There has been no period of "rapid change" that has even come close to matching the speed of climate change in the last couple hundred years.

The parts of government responsible for public toilets are not the ones spending billions or trillions of dollars on things.

I hope they don't bring Chinese UI/UX to it. Native Chinese apps are a mess from a western perspective.

There are bunch of bitcoin miner products now that are packaged to look like regular space heaters.

Which seems strange since Toyota are the origins of JiT manufacturing. I wonder what made Japan go through a period of incredible innovation and then just decide "ok, that's enough".

Japan still has not fully recovered from the asset price bubble's collapse beginning in 1990.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decades

Being the lesser of two evils doesn't make it right. It's also possible to not have loot boxes at all.

The "lesser" of 2 evils here isnt practicing evil?

Loot boxes are, by any and all definitions, evil. It’s gambling. Worse even, it’s gambling with real money over digital ephemera.

Loot boxes are not a fun mechanic. Loot boxes are not designed to entertain you or give you good value for your money. Loot boxes only exist to make you gamble with your money over something that could easily be sold as a single purchase item, or better yet, be rewarded in-game. Simple as that. It’s a gambling scheme. Always has been. Always will be.

Gambling is a game mechanic. It can be evil. But if its restricted to non game affecting items for people over the age of 18 it isnt evil. Its completely optional. I remember playing CS:GO and ignoring the loot boxes until fridays in the afternoon when my mate would come online and we would crack a couple together and put our new stickers on our guns.

Recency matters. If this post stops getting points it will drop off very fast. The 273 point post is 9 hours old.

Keep in mind that Uber does like 30 million rides per day.

Its too close to slavery for my liking. Yes they are paid but 2.5k per month is very low for Singapore, they work massive hours, they rely on you for shelter, and are very likely from much poorer neighbouring countries that are trying to support family back home.

The whole power dynamic is extremely exploitable which results in a lot of abuse cases.

They would be much worse off if they stay in their own country and they even get 1 day rest per week.

Yes exactly, which is why the system is so ripe for abuse. A third of live in maids in Singapore report abuse by their employers.

I don't consider taking someone out of a shit situation into a slightly less shit situation for your huge benefit all that benevolent personally.

As one of those people that uses Obsidian without plugins, what plugins do you consider essential?

I rely on Advanced URI, which opens certain functionality up to external apps. I use Raycast and with Cmd+Space, it lets me open vaults or daily notes. And Obsidian_to_Anki, but that's probably just me because I have no clue how to use Anki otherwise.

Yeah, I don't use any community plugins. I take notes in obsidian. And it turns out, having multiple years worth of notes and todos in a tree of crosslinked markdown files is pretty handy in this AI era. I take notes in obsidian and run the Gemini cli from my vault. Works a treat.

An ADD/SUM feature on tables was the first plugin I installed. It could be argued this should be part of the TABLE but I guess the dev team has a lot on their plate not to mention I'm not even sure if there's a feature request for this ability.

Me too.

All I want is a top-notch Markdown editor with a mobile app and trustworthy sync, and that's what Obsidian gives me. And if ever Obsidian goes away or is enshittified, I'll still have a perfectly good folder of Markdown documents that I can take elsewhere.

Same here, zero plugins for me.

For me these are the self hosted livesync, copilot and readitlater for better web clippings.

I really don't want my notes on other people's servers so the official sync will never be an option unless they enable that to be self hosted as an option.