Ursula Le Guin of Earthsea fame put it nicely:

Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their truth-telling to sentimental platitude. heroes brandish their swords, lasers, wands, as mechanically as combine harvesters, reaping profits. Profoundly disturbing moral choices are sanitized, made cute, made safe. The passionately conceived ideas of the great story-tellers are copied, stereotyped, reduced to toys, molded in bright-colored plastic, advertised, sold, broken, junked, replaceable, interchangeable.

What the commodifiers of fantasy count on and exploit is the insuperable imagination of the reader, child or adult, which gives even these dead things life- of a sort, for a while.

We used to have standardized package sizes in the EU for things like butter, chocolate, etc. So stupid to give that up

You start with macroscopic photolithography, add material science of semiconductors and then iterate a million times. It didn't start at nanoscale.

I figured if she was scared enough to ask a stranger to hold her hand, it would be meaningful to her to do it.

This is such an important realization, I think. It was a little bit awkward for you, but imagine her internal process.

Critical mainframe legacy banking software runs on Gameboy color!

You could argue most of the money some top athletes make is from advertising deals and you might see that as amoral. Being really good at running is impressive, but doesn't inherently contribute hundreds of millions of dollars worth of value to society.

The sieve guy?

Programming term. Variables in programming languages can hold different types of data, such as whole numbers, floating point numbers or strings of characters ("text"). Untyped languages figure out on the fly what can and cannot be done to the content of a variable, while typed languages strictly keep track of the type of content (not the value) to catch bugs and improve performance, for example.

Also amount of storage. When Gmail first launched it offered a gig of storage or so, while other email providers had around 10 megabytes.

American History X. I wasn't ready for the curb scene.

What you don't get is a feeling for how common these failures occur though.

Ludicrous: the word Ludacris: the rapper

And what "serious psychiatric care" do you even think there is for it? Unless you also believe in gay conversion camps, we have nothing. We don't even really know how sexuality actually works in the brain, we definitely aren't anywhere close to being able to treat it.

There's programmes that focus on how to deal with it in a societally acceptable way, mainly on how not to become a predator. That's a pretty good start.

By God, just get an electric stove like the rest of the world.

Just a few weeks ago helldivers was one of the poster child dev teams that got gamers and therefore deserve their success. What a turnaround...

It's much easier to suppress farting than the involuntary reflexes of coughing and sneezing.

Wer sich in streng hierarchischen Strukturen wohlfühlt ist häufiger rechtsextrem.

Ok, und das soll jetzt wenn genau beruhigen und warum? Von Pinochet haben sie auch gesagt er wäre ein rückgratloser Mitläufer und als Diktator war davon nichts mehr zu bemerken.

There's dozens of us

There is a difference however. The techno feudalists are no longer about the means of production. Instead they increasingly show rent-seeking behaviour. Businesses looking to own "market places" and becoming brokers of other people's services is a techni feudalist trend. Take Amazon for example. They sell top spots in their search directly to business customers. An app store monopoly is more akin to land ownership than classic factory capitalism.