Killed two weeks before launch? That makes no sense

What a sucker punch to that entire team.

I’d rather something to release than for nothing to ever come out, or if it’s not up to snuff for the publisher, for the team to go indie (like this one tried to) and still release it rather than having it be forever undercooked in a vault somewhere.

The issue is that you called it dumb because you interpret it as “only children” are enlightened enough to see the tree as a tree.

But I don’t believe that is the intent of the comic, instead, they simply drew a child as a shorthand representation for the concept of enlightenment.

I believe any person can be so enlightened to see something as it is, and not what it could be made into if they wanted to.

Therefore, I don’t think the comic is dumb as you stated. I think the comic is attempting to motivate people to see things as they are and be enlightened.

Also there was a little humor in the misspelling of a common word when calling something dumb, in the way of “kettle calling the pot black”

Many of our words are the same, but you asked a question and I provided an interpreted answer.

Edit: To say it specifically

The fourth character was drawn as a character representing an enlightened perspective. Rather than having multiple panels or having text to describe this, the character was drawn as a child as a shorthand since children come with that association in most cultures.

This is opposed to the other characters drawn in different walks of life’s who have their own unenlightened motives which we assume by default within the context of the forth panel.

Kids are often used as an allegory for the innocent/naive/uncorrupted/enlightened

The kid sees the tree for what it is, not what it could be manipulated into as the other character do.

In a way, yes.

Historically, the US fought a war to not be the UK. There was an earnest attempt to enshrine freedoms to privacy and thought from the beginning of this governments creation. With the ability to enforce free thoughts through explicitly allowing speech and weapons, along with the ability to reject search and intrusion from the state (outside of due process)

I think it’s important for people to be able to be private and to have secrets. People act differently when there’s trust that they are not observed and will not be observed.

I think it’s cruel to confine the human experience to only being in the “observed” state of mind.

Being able to secretly meet people, and go places without others knowing, and have private conversations, and to own and make things secretly is important to me. They don’t have to be nefarious or even embarrassing, a person on principle can just want something to be private, rational or not that should be allowed by default.

If I went on a hike alone to clear my mind, and then stumbled into a tracking camera on the trail, my mood would be changed. I would feel compelled to play a performative role and manage my appearance and actions and regulate what I say and do in a way that I wasn’t before that feeling of privacy was broken. Even more so if I knew that camera was live reporting with ai identification and analysis to the government.

This privacy is already barely existing anymore, I feel compelled to oppose any new invasion of privacy and to make attempts to carve out new privacy where I can.

The crazed goal to turn all of America into a high security prison.

No need to ask questions that a person could invoke their rights on when you can pay our capital overloads our own tax money for records instead.

What websites, what locations, what friends, what we buy, and everything else you could care to ask.

Soon we’ll have sensors installed on our toilets to make sure anyone with a dollar can know what we eat and what medicines we take and how regular we are.

Land of the free

Shawn Fain

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As of April 11, there were 65 Mercedes autonomous vehicles available for sale in California, Fortune has learned through an open records request submitted to the state’s DMV. One of those has since been sold, which marks the first sale of an autonomous Mercedes in California, according to the DMV. Mercedes would not confirm sales numbers. Select Mercedes dealerships in Nevada are also offering the cars with the new technology, known as “level 3” autonomous driving.

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Drivers can activate Mercedes’s technology, called Drive Pilot, when certain conditions are met, including in heavy traffic jams, during the daytime, on spec ific California and Nevada freeways, and when the car is traveling less than 40 mph. Drivers can focus on other activities until the vehicle alerts them to resume control. The technology does not work on roads that haven’t been pre-approved by Mercedes, including on freeways in other states.

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U.S. customers can buy a yearly subscription of Drive Pilot in 2024 EQS sedans and S-Class car models for $2,500.

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Mercedes is also working on developing level 4 capabilities. The automaker’s chief technology officer Markus Schäfer expects that level 4 autonomous technology will be available to consumers by 2030, Automotive News reported.

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It reads a little condescending imo

Thanks!

I’ve been wanting to move off of discord for a while

Discords been showing signs of Skype-ification for a while, and the ads seal the deal.

I imagine the same feeling for a number of others too, I’ll be convincing my friends to switch.

Fuck ads in my chat.

Thanks!

Is there a fediverse-like equivalent alternative to Discord?

Is there a chat app that can be self hosted, but interact with a web of other instances, and has web, mobile, and app interfaces?

Something with dm, group, voice chat, screen sharing capabilities?

I don’t even care anymore

I don’t trust them with games

A while back ago, there was an abandoned mall, a company bought it and allowed anybody to rent a small space in the open mall as a small business shop. People would put up curtains as walls and rent was very cheap.

The place was full of small vendors, more classy than a flea market, especially with the AC, but many artists selling all forms, and many odd widgets being sold. There was even a place that did custom glass blowing, etc etc. it was a real pleasure to be in and a community thrived there.

Importantly it was open consistently each day, so you could just randomly pop in and see what’s up.

From what I understand, the place was even making a profit, but apparently not enough. It was eventually sold and now it warehouses antique cars.

I think all those artists and small vendors vanished or moved online.

I miss it.

It was good.

I’d like more of those back, and to experience what community could develop from that.