Tobias getting around.

That sounds like an emotional chain of logic, we must dispose of it immediately.

No, but it does help with the flow of the joke. If you have to make that kind of leap for the joke to land, it’s a bit arcane and won’t reach quite as many people.

You know they dont remove the testicle during a vasectomy… right?

That was the assumption that was subverted, yes.

He was on Mars for that one movie…

https://youtu.be/Vd2sLavGofc

and recognizing the reality that we aren’t and by all evidence, won’t.

That’s… literally what I’ve been saying. Have you been ignoring that? My entire point was about motivation, not ability. Your entire point seems to be that there’s no other options and nothing we can do about it. About how it’s the end of the world and we can’t do anything about it.

Sure, people aren’t right now, but a big part of that is because people aren’t accepting why. You can go on and on and on about how we’re not, but unless you put the least amount of thought into why and how to do something meaningful about it, it’s just doom-posting to trick people into thinking we should all just give up.

So. If you want to prove to me, or others, or even to yourself, that that’s not true… maybe start thinking about what we can do, or just shut up. Because we don’t need more people talking about how it’s all pointless and there’s nothing else we can do. We get plenty of that every day from people much smarter than random people on the internet.

Again, those things are a matter of “won’t” rather than “can’t”. It costs “too much” to find alternatives, so companies don’t. Funding for alternate resources simply don’t exist at the level that’s necessary because it doesn’t make anyone lots and lots of money.

Those scientists are warning that we should start looking for alternatives, not that we should give up because it’s simply not possible to find an alternative.

I understand that you don’t want to look further than that, but I judge you for it. Maybe stop taking things at face value and look a little deeper.

but resources are an issue with no solution on the horizon.

We’ve got tons of resources, and the means the produce more. The problem is that’s not going to make some people lots and lots of money, so they don’t do it.

Scarcity is not a problem of “can’t” right now, it’s a problem of “won’t”.

Personnel for what?

It’s always been an oligarchy, but mostly because people let it be an oligarchy. Voting works… when you do it. That’s what’s enabled people like Trump to grab power, people voted for them.

It’s not the only answer, but it’s the single simplest and easiest way for most people to effect change on the world around them. Which makes it surprising just how many people refuse to do it.

If you’re looking for a quick fix all you’ll find is snake oil. The damage has been cumulative over years, decades, if not centuries. There’s no quick and easy fix.

The most general answer is collective action, which this is part of. The next is finding ways to obstruct the bad changes from going through. After that is finding ways to push the better changes through. There’s no single distinct answer for all the problems for any of those steps, except that we work together. Which this helps with.

People are going to suffer, even more than they already are, the best we can do is mitigate it at this point. Mostly because we haven’t acted before now. But, as the cliche goes: The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is now.

Is he back to making comics for buzzfeed?

Master Chief Collection came out in late 2014.

No one called you any names. They said your advice is ridiculous, but that’s not name calling. That’s critiquing.

They’re not using your dishwasher for your needs, they’re using their dishwasher for their needs. They likely don’t overlap. Different models have different feature sets. One can say that they should have done more research into the home networking requirements for super basic features (as heavily explained in the article that we’re all commenting on, and you seem to have completely ignored), but frankly that’s beside the point. The baseline should not be well below par. The baseline should not be “download our potential spyware that also doesn’t necessarily work very well with your system just so you can use basic features”.

I’m glad you like smart features. I think people should have that kind of flexibility and choice in their home environment. The problem here is that when using this particular appliance, they don’t have that choice. That is a problem. Even if, when you use your appliance, you don’t have that issue, they do. Because they are not you, and do not have the exact same use case that you do.

The spice must flow.

I guess we’re supposed to recognize the circuitry on that one person in the robe and just assume they’re a time traveler.

Now throw in average incomes on the low, medium, and high ends and see if that makes any difference in your criticism of people not wanting to spend so much on a game they might get a hundred or so hours out of.

Hell, throw in the average housing costs and costs of consumables while we’re at it.

What does homelessness have to do with anything? Gentrification isn’t specifically about homelessness, I don’t see anyone else mentioning it before now… where did you pull that from?

Gentrification seems to mean the rapid renovation of an area to appeal to a wealthier crowd, which this could easily cover.