It's even worse today. The amount of interconnected systems we have in play would be absolutely chaos to try and separate.
We didn't have to worry about power grids, networking, food was FAR more local, it would take years to try to isolate yourself from it all on a statewide scale.
Reminds me of the door knockers who got paid to shill some libertarian a while back. So Many reports of people with absolutely no motivation, reading the scripts, and sometimes even leaving with a vote for bernie.
It totally is in my experience. I have literally sat in meetings pushing AI... but absolutely NO steering or discussion on what we ought to do with it. They will relabel related things that have existed for years as AI.
It's like instead of having a bunch of nails and needing a way to pound them in, we've been given a nail gun and a requirement to use it.
"But we sell balloons"
"Dont worry, the nail gun will make everything better"
Admittedly, charging ports are the first to break on any electronic unless it has a joystick. Wireless charging is a lot more robust, more water resistant, and allows you to do sleek shit without a weird hole in it
If it makes you feel better, that hand has 7 fingers so it's probably AI.
At least a human didn't draw it
Nah nah nah, it's just a different paradigm. It's like... it's a different meta, but for programming.
If I was to ELI5, I'd say it's the difference between making a series of objects that interact with each other (OOP) and and creating a very large console with lots of buttons (functional)
Some problems are much easier object oriented. If you have a video game, building a projectile class and adding different types of projectiles makes things suuuper easy to build. Arrows move slow and deal x damage, beams move super fast and deal y.
Functional can be easier to troubleshoot, also easier to crank out novel things, easier to make secure, and even make simultaneous operations trivial. It has very different problems though. You need to put more effort into eliminating dependencies.
The two do not play well together at all they're like fire and water. Sometimes you need water to soak something and make it easier to work, sometimes you need heat to melt something and make it easier to work.
Telecommunications like phones or military applications tend to the functional languages, data, video games, and a lot of the popular languages tend to OOP.
The transition between the two is jarring, and infuriating, but a knowledge of both can really improve your design skills.
So what is the point of an email client? I've only ever really used web pages because it did everything I need.
Honestly the flaws I have the biggest complaints about is the God awful UI.
Incorrect tool tips, no drag and drop, no ui for city connectivity, no renaming cities, disappearing entities.
It's genuinely painful at times.
I mean, the ages thing grew on me. It was way too common in other civs to just snowball early and dominate the rest. Any modern civilization was just bad, because by the time they got online it was over.
“well, Trump said he’d fix the economy and I don’t like woke.”
I mean, I feel like you're being a bit derivative. I would put it more towards desperation than stupidity. Why does someone stay with an abusive partner? Biden was of the stance that "things are getting better" and... they're not.
I always considered trump's victory as sign that the democrats were just... that flaccid and unpalatable. It's like you have a partner who sucks. They pay their share of rent, they expect you to do all the cooking and cleaning, they don't even bother to understand you and get pissy that a random bouquet of whatever flowers on sale doesn't magically fix an argument and make your loins quiver.
You fall instead to this gorgeous individual who knows how to flirt and makes you feel like the world can be easily fixed and now you're locked in their basement about to lose an arm.
It's desperation that makes people take risks, listen to people they shouldn't listen to.
Although it must be a pretty good bar if everyone is having too much fun to read the schedules and shit on the walls.
There's a much simpler reason.
CNN is hemorrhaging viewers. Bernie draws crowds. If you want people to tune in so advertisers think you're useful you gotta find something to bring an audience.