Surely, those humans wasting precious energy, would not waste energy and ressources if they were not sitting at home and staring hypnotized at some netflix movie?
A creature can not live with this realization not supressed.
You cant take credit.
You cant have a loved one go on a journey alone.
If you where fully aware of you mortality, you would cower in a bonker like a nomad crab in its shell.
Maybe one would storm outside from time to act in fits of panic.
And yes, those edgy adults, claiming to be aware of death/mortality and accpeting, usually have created lightning rods in theire conciousness for these fears.
Like believe systems, that reroute this fear into believe of immortality, or in the atheist case a feeling of superiority for living your life to the max, while all those others do not. Those fully aware are in asylums
If you drill hard enough, what comes out is actually not a interest in justice or society - quite contrary- its about power, pure, un-diluted power, to chase out and behead, whoever you wish to declare to be a missfit.
And it has been here before, in all shapes and sizes. Its the social skill superiors equivalent of facism.
Game theory meets sex-life.
Prison dileman applied and first strike means you win, but at the same time, you have to go cellibate to not give a weak spot for revenge hook-ups.
Very soon, joining a amercian fraternity, will be equivalent to joining a monastry. Which means, the political correctness is attacking the universitys where it hurts- attractivenes to party students.
In the left corner, PC-Culture, in the right corner the dean and his accounting.
Sorry if this sounds old fashioned and traditional, but shouldn’t universities primarily focus on the quality of their education? I’m not exactly keen on my tax dollars going to make schools better for parties and hooking up. Tinder exists, if early twenty somethings want to hook up why are they spending $30K and up of loans and parent’s savings on it? Heaven forbid they go to class and study for midterms instead of fucking around at a frat...
I'm currently attending University and I'd say for the majority of Universities focusing on education the ship has long sailed. The alternative to the "hookup" scene these days, which most people view as the "traditional" college experience you refer to has been morphed into job seeking. Most students do not go to class to learn, but rather to receive accreditation, concerned only with how future employers will view their GPA or classes taken
There are a small or large number of people seeking to further their own knowledge (depending on which specific university you are attending, it seems), however most university curriculum could be reduced to a year or two of self study. Most of the focus is on the schools perceived performance (as measured by testing, GPA, attendance, etc) My particular University stops giving programming projects after 2nd year for students following the Software Engineering course meaning many students have not programmed in 2 years when they graduate, although from what I hear this is not normal for all schools in my area, however I suspect it is because many students could not handle programming above a 101 level.
This has led to an increase reliance of student groups: those that have a thirst for learning great student groups focusing on self study whether for improving class performance or just learning for the sake of learning. However often times if a group gets too successful the college they are a part of entices them with offers of making their group into an official class for school credit, which transfers control to a professor, again creating the problem where performance is measured by tests, and the cycle repeats when a new wave of students join the college.
> Most students do not go to class to learn, but rather to receive accreditation, concerned only with how future employers will view their GPA or classes taken
I’m super skeptical of this. In any engineering or science field the only thing a diploma gets you is an interview. I don’t consider myself an especially adept interviewer but I think I can tell in the first five minutes if a new grad didn’t learn anything in school.
Well writting long posts about how people are to blame for theire own fates is the rich mens ritual cleansing of responsibilitys for his fellow human beeing.
Even if you got experience, you will never get leverage in thise industry. The reason is the mythos of the gamedeveloper, drawing in new people (mostly young "I-want-to-make-a-game" idealists) with Stars in theire eyes.
Its the same-thing, that allows Hollywood to abuse young actresses- who will not resist, because there "are millions more where you came from". Supply and demand.
Idealists make for excellent rocket fuel, and if they are burned out, you dump the husk and make another run for it with new material.
You cant unionize this, because this cycle is the default operation mode and students joining up dont have unions or reasons to join one.
You cant either unionize the actors or fashion-model industry. What can be done - is destroying the glamorous image in the head of the youth.
Which has partially happened allready, and is why everybody wants to go indy.
Yes, nobody contemplates what the amazon-plankton thinks of the situation. Because they do not influence the development and outcome of the current situation. And if they all get the same burden put upon them, the price adjusts and nothing ever happened.
Its the bazar companys responsibility to avoid counterfeit goods, by having the company who trades their leave either there winnings and/or a safety deposit behind in case they get sued.
Its also to make sure, the legal system of the customer binds on the trading contract and inform/warn the customer that the item in question could be a molotow cocktail.
I re-read the article a few times and saw no mention of the product being counterfeit. They are all chintzy, poorly constructed, and come out of the same factory or two. Even if there was a brand name to counterfeit, the "counterfeit" would likely be almost exactly the same as the genuine article. Monoprice has a business model based on this premise.
What is the metric for "Molotov cocktail"? Anything that has batteries with a high energy density can be extremely dangerous. Cell phones, laptops, RC cars, power banks, and anything with a lithium ion battery can catastrophically and potentially fatally fail. Sure, you could mandate that Amazon run their own battery of safety tests on every product that is sold on their site; they sure as hell could afford it. The problem is that there's just about nobody else in the market that can.
