And why are they promoting a Soviet car?

Kraftklub are from Chemnitz. The Lada Niva has a cult following even here in the western part of Germany, so it must be even more intense over there.

Maybe they already did just to screw with Sierra Leone?

They recently had a pretty good (IMHO) song with Kraftklub, so yeah, still active and way less commercial than you’d think.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FUZFrN2Ll9s did it better ;)

That was my point, pretty much. The issue is that money that’s kept is useless for society, but if its value increases it gains potential usefulness for its owner. I’m not saying that ordinary people will stop buying food and I’m not saying that corporations are doing community work right now, but the world in which the rich get even richer without even spending their money on something will be problematic at best. The economy will crash while everybody will hold on to whatever moves they have.

Deflation is actually bad because it would be an incentive to keep rather than spend money as its value would just increase by itself.

I can be a backpack while you run

This makes me wonder so hard why people don’t switch to Mastodon instead. Like… You have literally seen this before! Why are you doing it again?

it still has a long way to go before it starts replacing LCDs and OLEDs.

I really don’t think it’s even trying to fill the same niche. No eReader is attempting to sell you Netflix. It’s just an entirely different device.

Aw fuck l, I knew I remembered that shit from childhood The Wizard of Oz.

…fuck everything about Milon’s Secret Castle, though…

I was an snes kid, so I never played that one and was blissfully unaware of its existence until I saw that review…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kMz7JkVplpM

Oddly enough, of all the avgn videos that I watched, this and the battletoads one really stuck with me.

I love it.

Yeah, that’s a much better point of view. I’ll just make that my own. Ignore what I said before.

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The system, no matter how good its education, will never be able to turn everybody into “decent philosophers”. Some people just aren’t smart, no matter how good education might get. Some just are gullible. That doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t be as well-educated as they can possibly be, but people and their capabilities just are a spectrum and always will be. And even if today’s dumbest people will be as smart as today’s “decent philosophers” by tomorrow, today’s “decent philosophers” will still outsmart them, which is an issue if there are manipulative people with hidden agendas among them. Which they will be.

This isn’t an education issue, it’s an information and misinformation issue. Giving anybody, including malicious actors, their own, personal channel to spread whatever information they want, regardless of its quality or truth, has turned out to be a terrible idea. The Internet kind of comes with the idea to give everyone access to all of humanity’s information without taking into account that there should be a certain responsibility attached to the question of the creation of that information or that there should be a separation of concerns between people who spread information and people who have other interests than just informing people in the best way possible.

Right now we’re releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we’re all still working on Windows 10.

It’s all about Windows as a service

Windows isn’t dead, but the idea of version numbers could be

Recent comments at Ignite about Windows 10 are reflective of the way Windows will be delivered as a service bringing new innovations and updates in an ongoing manner, with continuous value for our consumer and business customers

https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-version-of-windows

That’s true.

It also explains nothing about that picture.

I love the positivity, but I don’t get it. Why is the union of “act + do your best” and “imagine a better future” the question “why are you here”? Same for the other overlapping areas.

The person I replied to was talking about learning the basics of a language… This isn’t about searching for something specific, this is about reading the very basic introduction to a language before trying to Google your way through it. Avoiding the basic documentation is always a bad idea. Replacing it with the LLMed version of the original documentation probably even more so.

What about just reading the documentation?

Not to be overly pedantic, but changing the order of things in the second part of the sentence is really throwing me off by suggesting that donuts are fermented and that there’s a beer with fried dough as an ingredient somewhere.