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Not to mention they sell way more copies of each game than they used to when sales were limited to physical copies.

It is the same thing that happened with US Social Security Numbers, which were originally just tracking numbers for that one purpose that were coopted by capitalists and treated like something special.

I don’t know why the Dems keep shooting themselves in the foot to further Republican goals but they seem to be pretty good at it.

He won’t tho.

Why would the administration that pushed for the ban intervene?

the overwhelming bulk of the internet is made up of idiots

Which makes sense because they are just regular people who are, unsurprisingly, mostly idiots.

It was about growing the user base so more data could be harvested, not about the connections being made.

The point of forcing ownership to be American was to force TikTok to be sold to Musk or one of the other massive data harvesting jack offs.

He should absolutely have his citizenship revoked and be deported because we have it on record that he knew he falsely stayed for his personal benefit.

I will cut less well off immigrants slack for not following the complex and difficult process, especially if they immigrated for asylum, but Musk did it because he could get away with it and deserves to be punished for it.

Except when he wanted it banned during his first term and up until very, very recently when he flip flopped to loving it.

Ask yourself when in the history of our country did 85% of congress agree on something?

Patriot Act and other government spying laws of course.

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

Who ever claimed he created the technology?

The initial comment in this thread:

Honestly the way he did it was pretty perfect. Create technology and weapons and R&D for the country you want to infiltrate, ingratiate yourself to it’s people, government, and military. Then start throwing money into politics to buy yourself a spot on the cabinet.

This is what was being responded to.

He founded Space X, but he did not create the technology and do the R&D alone like Tony Stark. He got the funding though.

Seriously there are so many parallels to real life. This was made in 2012. A bit ahead of its time.

Like with most movies and books that seem ahead of their time because they ‘predict the future’, the show was based on an existing trend that was happening and they accurately predicted the obvious outcome. That isn’t a criticism of their artistic ability, just pointing out that we were well on this path back in 2012 and the show happened to highlight that trend.

20 years ago it would have been considered a farce!

If they added the options to choose what to see it would be fantastic! Most don’t though.

You know how the shape or spacing of something can provide information?

An analogue clock makes it easy to glance at and see the difference between two times. If it is at 10 you can instantly know if you have two hours until midnight (or noon) because there are two hour spaces. If it says 10 you have to mentally calculate the two hours. If you want to do something in 15 minutes it is a lot easier to glance ahead the distance on the clock than to calculate 15 minutes from now based on a digital display.

The same thing is true for well designed analogue speedometers and tachometers. On my last car 75 mph was basically noon on the speedometer so I could see if I was going the right speed out of the corner of my eye because the line being vertical doesn’t require direct concentration. Same with the tach, I knew where 3500 rpm was to know when to shift when the music was too loud to hear the engine.

Both require some familarity of course. I actually had a pain learning how to read an analogue clock until an uncle explained how he used the spacing and then it clicked. Speedometers vary from car to car, so it takes getting used to a new one.

Both come down to how quickly we can recognize shapes and expected positions of things compared to reading numbers. My current vehicle has a digital speedometer and I hate it because I have to actively read it, can’t just glance at it like the old analogue displays.

Dials and digital displays are like clocks, the position can relay a lot of additional contextual information that doesn’t come from a simple number.

Also, make the text bigger.

So many displays have tiny, hard to read text that could easily be twice as tall and wide without even impacting the blank space that separates them.