Or maybe you didn’t read:

not one post about the 759 Americans who died of #COVID19 in the last week of full data from the CDC

759x52= 39,468/ year which is around the flu but higher, makes sense since covid is newer. That’s also assuming that the week in question is not an anomaly, which we don’t know.

My argument is significantly stronger than your data handling

With the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19), flu activity during 2021-2022 was lower than observed before the pandemic. Compared with flu seasons prior to pandemic, the 2021–2022 flu season was mild and occurred in two waves, with a higher number of hospitalizations in the second wave.

You picked a year where covid protocol statistically skewed the data lower than normal

https://www.cdc.gov/flu-burden/php/data-vis/2021-2022.html

Normal per year is typically around 20k deaths, but can go up to 50k

https://www.cdc.gov/flu-burden/php/data-vis/past-seasons.html

I mean it’s here to stay, what is there to care about? It’s the same as the flu or strep throat or the cold, you can get vaccines if they’re available, you can wear a mask in public if you want to protect yourself more but it’s just a fact of life now.

Those 800 people that died of covid probably pails in comparison to the number of people killed by the flu.

Never heard of it, how is this distro for new users? I run mint for reference, but I’m always trying to learn about other distros.

I’m aware the Streisand effect is specifically regarding concealing info causing way more attention drawn to it, my point is that highlighting the fact that gamers hate Denuvo and trying to change that fact will most likely only amplify the hatred.

I will be more specific I hate any software that isn’t required for a game to work. The reason why I worded it vaguely is because I’m not just talking about DRM, but anti-cheat and launchers as well (even though launchers aren’t 3rd party).

As far as metrics are concerned I’m perfectly ok with that, as long as I have the option to opt-in or at the very least made aware of it.

What it really boils down to is I don’t want any unnecessary extraneous packages with the software that I actually want. For the most part I avoid games that add these things.

That’s why I avoid games with launchers for the most part. I also specified what I meant by third party software, I could have worded that more concisely.

I think them trying to win gamers over is just going to Streisand effect the hatred instead. I don’t want 3rd party anything that I don’t elect to install, even if it doesn’t effect the performance( which I also don’t buy).

Mint’s sweet I switched from 10 a few months back. Biggest difference is getting use to the different file system, only 2 games have been unplayable (didn’t try to make them work tbh).

RuneScape would like a word with you

Linux, while overall almost botherless, still looses to windows.

Been using mint for around 2 months and I would say this is pretty accurate. Pretty much every game I play works out of the box. Discord however crashes the whole system sometimes and I can’t figure out why. Would still recommend Linux over windows but you will for sure encounter more issues.

You are right that 45 is still pretty decent all things considered. My mentality on it is: if they didn’t piss off the player base with broken update after broken update AND didn’t have the PSN fiasco AND didn’t constantly nerf every decent weapon, then the player would have naturally declined but it wouldn’t have been near as fast and I think they could have landed in a top 15-30 spot instead.

Of course no one actually knows but all of my group of 8ish people playing stopped a month after we bought the game for one of the above reasons.

Stop calling that thing in your window a blind you sightist, that’s a telescoping sun repeller

Other comments hit on this but I’ll add a little more. There is a good bit of trolls/trolling, some extreme views, and authoritarian government praise. Things like that.

Lemm.ee (my instance) is still federated so I see hexbear post/ comments. It’s definitely a more problematic instance imo.

. world is defederated with hexbear iirc

I disagree, I think it is basic human/biologic that drives us to grab up resources and hoard them to ensure survival/reproduction/future generations. Capitalism is just a vehicle in which we are capable of expressing that biological greed on a global scale.

Strong agree here. You hit on a lot of the core issues on LLMs, so I’ll say my opinions on the economic aspects.

It’s been more than a year since chatGPT released this plague of “slap AI on the product and consumers will put their children down for collateral to buy!” which imo we haven’t seen whatsoever. Investors still have a hard-on for the term AI that goes into the stratosphere but even that is starting to change a little.

Consumers level of AI distrust has risen considerably and consumers have seen past the hype. Wrapping this back around to the CEOs level of power, I just don’t think LLMs are actually going to have enough marketability for general consumers to become juggernaut corpos.

LLMs absolutely have use cases but they don’t fit into most consumer products. No one wants AI washers or rice cookers or friggin AI spoons and shoehorning them in decreases interest in the product.

Fair enough, Jesus they’re getting really brazen

Those are grow kits not actual mushrooms, it’s more of a grey area although selling spores for growing is expressly illegal.

Why don’t you americans have some younger and more capable people to vote for?

God I’ve said this almost as long as I’ve been able to vote

I don’t know about top 3 popular, in the SE Hillary is probably one of the top 3 most hated politicians and land area wins elections here unfortunately.