It seems to be biased and wrong from the get go so why would I watch something that seems to be designed to feed off internet outrage? There’s so much of that on the internet that it’s hard not to trip over it these days. I’m not interested in a video essay on society, design and technology that’s the same outrage, just repackaged.

Does the video mention that this EV sold above expectations?

Ferrari is a boutique car maker. You’re comparing a grocery store box of eggs to a Faberge egg. Volumes are way lower and profit margins are way higher on those Faberge eggs. Focusing on a high-end market segment is a viable business strategy.

No, I’m not watching 100th video on why that new Ferrari is ugly according to internet outrage farms.

My point is that I’m not really convinced about the premise when the thumbnail fits internet outrage more than actual sales. Ferrari does things primarily to sell cars, because it’s a company, a for-profit organisation. According to data they seem to be doing fine in that regard. Why would they care about opinions of people who won’t buy their cars? Why should anyone care if the answer is seemingly an uninspired “stop liking things I don’t like”?

Status symbols not having a common appeal is something upper class uses to distinguish themselves. Eventually those tastes trickle down to those who want to LARP being rich and then to the rest of society.

I wouldn’t go that far even if I believe that large companies are usually data driven to a fault. My guess is that Ferrari as a business cares only about taste of people who can afford their products. These people are disconnected from reality enough not to care about what Reddit thinks of their sports car.

YouTube really wants me to watch this video but I find it too ironic that it has a thumbnail with Ferrari EV that the internet hated but ended up selling above expectations.

This rage bait would be better if the battery charge was below 10%. Brave Browser is a nice touch tough.

I believe this YouTube channel is AI slop cloning format of How Money Works.

I’m playing FFIX right now so I wonder if this is why my impression of BD is so different.

I definitely disagree on it being satire or even unserious. Yes, there’s comic relief and superficially it looks childish but it’s a retreat in style similar to FFIX and you can see they corrected every weak point from that one:

• Battles are faster, class and B/D mechanics are much more engaging, random encounter rate is adjustable. I don’t think I played any FF derivative that was more fun to play.
• They went more chibi in the art style at least in part out of necessity because FFIX character faces were a pixelated mess at 240p PSX display resolution, which is the same number of horizontal lines as 3DS.
• Comic relief is just simply better executed, FFIX jokes are cringe for lack of a better word. Ringabel isn’t that much more cheesy or over the top womaniser than Edgar from FFVI. You go to the moon like in every other FF.

To me BD is classic FF concept taken where it made sense. The only major difference is that the story took second seat to gameplay but I don’t think that’s what FF was about traditionally even if FFVI happened to be one of the best JRPG stories told.

I feel like Bravely Default games are an actual spiritual successor to old school Final Fantasy games. 4 heroes of light, turn/class based system, chibi art style - it’s all there.

1. We are machines made out of meat.
2. It’s irrelevant if the choice was made at random or if it was based on some deep spiritual insight. We’re measuring outcomes, not the rationale.

For a binary choice where you expect distribution to be relatively similar you can do it with less than 400 while having 95% confidence and 5% margin of error. That’s just statistics and probability.

That’s more than enough for a statistically significant sample.

Without a causal link shown it’s just peer reviewed correlation. Yes, there are things to suggest it helps with mental health outcomes but as the paper says directly, this is not a proof and there are other factors at play.

I’m not a fan of scientific studies where correlation is all they can come up with. If correlation alone was what we went by then scientists could propose public policies to reintroduce maritime piracy to decrease global warming - they’re inversely correlated after all.

Your link is broken, here’s working one:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2851743

Importantly, puberty blocker prescription was associated with lower odds of mood disorder and suicidality diagnoses, but only among transgender youths. While this result should be studied further and interpreted with caution, it aligns with prior literature10,32,33 and clinical insights.34-36 More research is necessary to determine the mechanisms behind this association; although puberty blocker prescription appeared to attenuate both outcomes, it was not alone associated with diagnostic odds for transgender youths reduced to levels observed among their cisgender peers. Due to limitations of the administrative claims database being analyzed, we could not adjust for factors like psychosocial support, and policy environment measures (eg, regional and national transgender equality) did not appear to be associated with outcomes, although this may reflect measurement error (eg, scores were not available for the full study period or inconsistently measured from year to year).

No causal link demonstrated, potentially affected by other factors like how supportive your environment is.

I stand corrected, tadalafil is not OTC in many countries, only sildenafil is. Tadalafil is OTC where I live since 2022 and I assumed it’s the same elsewhere.

If this this drug had a female equivalent it wouldn’t be sold OTC because it’s dangerous to take it when you have high blood pressure. This study just piles up more evidence for it. I guess this is a rare instance where sexism inherent to medicine and pharmacology bites men in the butt.

Came in here to recommend Towerfall. Played it with 6 people once - it’s a blast and scales well enough with high player counts.

My code was scraped according to this website but let’s not kid ourselves that any kind of opt-out will prevent this. Any corpo knows that you can outsource all of your shady dealings to a couple of layers of third party vendors and pretend you didn’t know any better. It’s safe to assume that if you use an LLM that you didn’t train yourself you’re violating copyleft of some GPL project.

I pulled out a tube TV from the basement to see if it still works, ended up playing through Chrono Trigger on Mister FPGA. What a short and sweet game. Are there any modern AAA JRPGs that don’t overstay their welcome?

I also finished my „play on train only” Final Fantasy VII Remake run on Switch 2. That took some time since I only do maybe 6 hours per week on trains. Kind of scared how many trips Rebirth will take.

Up next: dunno, SMTV while travelling and Star Ocean on tube TV at home probably.