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For less insightful stuff, may I recommend Boatmurdered, the chronicle of a succession game (one person plays a year and then passes the same file to someone else) of Dwarf Fortress:

Video https://youtu.be/nI1UmlfP1Cg

Text https://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/Introduction/

Maybe they should arm wrestle about it.

Yes, this works especially well for baguettes. More surface area for the brie or whatever you're putting on it.

Also, the houses are in poorer towns that are depopulating.

Falcom spoiled me forever by offering a startup option to continue from last save that skips all the logos, intros, etc.

I remembered liking the Pierce Brosnan one when I watched it a long time ago and recently rewatched it. It's a story about a rich guy who drags a bunch of people into investigations from police and insurance by pretending to steal art because he's bored. I can't imagine that landing well currently, but I'm not a movie producer so who knows.

No Mr Kirk, Dexter's in school.

Jim Bakker comes to mind. What are some other poor persecuted saints (/s)?

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Dorothy Gale!

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The head lady and the wheelers turning into sand were especially creepy.

I want to go back to Germany. Visited there on a three week exchange in high school but haven't been back since. Even with the various cultural homework things we had to do (learn what a Schultüte is, visit a graveyard, etc) I'm sure there's so much more to do and see that young me couldn't have even comprehended.

I think it's pretty naive to think education can combat the inherent flaws in human congnition that corporations take advantage of. It's not a person vs ignorance; it's a person vs teams of people that understand psychology and design to make it more effective in very subtle ways.

I also think that this is an individualistic solution to a systemic issue. The system will improve its abilities way faster and to a greater extent than humans are capable of dealing with. Education of one cannot keep up with the teams of educated people paid to make things that surpass that education. It would be like saying educating voters can overcome gerrymandering. It's not useless, but it's not going to make a meaningful impact.

What to put in its place to deal with this, you might ask. I'm not sure it's more than a moral panic at this point, honestly. Your specific example didn't contain a citation so I have no way of evaluating if it's something I'd take seriously. If I did take it as a valid point, I'd start thinking about how to change the systems. We're not going to get better humans. We might have a chance, albeit small, to get better systems.