Are turning to Linux and proton because the compatibility with Windows 11 has gotten so bad for older games

Is watching the, don't tell me how to raise my child, crowd screaming for shit like this.

I didn't particularly care if my kid looked at internet porn and they turned out just fine. I also sat them down and made sure they understood how to handle sex so I didn't have to worry about grandchildren coming out of nowhere.

That's how I raised my kid and I don't particularly like my government butting in on that. Never mind the hundreds of other reasons not to allow the government to directly censor the internet this way.

I mean but our entire civilization is collapsing so... What pisses me off is that all it took was scaring a handful of midwesterners with the prospect of their kids turning queer and the threat of them getting fired from their jobs if they drink a few too many beers and drop an n-bomb in public... Two incredibly stupid moral panics and that's it it's over.

I mean we got a lot of mileage out of Mortal Kombat and heavy metal music but damn, compare to that modern mortal panics are crazy

From the press:

"plays piano acceptably".

You're not part of that 60%. You had a long successful life, or at least a very short very very successful life.

You represent the top 10% of the economy. The problem is people are bad at math so they don't understand that having a few million bucks in an account and some social security and some kind of pension means that they're in that 10%. Everybody thinks being in the top 10% means you're a Rockefeller.

Good luck with your diagnosis. Cancer sucks.

That's people with full-time jobs and no homes.

We have had 50 years of non-stop automation mostly in factories and we're about to do that same thing to White collar work.

The ruling class are dependent on consumers to maintain their wealth and power and they damn well know it and they damn well don't like it.

Guys like Peter thiel and Elon Musk are hard at work, I mean as hard as any of those fuckers ever work, to create a techno-feudal hellscape where they continue to be God Kings and the rest of us live in the kind of poverty that's 75% of the world lives in today.

I think it's too miserable and unpleasant a thing for anyone around here to be willing to think about. The idea that Civilization does not progress on a line and does not always improve.

The scary thing about it is that unlike when the Roman empire collapses I don't think there's any way out of the techno feudalism that's being planned here.

There are 8 billion people on this planet. Mathematically life is actually worse.

We have more than enough of everything but we also still have a ruling class and without the constant threat of death by starvation you can't really maintain a ruling class.

And because we grew up with a ruling class we don't want to let it go because it was there when we were 12 so it better be there when we're 60 fucking five.

Of course you're also ignoring the fact that our civilization does not need to continue to progress. There's absolutely no reason why things can't go back to just as terrible as they were for 99% instead of one quarter living well.

I think it's safe to say the techno feudal hellscape that guys like Peter thiel are planning for you is going to look a lot like those dark ages you're thinking of. But hey you're an old fart right? You'll be dead before it happens probably. Probably.

If literally anything in your life goes wrong and the intense amounts of stress that modern Life has is probably having a much much larger impact than some computer software.

The effect of stress on intelligence and thinking is extremely well researched and extremely well understood. Human beings aren't meant to be fearing for their lives basically every moment. So having 60% of your population one paycheck away from homelessness is a problem.

But sure let's freak the fuck out about AI.

So you wouldn't say insanely nonsensical things about giving money to the third world in the context of Norway because you wouldn't be trying to shoehorn in the racist ideology you picked up from too much Fox News Grandpa.

Also we have the technology to solve this within a few decades if we just roll out the renewable energy technology we already have. It would create a huge economic boom and tons and tons and tons of great paying jobs.

But Fox News wants to make sure that you don't think for yourself. Or maybe your particular poison is something like oan or newsmax or hell Tim pool and his Russian backers. It's all the same talking points because it all comes from the same handful of billionaire funded think tanks.

It's funny to watch you guys complain about outsourcing all day long and then you outsource thinking to Peter thiel's Network of think tanks.

I think you're underestimating just how much propaganda gets thrown out there by the oil industry and by right wing governments in cahoots with them.

It's not just the people can't see it, you can't see that spoon's worth of plastic in your brain after all.

The problem is that between the overwhelming propaganda and a little bit of voter suppression you can win any election you want for any reason. That's what I learned last November.

You can literally get a guy with 26 credible rape accusations in 34 felony convictions a second term in the White House. How the hell are we supposed to convince people to switch to renewable energy under the circumstances?

We have wind power, solar power and if you live in a functioning civilization that doesn't constantly privatize high risk infrastructure nuclear power (basically if you live in France or Germany, offer not available in the United States)

We are already at the point where renewable energy is cheaper and better than fossil fuels it's just that the fossil fuel industry has hundreds of billions of dollars and is fighting for their lives so the propaganda is off the hook.

I don't remember them having old video games. Remember them getting rid of most of that stuff replacing it with ticket redemption crap. They did at least have the ball pit and jungle gym stuff. From what I understand all that's gone now. It's basically a kiddy casino with just really mean spirited ticket redemption games.

That was never going to work because the whole point of the place was you could go there as a parent and get a few hours of Peace as your kids played on the jungle gym after they blew through their coins.

We all like to have a good laugh at the phrase I cut myself to feel alive...

A buddy of mine with more severe mental illnesses explained it to me.

Mentally ill aren't crazy 24/7. You have periods of lucidity and then you have attacks during which you are actively suicidal.

You learned a spot the signs of an attack coming on. The problem is unless you are actively harming yourself it's basically impossible to get any help from anyone outside of your immediate family and at some point they've got to go to work to earn money to live.

So when you feel an attack coming on you caught yourself to show self harm so the hospital has to admit you and put you under watch.

And then you hope the attack fades before the hospital can legally kick you out.

You do this for the rest of your life unless you get lucky and come across some pills, age slightly alters your brain chemistry somehow or you eventually get kicked out of the hospital before the attack is over and well... That's all folks.

I guess the point is it was shocking to me to find out the jokes everybody used to make about the goth kids were actually because of our fucked up healthcare system

God help me for saying this but Microsoft server software is fine. So is there desktop software.

Linux was getting a bit of market share because of the insecurity issues so Microsoft just stepped up. It's not perfect but they are definitely competitive with Linux in terms of security. If Linux has an edge it's because there are fewer Linux installs out there, even on the server lately...

Microsoft always crushes its competition with everything. They do not stay complacent for very long.

The assumption is that kind of competition is always good but if you stop and think it's obviously not. The problem is you're taught that it's always good when you are too young to critically evaluate the claims being made.

The religious people have a name for it, 4 to 14. It's the age group that is old enough to learn but not old enough to question what they're being taught. A blind obedience and faith in competition is part of your 4 to 14 training

You need both good genetics and doping to compete in a professional sport of any kind.

Also a stable home life that lets you train effectively.

If you're missing any one of those three you're just not going to be able to go toe to toe with somebody who has all three of them.

And in a world with a billion people on it you're going to have plenty of people who have all three. At that point everything else is luck.

People believe that they can just stop buying from corporations anytime they want and that would solve all the problems.

Nobody pays attention to the insane amounts of market consolidation going on because the brands are different although they're owned by the same companies. People do not know what a parent company is...