How does a society treat its citizens, specifically parents and children?

Autism -- is human psychology being maladaptive because of this situation. Parents aren't there for their children to imprint-upon. The psychological distress is real. Depersonalization is a result.

This depersonalization happening during acute childhood development phases, exacerbates the problem of social disengagement.

People should be treated as people, not chattel.

Yes. There's no reason to force people who don't want one to buy one.

Like it doesn't make any sense. What does "ownership" do?

All software is licensed.

and they'd have to pay income tax to raise the money to pay the wealth tax, too, so its' a double whammy.

While I'm generally OK with this we need to change the rules to stop them from accruing the wealth to begin with.

on the grid. Use stationary batteries that you can replace without throwing out the car with it.

"quality discussion"

I agree. I just don't find reddit to be that. It's all very confident echo chambers.

It's crazy how many AI responses i get that source reddit posts as a source of truth.

"Despite the limitations of the 1993-era sound card drivers,"

The Gravis Ultrasound ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ), as well as other soundcards which *USED WAVETABLE SYNTHESIS* were available.

Yeah, FM-synthesis sounds like a robot. The SNES SPC-7000 was wavetable. The Sega Genesis used a Z80 for FM synthesis. A GUS card was supperior to the SPC-7000.

If you want to know how good the music is, either run DOOM in DOSBOX with a correct GUS Wavetable patch set (which will let you know how *ACTUALLY GOOD* the music is). Alternatively, the Doom & Doom 2 remaster on Steam has an actual band covering the actual tracks. That also sounds awesome.

Lol; I guess the author wasn't aware of the state of the art in 1993 if that's what they wrote.

bothers me.

There is an unexplained phenomena and this "dark matter" and "dark energy" is just a made up explanation for that. There is no evidence it exists. No experiments we've done show that it exists and as far as I know there aren't even any proposed experiments that just need funding that are likely to show it exists.

Saying a galaxy is 99.9% something that we have no clue if even exists seems insane.

It's like string theory. Just made up stuff that is just tuned as needed to match measurements. It's like a god of the gaps - it's constantly adjusted to match experimental data.

I can see google/apple having a problem with "free" apps that people want to host and have installed from official app stores and then only allow behind the scenes payment where google/apple don't get a cut.

Presumably google/apple will have a rule for this where you're charged a certain amount for pushing new versions (which require validation) and per-install costs that would be offset by payment %'s that those companies take.

And then hopefully they're still good for truly free apps.

excuse me?

if you can't just record your own screen which requires no circumvention -- because in the past the data was encrypted -- that means to use anything anywhere ever you must know if it had previously been encrypted.

This is such bullshit.

"You can have it, you just can't obtain it" is such a bad idea to ever have in law.

but entry pc price is going up too.

It doesn't matter if you use water to cool in a closed loop system. The problem is only if you're using fresh water and just heating it up and dumping it and pulling in more fresh water.

So in this case, it's completely irrelevant.

You have to build the solar panels which don't come from thin air.

Also, it likely ISN'T being done from solar/wind/hydro. That's the problem with lots of these "green" things is they just hide the problem behind dirty power sources. Hydrogen is a great example.