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BorkJames··on Modifying Your Own Genes Is Just An Injection Away If You’re Feeling Lucky
I'm ready for the turn your blood cells into tide pods app to release!
BorkJames··on George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society
The difference is that most people feel like they understand cereal, although the marketing for most cereals are directly targeting children it's just a box of cereal so nobody cares.

Most people don't understand Google or Facebook (or even the internet as a generalized service) so saying advertisements are manipulating people in regards to that pushes some beyond the threshold of comfort. It's not really the one thing that causes an issue for them, but the whole stack of other things behind it that eventually causes them to focus on a singular point that's easiest for them to complain about. Nobody wants to complain about their personal lack of knowledge, but a big bad unknown scary thing is easy to rally against.

BorkJames··on Earthsea – A Rival to Tolkien and George RR Martin (2015)
Personally I went from Oathbringer to Mistborn and found the characters to be worse.

Perhaps it was too far into the twilight-y romance through the first half to keep my attention. Great world-building, but I dislike the characters.

BorkJames··on So You Want to Compete with Steam
The problem is that Windows is designed for the lowest knowledge user, who would never manually prompt for updates because they either think them useless, don't know they are there, or have a "don't fix it if it works" mentality.
BorkJames··on It is possible to detect and block Chrome headless
I guess the best approach would be to captcha everything until we've captcha'd ourselves back into dial-up times for content delivery. /s
BorkJames··on This is not a new year’s resolution
That's because Python has a nice Monty Python vibe. Honestly if people in my CS dorm were watching Monty Python in the common areas 24/7 it would be pretty nice
BorkJames··on This is not a new year’s resolution
At the same time you have to deal with waking up in the morning and telling yourself you're going to go do some pony today, which seems a tad off.

Im going to do some C++

Im going to do some Java

Im going to do some Pony