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  • I agree that the steam machine was too early.

    I don’t know how it could ever start from zero without having to go through a growing stage. I think it was just necessary to have modest expectations, and so far as I can tell, valve partnered with third party vendors and didn’t lose $$$ on it.

    Moreover, the downstream effect has been to set the foundation for the Steam Deck, which has been a smashing success. It just takes time to build up a mature ecosystem.



  • abbenm@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlYeee yee
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    4 months ago

    It’s really interesting how the right has embraced moral relativism on a case-by-case basis. Often it is a strategy to quarantine/localize ideas, so as to avoid the need to reconcile them to any broader worldview.

    It’s also a strategy for insulating ideas and events from history that they want to shelter from criticism, like criticizing slavery, theocracy, monarchism, etc. I’ve seen real cases in the wild where criticism of slavery was dismissed as “presentism”, as inappropriately imposing present day moral values.







  • Okay, the next step in the playbook is “no one cares”. I don’t know, I think online disinformation has emerged as one of the major international issues characteristic of our time and will go down in the history books. So I’m not sure where you’re getting the idea that no one cares.

    I’m sorry that calling you out on your 💩 means I’m a debate bro. But the flip side of the same coin is that you’re the one spewing the 💩💩💩.



  • You started out by saying was no evidence, except there was. Now you’ve moved the goalposts and are debating the nuances of the evidence instead of saying that none was presented.

    You derailed with whataboutism, you made a blanket generalization based on an unrelated story. Are you just going down the playbook, one derailment tactic at a time?

    Five posts from now you will be saying “well yeah, maybe they proved the IP was from Russia, but the guy from Russia generated a fake site with 17 fake authors because he cared so much about journalistic integrity!”





  • Yes and no. That story was bad for a reasons specific to that story that were uncovered and sourced from other credible reporting. You can’t proceed from that to a blanket generalization over everything else in New York times reports without any additional supporting evidence.

    Also it’s sourcing and quoting other sources, so you’d have to explain if you believe that the New York times made up those sources.


  • abbenm@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlScrub Mommy
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    Pretty sure the Scrub Daddy came first! It gained huge notoriety for being on Shark Tank, as one of if not the most successful Shark tank product in history, and it’s now in every Walmart and Dollar store in the country.

    So the meme treats the derivative like it’s the original, which I suppose is true to form as an indicator of how people lose track of ideas as they get constantly recirculated.