Merit-based scholarships are rare nowadays too, so good luck going to a top university just because you excel at your subjects…

At least that is not true.
'The rest of it is, highschools are an enforcer of conformity and woe be to anyone that bends the curve.

I see the point, but I don’t think intellectual elitism is the same as anti-anti-intellectualism. I think intellectual elitism creates a sense of alienation from science that in fact leads to anti-intellectualism.

That is just the inferiorily informed trying to justify their lack of knowledge by calling the people more knowledgeable than they are in that field “elitism”.

In the modern day, They could EASILY educate themselves with the actual current and up to date scientific research, the internet exists.

The fact that they would rather “educate” themselves with populist YouTube bullshit videos that simply validate their incorrect beliefs instead of looking up the actual research papers that are 100% **ALSO available on the internet ** is entirely their fault and no one else’s, you can’t blame the fact that they won’t read the research on “elitism”

People so fragile they can’t live with the idea other people might be smarter than they are

Need to be ridiculed, and their opinions ignored.

The absolute fucking truth!!!

Lenovo is not a manufacturer of ANYTHING below motherboards (pc or laptop) .

Their opinions need to be looked at through that lens and no other.

Your only problem is that Valve is not the only market.

By a long shot

My god!
A well thought out and reasoned opinion? I can’t believe it took me this long to leave reddit!

Honestly, if visual elements are ai created I am not sure I even care. AI is (now) really good at that and if it saves the devs weeks or months of drawing graphics that they can spend on the story or the action of a game, I (so far) think I am ok with that.

Epic games can shove it’s corporate opinion up it’s own corporate ass.

Comedy? Futurama (be ready to have your feels tickled)

More serious SF but still funny? The Orville

More more serious SF and not so funny, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Not at all funny and serious SF (anyone seeing a pattern?) Battlestar Galactica (2003-2009)

Extra credit serious SF, worth every hour, dated graphics and all, Babylon 5 Amazing stories, worth every minute it takes to watch it.

Is it so bad to have both?

I mean plenty of caffeine AND a good flavor without .25 lbs of sugar and 50% half and half is pretty nice…

I’ll say it for the millionth time. Every single stance the GOP takes is bad for small businesses, bad for the economy, bad for the country.

Bad for PEOPLE in general.

Ya, that’s NOT a reason not to change to single payer.

Approximately 1-2 million people employed in the mass bureacracy of claims processing and validation would lose their jobs.

Those “same” (number of) people would be needed to process the claims that needed to be approved by the nationwide system that replaced “for profit” healthcare.

Honestly, replacing the C* suite is what IA would be best for!

As PEOPLE they cost an exorbitant amount of money and stock options for exactly ZERO actual physical work.

A group of AI agents, one for each of the C* positions, seeded with business based logic trees and equipped with exactly as much ethics subroutines as the board would allow would do the board bidding for 1/100000 of the cost of a human ceo.

reality has a well known left-wing bias

No, it’s just that the right-wing has become accustomed to lying it’s ass off to get what it wants.