u/Standing__Menacingly

Everything that comes out of these people's mouths is marketing.

One of the current strategies is fearmongering about AI. Their goal is twofold: - to get more money from customers and investors by making their product seem like it'll soon become much more effective than it actually is - to get favorable regulations passed, so that they don't have to reveal the ineffectiveness/unprofitability of their product and can blame its shortcomings on regulations

Posts like this, and the majority of comments, play directly into their strategy.

We need to ban right turns on red. They clearly do more harm than good for society.

If you must, put up a right turn signal that coordinates with the pedestrian crossing.

Absurd idea, better pedestrian infrastructure.

I said seeing real humans perform

ITT:

Shoplifting 👍

Skipping classes 👎

To be clear I totally agree, but I can empathize with why someone might skip classes and won't go straight to condemning it.

Yes I agree, but as someone who has read the manga and watched the anime (and own both) I am very much excited for the live action adaptation.

I think there's a lot to be gained from seeing real humans perform a story like this, especially with someone like Hirokazu Kore-Eda at the helm.

Ah I see what you mean. I found several Instagram posts but I didn't go through their page specifically, but here's the post with all the pumpkins

https://www.instagram.com/p/DehjVfzHRuQ/?img_index=10&vrfl=bDVpYW0xeXNzeTZm

It's by blaming the government that those fuckers can be held accountable.

The government allows for corporate greed, and they're the ones with the power to put an end to it.

While it's tough to disagree with the sentiment of vigilance, looking down upon and even dehumanizing other drivers is a key feature of carbrain.

Be vigilant, but also have some empathy for the other human being and some humility recognizing you're just another driver.

Is there any location where I can see the pumpkin lineup?

I followed that link and donated in Justin's name, but I never once got to see any of the pumpkins. I can't find much by googling either.

Those three complaints are not at all equivalent.

That is baffling. Try thinking on it for a while, or just consider that other people might have different values and interpretations than you.

Thanks for the earnest response!

A character being labeled "bad" is extremely broad and extremely subjective. This term "bad" is not an assessment of the character's morality, it's the aggregate of all of the character's traits in the eyes of a given reader.

Sometimes a character being immoral is enough for a given reader to consider them a "bad" character. Sometimes that immorality fits well into a story and thus makes them a "good" character. Both of those "bad" and "good" assessments are with respect to the character's effect on the reader's perception and/or appreciation of the story.

Morality is just one aspect of a character, and you could substitute any other aspect in there. For example, I might dislike a character's speaking patterns. I might dislike them so much that I cannot enjoy the story and I don't want to finish the book. You might not have that reaction to the same character, and your reaction would have no effect on my enjoyment of the story and my willingness to continue reading it.

Let me rephrase your question:

• Why do you stop reading books when you dislike them or don't enjoy them?

It seems pretty obvious to me. If you never dislike characters enough that it affects your enjoyment of a book, then substitute in some other factor. If a book is poorly written, would you dislike it? And in that circumstance, would you consider DNFing the book? It's the same thing, just a different element to be disliked.

Also...

It's like saying you dislike a restaurant because the weather was bad

It's literally nothing like that. A better comparison would be disliking a restaurant because they constantly played bad music. Or just that the food was bad. Any bad element of the experience can negatively affect your enjoyment of the book and make you not want to read it.

Great, but how do we teach this to the other 99% of drivers on the road?

Is there a reason why you chose to put that type of subtitles in your video?

I understand those have become very popular for whatever reason, but I find them distracting and just kind of obnoxious, so I almost always stop watching a video when I see them.

I had no idea this was filmed near here. To be honest the only reason I decided I'll see it is because I liked Austin Abrams in Resident Evil, but it's nice to hear that people are positive on it

Thank you for rephrasing the original post. Now I have it in two different versions.

I agree that she displayed a pretty terrible mentality with her response, and I wouldn't want to date such a person.

But being "poor compared to him" does not mean you're actually poor. Having a small fraction of the wealth of a rich person does not mean you're struggling. Actually being poor and actually struggling are real things and have real implications. Just like hoarding wealth is a real thing with real implications.

Yeah, I hear what you're saying about "the whole point", but I'm saying I think that point is poorly made.

Yes, but the response "to me you're a struggling guy" is indeed stupid if that person isn't struggling.

I started with The Scar, which is out of order for the Bas-Lag series technically but it really didn't matter, I loved it and it made me interested in the rest of his work.

But also, Perdido Street Station is one of my all time favorites and it is the first in that series so I can definitely recommend starting there too.

I couldn't agree with you more about Ari Aster and those two movies.

For me, there's a couple that come to mind. - Na Hong-Jin: I really loved Hope (2026), but I went and watched The Chaser (2008) last night and think it has some serious problems that basically ruin the movie. The plot itself is a tough sell and probably just outright bad, but it's made even worse the way it's stretched out over the 2 hour run time. - Shunji Iwai: I saw Love Letter (1995) earlier this year and can't get it out of my head, I thought it was so cozy and lovely. But contrast that with All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001) which tried to tackle bullying and isolation, but does so by torturing its child cast as if that by itself will explore the issue, and as if more visceral acts done to innocent children somehow elevate the movie. In reality, it barely manages to deliver any sort of message but certainly leaves you with some upsetting imagery.

Yeah people are allowed to be wrong, and what that has to do with your enjoyment of a game is entirely up to you. It's up to you how you define your moral principles, and when and where you choose to apply them.

But again, it seems like you're trying to collapse a whole lot of nuance down into a binary. "Being wrong" is a broad spectrum, and spreading vaccine disinformation during a pandemic is pretty far in the worse direction of that spectrum. But so what? Is that indicative of his character over the years since then and up to now? Maybe, maybe not.

I'm not telling you you can't enjoy this game. Have at it! It sounds like a pretty great time. But if you're going to wade into the moral discussion surrounding the game and Johnathan Blow, I recommend you come with some better reasoning.

There's quite a lot of distance between "unambiguously morally upright" and "spreader of vaccine disinformation during a pandemic".

It's not a binary, and it's more than possible to steer clear of one side of the spectrum when these things arise.

What I am obviously talking about is the voluntary decision to trade rare Pokemon cards for a vehicle under the presumption that neither fulfill a material need in your livelihood. I am obviously not talking about some person faced with with a pressing need for transportation.

This is over $40k worth of cards. It's pretty clear that OP isn't pressed to find a means of transportation to go to work and take care of themselves or their family, like the person you're talking about. And if they were, they wouldn't need a brand new $40k+ car to do it.