One could write a paper about how profit motive and art are at odds, and as the portion of agents seeking profit goes up the quality of the art goes down. Probably many people have written quite a bit about that.

I think it’s also worse when the people keeping the profits are removed from making the art. Someone who sets out to make a game and make some money on it will probably make better art than a pack of accountants and shareholders calling the shots.

Aardwolf is still up and pretty good. Has a special client with some QoL features like mapping.

It’s not as good as Project Bob, but sadly that one shut down years ago.

Platforms could moderate their content. They choose not to.

The through line in this kind of thing is always people being selfish and reasoning poorly.

It’s like when someone says “I need to own a car! What if I need to move furniture??” It’s just emotional sludge that doesn’t stand up to reason with fair axioms.

Most developers I’ve looked at would happily just paste the curl|bash thing into the terminal.

I often would skim the script in the browser, but a. This post shows that’s not fool proof and b. a sufficiently sophisticated malicious script would fool a casual read

I do the package update stuff every session or so. It’s not a priority for me but the GUI has a little notification, so I just click it sometimes.

Bigger updates like moving to a new LTS of the distro- I put off. I’m on pop!_os now and mint previously.

I’m pretty sure conservatives axiomatically have a problem with women. That’s part of conservatism.