No, corporations wanted it so that they all had proprietary chargers that either you had to pay inflated prices for, or that third parties had to pay fees for to sell you cheaper versions. The only reason they all use USB-C now is because of government regulation.

I don’t need to pay them additional money for a charger because I already have a variety of USB wall adapters and cables, and I could buy them from almost literally anyone if I didn’t. There are whole bins of them in lost-and-founds and secondhand shops.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xb3a3EKwhGQ&t=321s&pp=2AHBApACAQ%3D%3D

It doesn’t come with a controller either. You don’t have to use their controller, so it’s good that it’s an optional purchase.

They used to sell PCs with a keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, and various software all without the option to buy just the PC. It was awful because it made the machine more expensive for the consumer, and it also generated a ton of waste.

If a new PC comes with a keyboard and my old PC also came with a keyboard, one of those keyboards is excessive and will probably end up in the trash as society is overwhelmed by everyone’s excess keyboards. It’s why phones have to all use the same charger now, and they don’t come with a cable.

But the point is that if you’re going to make a villain you can’t get upset when your heroes try to help their victims.

Oh no, I have a really easy means of getting my players organically motivated in my story. :(

I’m not criticizing people who are quietly kind; I’m criticizing the idea that loud people should be quiet.

To add to the other post, when someone says something “is praxis” it’s shorthand for good praxis, something that helps people and/or convinces others to be helpful.

I’m not sure if supporting liberation silently is effective.

You seem to attach a negative meaning to what I’ve said. Compromising values is one way that a person can change and adapt.

I’m saying it can’t combine clothed children and naked adults to make naked children. It doesn’t know what “naked” means. It can’t imagine what something might look like. It can only make naked children if it has been trained on them directly.

It literally can’t combine unrelated concepts though. Not too long ago there was the issue where one (Dall-E?) couldn’t make a picture of a full glass of wine because every glass of wine it had been trained on was half full, because that’s generally how we prefer to photograph wine. It has no concept of “full” the way actual intelligences do, so it couldn’t connect the dots. It had to be trained on actual full glasses of wine to gain the ability to produce them itself.

You think you intentionally made it annoying to read, but you accidentally made it really fun to read.

“More unleserlich.” :3

::: spoilers Pluribus season 1 That’s part of it, yes. It starts when he steals the ambulance, which Carol later points out is hypocritical of him. He realizes she’s right and consciously decides to start making compromises like allowing her cellphone and exploiting collective resources as a means of discovering how to save humanity. It’s a dramatic change from his earlier stance, like how he leaves money in exchange for stolen gas, and it’s executed very well. I don’t think his unwillingness to sin would have gotten him far in his goals, but the defeat of his resolution is still tragic. :::

::: spoilers Pluribus season 1 Nah, he did. But the writers and characters are aware of that. His eventual willingness to compromise his values for the greater good is very on-topic for the themes of the series. :::

If you have a problem with unfinished works, don’t ingest them until they’re finished. The artist doesn’t owe you anything.

I’m not really sure what compelled me to read this; I guess I wanted to see the quality of what won the contest.

So an office lady dies of over-work and gets reincarnated with magical organization skills which she’s called on to use in aid of the nation. I was kind of hoping this would go the cozy route of her organizing a healthy society with education and healthcare and all that, but she just immediately starts doing accounting work for the emperor, exposing embezzlement schemes. What a fucking tool. As if the entire aristocracy isn’t designed to extort the peasant class.

I quit reading after that. It felt like what you’d expect to get if you fed a program heaps of fanfics and asked it to output the average of them.

For some people an escape from the world is cute squirrel who can’t remember where they buried all their treasures. Others will cry that the squirrel is unnecessarily political because they don’t use he or she pronouns.

What’s-her-face being gay is like the least political thing about Pluribus.

Children’s stories have tons of politics. They’re almost always intentionally pushing a message of some kind, like “Be nice to ugly people because they might turn out to be really hot and/or magical later.”