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The HarleyWing ship is canon, I think, meeeting incidentally or even adversrially and then boning like the entire rabbit population of the warren's future depends on it before Grayson gets embarassed again and they part ways while Nightwing gets disappointment vibes from Batman.

So it's entirely appropriate for Harley to make thirsty jabs at Nightwing at any time.

At least Nightwing hasn't yet been a jerk to Harley.

I kind of inferred the /s by the end of the post, but respect that such inference isn't universal. Also there are many /s comments that I wouldn't infer if it wasn't explicit.

I’m even more baffled by your criticism that YT cares more about shareholders than creating an egalitarian society. Thats true of literally every business including the one you work for. YT never said they were trying to make society egalitarian. Where do you even get that shit from?

The pissed-off engineers that develop effective adblockers, for which there remains robust support.

Much like the west coast oyster monopolies of the 1880s that were scourged by oyster pirates, YouTube is fighting a losing battle.

PS: I take you're aware of the cord-cutting epidemic of cable television, yes?

Yes, but I'm curious what Nintendo is talking to the courts about, or if this is merely a weaponization of litigation.

It doesn't, which informs the rise technical mitigations of YouTube's terrible ad schemes. YouTube isn't interested in a more egalitarian society but serving its shareholder masters, and it sucks even at that.

YouTube subscriptions are not a good deal for the consumers, so they're not going to be popular, which might serve to explain to you why everyone is not a paying subscriber, nor will they ever be.

The Jessica Fletcher problem?

The ratio of income to bills is way lower on our side than YouTube's.

We need that money more than they do.

Are you talking about some heist on Nintendo's blueprint vaults?

Because IP infringement is never theft.

So Nintendo is suing them over the monster design similarities? I thought it was a patent suit, not copyright.

I have to think the reality is more about wishful thinking. My path to naturalism was coming to terms with bad news, specifically my own mortality. Not just that, but any legacy I might leave is going to be extremely brief.

(Of course, in recent times I learned that Pythagoras didn't actually work out the Pythagorean theorem, rather one of his cult minions did and attributed it to him. And it's quite possible that the same theorem was known by cultures that were millennia older, so even brilliant Hellenic mathematicians are forgotten.)

When we're raised to believe in heaven, and then find out that all our hopes of salvation are dubious, it's tempting just to pretend that believing in Jesus will make it so like clapping for Tinkerbell. Confronting our absence of spirit or divinity, especially in light of 20th and 21st century understandings of the the universe (it's huge and we're microbes on a speck of dust), especially as the human species is on the brink of self-annihilation (a run of 250,000 years, contrast to the 2,000,000 of Homo Erectus, or the Tens of Millions of some dinosaurs), really makes life feel like a candle-flame in the wind.

I remember FD2 in my...thirties, I think, and noting that the pile-up started with the flying logs (which seemed to fly like balsa but hit like tamarack) and was the combination of a lot of things going wrong (which was consistent with theme of death as a petty shit that toys with you before finishing you off.) Really, most of the movies felt more like a vindictive gamemaster, unless the players signed up for being teens in a slasher flick.

On the other hand in the eighties, I remember a 24+ vehicle pile-up on the San Bernadino freeway, my mom investigated as a paralegal. It started as a car stalled in thick fog, and bunches of drivers driving way faster than was safe considering the short visibility. It really showed that the weakest link was, indeed between steering wheel and seat.

That said, industrial accidents are quite normal thanks to the drive of profits leading companies to try to sue OSHA or lobby the department (or lobby congress to defund OSHA), and yes, a lot of them emerge from companies choosing to not adhere to all the precautional requirements, and then having their infrastructure implode like a Seagate submersible.

We have a lot more mad engineering than mad science, though there's a moral hazard when you hire common workers to take the physical risks.

ETA: Full disclosure, I might be biased in my view of death. In 2011, one of the contestants in an air race in Reno had a malfunction that veered the plane into the grandstands. Bunches of injured. ~~Nine~~ Eleven died, including my cousin, and I had to contend for a long time with the reality that an airplane dropped out of the sky to smack my cousin and kill him. (His son, a boy at the time, and the son's friend survived because my cousin shielded them with his body.) I write about the incident here, recalling the incident shortly after Alan Rickman and David Bowie had recently died.

Death is not an antagonist, or an anthropomorphic being one can negotiate with or trick or flee. It's just a thing that happens when your parts can no longer sustain your vitals. Nothing requires sacrifices of life, even when situations might limit survival (such as the Titanic's lifeboat accommodation of 1,178 survivors, fully loaded, in contrast to a passenger load of 2,209). Life is a thing, and when it can no longer continue, death happens.

For-profit tooling tends to get usability right

Until enshittification happens and the photo-editer that's turned into the shorthand slang for editing a picture is suddenly an unaffordable subscription.

If we crowdsource such tools, or otherwise make them FOSS then they dont fall into that trap. Even one that sells out can be split off back into a FOSS project.