nicetriangle

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[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 47 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Except adding lanes doesn't alleviate congestion. As if induced demand is some mysterious secret.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 51 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

There's a book called The Media Monopoly that details how media companies have consolidated to just a handful of mega corps and the book had to be republished 5 times since the 80s because every few years the number keeps shrinking dramatically. The author later released a brand new book called The New Media Monopoly which is essentially the 7th edition of the original book and at this point we're in a fucked up late stage version of the problem he originally detailed.

From the Wiki on the author:

In 2000 Bagdikian stated, "Every edition has been considered by some to be alarmist and every edition ends up being too conservative." In this latest version, Bagdikian wrote that the number of corporations controlling most of the media decreased to five: Disney, News Corporation, Time Warner, Viacom, and Bertelsmann. He argued, "This gives each of the five corporations and their leaders more communications power than was exercised by any despot or dictatorship in history."

The Onion is a bit too accurate sometimes.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 56 points 9 months ago (4 children)

The actual fuck did they think was gonna happen? Literally everyone saw this coming except the FTC somehow I guess.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago

Still an improvement but you definitely have a point.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 40 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just like how many people stopped being supportive of labor unions, a lot of dummies out there have this misplaced belief that as soon as any problem goes away, we no longer need to uphold the things that solved those problems in the first place.

Of course that's not at all how the world works. Bad actors are constantly looking for gaps in our defenses. They're never going to fully go away because there is an ever present 25-30% of humanity that frankly sucks.

It requires a continuous collective effort to stave these despicable motherfuckers off.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 47 points 9 months ago (13 children)

Ok but will this run on my TI-83? It's a + model.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago

This was in Altspace VR which unfortunately got axed by Microsoft IIRC, but on there you kinda looked like a less shitty version of one of those Nintendo avatars customized however you wanted.

The craziest anybody looked on there would be to have like rainbow or blue hair or something along those lines. It was pretty tame compared to like the furry anime cat sex doll looking things some people run around in VR Chat with. It also wasn't overrun with screaming children which I think is VR Chat's biggest overall problem.

Anyway, that support group thing I think has since moved to another platform, I forget which.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I think the next thing they're gonna do is go after people who sub for a month and then unsub. Probably by charging a good bit more for month-to-month than paying annually.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 48 points 9 months ago (13 children)

Password crackdown aside, I don't really get the appeal of the service unless you have kids or an abnormally large boner for Star Wars and MCU

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There were no insane avatars, everyone looked pretty normal. Sorry to burst your bubble.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social -1 points 9 months ago

I'll be honest I think their watch and AirPods both look kinda dumb, but they seem to be quite popular. And I distinctly remember that when both came out people were taking shots at how they looked, myself included.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

And IIRC those are all PCVR sets and not standalone.

 

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