You never know, her son might have broken both his arms.

Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stevenson. But keep it the modern stuff as part of the ninties at the Dawn of the Information Age.

I don’t think you could take out the anarchist stuff and keep any cohesion to the story. Unless Hollywood wants to make a movie about how an anarchist learned the true value of capitalism and power of friendship.

It would make for an amazing series, but you are right in that it needs to be made by not Hollywood. Perhaps find someone to make it a web series?

To use the Chinese Room, it would be trying to tell the man in the room to use cultural signifiers when crafting the responses.

While not any of the stories themselves, it used his three laws and the character of Dr Susan Calvin. The robots model number and the name of the company that made them were from a couple of the stories as well.

I read the books and understood his point, mine was more to start conversations about if it would be necessary or possible to place limits on them in such a manner.

Any hobby that makes you smell like you filled your pants is one that needs to be re-evaluated.

psion

I started a community /c/smallbusinessowners@lemmy.world

So many a year ago, I would tell people I was a gamer, and they all assumed video games when I meant role-playing games. Made me a touch upset. Now I see this happening in video game culture too, and I just have a smile of justification while sitting in my room of unread ttrpg books.

I definitely agree here. But if you want to better learn how the system works, I suggest getting a cheap used laptop and just hammer at installing arch using the install guide, not the installer tool. The tool is nice and all, but you still need to know what is going on under the hood and to understand most of it.

I’m looking to start a small media and streaming service, and the technical stuff I know. I’m looking for small business owners who can give help and advice for new business owners like me who don’t have the knowledge to RUN the business.

Mr Mistoffelees

It started conversations, but then they all stopped when arrests were made. Now if more people threw pies all the time, and did so anonymously, and at more targets, we might have a chance to change things. We can’t just let one person take a stand and then take the fall while asking if it meant anything. It means something when the example is followed.

I was rather excited when I heard about the reboots. And for the most part, I did enjoy the different takes on things. But I couldn’t stand how small they made the galaxy. Few hours to get to Vulcan, a transwarp system that sent a man to Klingon space in a matter of days. No scale at all. But it took me years to watch the third one, and didn’t like it at all.

For me, it doesn’t matter the office plan as long as I’m not working for Private Equity owned retail for less than peanuts.

It can also be the same reason the carpet patterns in casinos is a bit off, designed to irritate slightly so your head stays up and you focus on the stores more.

I have seen plenty of comments here trying to make Gabe out to be an ultra bad capitalist evil villain because he owns this company that, as far as I’m aware, pays it’s employees. And most of those arguments are around the fact that it’s a mega yacht company. All sounding like people shouldn’t have unnecessary luxuries. If we went down that route, nobody needs video games, nobody needs music recordings, movies or tv shows, nobody needs clothing that expresses themselves, we all should only have the basic necessary tools of work and the most utilitarian of clothing and homes. Food only to sustain, not enjoy. Tell me I’m wrong.

I won’t disagree that some people don’t need mega yachts, but I feel that having this company, maybe he could work on building better floating housing systems. Or maybe he is employing people and giving them good paychecks for working on these yachts.

I feel like I’m alone with this one, but if you have options, swallow your pride and take them. It’s a paycheck, and can always lead to something better. I took a paycheck job at a retail store and I’m on the management team. Is it something to brag about? God no, it sucks. But my bills are paid and I can advance.

Is it me, or can anybody else tell from the tone where the guy was jerking while writing the review?