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  • No need for social darwinism or sketchy eugenics-flavored arguments to explain this.

    Oh for fucks sake with the strawman arguments. u/freedom never stated anything indicating support for eugenics. But apart from that you are totally wrong about the social Darwinism, it’s just not genetic but Memetic as Richard Dawkins has defined it, bad ideals spreading like disease. As in the idolization of personal freedom and money resulting in idolization of sociopathy as the ultimate expression of individual freedom.
    So u/freedom was more right than you, it’s just not genetics driving this problem, it’s cultural insanity.



  • It is not genetic, USA is not an old enough country to have had any significant genetic evolution.
    It is instead as Richard Dawkins has described Memetic.
    Americans have a tradition of being extremely proud of being free, this feature has been advertised as the most significant thing about USA to Americans to a degree that is akin to brainwashing.
    While freedom admittedly is a good thing, the way Americans praise it religiously has turned out to be toxic.
    Because sociopathy is now seen as the ultimate expression of individual freedom, so sociopathy is widely admired as a virtue.
    This combined with how sociopathy is often rewarded economically, because exploiting people and grabbing all the money for yourself is considered being smart, and the #2 thing religiously praised in USA is money that also reward sociopathic behavior.

    This is all about social standards, and the values of society, and has nothing to do with evolutionary shortcomings.
    That said, the way some people here claim you are pushing eugenics is completely baseless.

    But contrary to your thinking, it seems to me that evolution favor the intelligent more now than it ever did. The demands to intelligence to do well in society are ever increasing, and doing well is an advantage when wanting to have children.






  • True about the looks, but is there really any problem with that?
    Of course fancy integration with Proton would be cool, but AFAIK for instance protondb doesn’t say anything about the things proton does to make games work. Only if users can make it better than that.
    So AFAIK a game working out of the box with Proton, does not necessarily work out of the box with Wine.



  • Many games with native Linux support don’t work very well even when they superficially seem to.
    I play 7 days to die, and the gas flames graphic doesn’t work so they are completely invisible, so you walk right into them and die.
    The Proton version however, everything works.
    Same with divinity original sin enhanced edition, in the linux version left alt button doesn’t work to show items that can be picked up, and it can’t be remapped?
    Again in Proton everything works perfectly fine.

    I think all in all, it’s more than 50% of games with linux support that work better with Proton!?





  • It is not “normal” to run a 4 year money loser and claiming to be worth billions.

    Maybe not, but it is absolutely normal to lose money for years to make a profit later.
    Microsoft was ready to lose money on Xbox for 10 years to take a place in the console market. And it’s a very profitable market for them now.
    Microsoft tried some of the same with Windows Phone, where they invested billions for years before they gave up.

    One of the most hyped AI companies is probably OpenAI, and they absolutely have products that makes them money. They are not profitable yet.
    But among the bigger stock holders are Nvidia and Microsoft, and if OpenAI goes under, they will absolutely survive just fine. But I don’t think they will.
    OpenAI is owned by companies that know how to make money, and apparently OpenAI knows how to do it too, and has been quicker to make money on for instance ChatGPT than Google was on making money on YouTube.

    Some AI companies will go down, that’s the nature of being in a cutting edge business, and it’s the nature of competition. But I think the AI business will mature and stabilize like most businesses have, not burst like a bubble.

    Nobody called it a bubble when the smartphone market exploded. Because everybody could see the value of the product, although it’s not quite the same, many companies have been forced out of the smartphone market due to competition. I think the AI market will be mostly similar.