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  • If you’ll notice I mention the biggest offenders and/or the the underlying management infrastructure.

    Private jet owners getting systematically luigi’d would also fall under that remit, I was just using data centres as an example.

    Oil rigs, Nestlé, blackrock etc would also all work , with varying degrees of efficacy and difficulty.

    To address your argument directly, before you get all preachy think of the actual consequences of major data centres going down, all the critical infrastructure running on said data centres would also go down.

    That’s air traffic control, shipping and logistics ,and yes, agriculture; any system relying on cloud services running in those data centres

    If you pick the right ones and do it properly (a competently executed strategy, if you will) then you could cripple most industries, with all the consequences that brings.






  • Stating something is true with no supporting argument other than “I said so” followed by some shaky(at best) logic doesn’t leave much in the way of conversation points.

    But lets give it a go.

    Firstly there was no demand or proposal for any demographic to partake in the activity mentioned.

    Secondly, assuming the first point wasn’t true, by your rationale there would be no way to mention any activity without it being a suggestion that all current recipients must immediately perform said activity, which it patently ridiculous.

    Thirdly, the suggestion that you are a best in class mental gymnast isn’t a thought terminating cliche, perhaps you could claim ad hominem but as I said before ,“I’m right, because reasons” doesn’t leave many conversational avenues open.





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    21 days ago

    Indeed, but my comment was a reply to another poster who was implying a specific metric.

    I was just trying to point out that metric isn’t the same for everyone, even a composite metric will differ person to person


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    That assumes that enjoyment is the only metric, which is common, but not universal.

    Some people can think the movie is of high quality, but the subject matter isn’t for them, as an example.

    Think of it like food:

    Good food: the food you enjoy

    Bad food: the food you don’t

    Unless you’re basing good and bad on how “healthy” the food is (for whatever given metric of health you want to use)




  • They landed people on the moon and then did fuck all for decades.

    Indeed, all i was saying is that they were capable given budget and circumstances.

    That budget and direction comes from the government.

    When Musk started SpaceX he was not well known yet, SpaceX came before Tesla.

    I will admit, i thought spacex was just another company he bought his way in to, like tesla, seems i was mistaken about that.

    He was able to get into the businesses he has because he was rich yes, but you can find many accounts of engineers that worked under him speak of how good he was at finding ways to cut unnecessary costs.

    And you can equally find many accounts of having to distract him from the day to day operations because he’s unreliable , unpredictable and chaotic (none of those meant in a good way).

    He’s also known for buying good press and using litigation to silence people.

    He’s not a technical genius that’s for sure. But he has been a good CEO for SpaceX.

    I doubt this, but that could just be bias, i don’t have any actual evidence of the long term impact of him as CEO.

    Recently though, he’s provably been significantly more of a liability than a benefit, even if just from a PR and public sentiment point of view.

    But I refuse to simply wave away his achievements simply because I don’t like him. I can not like someone and still acknowledge they have done something good.

    Indeed, i push back on the myth that he’s some self made tony stark genius, but it isn’t like he’s not achieved anything.

    I would personally attribute most of that to neptoism, wealth, luck and opportunity, but that doesn’t remove the achievement itself.


  • You mean the NASA who landed people on the moon?

    So let’s assume you aren’t a moon landing denier and use that as a baseline, NASA is clearly capable of things given the right circumstances and budget.

    SpaceX benefited from his reputation and money, because they sure as shit didn’t benefit from his technical acumen.

    Business wise he is successful because he’s rich and influential and that works to mitigate how shitty he is at actually running an organisation, that doesn’t mean he has skills as a business person that means he has money and influence, in his case originally from the mine, then from buying and bullying his was in to businesses that were technologically sound and boosting them with his money.

    You could make an argument he’s a relatively good investor, but he’s an actively bad CEO.



  • In fairness is was full jank on release, the initial patches got it to “bethesda jank” where it was fun with the bugs (provided you could actually play it) but still bug ridden.

    It got better over time, until just before the “big patch” came in that fully changed how it all worked skills and mechanics wise (gameplay was mostly the same).

    Honestly i prefer, pre-“big patch” but the fully patched game is considerably smoother and more coherent.

    So, aside from the years of post release development, completely missing features that are never actually coming (looking at you full transit system), it’s actually pretty good.

    An absolutely dogshit way of releasing a game, but if you waited for a few years and bought it on discount , it’s actually a really fun game (provided you like that sort of thing).

    TBC I’m not justifying anything about this process , it was a major fuckup and many other dev houses would have gone under from the weight of how badly they fucked it up, but they had that witcher money, so.