I feel most of this is a slippery slope / negative sum spiral.
See e.g. Liv Boeree’s video on beauty filters.
I feel most of this is a slippery slope / negative sum spiral.
See e.g. Liv Boeree’s video on beauty filters.
In my opinion (see also Dr Gabor Maté), addictions (which, I also think, can be about petty much anything) are very much mostly attempts to escape pain, when better alternatives do not seem available to a person.
So, yeah, video game addiction can be a thing, and certain game designs exacerbate that (similar to what might fuel gambling addictions and such).
But all of this perspective only distracts from whatever is causing the people/kids pain, makes them seek out games in an addicted fashion in the first place.
I’m gonna be interested how that’s supposed to work with false positives, err, collateral damage, err, plausibly deniable canceling of free speech of citizens. Nice try.
Started negotiating at 40%, agreed to 10% less “so 10% of 40 is 4, right?”
The way I heard it elsewhere (Google should help), Twitter/Elon actually had the necessary and correct permits (for using heavy machinery on the street/sidewalk and redirecting traffic around it).
Unfortunately, that detail was not correctly communicated to building security, who called the police believing there was no permit.
By the time the misunderstanding could be cleared up, the workers & heavy machinery had… “vacated premises” already, leaving the work in its half-finished state.
Kinda disappointed in The Register of all things adopting this faux personal life story reporting style on such a matter.