Well I played beasts of maravilla island with my youngest (late teens) and can recommend. Very cute, nice dynamics and very easy to turn off and come back later.

Did also not know momcore was a thing tho…

Yeah my comment is meandering a bit. Maybe a more succinct way would be to say: this so called market is a private firm and it’s in their own interest to not divulge the whole picture.

You’re absolutely right about complex systems always leaking info through unintended sidechannels, but I would argue that is information not available to everyone on the “market” at the same time, thus skewing the market (and again benefitting the owners of the market more than anyone).

I’m not either. I read a few articles when I thought about buying a Tesla back when and the lamination on the outside of their windows seems to make the glass much more durable.

From what I gather most car manufacturers today do the same lamination trick.

Just a quick heads up, ninja rocks do not work with modern car windows.

Council President is of LN/LSP (Italian far right nationalists) in a country lead by FdI (Italian fascists.) Sad, but not surprising to see Authoritarian Countries supporting each other…

Well depends on the definition of public… When Peter Thiel invests heavily in a platform like polymarket all it does is tell him if his political power is showing. Everything else is breadcrumbs we are allowed to see…

Much like with similar markets, robinhood comes to mind, I suspect this is of similar cloth (hugely profitable to the insiders, sometimes profitable to the outsiders and the public ““findings”” get massaged by their marketing department.

KRISTI NOEM, Homeland Security Secretary: “I was in Portland yesterday and had the chance to visit with the governor of Oregon, and also the mayor there in town, and they are absolutely covering up the terrorism that is hitting their streets.”

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

When a group of Dark Triad Individuals takes down a democracy this needs to be called something more than gaslighting. Gaslighting does not feel enourmous enough for what they are doing.

Logical and sad the remaining publications fall in step with government policy. But since they are comercial endeavours first, I doubt they have much choice but to deny reality if they want to live.

I mean the known messages listed in the article were

“Stephen Miller is destroying democracy,” “stop the kidnapping,” "we 🤍 immigrants,” “hate has no home in Arlington,” “no white nationalism,” “trans rights are human rights”

Also:

She [Millers Wife] subsequently posted a photo of “DEI enriches us all” written in chalk on a sidewalk, labeling it “the rallying cry of the losers of the Left.”

This sounds so much like Satire. Coming from a real person this sounds so delusional, it makes my schizophrenic ex more coherent during one of their episodes.

Also the house flipping angle (we want a Meeeellion Dollars more than what we paid for two years ago) makes this story even more absurd.

… immer diese undurchsichtigen imperialen Maßeinheiten

Dunno sounds more like psychopath behaviour …

plus it’s their CEO, or their community manager in their name, directly addressing the questioner and going “you don’t understand, under our big tent approach only 5% of people we give money to are controversial, let’s not address your concerns and move on.”

While I agree in principle, the response from the CEO, was: only like 5% of people we give money to are racist Nazi bigots “controversial”, let’s agree to disagree and move on.

Which is massive narcissitic, non-empathic behaviour. It’s giving me less “you don’t matter because soon you’ll be dead”-vibes and more “I am literally unable to understand your concerns and empathise with you”-vibe, which to me personally is much more damning.

…and considerably longer to develop certain aspects of a field. I’ve seen Professors whose work came to fruition 20, 30 years later. It wasn’t the person themselves, but the team they assembled around them ( which also takes lots of time).

Tja, der metro Konzern bereitet dann schonmal die Abmahnungen vor. Warte, nein, jeder Penny, Rewe, metro für sich, weil das sind alles völlig unabhängige Einzelunternehmen. /s

To anyone curious how it sounds, I found this ABC segment about the sounds. Rather underwhelming, but cute. Sounds start like halfway in.

Make use of that second link.

I get that participation is important, but why does it feel like google is outsourcing good, sane management decisions?

Welcome to my mind. Thank you for your company. Tea is on the counter, please help yourself.

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And messages like these (yOu ArE nAtUrAlLy iMmUnE) are very harmful and wrong. To quote one recent article:

The autistic brain’s preference for factual information and logical reasoning can indeed provide some protection against emotionally manipulative tactics. […]

The article then continues to list examples of persuasion techniques that work on spectrum individuals. With examples of nostalgia and hypnotics. I’m not an expert in marketing, but given the random bells, jingles, dog barks, baby/cat cries in marketing from the last 25 years, I bet these logic-thought terminating triggers have been baked into advertising for a long time.

Yeah, my working theory is violent narcissists have a much harder time beeing casually violent, so they go ever more totalitarian, because then they can be violent without repercussions again…