The people on your man o’ war
Are treated worse than scum
I’m no flogging captain
And by God I’ve sailed with some
Come with me to Barbary
We’ll ply there up and down
Not quite exactly
In the service of the Crown

🏴‍☠️

But, according to Das Kapital (and the last two centuries) capitalists will always capture the government and regulators, neutering their ability to fulfill their role. Greed and the susceptibility to corruption will always drive the system to where it is today, in which only revolution will free us from the established system.

But even then, civil war rarely heralds a communist revolution, but usually a run of dictatorships, each overthrown by the next. We have to get very lucky or be tired of fighting before we can install a public serving state. And we haven’t yet tried pre-writing and publishing the new constitution.

Extinction by AI takeover or robot apocalypse does seem cooler than extinction by pollution rendering then environment uninhabitable.

I’d rather not go extinct at all, but if we’re fucked regardless.

As someone highly susceptible to dark patterns, I’d like to see more regulation and investigation of them in commercial practices.

Heck, some kinds of commercial fluffing are outright lies.

My last EA title was Red Alert III which they swaped for a version that required origin. I miss Westwood.

I do hope someone works out how to mod this to replace all ads with KPop.

Babbage as in the steam-driven mechanical game engine, version 2?

I remember the controllers being kinda clunky.

It remains fascinating to me how these apps are being responded to in society. I’d assume part of the point of seeing someone naked is to know what their bits look like, while these just extrapolate with averages (and likely, averages of glamor models). So we still dont know what these people actually look like naked.

And yet, people are still scorned and offended as if they were.

Technology is breaking our society, albeit in place where our culture was vulnerable to being broken.