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But because of Google's hubris, they seem to never admit that failure is an option. Of course they shouldn't say it publicly, but they should have much better internal plans in place for euthanizing products humanely. Failure to do so repeatedly, on a scale like this, reeks of organizational dysfunction, and the absence a moral compass.

I was not a Stadia user, but events like this reinforce my motivation to drop all the Google products I possibly can before they drop me.

My anecdote - learning Mandarin, which is tonal, is absurdly hard before you develop an ear and tongue for tones. I think trying to practice speaking in tones helps to then hear them, because you understand the sounds people make better. How they abbreviate/slant or modify tones based on surrounding tones - why? Because it feels better in the mouth. So until you experience that, you won't understand slant tones and such.

What did this do to your body aside from the weight loss? Did you have anything anything else to supplement? How did you poop (there's almost fiber in junk food)? How did you manage your blood sugar? Did the caffeine in the chocolate have an effect?

And just how much chocolate are we talking here?

I'm starting to think you guys don't like vowels at the end of your words.

Next up: Calculatr

In my experience, any subreddits with general appeal suffer from the same problem. Just find your niche/hobby subs and stick to them. Stay away from r/pics, news, etc...

You can still have tiny kings in small subs - mods with <10k members who let that "power" go to their heads - but it is more rare.

The Kessler syndrome (also called the Kessler effect,[1][2] collisional cascading, or ablation cascade), proposed by NASA scientist Donald J. Kessler in 1978, is a scenario in which the density of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO) due to space pollution is high enough that collisions between objects could cause a cascade in which each collision generates space debris that increases the likelihood of further collisions.[3] In 2009 Kessler wrote that modeling results had concluded that the debris environment was already unstable, "such that any attempt to achieve a growth-free small debris environment by eliminating sources of past debris will likely fail because fragments from future collisions will be generated faster than atmospheric drag will remove them".[4] One implication is that the distribution of debris in orbit could render space activities and the use of satellites in specific orbital ranges difficult for many generations.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

As for how this scales? I have no idea. I'm just speculating that it's gonna happen somehow. I mean, hell, look at this post - a nation adopted Bitcoin. You think that's the last time a government will experiment with crypto? China is already developing their own fiat cryptocurrency. You think it's just gonna stop?

I don't necessarily want this to happen, nor am I advocating for it. It's just a prediction, so I'm now sure how to answer your questions.

I reserve judgement as to whether or not this will be a net benefit for society. I suspect not, but our present ignorance is far too great to make such a prediction - I just think it's gonna happen whether we want it to or not, so get used to the idea of crypto-everything.

I repeat, MAN DOWN!

I'll never forget you, Lord Bootycheeks. Please forgive me.

By the time I was of that age, we had the wonders of dial up internet and semi-scrambled adult TV channels.

:')

I am at very high risk for Factorio addiction, and the only reason I haven't played it yet is because I don't play PC games anymore. But I do have a Switch, and having Civ VI on there was enough of a problem, thank you very much.

Goodbye everyone!

Viz. the whole debate around whether math is "invented" or "discovered" (a debate which, IMO, is just arguing semantics for the same thing).