nicetriangle 9mo ago • 97%
Except adding lanes doesn't alleviate congestion. As if induced demand is some mysterious secret.
nicetriangle 9mo ago • 100%
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 9mo ago • 86%
The actual fuck did they think was gonna happen? Literally everyone saw this coming except the FTC somehow I guess.
nicetriangle 9mo ago • 100%
Still an improvement but you definitely have a point.
nicetriangle 9mo ago • 100%
Not what I was hoping to hear tbh
nicetriangle 9mo ago • 100%
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 9mo ago • 100%
Ok but will this run on my TI-83? It's a + model.
nicetriangle 9mo ago • 100%
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 9mo ago • 100%
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 9mo ago • 96%
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 9mo ago • 91%
There were no insane avatars, everyone looked pretty normal. Sorry to burst your bubble.
nicetriangle 9mo ago • 40%
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 9mo ago • 100%
And IIRC those are all PCVR sets and not standalone.
nicetriangle 9mo ago • 91%
Some people call VR dystopian, but it's got great potential too.
During COVID while I was living alone and we were under lockdown...
I used a Quest to watch movies in a virtual theater with a bunch of people from around the world. I remember being in a theater watching an absolutely ridiculous Nicolas Cage movie laughing my ass off with a bunch of dudes from Australia. Another time I watched a cricket game with some people who explained the rules to me and kinda gave me some play by play on what was happening.
I've also attended a few support group meetings in VR for coping with loss that had quite a lot of attendants. The meeting was run by a licensed group therapist and we took turns sharing and then reflecting on each others stories. It was frankly amazing.
I also played mini golf with friends of mine as well as had a couple meetings over a round of mini golf with the other guy on my design team during lockdown. Honestly the best virtual meetings I ever had.
All of the above were very social and very positive experience. I didn't feel far away from people, I felt connected to them.
Same way a smartphone can be a useful tool that enhances your life or a screen you stare at for hours consuming bullshit TikTok videos. You're in control of what you make of it. You can also stick to a dumb phone and not participate at all.
nicetriangle 9mo ago • 76%
Incidentally I thought both philosophies sounded somewhat reasonable when I was around 13.
nicetriangle 9mo ago • 100%
Damn that is not something you read in the news every day. Pretty insane.
nicetriangle 9mo ago • 100%
For my particular niche (illustration) it has a way better concentration of active (and also importantly) high quality actual working professional artists on it than mastodon.
The art scene on mastodon is pretty meh and the largest art centric instance is run by unstable authoritarians that are some of the biggest sources of drama on mastodon.
nicetriangle 9mo ago • 77%
Not a gotcha question, but what things did the LHC discover that have real practical applications right now other than validating some hypothesis? Because I’ve looked into it before and turned up nothing so I’m wondering what I’m missing.
nicetriangle 9mo ago • 44%
Yeah I’m just not sure how much I believe this thing is worth the investment at all and the fact that it’s 100km just proves these guys were like “uhhh, let’s make it BIG NUMBER KM LONG.”
I think there’s likely quite a lot of other worthier expenditures in science research than this indulgent toy.
nicetriangle 9mo ago • 80%
lol
The former president’s allies are developing a plan that would immediately deploy the military to the streets against potential demonstrators.
Pretty cool keynote reveal for a new Procreate animation app coming in November. Exciting stuff.
Reddit has a setting for "don't allow search engines to index my user profile" and I was wondering if kbin has this or if anyone knows whether it's on the roadmap?
This for me was one of the big game changer articles I ran into years ago while I was improving my skills in Illustrator. Highly recommended.
Higher rents were mostly offset by declining costs of goods such as motor vehicles and furniture.
One thing I really liked reddit for was reading news and talking about it. I have stopped posting or commenting there now and am in the process of slowly wiping my posting history... but I still browse it for current events a decent bit as it's just a lot more active than over here. I think my new goal is that whenever I see a news post over there I would really like to comment about, I'm gonna post it over here in a relevant magazine and start a comment in that new Kbin thread instead. Seems like a really easy way to nudge myself into getting more content going over here. Just kind of a Kbin meta shower thought I guess. Cheers.
Train travel is often more expensive than flying. Could taxing aviation to invest in the rail industry help change that?
These make creating isometric illustrations much easier. Definitely check them out.
The actor died Sunday night, years after he had been diagnosed with cancer, according to his team
**From the page** > > > "Over 10 years ago we changed the creative industry. Now, we're ready to do it again. Join us in London, or subscribe for updates and watch the keynote live-stream." > > I'm assuming it's something related to animation but they're definitely being vague