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I have had some trouble with achievos registering in some games, but it seems like you've run into that ... a lot more frequently than me.

I dunno what to say, I don't know why that would be the case, but I do know that that was/is an issue a lot of people have had... I completely believe you, and ... I am currently frustrated that you've gone through that, I'm getting flashbacks of games crashing right before I complete them or save files hopelessly corrupting.

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My only quibble is: Great Depression 2.0, not Great Recession 2.0.

This will be much, much worse than 07 08 09.

Also IMO absolutely yes, Obama should have let the US auto industry collapse if they didn't accept being completely nationalized.

Play stupid games, win stuoid prizes.

Thats how capitalism works, right, right?

Oh wait no, its actually uh, bribe politicians to subsidize your inefficient and mismanaged business, and then also fund a bunch of PR to convince people that... that isn't happening, that isn't your business model.

Instead we got basically this situation where US auto mfctrs are stupendously subsidized by the US gov... yet have no accountability to it in terms of high level, long term business strategy.

That lead to all of C Suite just chasing as much profit as possible by basically just saying... fuck making a reliable cheapish car, everything is now a luxury priced giganto sized pavement princess with horrendous maintenance problems.

If they'd accepted being nationalized, well then at least we would have kept actual ownership domestic, and the GAO could have just done audits on these entire companies and then everyone would know where all the mismanagement was going on. ..

Same thing with Boeing. Boeing is massively subsidized, is a near text book perfect example of how to do regulatory capture, and wow what a surprise, it was run in a manner to maximize balance sheets at the loss of fundamental ability to actually deliver a reliable product.

It is not a measure of public sentiment.

That'd be like a consumer confidence measure, something that just polls the general public.

The fear and greed index is based off of technical measurements of various active markets.

Very broadly, it is telling you whether or not the financial class, investors, stock traders, corporations significantly involved in that, your 401k managers... are acting fearful or greedy.

A middling score close to 50 basically represents 'reasonable, stable growth'.

Extreme fear means market participants are acting like a significant stock/bond downturn either is occuring or about to occur.

Extreme greed means market participants are acting like a huge upswing in stocks and bonds are occuring and will be maintained in the future.

You're right that extreme greed isn't a good thing, as it usually means a whole bunch of irresponsible financial bets are being made, that will later pop, and crash.

At the same time, extreme fear is also bad... because it basically is that crash occuring.

Maybe think of it kind of like some value you get back from your blood work.

There's a generally accepted 'average' value that means you are stable, healthy.

Then, there is a range of higher and lower values that are... relatively normal, within reasonable, expected variations.

Then, there are extreme values, way outside the acceptable range, either way too high or way to low, and now its time for your doctor to start looking at treatment options.

The Gay Gamma Goongasm, according to ... Christian Nationalist Physics?

... If you get hit with fast neutrons, does that make you gender neutral or ambigender rofl?

Alpha radiation turns you into a chad?

Beta radiation makes you a soyboy?

fucking goddammit lol.

EDIT: i mean shit, if radiation causes gender/sexual orientation modification, then I guess you could actually construct a 'gaydar'... oh god my brain hurts.

I am still convinced 'Drag' legitimately has dissociative identity disorder and isn't a troll in the sense of ... 'i am in full control of my faculties and choose to act as caricature to ~~sew~~ sow chaos'...

But yeah, that whole... thing... was fucking bonkers.

In what way do you have to 'go out of your way' to interact with ml or hex?

Are... they not federated with your instance?

If yes, they're not federated, then you did that to yourself, by joining an instance that doesn't show their posts and communities to you.

If no, they are federated... then just sort set your feed from local to global, and you'll see their posts in their communities pop up.

... The entire point of the federation model is to allow each user to determine ... basically how much of a bubble they want to be in.

You may determine a whole instance is full of nutcases in a bubble, and avoid them... or you may not think that, and retain the ability to interact with them.

Generally speaking... you can pretty much join whatever instance you want, and in so doing, you are accepting the instances that are federated with your own instance, and rejecting the instances your instance admins have defederated from.

You realize that is a textbook 'whataboutism', right?

When the news about that came out, around a decade ago now, I deleted my Facebook profile and tried to tell all my friends/family using FB that ... this is pure fucking evil and they should also get off FB.

They all gaslit me, pretended that news wasn't real, and acted like I was a paranoid delusional maniac.

Nowadays we have basically the same kind of conclusions regarding TikTok and other platforms that focus on short form video content... well, actually even worse conclusions... and they come from actual peer reviewed scientific journals...

But you'll still get people saying 'brainrot isn't real'... when uh, yes thats a clumsy term, but it is basically confirmed at this point that TikTok is as addictive as a drug, ruins your motivation and attention span, fills your with mis and disinformatiin, ruins and warps your self image and self esteem, promotes wildly irresponsible and often illegal financial mindsets/strategies... etc etc...

Above post has good info, and also, apologies for broken alpha layer, I'm literally using a... now 3 year old phone I bought at a gas station.

... I have not had problems with the achievements themselves registering, but dear holy god would that be frustrating.

I mean like... guides for them exist now, but holy shit when those first appeared... and/or if you didn't use guides or have the internet... very time consuming to figure out how to do.

o7 to your dedication!