What is it about armpit hair? Where I lost it was in The Greatest Showman the bearded lady had shaved armpits. Really? You shave your armpits to fit in with social norms (well modern ones, not necessarily historically) but you don't shave your face? Who thought up that one?
To be serious, Fashion and armpit hair don't go hand in hand. It is a visual distraction when wearing sleeveless clothing. A sleeveless top with a big clump of black hair sticking out just takes away from the smoothness of the skin, and instead of looking at the person and her clothing, you keep going back to the clump of hair. The same with bathing suits and pubic/belly hair.. Some ladies are quite hirsute.
In addition, some guys find female body hair very sexually stimulating - which is why the feminist demand that women not shave might be a little self defeating. I think that the claims that shaving hair is a too of the patriarchy to suppress women has led them to believe that all men want women to be hairless other than their heads. That is incorrect. There is a lot of "hairy" porn out there.
Are car chases and bikinis the only way to appeal to men?
You would have to call up the Hallmark channel and ask why they don't include them in their movies.
Do women not like car chases?
And you step into the trap with both feet.
The reason that HallMark doesn't have car chases or politics in their movies is because of two things. Because the genre of movies that is attractive to a large set of women is romance, and they cater to that genre - as opposed to action movies. The second reason is that they don't want car chases and politics in their romance genre movies. That sort of thing really dilutes the whole concept of genre.
Women who enjoy watching movies with car chases or women in bikinis will enjoy watching action genre movies. And that's cool. You can have a love interest in an action movie, but you don't explore that to the depth that a romance movie does.
It is really quite simple. Stick to the genre. pay some attention to canon if you are making series. Do not kill the golden goose.
Allow me to simplfy this for you. Changing movies deliberately to antagonize your customers is a very risky thing to do. Kennedy's statements indicate she felt no obligation to her fans. And the ridicule, belittlement, and even claims that these fans simply do not exist. Some claim they are Russian bots.
It is up to the new audience of the new socially woke Star Wars to step in and take the place of those fans that they feel no need for. Hopefully the new fans will increase profits and show those horrible sexistracisthomophobicRussian bots theey are not only not needed, but Disney has increased profits by telling them to get the hell out of their theaters, there's a new boss in town, and she's kicking ass and taking names.
The vast majority of people loved TLJ. It's consistently polled high, it had extremely high ratings when viewers were polled on opening day, and Blu-ray sales are through the roof.
Here is some of SWTLJ's unprecedented popularity and success.:
http://fortune.com/2018/01/18/... So successful that they stopped showing it. But hey - thd Chinses market means absolutely nothing, it's nonexistent amirite? Disney doesn't need any money from them.
Everything is doing so well that they put further spinoff movies off. Becoming more popular by austerity.
You sound like an SJW version of Republicans defending Trickle-down theory.
Other than that - I've managed to be pretty successful in life by thanking people when I get criticisms, analyzing them, and acting on them to improve my product. I recently retired from running an event that had thousands of passionate fans. They stayed passionate because I respected that and them. Even if I disagreed with them. This doesn't mean I would take actual abuse. I had rules of no name calling, no threats, and keep swearing to a minimum. But they always knew I would listen. And they kept sending money so the happieness index was high.
As one wag noted about Rian Johnson's reaction to criticism - positively, I mimght add!"Eventually, Rian Johnson would hear the criticism made by fans, but ultimately decide it didn't matter."https://www.cinemablend.com/ne...
By the way - that would have been Johnson's last act in my employ. He'd be escorted out of the building by security. You work for me - you don't ignore the customer.
I take it that you approve of the idea that any criticsm must be responded to by calling the person offring it a sexist, racist, and too weak to handle your product. Because that was the Pro-TLJ narrative. https://www.salon.com/2018/07/...
Look - a critic might be wrong. But you don't just reject them by calling them names. They did care for your product enough to make the criticism. A variation on the "If we ignore the customer long enough, they'll quit bothering us"
Then there is the golden age of name calling: https://www.starwarsnewsnet.co... JJ. Abrams called them sexist and racist, but he really didn't because they are racist and sexist. Anytime you need your statements clarified its interesting.
Next time you get a performance review, try personally attacking your boss, if they offer anything other than glowing reviews of your perfection. Then deciding to ignore any critique. Then let us know how that works out for ya.
As I've told climate deniers, young earth creationists, anti-vaxxers, and now SJW Star Wars sycophants - You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. Not even your alternative facts, Kellyanne!
I'm sure those directors are pretty upset about the bookings billions of dollars their movies took in. The failure of Solo was surely because fans had no money left, not because it was shit.
You might want to do some research. Aside from painting critics of The last Jedi as racist, sexist, and toxic nerds, the Rsponse of Kathleen Kennedy the honcho of today's Star wars movie is "I have a responsibility to the company that I work with. I don’t feel that I have a responsibility to cater in some way. I would never just seize on saying, 'Well, this is a franchise that’s appealed primarily to men for many, many years, and therefore I owe men something.'"
So here is the questyion to you framed in a differnt way. Let's say you are the CEO of the Hallmark channel. An overwhelming majority of the patrons on the Hallmark channel are women. The movies are the standard woman meets man/conflict/girl loses man/resolution romance model. They are making a lot of money with this.
So now someone new comes in and tells you that you have to start making movies to cater to a standard male preference. That you need to change your movies to have chase scenes, some violence, and sexy women in bikinis. And add some war into the mix. Then they tell you "I have a responsibility to the company that I work with. I don’t feel that I have a responsibility to cater in some way. I would never just seize on saying, 'Well, this is a franchise that’s appealed primarily to Women for many, many years, and therefore I owe Women something.'"
Do you - Animojo - who is heading the Hallmark Channel, change your movies to men's preferences and incorporate war and violence and hotties in bikinis in movies because it it right and just to not cater to women? Are you prepared to lose money via an attempt to abandon one audience to curry favor to another?
Then if women complain that the romance movies they enjoyed so much are now awful, do you ridicule them and call them names?
Yes - Star Wars had a lot of male fans. It had a lot of female fans too, but yes the majority are male. Just as the majority of the Hallmark Channel fans are women. And both support the things they like with their wallets.
And while there have been many excuses as to why Solo failed - your idea that the fans were indigent is pretty funny. Another is that everyone was suffering from fatigue, that Solo was released too soon. Marvel movies might have something to say about that. The rumblings started a few years back.
After The Force Awakens, a number of the fans were grumbling a bit. With The Last Jedi, the complaints grew louder. But instead of taking a complaint as a gift, Disney's folks ridiculed the fans, calling them racist, sexist, and being unable to handle "strong women". Which is pretty strange, every SW fan I know is seriously enthusiastic about Sigourney Weaver in the Alien trilogy, and Linda Hamilton's Sarah O'Conner part in Terminator, in which she grows from a Timid housefife into a reall badass take no prisoners person. Those are just a sample.
But the Force Awakens and Last Jedi toys languished on toy store shelves. The archetype Star Wars fan is going to go to the movies several times, and buy a lot of the promotional merchandise.
And after the treatment they got, the word went out to show Disney that if you want to make movies, you cater to the people who go to them. So for lack of a better term, they boycotted them.
You see, the people demanding the "inclusivity" and what passes for a "strong woman" these days don't usually go to Sci-fi movies. And they definitely do not spend money on promotional merchandise. Most people who go to sci-fi movies don't want to be preached at, and they consider a strong woman character to be someone like Weaver and Hamilton, not just women with bad attitudes. No one told us that Ripley and O'Conner were strong women - it was obvious.
There are many reasons to shave legs and armpit hair, for both males and females, the most obvious being health an smell. Long body hair is a haven for many illness inducing microbes, especially in warm climates.
Also, some women and men are mostly hairless.
Sure. The whole body hair issue is just a strange one. Some of the same ladies that won't shave their pits because patriarchy will shave half the hair on their head off because patriarchy. It is.......complex, I guess.
The plastic bans in the US are there to prevent Africa and China from dumping plastic in the oceans.
No - doesn't make sense to me either.
Have you ever tried telling someone to stop doing something that you yourself is guilty of?
"Do as I say, not as I do!" never really works.
Sorry the USA and the rest of the world is simply not the problem. We can't fix it. Only the countries that are dumping almost the entirety of the plasitc into the oceans can fix this. Sorry if you don't understand that.
Unless you are proposing that the US go over there and pick up all of the plastic these countries are dumping.
It may not be a good game because of catering to the perpetually offended.
There is one fact I know: If you cater to the people that aren't your customers at the expense of your customers, then you will absolutely lose customers, and the people you catered to will move on to fuck with something else.
This has been learned the hard way in more than just EA's case. The destruction of the Star Wars golden goose by Kennedy and Johnson. Especially when they not only refused criticism, they attacked and ridiculed anyone who disagreed with them.
How'd that work out?
In the world of entertainment, it is pretty important that you produce entertainment that your customers want.
And if you produce a game based on a event like WW2, it needs to be accurate, because the customer is pretty well versed.
And yeah - an alternative universe WW2 game could be made. And as long as it's known as an alternative game, its all good.
But speaking to that - you get interesting things when you cater to those people. The latest Wonder Woman movie which did indeed have a war setting, which did indeed have social Justice oversight - still outraged some of the easily offended.
They were outraged that Gal Gadot raised her arm - and horrors!!! To Twitter and scream!! Wonder Woman Gal Gadot had no armpit hair!! https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/...
What is worse, Wonder woman as a member of an immortal race of only women could not give true consent, therefore she was raped!!! https://slate.com/human-intere...
The point is good people, if you are dealing with a group who cannot be satisfied, there is no point in dealing with them at all.
Or, you know... it's just not a very good game. Couldn't have anything to do with it, though, no - it's just those SJWs getting their just desserts! Of course!
Well you are right - it isn't a very good game. That has everything to do with it. You can't have people who aren't going to buy and play the game having control over the gameplay.
Catering to the perpetually offended instead of your loyal gamer fanbase did not work out for you, EA? How surprising.
This! There is a saying - Get Woke, Go Broke. It's real, at least for the 21st century version of woke, which for all of it's presumed "inclusiveness" is really just racism and sexism directed at a different target.
And unfortunately the target the social justice people are demanding these companies to go after is the very market that buys and plays games. When surrendering to their demand for whatever they are offended by today, you only get the privilege of getting targeted by what offends them tomorrow.
And the social justice crowd that you suddenly have to have approve your every move is only going to control your every move - they certainly aren't going to buy and play the games that you have designed.
And the great irony is the new rulers over EA would be all too happy if EA went out of business. Because the perpetually offended crowd's real target is your present customers.
If you google this, you might find that they're being auctioned to private citizens for them to remove the proprietary GPS stuff and just use it as a dumb e-scooter for their own use. Not much "making" required, splice some wires + toggle.
But a bright person could disassemble them, and make some cool stuff.
Not to mention, a lot of fun pranks can be made with those GPS units.
the Yangtze - which is responsible for 55 percent of the trash in the entire world.
That's.......so far from true I can only imagine you were drunk when you wrote it.
I imagine you meant to say, "55% of the plastic that got to oceans from rivers came from the Yangtze river" but that is very far from what you actually said.
Perhaps I am just parroting fake news, or perhaps I am a pathological liar that wrote the story for the verdict. Perhaps I made the crucial mistake of thinking that a reader would understand that in context - it meant the same thing, Trash plastic, Polymers of vasrious types and sources. Perhaps the Verdict people are drunk. You could ask them.
But I personally haven't been drunk since High School.
US trash gets shipped there, in addition to ending up in our own waterways. No - you're not exactly a genius. Many countries are taking similar steps of necessity. Stop being stupid.
So you are telling me that China just dumps the US trash in their rivers?
And they don't accept US recyclables any more - been more than a year - and by your logic, there is no more trash emanating from the Yangtze - which is responsible for 55 percent of the trash in the entire world.
The really clever thing is it comes from multiple spots along the river, meaning that China takes the plastic, distributes it along it's river system in many points, and instructs it's citizens to look like they are dumping their very own trash. Freaking brilliant.
You have a newsletter? Or at least T-Shirts. Your ideas are very very intriguing.
There is literally no way to sanely combine a single passage for both pedestrians and vehicles of any form. Governments that allow the abuse of pedestrians by any vehicle do so quite purposely, do DISCOURAGE walking. It is notable that many SF short stories in the 50s and 60s explored this theme, with citizens arrested and given psych evaluations if they insisted on still walking to places outside.
In the recent past, plebs were purposely controlled by severly limiting their ability to travel any distance beyond tiny limits, and plebs tended to live and die in a very small radius. Today, the SJW movement demonises most methods of travel used by ordinary people. The Deep State intention is a future where the plebs once agian live and die in highly contained regions.
The 'electric' car and 'oil is bad' movements are a key part opf this strategy. Humans that travel are a problem to the Deep state demons in many ways- not least because they learn that their own societal rules are pretty much arbitary.
Every quality of life ordinary people enjoy is currently under concentrated attack by warmongering neoliberal outlets like slashdot. Tony Blair's orwellian planetary agenda is hurtling ahead in every major empire power, and forced on the people of the nations controlled by these empires. Those voices that oppose the demonic Blair, and the blairites that impose his will in pretty much every nation are carefully attacked.
(and yes, I'm aware Britain is one of those nations that currently limits electric vehicles on pavements, but that isn't a counter argument since the Deep State has to tailor its methods for greatest impact in any given society)
Ding ding ding - we have a winner! You dear AC have combined almost every wing nut touchstone into a nice concise package, and adequately proven that the solution to everything is getting rid of e-scooters!
Now bonus points if you can wrap the whole thing in a bow, and tell us how this promotes dogs and chinchillas living together in sin, and the damn teenagers dropping thought control pods disguised as fertilizer pellets on your lawn.
Complaining about bans on plastic bags and straws is a distraction from real issues like mass surveillance/privacy rights, planned obsolescence/e-waste, poor quality education, and a generally authoritarian bent in the US. No one wants to bring back lead paint, carbon tet cleaning products, DDT, or PCB-based transformer oil -- environmental laws aren't evil.
The plastic bans in the US are there to prevent Africa and China from dumping plastic in the oceans.
Why would anyone think it was ok to ride a motorized vehicle on the sidewalk?
Carrying on the time honored Slashdot tradition of not even reading the summary I see...
They're not. They're parking on the sidewalks. And the city government is too lazy and incompetent to do their fucking jobs and enforce their own laws, as with most California cities. Until now, when somebody finally found a bigger victim. In California's victim politics, the biggest victim wins.
Ahem - at least one person in the FA was riding his scooter on the sidewalk.
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Tobacco, pharma ... they already have figured out how to kill us and make money.
Exactly. Good point.
Sprint, like all the others, is just negotiating a big price increase for their customer's location data.
These are corporations people, if they could figure out how to kill you and continue to make money, they would.
Or of course, you could just take them at their word.
What is it about armpit hair? Where I lost it was in The Greatest Showman the bearded lady had shaved armpits. Really? You shave your armpits to fit in with social norms (well modern ones, not necessarily historically) but you don't shave your face? Who thought up that one?
To be serious, Fashion and armpit hair don't go hand in hand. It is a visual distraction when wearing sleeveless clothing. A sleeveless top with a big clump of black hair sticking out just takes away from the smoothness of the skin, and instead of looking at the person and her clothing, you keep going back to the clump of hair. The same with bathing suits and pubic/belly hair.. Some ladies are quite hirsute.
In addition, some guys find female body hair very sexually stimulating - which is why the feminist demand that women not shave might be a little self defeating. I think that the claims that shaving hair is a too of the patriarchy to suppress women has led them to believe that all men want women to be hairless other than their heads. That is incorrect. There is a lot of "hairy" porn out there.
Are car chases and bikinis the only way to appeal to men?
You would have to call up the Hallmark channel and ask why they don't include them in their movies.
Do women not like car chases?
And you step into the trap with both feet.
The reason that HallMark doesn't have car chases or politics in their movies is because of two things. Because the genre of movies that is attractive to a large set of women is romance, and they cater to that genre - as opposed to action movies. The second reason is that they don't want car chases and politics in their romance genre movies. That sort of thing really dilutes the whole concept of genre.
Women who enjoy watching movies with car chases or women in bikinis will enjoy watching action genre movies. And that's cool. You can have a love interest in an action movie, but you don't explore that to the depth that a romance movie does.
It is really quite simple. Stick to the genre. pay some attention to canon if you are making series. Do not kill the golden goose.
Allow me to simplfy this for you. Changing movies deliberately to antagonize your customers is a very risky thing to do. Kennedy's statements indicate she felt no obligation to her fans. And the ridicule, belittlement, and even claims that these fans simply do not exist. Some claim they are Russian bots.
It is up to the new audience of the new socially woke Star Wars to step in and take the place of those fans that they feel no need for. Hopefully the new fans will increase profits and show those horrible sexistracisthomophobicRussian bots theey are not only not needed, but Disney has increased profits by telling them to get the hell out of their theaters, there's a new boss in town, and she's kicking ass and taking names.
The vast majority of people loved TLJ. It's consistently polled high, it had extremely high ratings when viewers were polled on opening day, and Blu-ray sales are through the roof.
Here is some of SWTLJ's unprecedented popularity and success.:
http://fortune.com/2018/01/18/... So successful that they stopped showing it. But hey - thd Chinses market means absolutely nothing, it's nonexistent amirite? Disney doesn't need any money from them.
Fiugurine/promotional item sales are through the roof - never better! http://fortune.com/2018/01/18/...
That's okay, no one needs that stuff anyhow.
https://www.theguardian.com/fi...
Everything is doing so well that they put further spinoff movies off. Becoming more popular by austerity.
You sound like an SJW version of Republicans defending Trickle-down theory. Other than that - I've managed to be pretty successful in life by thanking people when I get criticisms, analyzing them, and acting on them to improve my product. I recently retired from running an event that had thousands of passionate fans. They stayed passionate because I respected that and them. Even if I disagreed with them. This doesn't mean I would take actual abuse. I had rules of no name calling, no threats, and keep swearing to a minimum. But they always knew I would listen. And they kept sending money so the happieness index was high.
As one wag noted about Rian Johnson's reaction to criticism - positively, I mimght add!"Eventually, Rian Johnson would hear the criticism made by fans, but ultimately decide it didn't matter." https://www.cinemablend.com/ne...
By the way - that would have been Johnson's last act in my employ. He'd be escorted out of the building by security. You work for me - you don't ignore the customer.
I take it that you approve of the idea that any criticsm must be responded to by calling the person offring it a sexist, racist, and too weak to handle your product. Because that was the Pro-TLJ narrative. https://www.salon.com/2018/07/...
Look - a critic might be wrong. But you don't just reject them by calling them names. They did care for your product enough to make the criticism. A variation on the "If we ignore the customer long enough, they'll quit bothering us"
Then there is the golden age of name calling: https://www.starwarsnewsnet.co... JJ. Abrams called them sexist and racist, but he really didn't because they are racist and sexist. Anytime you need your statements clarified its interesting.
Next time you get a performance review, try personally attacking your boss, if they offer anything other than glowing reviews of your perfection. Then deciding to ignore any critique. Then let us know how that works out for ya.
As I've told climate deniers, young earth creationists, anti-vaxxers, and now SJW Star Wars sycophants - You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. Not even your alternative facts, Kellyanne!
I'm sure those directors are pretty upset about the bookings billions of dollars their movies took in. The failure of Solo was surely because fans had no money left, not because it was shit.
You might want to do some research. Aside from painting critics of The last Jedi as racist, sexist, and toxic nerds, the Rsponse of Kathleen Kennedy the honcho of today's Star wars movie is "I have a responsibility to the company that I work with. I don’t feel that I have a responsibility to cater in some way. I would never just seize on saying, 'Well, this is a franchise that’s appealed primarily to men for many, many years, and therefore I owe men something.'"
So here is the questyion to you framed in a differnt way. Let's say you are the CEO of the Hallmark channel. An overwhelming majority of the patrons on the Hallmark channel are women. The movies are the standard woman meets man/conflict/girl loses man/resolution romance model. They are making a lot of money with this.
So now someone new comes in and tells you that you have to start making movies to cater to a standard male preference. That you need to change your movies to have chase scenes, some violence, and sexy women in bikinis. And add some war into the mix. Then they tell you "I have a responsibility to the company that I work with. I don’t feel that I have a responsibility to cater in some way. I would never just seize on saying, 'Well, this is a franchise that’s appealed primarily to Women for many, many years, and therefore I owe Women something.'"
Do you - Animojo - who is heading the Hallmark Channel, change your movies to men's preferences and incorporate war and violence and hotties in bikinis in movies because it it right and just to not cater to women? Are you prepared to lose money via an attempt to abandon one audience to curry favor to another?
Then if women complain that the romance movies they enjoyed so much are now awful, do you ridicule them and call them names?
Yes - Star Wars had a lot of male fans. It had a lot of female fans too, but yes the majority are male. Just as the majority of the Hallmark Channel fans are women. And both support the things they like with their wallets.
And while there have been many excuses as to why Solo failed - your idea that the fans were indigent is pretty funny. Another is that everyone was suffering from fatigue, that Solo was released too soon. Marvel movies might have something to say about that. The rumblings started a few years back.
After The Force Awakens, a number of the fans were grumbling a bit. With The Last Jedi, the complaints grew louder. But instead of taking a complaint as a gift, Disney's folks ridiculed the fans, calling them racist, sexist, and being unable to handle "strong women". Which is pretty strange, every SW fan I know is seriously enthusiastic about Sigourney Weaver in the Alien trilogy, and Linda Hamilton's Sarah O'Conner part in Terminator, in which she grows from a Timid housefife into a reall badass take no prisoners person. Those are just a sample.
But the Force Awakens and Last Jedi toys languished on toy store shelves. The archetype Star Wars fan is going to go to the movies several times, and buy a lot of the promotional merchandise.
And after the treatment they got, the word went out to show Disney that if you want to make movies, you cater to the people who go to them. So for lack of a better term, they boycotted them.
You see, the people demanding the "inclusivity" and what passes for a "strong woman" these days don't usually go to Sci-fi movies. And they definitely do not spend money on promotional merchandise. Most people who go to sci-fi movies don't want to be preached at, and they consider a strong woman character to be someone like Weaver and Hamilton, not just women with bad attitudes. No one told us that Ripley and O'Conner were strong women - it was obvious.
But you are right about one th
There are many reasons to shave legs and armpit hair, for both males and females, the most obvious being health an smell. Long body hair is a haven for many illness inducing microbes, especially in warm climates.
Also, some women and men are mostly hairless.
Sure. The whole body hair issue is just a strange one. Some of the same ladies that won't shave their pits because patriarchy will shave half the hair on their head off because patriarchy. It is.......complex, I guess.
The plastic bans in the US are there to prevent Africa and China from dumping plastic in the oceans.
No - doesn't make sense to me either.
Have you ever tried telling someone to stop doing something that you yourself is guilty of? "Do as I say, not as I do!" never really works.
Sorry the USA and the rest of the world is simply not the problem. We can't fix it. Only the countries that are dumping almost the entirety of the plasitc into the oceans can fix this. Sorry if you don't understand that.
Unless you are proposing that the US go over there and pick up all of the plastic these countries are dumping.
No
It may not be a good game because of catering to the perpetually offended. There is one fact I know: If you cater to the people that aren't your customers at the expense of your customers, then you will absolutely lose customers, and the people you catered to will move on to fuck with something else.
This has been learned the hard way in more than just EA's case. The destruction of the Star Wars golden goose by Kennedy and Johnson. Especially when they not only refused criticism, they attacked and ridiculed anyone who disagreed with them.
How'd that work out?
In the world of entertainment, it is pretty important that you produce entertainment that your customers want.
And if you produce a game based on a event like WW2, it needs to be accurate, because the customer is pretty well versed.
And yeah - an alternative universe WW2 game could be made. And as long as it's known as an alternative game, its all good.
But speaking to that - you get interesting things when you cater to those people. The latest Wonder Woman movie which did indeed have a war setting, which did indeed have social Justice oversight - still outraged some of the easily offended.
They were outraged that Gal Gadot raised her arm - and horrors!!! To Twitter and scream!! Wonder Woman Gal Gadot had no armpit hair!! https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/...
What is worse, Wonder woman as a member of an immortal race of only women could not give true consent, therefore she was raped!!! https://slate.com/human-intere...
The point is good people, if you are dealing with a group who cannot be satisfied, there is no point in dealing with them at all.
Or, you know... it's just not a very good game. Couldn't have anything to do with it, though, no - it's just those SJWs getting their just desserts! Of course!
Well you are right - it isn't a very good game. That has everything to do with it. You can't have people who aren't going to buy and play the game having control over the gameplay.
Catering to the perpetually offended instead of your loyal gamer fanbase did not work out for you, EA? How surprising.
This! There is a saying - Get Woke, Go Broke. It's real, at least for the 21st century version of woke, which for all of it's presumed "inclusiveness" is really just racism and sexism directed at a different target.
And unfortunately the target the social justice people are demanding these companies to go after is the very market that buys and plays games. When surrendering to their demand for whatever they are offended by today, you only get the privilege of getting targeted by what offends them tomorrow.
And the social justice crowd that you suddenly have to have approve your every move is only going to control your every move - they certainly aren't going to buy and play the games that you have designed.
And the great irony is the new rulers over EA would be all too happy if EA went out of business. Because the perpetually offended crowd's real target is your present customers.
If you google this, you might find that they're being auctioned to private citizens for them to remove the proprietary GPS stuff and just use it as a dumb e-scooter for their own use. Not much "making" required, splice some wires + toggle.
But a bright person could disassemble them, and make some cool stuff.
Not to mention, a lot of fun pranks can be made with those GPS units.
the Yangtze - which is responsible for 55 percent of the trash in the entire world.
That's.......so far from true I can only imagine you were drunk when you wrote it. I imagine you meant to say, "55% of the plastic that got to oceans from rivers came from the Yangtze river" but that is very far from what you actually said.
You might take it up with these folks. https://www.verdict.co.uk/yang...
Perhaps I am just parroting fake news, or perhaps I am a pathological liar that wrote the story for the verdict. Perhaps I made the crucial mistake of thinking that a reader would understand that in context - it meant the same thing, Trash plastic, Polymers of vasrious types and sources. Perhaps the Verdict people are drunk. You could ask them.
But I personally haven't been drunk since High School.
US trash gets shipped there, in addition to ending up in our own waterways. No - you're not exactly a genius. Many countries are taking similar steps of necessity. Stop being stupid.
So you are telling me that China just dumps the US trash in their rivers?
And they don't accept US recyclables any more - been more than a year - and by your logic, there is no more trash emanating from the Yangtze - which is responsible for 55 percent of the trash in the entire world.
The really clever thing is it comes from multiple spots along the river, meaning that China takes the plastic, distributes it along it's river system in many points, and instructs it's citizens to look like they are dumping their very own trash. Freaking brilliant.
You have a newsletter? Or at least T-Shirts. Your ideas are very very intriguing.
Sounds legit smart.
I sometimes see them parked in the bike lane as well where I live. Suffice to say they quickly and mysteriously relocate to nearby bushes or ditch.
They do look like a good source of parts for homemade go carts, and maker stuff.
There is literally no way to sanely combine a single passage for both pedestrians and vehicles of any form. Governments that allow the abuse of pedestrians by any vehicle do so quite purposely, do DISCOURAGE walking. It is notable that many SF short stories in the 50s and 60s explored this theme, with citizens arrested and given psych evaluations if they insisted on still walking to places outside.
In the recent past, plebs were purposely controlled by severly limiting their ability to travel any distance beyond tiny limits, and plebs tended to live and die in a very small radius. Today, the SJW movement demonises most methods of travel used by ordinary people. The Deep State intention is a future where the plebs once agian live and die in highly contained regions.
The 'electric' car and 'oil is bad' movements are a key part opf this strategy. Humans that travel are a problem to the Deep state demons in many ways- not least because they learn that their own societal rules are pretty much arbitary.
Every quality of life ordinary people enjoy is currently under concentrated attack by warmongering neoliberal outlets like slashdot. Tony Blair's orwellian planetary agenda is hurtling ahead in every major empire power, and forced on the people of the nations controlled by these empires. Those voices that oppose the demonic Blair, and the blairites that impose his will in pretty much every nation are carefully attacked.
(and yes, I'm aware Britain is one of those nations that currently limits electric vehicles on pavements, but that isn't a counter argument since the Deep State has to tailor its methods for greatest impact in any given society)
Ding ding ding - we have a winner! You dear AC have combined almost every wing nut touchstone into a nice concise package, and adequately proven that the solution to everything is getting rid of e-scooters!
Now bonus points if you can wrap the whole thing in a bow, and tell us how this promotes dogs and chinchillas living together in sin, and the damn teenagers dropping thought control pods disguised as fertilizer pellets on your lawn.
I moved them off to the side, but this is happening often enough that I’m almost to the point of just tossing them into the bushes.
Did the scooters accidentally malfunction after you moved them? Sometimes kinetics happen.
Complaining about bans on plastic bags and straws is a distraction from real issues like mass surveillance/privacy rights, planned obsolescence/e-waste, poor quality education, and a generally authoritarian bent in the US. No one wants to bring back lead paint, carbon tet cleaning products, DDT, or PCB-based transformer oil -- environmental laws aren't evil.
The plastic bans in the US are there to prevent Africa and China from dumping plastic in the oceans.
No - doesn't make sense to me either.
Why would anyone think it was ok to ride a motorized vehicle on the sidewalk?
Carrying on the time honored Slashdot tradition of not even reading the summary I see...
They're not. They're parking on the sidewalks. And the city government is too lazy and incompetent to do their fucking jobs and enforce their own laws, as with most California cities. Until now, when somebody finally found a bigger victim. In California's victim politics, the biggest victim wins.
Ahem - at least one person in the FA was riding his scooter on the sidewalk.
Its a secret soviet weapon which allows them to redirect the flow of stuff inside the earth. "Pootn" has just reactivated the tech.
He Might Putin, he Might Takeout.
I blame the Russians!
It's actrually God punishing us for not producing O'Blama's Kenyan birth certificate!
Cow farts
One of the mods gets a plus 5 funny for modding cow farts as flamebait!
They want to make it sound dramatic so it is big news. Perhaps soon they will have a way to blame the magnetic pole shift on carbon emissions.
Or Mexican rapists.
Serious navigators use GPS, which is a gazillion times more accurate than figuring out where you are with a compass and sextant.
Serious navigators have multiple ways of figuring out where they are. https://chuckhillscgblog.net/2...
GPS is convenient and easy to use. But a delicate thing, prone to jamming.
They do have a nickname for people who rely solely on GPS. Lost.