I have to agree with this video: Stupidity is less about intellectual deficiency that can be argued with, but more about a sociological state where a person surrenders their agency to defer to a strongman.
“Almost as if this were a sociological-psychological law: where the power of the one needs the stupidity of the other.”
Incredible array of cars at the ISSIMI Meccanica open house last Saturday! Check out the full album here:
“Distressed Blockbuster Video Sign” by trebomb1
maybe Netflix is losing money because it was sold to us as a replacement for Blockbuster, but really it's the equivalent of going to Blockbuster and they don't actually have any movies to rent, but you can watch the Blockbuster staff acting in a play they've written if you like
— 📻 Glengarry Glenn Gould (@nailheadparty) April 21, 2022
I joined Netflix when it was Blockbuster in your mailbox, and it did exactly what it advertised: it allowed me to rent any movie available on DVD regardless of publisher.
As Netflix pivoted to streaming, I was excited at the prospect of being able to watch any movie ever made. I was convinced movie makers would cash in on the long tail of their obscure catalog that sat unplayed, because they would cheaply make a couple bucks off each movie. But the opposite happened: movie owners withdrew their catalogs from Netflix and into their own silos, and I found myself finding fewer and fewer movies on the platform. It got to the point where I didn’t bother searching any more, because odds were, the movie wouldn’t be available.
Yes, Netflix countered this trend by financing their own shows—some are very good and successful! But the idea that Netflix failed to fulfill their mission to bring every movie available on a single platform somehow seems…more salient to a long-time customer like me.
I suppose newcomers to the platform won’t have the same nostalgia that I do, and will accept Netflix as yet another self-producing streaming platform. Who knows? All I know is that I wanted Netflix to be 2005 Blockbuster in my browser, but now all I have is the one from 2012.
Have you heard Thomas Midgley Jr.? He was an inventor born in 1889 and has the distinction of being one of the few humans on earth who has managed to harm virtually every living organism on the planet, not just once, but twice.
Thomas Midgley Jr. was a prolific inventor who managed to collect 100 patents during his life. But one of his most important invention caused irreparable harm to billions of humans, and has infected almost every cell on earth:
He invented leaded gasoline.
If you have a motion rig, you might have bought Forza Horizon 5 from Steam, expecting to use the game with Sim Racing Studio to drive the rig. You might soon discover that SRS’s instructions do not work.
For FH5 to work with SRS, the game has to send telemetry data via UDP packets to SRS, which listens for those packets. SRS’s instructions tells users to send packets to the localhost loopback address (127.0.0.1), but the Steam edition of FH5 is blocked (by Steam?) from doing this, so telemetry packets don’t make it to SRS.
Here is a solution:
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