It’s a good metaphor for explaining the concept he wants to explain, but I think it falls a bit short in that it’s not a dog with one brain that has one goal.

Instead it’s controlled by a bunch of people who have been indoctrinated that being successful is making money. People like trump have no interest in the dog, apart from how much blood they can suck from it.

Yeah the graphics were more or less just standard for the time, it is the level design and sound design that made it especially scary IMO

With one exception being the animals that are fed with crops.

We wouldn’t grow more crops in total, but more would be available for human consumption.

https://xkcd.com/1098/

So. Is that an em dash

Yeah but humans can and would do something about it.

A cow gets a wound, the wound gets infected, and the larva make the wound bigger, probably leading to more even infection - while the cow has no way to deal with that.

As someone who has lives in the Netherlands, were iDeal (the less international predecessor of wero) has been available for years - yes it replaces it, so much.

And it feels easier and safer at the same time, when my banking app on the phone can just scan the QR code on the website and deal with that.

Every time I DO use paypal now, usually a foreign webshop, I get a little nervous if my account still works, because it’s been a year or so again.

The code YOU run. If your code runs other code, that doesn’t fall under this.

“Don’t ride a car unless you know how driving a car works” doesn’t mean you need to understand the chemical composition of the metal in the motor parts

“Good thing there weren’t dozens.” You will NOT realize that you are engaging in the very pedantry you judged just one comment ago, will you?

“this many days” If 1 is many to you, you have to realize that you got so, so many criticisms for your communication.

“I processed the criticism and determined that I’m okay with the idea that some people can’t figure out […]” In meme format, “No, it must be the children who are wrong”. There’s nothing inconsequential about multiple people giving you the very same feedback.

“Nothing of value is on the line here” - like I said, it’s about your future (communication is also important in social life, love life, career, etc), so I wouldn’t say nothing. If you like to make these challenges, people have even given you some valuable feedback how to fix the bugs, but if you decide not to, meh; there’s enough content on the internet.

I was not insulting your ego, but the part about living in with narcissist fits. Because then you’re used to everything slightly negative being an attack that you have to defend yourself against, where you can’t lose even an inch of ground. And by protecting everything that is part of yourself like that, you deny yourself improvement. Because improvement is by definition change. If you are unwilling to change, it means you are unwilling to improve, and that is your personal decision alone to make.

Take this and improve yourself with it, or not - but let me be clear that a further defense is not gonna add any value. It’s like with a poster, or a joke; even if you explained it well somewhere else, it doesn’t make the original thing better.

Wrong!

If dozens of people tell you you’re doing it wrong, then it’s time to take a critical look at your actions, instead of just accusing everybody else of doing it wrong.

Not being able to process criticism without immediately getting defensive will make your life more difficult than it needs to be.

Then again, it is a skill that some people simply do not have. You might be literally unable to “defeat the ego” and have absolutely no doubt about your actions, even after so many people gave you feedback, people like that exist.

It’s usually off to the left. Even in this screenshot it’s between G, H and B, which is to the left in the letter part alone, even if not taking into account the numpad.

The most centered on the keyboard in front of me would be between K, M and comma.

No, the problem is definitely with your communication.

All this time, you had the rule that you have to use barley. But instead of communicating that, you only wrote that you HAVE barley.

Having something doesn’t mean that you are required to use it. I have rice, it doesn’t mean I have to use it in my next meal.

If somebody makes a steak from the pantry without barley, they have not followed your hidden intention, but they have followed your instructions.

So… it just seemed like your challenge was “tell me a food you like” in an unnecessary roundabout way.

Aside from purely theoretical, philosophical interest (suuuure), it doesn’t really matter, does it?

“Ah yes, now that you showed us the opinion of these online strangers on your phone, we will be ok angering your father - the man who famously hires ex-legionnaires for protection of his family - for a little hanky panky.”

Yeah it’s not like it’s 14 years old or something like that!

I think that’s a slight pun.

The “-archy” part comes from the greek for “to rule/command”. Monarchy = rule by a king, oligarchy = rule by few, etc.

And the “an-” part means “not” or “without”. So anarchy technically means “not ruled” or “without rule” - but if things are still being ruled, it would still be an “archy”, not a “not archy”.

I think you have missed the mark with this. It doesn’t make sense logically, and seems more like an emotional (understandably so) response.

I’m not sure that’s true.

Let’s realistically entertain your point: You say he should sell his assets to get money, so he can give it to the poor, basically (correct me if I’m wrong).

The yacht and other stuff, probably bought with a loan, insured by Steam’s value. His real assets is, like, Steam.

I don’t know if you already see where this is going, but from clarity: If people would buy parts of that - the parts are called “shares”, and the people who buy them “shareholders”. That is a public company. Which now has a LEGAL OBLIGATION to make as much money as possible. Meaning all that enshittification coming along with it eventually, too.

The chance that they agreed on that and she wouldn’t mention it is slim, though

The only way this answer could have been more hung up on the letter instead of the spirit of that comment, would be if you had said “with just your eyes you can watch a video explaining that the world is round”.

Well… studying computer science in order to write production code, is like studying chemistry to become a chef.

I can assure you, unlike OP, I am comfortable using different collection types as the tools they are, even without having spent years studying the theory behind them.