There is a fun fun sci-fi book called “Deepness in the Sky” by Vernor Vinge. The Humans use epoch time with si prefixed Seconds for time,

It got so bad we had a war because of fake news, so we passed some laws to not let it happen again, then Ronald Reagan got those laws removed, and we are back after it.

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

Said by - Socrates

SEE and Rocket league,

So blind people driving rocket powers cars playing soccer.

Could produce some fun highlight reals.

It’s chrome but with ram management. Microsoft solved the issue somehow, so edge with 1000 tabs doesn’t big things down like chrome with 1000 tabs does.

Doesn’t that almost always require a significant government intervention/regulation.

This is the way.

I’m not using an app. Though the website occasionally throws an error and wont load a comments section. I wonder if my add blocker or other privacy tool is to blame?

This has been happening since the 90s with websites and software products. It has to do with the life cycle of many tech companies. In the beginning they are often flush with money from venture capital, so it’s all about gaining users and providing the best product to the user they can. Got to get that network affect and reach a critical user threshold to get more venture capital money. Eventually there comes a point where the venture capital firms want to get their money back and to get a profit, so now the tech company has to stop operating at a loss and figure out how to make money off of their users. Often the only revenue stream is advertisements and getting more $$ to become profitable is easier said than done, and low hanging fruit items that can cut costs are implemented, usually at a cost of the quality to the product. So, you lose some users, but if you don’t lose too many, and now your costs are under your revenue, you can start being profitable. For Reddit, say they lose 10% of their users, they don’t care, particularly if the new less used site takes in more $ than it costs to operate. Something that has not been the case since its inception. Money isn’t the only enshittifcation force, but it’s the most common. You see it when private companies go public, you see it when venture capital firms want their money back, you see it when a monopoly is reached, etc.

Read more about it and worded better than I can: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

undefined> 5e is boring as hell to both DM and to play.

My experience this is 100% the group, the system is secondary to the quality of DM and other players. A good group will have fun in any system.

For actual towing capacity it’s a physics problem. Do they have to be so big, for the performance they provide, yes. Can we make do with lower performance and therefore smaller trucks, sure, but good luck convincing people that’s what they should buy.

I like to think, If the adds your showing aren’t worth your effort to vet and approve, then they aren’t worth my effort to look at. If you have a real product to plug, plug it in line with your content, get revenue from doing so, leave the casino adds back in the past.

This is my combo also. I don’t want your adds, if you need money for whatever it is your website is doing then ask for it, I’ll jump over a paywall especially a pay what you can paywall, if your content is worth it.

They do it better, and if you were doing it before, and have the means and opportunity to upgrade on quality of vehicle capacity, you take it.

ford has trucks in a trim level they call XL, which have no frills. Best “feature” is that you can power wash the inside… not because it’s made to do that, but because there is nothing you could damage doing it… Ranger XL is at $27k if you take it with no upgrades or addons…