Reducing social media to young people is an absolute great idea. Anybody with kids should agree that letting the social media and advertising companies have more influence on the kids than the family is a bad thing. Social media time and time again is being shown to be very bad for certain kids, and fairly bad for the average kids.

They need to take into account how many videos you are flipping through. One hour long video with 3 commercial interruptions is no big deal. But if you watch 20 videos in 10 minutes... and nearly each one has 6-15 seconds of commercials, that is just too disruptive. I'd rather there be 5 minutes of commercials up front so I could just do what I want for 20 minutes, fuck me. Otherwise you will turn off Youtube and go to any of the other platforms. It's like coitus interuptus, they hit you with commercials right at the moment you are getting into things. I guess I should thank them, it's gotten me away from the TV many times and saved me from wasting so much time watching stuff.

So Breath of the Wild seemed great, despite all its flaws. Now, TOTK, apparently a complete rehash, is just amplifying the bad since there isn't enough fresh anything to distract from it. What am I talking about?

1. Piano music for everything. I mean everything. Open a pot, beat a mini-boss, enter a shrine, talk to somebody... constant annoying slowpaced piano music. OK, it's no secret that I hate 90% of piano music, but when they use it in place of the old 1980s Zelda sounds, it just grates on every nerve.

2. Slow paced is an understatement.
It takes like 45 seconds to enter a shrine, even when you are clicking every skip option available. This is insane. But then when you beat it, it takes another 45 seconds. Hell, I can beat some of these early shrines in 2 minutes, not including idle walking time or the 45 second enter/exit. Pure waste of my life, it feels like. Even talking to a character is slow as molasses most times, they take away the ability to skip past quickly... you are always waiting for something.

3. The damn modern technology in a fantasy Zelda game? Yuck. If I wanted drunk hookers in my soup, I'd ask for it. Zelda is about swords, monsters, magic, elves. Not cell phones, ipads, robots, cars, batteries, etc. It's just total crap. Get that junk out of my Zelda games.

4. Overly cute and silly looking creatures. Nintendo is pretty bad in the modern world for over-correcting for extreme youth friendliness, but it does annoy the adult in me.

5. Rehasing everything. Shrines, check. Same fighting, check. Koroks, check. Horses, cooking food, graphics, cutscenes, etc. are all pretty much the same with tiny tweaks.

So yeah, I wanted to love this game, but it is a serious chore right now. Ultra slow action, no grit, slow scenes, goofy monsters, etc. Probably going to give up if it doesn't get wildly new content to make me forget about all the annoying things in the next 10 hours of playing.

I don't like the idea of the kids using tiktok. But I dislike facebook, etc. just as much. If it is bad enough, might have to ban.

Go to school forever, get married later maybe never, get divorced at a 60% rate, maybe don't have kids, all so you can work for glorious 60 hour a week software companies! Come one, come all! Get your material items now so you can work till you are 70, even though after 45 nobody in tech will hire you!

Smells like flamebait. I'll bite.

Humans can't have a natural immunity to something toxic cooked up in a lab by humans. There are countless examples of "safe man-made chemicals" given enough decades turning into cancer-causing, environment killing, poison machines.

Careful tuning? How did they test all these miracle drugs for a century to make sure they weren't harmful? -> They can't. All we know is that in small doses in a very short period of time, there is not enough evidence to get our government to outlaw something that is making some evil company rich at the potential cost of suffering.

The real problem is there are too many people on the planet to do anything the natural normal way. We have to artificially make enough crops, hope that we aren't poisoning our people too much, etc.

Damn it. Methane was bad enough for warming, now this. Was there anything about "tilling" dirt helping absorb methane, or was that purely CO2? Are there any natural sources, besides OH in the atmosphere, that actually get rid of methane? I have to go read up, this really sucks.
OK here is something:
https://www.wired.com/story/it...

What they aren't saying is that they'll be spending $250 million every single year with some cloud provider, so at year three they've spent $750 million.

And if some cloud provider thought they were really saving your millions, they'd jack up the price as soon as whatever legal contract runs out. What are you going to do then? Move everything to a competitor? No, you'll just pay up and lay off some more staff to pay someone else.

I don't work with Fed-Ex, but I've never seen cloud actually come out cheaper in a 3-5 year run. Maybe their contracts with IBM or somebody was really bad, who knows how much of 400 million is real. They are probably "saving 400 million" year one because they don't have to replace 300 million in hardware and are killing $100 million in staff and datacenter costs. But if your long term costs are higher... does it make sense?

Just putting that out there... all the new PCs and users should get this by default.

Yep, this red vs. brown thing doesn't make any sense to me either... who came up with it?

I also think there is no hypocrisy in eating animals but taking care of them as well as you can before that. Do they die in the wild? Sure, but putting 10,000 chickens in the equivalent of a stressful, packed like sardines, 200 decibel Justin Bieber concert 24x7 for their entire life is not what I'd call a decent life. They might want to take a nap. They might want to see the sun and something green outside.

Yes, less stress, more natural surroundings... the steak is better, the eggs are better, etc. It matters for sure, which is a big reason these farmers investing in this technology.

We don't need any of it. If they really want to help the public, send links to some tutorial on how to use duckduckgo/google/etc. to find out information. And more links that teach people how to get 3+ legit resources to fact check a single topic. Etc.

Firefox baby, new release sounds good to me.

I'm not saying a locust feels pain the same way a mammal does, but this Frankenstein stuff looks and sounds very nasty. I pulled wings off flies as a kid, but I wouldn't feel right sticking electrodes on an insect brain and allow it to suffer for hours on end. Can they at least squash them dead after a few minutes of testing or something... put 'em out of their misery. Sheesh.

Gattaca yeah. And it was bad, we don't need a world like that.

If people can detect they have a terrible gene that will pass on then... crazy idea... they shouldn't have kids.

Besides, genes are way to complex and interlinking. A gene you think only makes your kid smarter or stronger might make your kid a psycho or prone to a disease or early death.

So either all customers pay extra so they can buy MFA options... or the people who can't seem to create a decent password pay the price of losing their stuff or ... they alone should pay extra for MFA.

One argument is that 2FA/ MFA only protects careless fools from their own issues. I don't need it myself for anything if I am careful enough. Unless the whole site got hacked, and then it should be on them to provide 2FA for no extra charge.