I see this as resulting from the way we get are information now in days. The internet has a much more global view than the local news and newspapers of just a few decades ago. Younger people just don't have an attachment to their communities as generations passed. People are perfectly comfortable moving to cities that already share their political mindset rather than voting to change the politics at home.

So yeah part of it is just being discouraged, but local politicians also need to learn how to make their positions seem relevant on global or nationwide scale to get any kind of support from young people.

Graduated with a chem degree like 6 months ago, but what nobody mentions is how important having friends and colleagues are to getting anywhere post-grad. My goal was a PhD or MD, but that out of the question now. I've been kinda looking for a job, but I really don't like talking to people and I don't have any means of transportant.

I remember reading a thing once saying the FDA would never approve human meat for consumption because of all the processed foods we eat.

I have to agree, this law seems to be all for show. I've heard most colleges in California already have polices on the books that comply with the law, if that's the case how's a law like this gonna hold schools accountable for going through on allegations of rape?

To me, all this is gonna do is muck up what constitutes rape. Worse case scenario we'll have an "guilty until proven innocent" system for accusing men of rape, which is just gonna widen the gender gap.

I've never heard of Orbit turntables but it looks like they put out a cheaper version of the Pro-ject Debut, which is usually what I recommend as a top of the line hobbyist turntable. Record collecting is on of those this where certain circles will just toss around the same opinions as fact. Some sites will profess those crosley turntables are a great buy, and other sites will criticize your $500 phono preamp as a terrible match to your $400 cartridge. Point being, go out of your way to really learn about what's best for you.

As a long time vinyl enthusiast I'd really recommend saving up for a decent turntable. These cheap plastic turntables not only sound bad, they completely destroy records. It just pains me when I see some kid who's spent $400 on records over a year or so have them all completely trashed because he didn't bother with his setup.

This article is quick to hand out blame, but these companies do provide legitimate services hosting records and developing programs to write them. That said, these companies do make stupid amounts of money for their systems. The ADA should have standardized electronic records years ago, but of course they've never been embracing of technology so we're stuck here. I imagine we'll get a law forcing companies to freely share records or something, getting the government to store all medical records would probably cause more problems than it would fix.

I picked this up on audible a while back and really loved it. If anyone is into audiobooks I recommend this one Darnielle does an excellent job narrating it himself

I'm tired of people like this promoting this myth that if a medium's target audience is men, then it must be inherently sexist.

in their best-funded and most widely consumed commercial forms, they have especially catered to certain kinds of socially awkward boys and men, providing them with alternatives to dominant standards of masculinity. At the same time, however, they cultivated an alternative misogyny, based on resentment of other men and a desire to usurp their patriarchal dominance, rather than overturn patriarchy entirely. Hence the geek culture is a breeding ground for Nice Guys who see themselves as persecuted outcasts but are unable to get over their desire to control women.

I don't believe you can stereotype "gamers" anymore than that. The writer is quick to label the video game industry as sexist and elitist (comparing them to the tea-party so you'll get on board for sure) so they can write it off later as "capitalism's" fault.

I don't see how this defends anyone, they completely bash the industry and the fanbase and blame it on a mysterious minority that made them believe all of their widely unpopular opinions. It obvious that internet trolls or flamers are just dumb kids who say whatever for shits and giggles, and have nothing to do with video game culture

Your splitting hairs on the analogy.

Plato's argument isn't "there could be a reality beyond our own", his argument is that there is an ultimate reality that is constant and directly influences our own. We know this because the world we experience changes. So like how the fire and sword effect what the shadow looks like, a higher reality is effecting everything we can experience.

This takes the term "reality" pretty lightly, plato believed that the highest reality were mathematical proofs and laws.

I like this channel, but it's disappointing that it really has nothing to do with video games. I was hoping they'd talk about how these topics related to games, but instead they just uses NES sprite as animation.

Wow I completely agree, it's like people see screenshots from games taken out of context and assume this is how the gamer views the world. Articles like this are just going to turn women off video games until we're stuck with the same problem you see in STEM fields.

And none of these are real ethical concerns they're just thinks that the author thinks aren't fair

One of the U.S.’ most long-running and successful print game publications [game informer] is owned by one of the world’s best-known game retailers [gamestop], and few of the magazine’s consumers seem aware of what, if any impact that relationship might have.

These gripes about the gaming media are meaningless, stop assuming businesses are funded like political campaigns. Video game media are small-internet oriented-operations, industry advertising is the only way most of these guys can keep their sites running. Could you get some conflicts of interest? Of course, but there are millions of reviewers out there it's your choice on who to support. There is no industry giant that has opinion influencing control over all the major video game media outlets.

I think you're being a little too naive about what these sites are about. The article tries to pass these places off as legitimate as eBay or Amazon but true is they're far from it.

Fair to say difficulty reaching the darknet will keep kids away, but this is the only barrier. Sellers learn as little as possible about buyers and wouldn't care if how old a buy is. And remember as darknet get more popular it becomes easier to find information on how to access them.

The article is not wrong, but these statistics are a bit misleading. Number of windows machines around is huge and XP was around for almost twice as long as the OS's after it, of course it's gonna take a while to convert everyone to w8.

Personally, I think MS screwed themselves for pumping out new OS's so fast, they're not Apple, they don't have that control over their hardware.

It's so easy to point fingers at all the forums and online-sites sharing pictures, the author is being naive in thinking new laws are going to stop people from sharing available information.

And "sexual privacy" laws cover a different issue, they're designed to close a loop-hole where someone obtains sexually explicit images legally and then shares them without consent.

A lot of this sounds like typical Academia politics, I think maybe these two scientist were a little naive in thinking how easily they'd get funding or how good their ideas where.

Your right "Academia" favors older well-established scientist who have the stacks of research behind them. The federal dollar game is tough, and you can't completely blame them for giving money to the guy with the long standing record of success vs. the new kid with an interesting idea when there's constant talk cutting funding for this and that. In the future, when the economic climate is a bit better, I think there will be better opportunity for younger scientist or maybe we'll see some growth in corporate R&D

Good intentioned as this is, an Amendment allowing Congress/States to regulate campaign funding is a terrible idea. In todays congress, there's a good chance we'd get even more deregulation than SCOTUS allows.

Almost half of female and male rape victims have had at least one intimate partner rape them.

I found this interesting, rape is often portrayed in a one night stand or random act scenario. I think this shows how the issue is much more complex that people make it out to be.

I think they were completely within reason to take down the subreddits in question. Reddit has always had a standing policy to protect privacy, by preventing personal images from being shared without consent. Problem is it's impossible to enforce this policy and allow 90% of NSFW subreddits to function.

I agree that the DMCA stuff was not relevant to their reasoning, I have no idea why they even felt they needed to bring it up, if anything it supports the argument that policies will only be enforced under threat of legal action.