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Comment Re:Been 20+ years now... (Score 1) 72

Reality TV started in the late 90s to early 00s with Survivor, Real World, American Idol, etc. The Golden Age started with the Sopranos around the same time. I think you might be misunderstanding what people mean when they say "Golden Age of Television." They're not talking about Leave it to Beaver and I Love Lucy.

Comment Conservative Framing (Score 1) 361

This right here is the perfect example of the problem with conservative thinking. Their need to feel morally righteous leads them to believe that "all libruls are just lazy and just want to be on welfare" so they frame UBI as "no wants to work and just wants free checks." The problem is not everyone will BE ABLE to work. We already have that problem now. So the choice is do we roll all of our welfare programs into a simple UBI and ensure everyone gets at LEAST a minimal standard of living, which keeps people off the streets, or do we go full Lord of the Flies just so they can feel morally superior? What they seem to conveniently forget is that a UBI would only cover basic necessities, and therefore would NOT eliminate the desire to work. People are always going to want more than just food and shelter. Every study so far has shown people STILL want to work even when given UBI.

Comment Infinite Garbage (Score 2) 124

My issue with this has always been that monkeys, even an infinite number of monkeys, are not going to be running through permutations on the keyboard. They're just going to be banging away at it. And people would say "well, sure but on an infinite timeline everything is inevitable." I disagree, I think on an infinite timeline infinite monkeys would just type "ALJFLDSJF:OJSDGPOSJFG" infinitely.

Comment Re:They didn't reinstate his records (Score 1) 64

You wouldn't expect a member of any jury to already know what MAME is, that's why you'd explain it to them. And none of it's hard to understand on a basic level. You don't need to understand how emulation works at a deep level to get that Billy claimed to have played on original hardware when in reality he played "on his computer." And it's proven by the order the visuals load in the game. You don't need to understand how the MAME boot sequence works, just that there's a clear visual difference between MAME and original hardware. And that Billy's tape exhibit those differences. I know for sure there are SOME people that just won't get it, and often it's cause they want to maintain an air of "all this computer stuff is just beyond me." The vast majority of jurors would understand it just fine.

Comment Re:It is about time (Score 1) 137

I'd like to see these numbers myself, cause I'm not buying it. The 8 hour workday and 5 day work week has way more to do with labor activists fighting for it than anything else. If 8/5 was truly ideal, and you couldn't argue the numbers, why are Chinese factories pushing 996 (9am to 9pm six days a week). Surely they would have noticed by now all the human errors and fatigue make it not worth it, right?

Even here in the U.S. employers in just about every industry will pay you overtime to work beyond 40 hours per week if it's needed. I've never heard of a manager saying "well, we'd love to have you stick around and help make more widgets, but your past your 40 hours and at this point you'll make too many errors."

Just to be clear, I do think we should go to a four day work week, but I'm not convinced it necessarily is more efficient for any given industry. I just think we should all enjoy more time off with our families.

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