a monthly subscription cost, yet

We already have game pass so it's not like this is something completely new either.

If this makes money, other big publishers will join and in 10 years it's the norm.

Personally, I'll try my best to keep buying on GOG and itch.io where I get to actually own my games.

Game developers hate players. They keep breaking our beautiful games and optimizing the fun out of them!

What? Ignoring that screwdrivers where invented after the hammer, what exactly should this tell me about AI?

Dark patterns are basically best practices at this point

That was a good read, thanks!

Hard to prove wrong

Gifs that end too soon

The revolutionary part is -get this- to use the empty houses -you following?- to house the people who don't have houses! Genius! We truly are living in the future!

That's an easy block if there ever was one.