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It doesn't matter. For every amazon worker that falls there are ten willing to take up their fatigues and continue toiling for the glory of Amazon!

When the worker in front of you dies, you take his mask and his gloves and keep on working.

I quit my shitty call center job, but just now I got a call from HR and they've offered me an admin role instead XD

I guess quitting pays off sometimes.

It's also excluding this fact:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-04/china-coronavirus-covid-19-medical-supplies-recalled-regulation/12105110

China's coronavirus supplies are being rejected — how do we ensure quality in a pandemic?
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China's efforts to help haven't gone smoothly, as several countries have reported faults with Chinese-made supplies.

This began with Spain's recall of about 58,000 inaccurate rapid COVID-19 test kits late last week, and Turkey also casting aside a number of sample test kits that were faulty.

This was then followed last Saturday by a Dutch recall of some 600,000 face masks that didn't provide an airtight seal.

Australia also found fault with Chinese products, with Border Force officials telling the ABC on Wednesday that it seized around 800,000 personal protective equipment (PPE) products worth $1.2 million in recent weeks.

So only 3 days ago the news was asking how we can ensure that these Chinese medical exports are up to standard. Now, we're freaking out that the Chinese are going to impose conditions requiring exporters meet the standards of the nation they're exporting to. Can't win, basically.

EDIT: BTW Jimmy, you cut off the part of your quote that explains that the more stringent standards for PPE from China were "In response to this situation" which was the fact that "In Europe, huge quantities of Chinese coronavirus test kits and medical use masks have been rejected as defective". There's really no need to jump to the conspiracy theory that this move is to stop other people getting PPE, when a perfectly reasonable explanation is right in the article you linked. China has enough industrial capacity to make all the PPE they need, plus enough to export to make money and keep their economy afloat. They want to sell more PPE, but if they export faulty PPE, people will stop buying it. Export demand for a lot of stuff has already dropped. China has no issue with exporting PPE if that's what's going to keep factories open.

Also everyone can't stay locked down forever. You need some people running things. Those people need to be tested.

Also the point is people are still spreading it. As long as people are still being jackasses, testing has value.

I think the overall problem there is that truth becomes another popularity contest, and popularity contests haven't proven to be a good way of promoting the best of anything.

That plus the fact that having unlimited ability to filter your inputs means that ideological bubbles form. So, people are self-isolating into bubbles (helped along by algorithms which try and give you more of the stuff that you want to see), and inside each bubble, ideas rise to the top based on pure popularity.

Pretty much every idea on how to fix this has flaws. For example, you could say that every time you view one thing, we pair it with something saying the opposite. But that creates further problems: every evolution video would have to be paired with a creationist video, and every video which mentions the world being round must be paired with a flat-Earth video. And vice-versa. This would break people out of their bubbles, but would create a false equivalency problem along with it - every video saying some true thing would by definition be paired with a video full of lies.

Isn't the whole point of religion that they're dogmatic?

It's more that dogmatic religions out-competed non-dogmatic ones.

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I'm more of a cat person

I'm watching Mysterious Cities of Gold now, that's another series off my bucket list, that I have vague childhood memories of. I never did catch the whole thing. It's holding up pretty good, considering its age. Has good plot-progression from episode to episode rather than feeling episodic "fake plot". I'm looking at you, Avatar: when most episodes follow a formula, then that's fake-plot. A few early episodes of the copy of Mysterious Cities I have were out of order, and it made the show really hard to follow until I fixed up the order. For Avatar, you could mix up the order of 80% of episodes and probably never notice. Legend of Korra improved that however, moving away from the "adventure of the week" formula.

One thing is that this show has a little 'educational' bit at the end of it about the real Incas / New World discovery time period. That was actually a broadcast requirement in the USA back in the 1980s / early 1990s, I recall the same kinds of bits were on the end of Inspector Gadget, and were added to Sailor Moon episodes:
https://sailormoondub.fandom.com/wiki/Sailor_Says

Sailor Says were exclusive segment produced for the North American Dub of Sailor Moon. They were modeled after Public Service Announcements and were added to the end of several episodes on account of broadcast regulations set by the FCC, who wanted educational segments included at the end of shows aimed at children.

That's a good argument to watch the subbed version of Sailor Moon right there: less educational.

I'm not sure these were part of the original Franco-Japanese production of Mysterious Cities or tacked on the end to appease the American censors. The educational bit uses live-action stock footage.

That's because you have the wrong perspective, you're doing the trees not the woods. It's like you're trying to invent a car, so you sit down and spend all your time developing really cool gaskets, then wonder why you never have a working car. A really shitty car that actually drives around is better than a non-working one that has really well engineered parts.

Make the woods.

EDIT: start with a smaller scope, first, for a finished thing. It doesn't matter if the thing is small. You just need to build things you can finish (in the first video they recommend scoping for a full thing in no more than one month). Then, you see what needs to get done to make that thing, and you schedule for those things. Then, you make your crappy thing and put it up on itch.io, and forget about it.

That 'build a complete universe' thing is the very trap that the videos warn you about not doing. Everyone wants to do that stuff, and everyone fails.

For example, why not build a simple Masters of Orion clone. You can use your planet-drawing code in that. But, you have to schedule how much of Masters of Orion you can build in 4 weeks. In the first week focus on being able to produce fleets (of ONE type of ship) and move them around, 'capture' planets, but keep it as simple as possible: visiting a planet counts as capture, and if two fleets encounter each other, there's a very simple numbers-based battle. In the second week, flesh out a ship-design system, third week, flesh out a colony/production/tech system. fourth week, factions/diplomacy/end game, polish and upload. Things like adding in a graphical mode for the battles, that should be a whole new project in itself, so treat it as such.

The above would be "MooClone v0.1 - Minimum Viable Product'. Done get bogged down getting any one system "perfect" - randomly scattering stars around is good enough for v0.1, but you could spend a whole month just perfecting a galaxy-generator if you wanted. It would be a waste of time and lead to abandoning another unfinished thing however. Another goal should playable demo at each milestone. e.g. focus on a playable prototype from day 1, but one that can be finished, and the goal is that at each milestone you're left with a game that's still playable and ideally finishable. If part of one milestone is a situation where putting this system in will break the game until later on, then leave that thing out and make it it's own milestone in a future development round.

You can then scope out another one month project which takes you to 0.2, but since you already uploaded v0.1 you could take a break and work on something else instead.