ajoebyanyothername

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[–] ajoebyanyothername 1 points 2 months ago (11 children)

If everyone doing it gets away with it, then is it actually illegal?

[–] ajoebyanyothername 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've seen it suggested that he might call an election sooner than later, to avoid the possibility of this failing (more so than it already has), but there have also been several other times when it's seemed like there might be an election and nothing happened. Seems like Sunak is just waiting/hoping for something he can tout as a win and try to go into an election on the back of it, presumably in an attempt to minimise the losses. The budget certainly didn't do it for them, and I can't see this broadly unpopular 'win' being it either, but really what else is there that he can point to at this stage?

[–] ajoebyanyothername 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dim and Dimmer

[–] ajoebyanyothername 16 points 2 months ago

Reviewers aren't (or really shouldn't be) beholden to companies, the whole point of a review is to give an opinion on a product, and the less input into that the company has the happier I will be. At the same time, some reviewers do hold a lot of sway, and can strongly influence people's opinions with their reviews, so there might be an argument that a negative review can impact sales. However, so what? If the reviewer is bringing up their concerns or issues with a product, that is the whole point of what they do, and their viewers will want to hear about those things (working on the assumption that people will tend to watch reviewers they think align with their own views), and would be pretty upset if they weren't warned about the downsides prior to purchasing.

[–] ajoebyanyothername 7 points 2 months ago

By definition you can't have causation without a correlation, but the two aren't the same. It does feel like your original intent was 'correlation doesn't equal causation' though.

[–] ajoebyanyothername 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't seem like many world governments are motivated to even do that. It feels very much like the people in charge are actively avoiding having to think about these issues, letting them play out until it's too late, by which time it will be someone else's problem.

[–] ajoebyanyothername 73 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Seems like a great argument for addressing climate change as a priority.

[–] ajoebyanyothername 7 points 2 months ago (11 children)

He mentioned three years of support in the video, but not sure if that's to fully end of support or just system updates.

[–] ajoebyanyothername 13 points 2 months ago

There are 2 kinds of people in the world.

  1. Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
[–] ajoebyanyothername 4 points 3 months ago

For me, it was a gameplay element. The point where you're swimming and have to use the older brother's stick just brought the whole thing together for me, and was something that could only be done within a video game, as opposed to any other form of media.

[–] ajoebyanyothername 9 points 3 months ago

"Keep that hair short"

Bawled by that point in the conversation, and still enough to start me off if I think too long about it.

[–] ajoebyanyothername 5 points 3 months ago
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