Big Bad Wolf - In This Moment Edit: shit, just saw that you don't want metal. Leaving it, maybe someone else does 🤷

Pong is pretty lit

This graph is such an awful data visualization that it's almost art

If you have any local PC repair shops left, call them and explain your situation. They may be willing to give you a hand for a small fee.

And yet, the MBAs continue to pump money into it like AI doesn't fail to provide any value in 80% of their shoehorned implementations.

Glad to see that I have one more thing in common with my neighbors to the north. Pretty sure that's our fault, sorry.

Like leaving pessimistic trolly comments? Feels like projection

There's no way that this impacts more than a couple thousand people in Kansas, tops. What fragile little Nazis.

To me, it seems like a possible manifestation of the sunk cost fallacy. I've personally seen it in IT security audits and policy rollouts. As you try to make a domain more secure via more aggressive group policy rules, more authoritarian approaches become more acceptable than when you started. Part of it is a sunk cost of "well, if we don't take this more aggressive stance, all of our previous work could be undone." mixed with a sentiment of "We are already blocking users from accessing x service, why not also block y service". Blocking y service would have been unpopular before service x was blocked, but now there's something more acceptable that you can point at as justification. This process just repeats further and further until you're essentially blocking everything and selectively allowing services.

I'm sure I've noticed it elsewhere, but that's one example that I have encountered quite a few times.

Huh, I'd noticed the ratchet effect before in a few different subjects, but I hadn't heard of it specifically. I think you hit the nail on the head, thanks for helping me learn something today.

Is this not just an illustration of the concept of the Overton Window?

"push my fingers into my eyes" is a reference to Duality by Slipknot, as well. Sorry to break it to you, but it was 2/4