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It also had the "other OS" feature! It's strange that the PS3 remains the only big console to have that feature, given how difficult its architecture is to work with. The modern consoles are all much closer to just being prebuilt PCs and none of them have it.

on your playstation

PS3linux.net be like

You're correct. I think the real obstacle PC gaming has to overcome for the average consumer is the basic knowledge requirement - I built the PC I currently use and game on and yet I find the numbering schemes for processors and graphics cards insanely confusing, have no idea what goes together and what doesn't, what's a good deal and what's overpriced, etc. But while I was willing to put in the research when I built my current computer, I can totally understand someone else who wants something that they can just turn on and it works.

Prebuilts don't really solve this problem either. The average consumer will see something like the "MSI Glaive-Guisarm 2077 Fortnite Edition" and I have no idea if that's better than or worse than or about the same as a PS5.

Saw similarly strange pizzas when I lived in Japan. I think in Asia generally they just have a different idea of what to do with pizza.

This is a big reason why many US city budgets are fucked. So much prime taxable real estate given over to parking lots that don't generate anywhere nearly as much money for the public, but the market doesn't care about that particular externality.

If you think about it from an evolutionary standpoint it’s perfectly logical.

This hasn't actually been borne out in science. As a general rule, less complex human societies tended to be more willing to cooperate with outsiders. They shared hunting grounds, traded clan members, came together for more complex endeavors, and so on. It isn't until the advent of agriculture, when people became attached to plots of land and felt the need to defend them from others, that we see these default attitudes start to shift - and racism as we understand it today is a thoroughly modern phenomenon, with no antecedent prior to the 17th century.

In a free market, people choose the jobs that fit their skills and interests

No it fucking doesn't. Most people in the so-called free market are stuck in jobs they hate because they need it to afford rent. If you want to encourage innovation and productivity you need to decouple people's ability to live from their work.

Pretty much because the constitution has always been more of a vibe than a binding set of legal principles.

That said I think a carrot would work better than a stick here. Something like what we do to encourage military service - healthcare and college money!

Better late than never I suppose, but If the Dems were serious about passing their agenda and protecting it, this would have been on the table as soon as Biden was elected, so I don't expect this to go anywhere.

(this is a facetious post, making fun of economists who sometimes push damaging and anti social theories based on sketchy market-based logic)

That used to be a thing, lmao.

glaziers fallacy

TIL a new fallacy. I was joking just for the record, I called it "capitalist realist" specifically to try and indicate that it's the kind of thing you might believe only if you were extremely economics brained.