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The shading on the body plates looks really nice.

This is somewhat like telling a person with depression to "just get over it".

It was never safe to move government data onto cloud infrastructure, regardless of the location of the servers.

So... who wants to bet that the new version of Notepad is not constantly scraping anything you type into it and feeding it into the AI, regardless of whether you're paying for this feature or not?

Fall of Civilizations

A podcast about the collapse of civilizations throughout history.

Why do civilizations collapse? What happens afterwards? And what did it feel like to watch it happen?

The original podcast episodes have been set to high-quality video of the area being discussed and whatever remains of the civilization are possible to capture on video.

The discussion of what we know about these dead civilizations and what happened to them is really fascinating.

no shit son

Or maybe an immortal woman with magical healing abilities.

The Century of the Self by Adam Curtis

The business and political worlds use psychological techniques to read, create and fulfill the desires of the public, and to make their products and speeches as pleasing as possible to consumers and voters. Curtis questions the intentions and origins of this relatively new approach to engaging the public.

Do you want to help this person be better, or do you want to protect yourself from them?

The first will require that they are receptive in some way to being helped, so it may be impossible.

The second... well, you've described a deeply insecure person. The need to constantly remind other people how much better they are demonstrates a real fear of being found to be inadequate. If you can determine the source and/or subject of the insecurity you can potentially weaponize it against them. That's risky though, it may make you more of a target for retribution.

Remember, you can't fix someone else, they can only fix themselves. You can offer guidance, but that only works if they're open to being guided.

Perhaps the best course of action is more zen... let them learn their own lessons. Isolate yourself from damage as much as possible, and just wait for them to crash and burn. Make popcorn.

Where exactly is the line between romantic and clingy?

That means humanity has reached it's peak.

I'm starting to think the video game industry should've made this obvious - millions (billions?) of hours of human labor focused purely on entertainment products - careers, companies, subsidiary companies, outsourcing companies, a global supply network, and mountains of consumer electronics.

Amazon is basically glorified dropshipping

This premise is not correct. As I've described, Amazon's business is providing services to other businesses, many services, which make their platform attractive for sellers due to ease-of-use. Therefore...

Let's make an amazon alternative.

This objective is not really possible. An alternative that does not provide all of those services is not actually an alternative.