Sorry, I mean fake as in not where the justices live. I'm pretty sure someone just took random addresses from vaguely around where the justices live and put them on there, I think the residents are just random fellows
Edit: Google searching has proven inconclusive in my quest for the truth, but there are articles claiming those are their addresses so I could be wrong. But people online keep saying the information is outdated by 1-2 decades and wrong (like this Redditor) so idk.
We could all collectively decide to chop the heads off of the elite. We don't need to argue about which capitalist is better every 4 years. There's nothing physically stopping 90% of the country from just overthrowing the other 10% if we really tried together
I'm pretty sure those are fake addresses
Brains transmit/change state (a.k.a. think) using electricity. It's basically a flesh computer. You can't read thoughts without being able to measure the brain's electrical/chemical activity. If you had any theoretically possible mind-reading (and by extension mind-controlling) technology, it would still need to physically connect to your neurons or something...
That being said, I don't imagine it'd be too hard for sci-fi future folk to stick a chip in every newborn's brain from the get-go. But that's a future too far from now, we'll all be dead by then probably.
I think lemmy.ml mods/admins often wipe entire comment histories in the community/instance when they remove specific comments. Say something about Taiwan and boom, your comments talking about toilet paper patents are gone
Don't quote me on that though
For real. I wish it were these people killing themselves with their stupidity, not others...
The dominance of the far-right in France's elections and in European elections in general this cycle is really frightening. That being said, I think a lot of their success comes from tactics inspired by Trump's... Trump became an internet icon, he was turned into a piece of popular culture. The European far-right are doing the same, they're REALLY good at social media propoganda and utilising social media to get young people to vote for them. Looking at 2019 vs 2024, the difference in young voters' attitudes would be unbelievable then.
Considering China's literacy rate grew from 20 percent in 1956 to 65 percent in 1982 (and now 97% in 2020 which is insane for such a highly rural country – 43% of the population, to give an idea) due to them focusing on Simplified Chinese, you're just wrong in stating it "didn't do anything". In fact, Mao got the idea from seeing Japan's success in improving literacy by simplifying Kanji into Shinjitai, so you're wrong twice...
Of course, it went hand-and-hand with the government's education reforms, it doesn't deserve all the credit. But it helped a LOT. It can be argued that it's no longer a factor because of the access to education Chinese have now, and I'd agree, but it helped when literacy was in need of improvement.
Obviously though, different characters is a small change compared to completely rewriting the sentences to simplify it, like this does here.
Yes.
No. It doesn't make a difference to the viewer that does it, obviously they seem to not care, because they do it anyway...
You just created the solution to your own confusion. Congratulations. Now consume it
Watching isn't playing. This is my whole fucking point.
Considering your argument revolved around vaguely claiming "viewing people playing single-player games is different from viewing people playing sports" which then turned into arguing it's because of the "intention" of the activities rather than the actual result, no. The only time you even actually argued about playing sports was when you acted like sports are inaccessible and then realized that wasn't gonna work out. You wanted to sound philisophical but instead you sounded stupid, congratulations again.
This statement is utter nonsense.
Considering you have no idea what you're talking about, let alone what the conversation you engaged in was about, I can see why it doesn't make sense to you.
Your most recent response has proven satisfactory. I expect your cognitive dissonance to fade shortly. Do not resist.
People have been complaining about laziness in language and "dumbing down" language since language has existed. It's nothing new and it's not happening at a different rate than before. The perceived degredation of language is not, and has never been, a real thing. It's natural and unstoppable language change. It's the reason you can't understand Old English, and why Hindi, German, Spanish, and Russian are different languages from English now.
That being said, things like this theoretically could help to increase literacy rates significantly in populations with low literacy (in a similar way Simplified Chinese script along with Chinese education reforms drastically improved China's literacy rates) – and most of the US has surprisingly low literacy (about 54% of adults have low English literacy and 21% are illiterate) – or for people who aren't proficient enough readers to gain anything from reading something of such a high level. Reading should be accessible to as many people as possible, not gatekeeped. It would be far better as some sort of "annotation creator" though probably, if your goal is more literacy.
Of course, you shouldn't rely on something like this by any means. But it's not bad for a lot of purposes, we shouldn't beat uneducated people while they're down. And either way your literacy really doesn't affect your "stupidity", although a lot of resources with knowledge you might want will require a certain level of literacy.
I think people misinterpreted your comment. I read it as "Israel has the right to exist bro, which includes ethnic cleansing to right the wrongs of WW2". You know, sarcastically
Feminism means gender goes into the shredder. No gender. FUCK gender, punk ass bitch ass social construct. Burn it at the stake!
Note: many feminists may or may not disagree
Proportional Instant Runoff Voting is usually just called Single Transferable Vote (STV). But there are others, the best one being Comparison of Pairs of Outcomes by the Single Transferable Vote (CPO-STV) which is STV but implementing Condorcet's method instead of IRV.
Democracy. The most functional kind. Trust me, I've tried every democracy ever and this is the one that works. I'm that guy
Yeah duh that's why it's called eSPORTS I'm not really talking about 1 genre of videogames I'm talking the medium in general so we should limit this to concepts that can be applied universally here.
So you're admitting your entire argument is "story mode games are different from competitive games". That's what you mean when you say that watching games is profoundly different from watching sports. Gotcha. And then you're pretending that competitive games/gamemodes and other non-narrative/non-art focused games are A. all one genre or only exist as e-sports and B. don't make up a large portion of the most played and most watched games.
Then, you're pretending that it actually makes a difference to the viewer as to whether or not Alien Isolation is intended to be experienced "second-hand" compared to kicking a ball with some specific time and scoring rules. Clearly the average viewer of bakery simulator streamers or horror game streamers are getting the exact same sort of engagement and experience as someone watching a match of tennis or soccer. The end result, to the viewer, pretty much the same, which makes your "point" moot. The entire point is the experience of watching the content itself. Your idea is that games "weren't designed" for it, therefore it must be an entirely different experience for the viewer. It isn't.
There is more disparity in how someone feels watching golf vs. American football than there is between someone watching American football vs. Halo Red vs Blue or Overwatch. There is more similarity between watching tennis and watching Omori than there is between watching tennis and watching Airsoft. Sports are often times more different from each other than they are from games, and games are often times more similar to sports than they are to other games. It's not complicated to grasp, really.
The fundamental difference is That you don't have to field a team, practice, meet up, etc. to play baulders gate.
You definitely do that for competitive/ranked gaming or esports (well, you obviously don't meet up in person to play ranked CS:GO but you know what I mean).
it was built from the ground up to be experienced by a person the same way you might read a book.
Conveniently, you chose a genre that is literally based off of books. Regardless, games like that aren't even played like "reading a book", they go completely differently every playthrough. I don't see the point you're trying to make here.
Watching someone else play it isn't the same as that same person watching football because a writer, or game developer doesnt write a sport. You aren't defeating the purpose of a sport when you watch someone else play it, you're just watching people participate in a framework of rules, not experience a narrative.
You aren't defeating the purpose of a game when you play it. Unless it's a visual novel or something, it's not like you're reading a book. Not only are you pretending that all games are primarily narratives with a path that it's predetermined you'll take within a short number of playthroughs, but the narratives you are talking about still don't fit your description. People aren't all the same and they play games completely differently, unless you have thousands of hours to put into literally every game you're not gonna experience every unique experience from a game like Baldur's Gate man.
You are defeating the point of the media when you watch someone else play it through YouTube or twitch.
Not at all. You're not going through a predetermined experience when you play Rainbow Six Siege (ew) or Baldur's Gate 3 any more than when you play soccer or golf. Chess is technically "predetermined" in a sense that it has a finite number of moves you can take and a finite number of possible outcomes, you can technically "solve" chess, but we're not gonna pretend like that means watching it defeats the purpose of playing chess. Watching other people use the tools the game gives them along with their own creativity is what makes both sports and games fun. I'm not going to think of everything the same as someone else; and I certainly don't want to play a few million matches of soccer until I experience every new soccer experience, so why should I be expected to do that with games? Watching someone use some advanced technique to improve their play shouldn't defeat the purpose of basketball for me, I just try to incorporate that into my play or think "oh that's neat" or something and continue playing. Watching someone do something creative or something I didn't know about in a game just improves the experience while also being entertaining.
That being said, I don't play games much nor watch games anymore, so maybe the gaming YouTubers have compromised by enjoyment of gaming. But I also don't watch or play sports anymore, nor film, so it's probably just the neccessity to have a job keeping me from using my free time on entertainment... no, I'm on Lemmy, therefore I could be gaming right now, so naturally that must mean my gamer spirit HAS been stolen by Twitch.
The comparison should be "you like movies why don't you watch movies?" But of course, the dad probably does watch movies.
Not sure what you're getting at here.
Organized? How exactly? "Organized" varies by regional law or context. If it's sponsored by a local sport union and the play is based around a set of rules, that would be organized enough for you, no? That's the assumption I operated off of.
Why does being "organized" matter in the first place? Something doesn't need to be professional league whatever for you to view it anyways. Neither sports nor video games.
Literally like everywhere. If you were American you could replace that with baseball or American football or basketball, or from somewhere else it could be cricket or rugby or something. Regardless of where you are in the world, it'd be harder to not stumble into something sports related than to avoid them. You could go to wartorn Haiti 0.0001 seconds after a hurricane and an earthquake and there'd be groups of people playing soccer on the rubble.