Let me be the first to send a “thank you” in return to the people who always advocate for Matrix and similar open source alternatives on here without acknowledging that performance, UI and on-boarding with those are just absolutely awful compared to Discord, and that is not because performance and UI on Discord are great.

Yeah, tried Matrix a few time and it is honestly just unusable, even for myself, never mind convincing other people to join it.

And if it was about being the most recognizable I might agree but the influence on other games or even media in general was relatively limited.

Minecraft might be a good contender in terms of spawning the survival genre and also having so many mods used to pioneer entirely new game modes and even having a major part in machinima and Let’s Plays and such things on Youtube.

Apart from a few rather mediocre movies and a few orchestras playing the theme tune what did you have in mind there?

But Palworld is still literally one of maybe half a dozen other games remotely like Pokemon.

But it barely influenced any other games. The genre of creature collector games in this style is quite small.

It is not as if buttons required in cars differ wildly between models, they could easily mass produce those too if they wanted to and if cost is such a major concern maybe getting rid of the stupid design team that makes them look different for every model would save a lot more money.

The second dumbest engineering idea. The dumbest was clearly the car itself, letting the average person control a device that can accelerate hundreds or thousands of kilograms to speeds where reaction times of fractions of a second matter for safety was clearly one of the stupidest ideas ever.

You don’t genuinely believe anyone is installing and wiring up individual buttons in a car, do you? That whole row of buttons is delivered as a single unit just like the screen is and will have a single connector just like the screen does. Sure, you then have to install and test two units (screen and buttons) but that is about it in terms of extra work.

Your brakes will be available again after this mandatory 30s ad.

Well, presumably this group is more about models of cars and less about individual driver behavior.

The point isn’t to say America doesn’t have smart and educated people but that America would need additional smart and educated people to do all the things Europe is doing currently and America is not. The same problem would be exactly identical in reverse if you wanted to reduce a world where Europe imported half (lets simplify a bit and ignore everyone else’s contributions from other parts of the world) of the high skill products from the US and produced half domestically and now suddenly wanted to switch to doing it 100% domestically.

Where would the US in the current anti-immigration (and anti-education for that matter) political climate get high skill and high education people who can have their pick of any country in the world if they want to uproot their life at home at all? Not to mention in numbers that replace essentially every high skill and high education job in Europe?

And no, it doesn’t really help that you only need to produce for the domestic market because you can’t half write a piece of software or half invent a drug if you only need it for half the people.

You mean into the racist shit hole that is extremely anti-immigration the US is becoming?

Honestly, the US doesn’t have the high skill workers to copy all the stuff actually worth patenting from Europe.

Not even just art, they are also just stupid for the most mundane types of software problems too, the kind that everyone would do the same because there is just an obvious solution to a simple problem if it wasn’t for idiots patenting the obvious solution.

Paper is just about the easiest thing to lose over the years and it certainly doesn’t last forever. You are one bit of water damage, one fire, one break-in,… away from losing it all permanently with paper.

WYSIWYG, Word Processors and CMSs are the kind of thing I don’t even want for my current content (or any content I made in the last 25+ years), why would I want any of them as an archive format?

Agreed. Just the idea of finally replacing JS with something only to be another of those “dynamic” languages makes me want to puke.

Who liquefies all those things that leak in recent years anyway?