Joe Breuer

The idea that Republicans might be willing to “jump through more hoops” would certainly align with Lakoff’s ideas (from 2004, mind):

https://medium.com/@ennuid/george-lakoffs-framing-101-7b88e9c91dac

That hurricane machine must not be working too well…

https://www.statista.com/statistics/203729/fatalities-caused-by-tropical-cyclones-in-the-us/

Kinda disappointed in The Register of all things adopting this faux personal life story reporting style on such a matter.

I feel most of this is a slippery slope / negative sum spiral.

See e.g. Liv Boeree’s video on beauty filters.

In my opinion (see also Dr Gabor Maté), addictions (which, I also think, can be about petty much anything) are very much mostly attempts to escape pain, when better alternatives do not seem available to a person.

So, yeah, video game addiction can be a thing, and certain game designs exacerbate that (similar to what might fuel gambling addictions and such).

But all of this perspective only distracts from whatever is causing the people/kids pain, makes them seek out games in an addicted fashion in the first place.

I’m gonna be interested how that’s supposed to work with false positives, err, collateral damage, err, plausibly deniable canceling of free speech of citizens. Nice try.

Started negotiating at 40%, agreed to 10% less “so 10% of 40 is 4, right?”

… And it’s rather quite… interesting… how long this has been going on…