I travel a lot. My brother lives in Amsterdam. I’ve visited several times and rented an ebike. I intend to leave ASAP but my ongoing divorce and career make it impossible at the moment. :(

Your solidarity is appreciated.

It’s mind boggling how much people outside the US don’t realize the barriers we face to doing the things they suggest we do. “Why don’t you riot and blockade your congress?” Because it would take me 8 days of driving - 4 there and 4 back - to protest at the capital for just a single day, and I’d lose my job for being gone that long. “Why don’t you walk more?” Because I’m 100x more likely to get killed by a car due to street design, and the store I need to go to is no less than 5 miles away if I’m lucky. Etc etc etc.

Internal simulation gang represent

There are so many things that go into whether a game feels responsive or not. Your experience could be explained by anything from access to stable Internet, to trends in game design philosophy, and vary from game to game based on implementation.

Here’s one of my favorite GDC talks that looks at just one small part of what goes into making a game feel responsive: https://youtu.be/h47zZrqjgLc

Ehhhhhhhh that’s generally untrue honestly.

Many people have the capacity. And there are enough shitty people that they will take advantage if given the opportunity.

But most people are just trying to live their lives as best they can, and much of their selfishness can be unlearned, or isn’t really selfishness anyway, just survival instinct and misinformation

I provided a proper explanation for the silent observers ;)

Don’t even get me started on Dilbert’s “The TTP Project”

Or what happens when you Google “recursion”

The median is a statistical fact that can be used by humans in both good and bad ways. Lots of data can be made to look lots of different ways in the hands of different people.

That’s why teaching critical thinking (not just the skills but the importance and value) is paramount. People need to understand what they’re looking at. Because sometimes you want the mean, other times you want the median, and if you can’t even understand when you might want one or the other or both for different reasons then you can be led around by the nose with either.

From passing out. Locking knees can reduce blood flow

Uhhhhh you overestimate the knowledge of the average user

Sincerely, anyone and everyone who has worked IT help desk

Also F12 to open the developer panel, then check the “network” and “sources” tabs where you can see every single asset that is loaded (may need to refresh after opening the dev panel) and interact with them in a list

Can Grok even generate video?

Since nobody else will provide the actual clarity

EscobarVape and Elfbar are created by two separate Chinese companies, Shenzhen Innokin Technology Co. Ltd and Shenzhen iMiracle Technology respectively. Mi-Bar is created by an American company but has partnered with Elfbar to distribute Elfbar products in the US

Really wish more people would just provide the facts that speak for themselves, rather than point fingers about who is and isn’t doing their research

Your myopic view of the impact of gerrymandering (looking only at whether presidential elections involve districts or not) is simple-minded and ignorant.

I have seen the proof. I’m just not willing to do research for a random internet troll who’s too lazy to do a simple search on their own. I have more important things to do with my time.

You’re literally the only one here making decisions without data. 🤷‍♀️

Muting you now. You’re too childish for me to engage with anymore 👋

My unwillingness to spoon feed you data is not proof of its absence. You are free to disregard arguments because you’re too lazy to look it up, but it just makes you look like a petulant child 🤷‍♀️

I’m not going to educate you on how gerrymandering has direct downstream consequences on presidential election results.

It is so, so easy to find the information on that. Like, one Google search. Including data. I’m not going do your work for you. And I’m not going to play into the “if you don’t give me literally everything then your whole argument is null” fallacy.

How could you possibly dispute that state legislatures historically disenfranchise large populations of voters by targeting specific demographics? That this has reprecussions for presidential elections? And that gerrymandering is a major component of capturing state legislatures and governorships?

Stop trolling.

I’m not sure why I need to provide that information for the most recent election? Nothing I said is controversial or logically disputable

I don’t give a shit about op in this context. I am responding to a claim that gerrymandering cannot change a Presidential election result and that is simply a demonstrably false statement. Whether it did or did not impact one specific election is irrelevant

That’s only if you look at a single election in isolation.

However, when you consider that it is state government that decide things like how many polling locations to have and where to put them, whether mail-on ballots are supported, voter ID requirements, etc. your statement becomes less accurate.

Can you gerrymander a Presidential election? No. Can gerrymandering lead directly to a change in future presidential election outcomes? Resoundingly yes

And that’s how you know you’re in the forkin’ Good Place