I get the sentiment of people who are only interested in game reviews and recommendations.
But as a gamer myself, if that’s all a site offers then I’m not paying $7 per month for it. I wouldn’t be willing to pay anything for that content to be honest. I can get a better sense of the quality of a game from aggregated steam reviews.
I’m not the target audience for this site, but I do recognize that they can’t just write dry game reviews if they want to make a living.
You're being downvoted because a lot of people don't like off-topic politics here, but you're right that a lot of imagined sci-fi dystopias that we get scared of in comment sections are not realistically as bad as what people around the world are actually going through right now.
They’re not the only company in that space, just the flashiest. Their competitors are generally less insolvent but have worse UX. I wonder if Regus will put in a bid to buy WeWork out of bankruptcy?
My experience in Regus coworking spaces has been fairly awful. Disorganized, dirty, my desks were wobbly, never got the key to my storage drawers, etc. If they’re a big player and they purchase WeWork, I’d consider the entire space worth avoiding.
I experienced both positive and negative. When the on site staff was good, the experience was good. I think the model is sound but the key differentiator is operational excellence and hiring. This goes for any business though.
That and with WeWork running around with the hype there was probably investors/shareholders demanding that they take a piece of the supposedly juicy market (that existed because the ilk's of Regus never made short-term feasible).
In my experience, the best short term rentals are the local places that are priced competitively with WeWork. Second best is WeWork and the absolute dog shit is Regus. I used them for a short period and they liked putting you in what was essentially a living room with no tv, no tables, and church chairs as an afterthought. WeWork always had pretty comfortable digs idiotic CEO notwithstanding.
Regus might. Or they wait for liquidation and pick the juciest bits. WeWork is such a prime example of how VC money can fuck up everything, Regus did well but a lot of other companies in other industries competing with VC backed companies didn't survive while millions were burned selling dollars for dimes.
> I wonder if Regus will put in a bid to buy WeWork out of bankruptcy?
Seems like it would be a bad move unless they can shed all of WeWork's unprofitable leases. What assets does WeWork have that are worth buying? The name? The app?
I think the opposite? I’m a dev with a bit of an interest in security, and this immediately jumped out at me from the story; knowing enough security to discard bad ideas is useful.
why would you even watch this peron videos analysing Ukraine war?
So I do this, a lot. Rogan is a good example I struggle with. I regularly go I wonder what Joe Rogan thinks about this, on subjects I know he doesn’t know shit about or is just plain wrong about. It isn’t relegated to just Rogan.
Musk was another awful one when you first get into him.
This has to be a form of non-sexual attraction I think. I’m not gay, but how is this not gay? Like, what the fuck, am I in love with these people?
I almost have to shake my head and snap out of it.
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I’ll add that I’ve gotten extremely good at filtering his guests but still weak to filtering him (it’s kinda like still having feelings for your first). Anytime he puts on a comedian I always go “yeah whatever, who cares what some random comedian thinks about ______”, but I wasn’t able to do that with Rogan. No sir, I listen with both ears as he describes like … nuclear fusion.
Yes, this is a textbook parasocial relationship. No judgment—me too. I've been listening to the "New Heights" podcast a lot recently, so my most recent parasocial relationship is feeling like Jason and Travis Kelce are my friends. Of course I know they're not, it's just how these things work. Parasocial relationships are ubiquitous in the modern day.
My favorite analogy is that parasocial relationships are the Doritos of socialization: appealing. delicious, addictive, can temporarily keep hunger at bay—but fundamentally not satiating, lacking in essential nutrients, and unhealthy when they displace their original natural & more nutritious alternatives.
It's kind of inescapable in modern politics, because it's effective at getting people elected and/or making money. It's not the worst way to get elected; certainly better than relying on narrow donor class money. Just .. recognize the limitations of it.
I’m inclined to agree. The problem is, unlike High School where the kids just grow the fuck out of all the stupid teenage bullshit, adults seem to not have that kinda structure going on.
So instead of being a Rogan stan for those weird years in High School, you are grown ass 30 year year old Stan who’s been stanning for 5 years now minimum.
Adults today don’t know how to snap out of the high school shit they easily snapped out of after high school. It’s like we’re in a high school that never ends.
I don't think that's "adults today". Adults in the past also had parasocial shit going on. Do you think the people banging on Sherlock Holmes's author feeling personally betrayed by the ending were all young kiddos?
I think the issue with being an adult is that you often think you've outgrown childish inclinations. In actuality, I find adults will act childishly and then assume, because they are adults, their behavior must be mature and taken seriously.
Somewhat weird comment...I thought it was obvious, I and others are occasionally interested in what e.g. Joe Rogan has to say because it's entertaining.
I didn't think this was in any way confusing or surprising, and never thought this had anything to do with love.
Plenty of couples started with "oh he's so cute and funny" / "I love listening to her jokes", and few years later found themselves retelling those stories to a wide audience, at their wedding.
A guy standing up every week declaming with moral authority? The word you are looking for is preacher.
And that's what these people are. They provide a comforting sense of moral certainty and judgement; they define enemies, usually a nebulous Them; they're satisfying to listen to; and they publish on a schedule to reinforce the little ritual of listening to them. You've heard the adhan and you are called.
> This has to be a form of non-sexual attraction I think. I’m not gay, but how is this not gay? Like, what the fuck, am I in love with these people?
People have somehow lost all the words for communicating relationships between people that aren't sexual. Although the "fan" relationship can get pretty weird at times. It's interesting to hear from someone who's liminal enough to realize that they're inside the experience but also knows what's wrong with it. Thank you for this post.
> I wonder what Joe Rogan thinks about this, on subjects I know he doesn’t know shit about or is just plain wrong about
Maybe an "appeal to authority" type situation which is guiding an anxious brain? e.g. Rogan has a massive following, therefore you wonder: "why does this person have such a massive following? It must be because they have important things to say. I had better listen too."
It does feel like something like that. Maybe not that exactly, but many people have some sort of need for external authorities to tell them what to do, what to think, who to be, etc. Some lack of confidence in their own judgement? Insecurity about making their own decisions?
That’s not what it is. People are looking around, shaking their heads, with an vague feeling that things *aren’t right* and waiting for someone to be like “alright everyone we’re heading off to start a new life frontier, let’s go!”, and Joe Rogan and Elon Musk feel like the charismatic alphas/cult leader you should be hitching your wagons to.
Because sometimes the crazy cult leader ends up being right, revival (much like the religious revivals of the 1830s in the US) and making a big change when society is in flux is just something in our blood. Problem is right now nobody wants to actually buy 60,000 acres of undeveloped land to get it all started, they just want to profit off of people via parasocial relationships.
I think as men we have a deep seated need to have a strong leader we respect. If we went into the woods and made a tribe I’d for sure want Joe Rogan or Elon Musk making the decisions. Joe Rogan gives even the village idiot a fair shake to make their point on his podcast. It’s like watching a wise king preside over court. There’s not some big gay mystery here, it’s hardwired “if we go hunting a mammoth, I want Joe Rogan leading the hunt and presiding over the feast!”.
I keep hearing this meme repeated lately (most recently by the My Pillow guy), and I guess my brain is wired differently, but oh boy, would I hate that society.
There's nothing organic about Eric Weinstein or Lex Fridman.
Do we know how this was done before? Let’s say you are a hit broadcast network, and you have these new hit shows called Friends and Family Matters. What’s your plan as a broadcast company now?
Should the TV company organically wait to see what kind of TV shows audiences want to see? Or should they create 10 shows that copy Friends and Family Matters, each targeting a different demo (you know, like black people, or women).
So, if you want to build a loose network of content creators, with your fulcrum being like a Rogan for the general demographic, with a contrived character like a Friedman being the “nerd”. So the loop here is you cast a wide net with Rogan, then niche them down to your Jocko’s, Friedman’s, etc.
Rogan doesn’t disclose when he does Ad drops anymore either. So he’s a really bad actor at this point.
Like yeah Joe, you just talked about McDonalds for 10 minutes for free again on an episode with 10 million listeners huh? Oh, talking about the latest movie in theaters again? As if that’s not a 5 minute ‘hey McDonald’s, we can leave this 7 minutes in about how your Coca Cola tastes better than regular Coca Cola, or we can just edit it out. I’m sorry? Did we say edit out? What we meant was, how about like 30 million for 6 month campaign? No? Okay, see ya. No, we never recorded anything about McDonald’s soda tasting better.
We are vulnerable to this attack strategy in books as well. The author can lull you in with a compelling concept, but you can soon realize they weren’t able to extrapolate their thesis beyond one chapter (if that).
It’s probably the most mature moment I had as a reader, to be able to look at any book and be comfortable judging the pacing/vibe of it with regard to me. If a book isn’t vibing with you (you feel like the author is forcing a hot take), then don’t read the book. It’s no different than a date, if the person creeps you out, bounce.
This is apt, you tend to read books and the first read is great, subsequent release ends up being the same context as previous book but without substance. The best is probably being able to self reflect and think for yourself, being mindful of your thoughts, thought process and things that affects it.
I know of at least one operation that happened in SW DC where some small-time Bitcoin mining hucksters managed to set up a bunch of rigs in a handful of low-income-area apartment blocks (Syphax Gardens area). not sure if the units rhemselves were low income or not but the entire building group was set up to meter electricity and cooling as a whole rather than by unit. So they paid (possibly subsidized) rent for a cheap, fire hazard "data center" space and got free electricity and cooling out of it for at least a year before people figured out what they were up to.
How on earth the neighbors ignored the maddening fan noise of those things ( there are a couple in the data center space I lease from, and you can hear the single rack that they occupy from several aisles away, far louder than all of the industrial grade servers and hardware installed all around them) I cannot imagine, but the miners probably couldn't run that many rigs given the perhaps 50A or 100A total available to each unit.
> I cannot imagine, but the miners probably couldn't run that many rigs given the perhaps 50A or 100A total available to each unit.
60A @ 240v is a common residential load center size, 14.4kW is max load it’s a main lug only panel fed by a disconnect fused at 60A, and 11.5kW if the panel has a 60A main circuit breaker. Upping that to 100A yields 24kW and 19.2kW, respectively.
I’m not sure what a miner uses for energy, but assuming 500w, you could get 13 on a 60A panel without any other loads present.
