… only so long as they can keep their transportation infrastructure up…

No, not necessarily. I don’t think a dev usually would, or even should. It depends entirely on why they’re working on whatever the project is. To put it in more mathematical terms, I’m essentially saying that the amount of feedback any particular dev receives on their project is going to be a function of only really two major variables: How many total users they have, and how convenient they make it to deliver the feedback to them.

Those two variables are most, but not all, of what governs what happens. They can do with that information whatever they wish. If they want a lot of feedback, they should make it easy. If they do not wish a lot, they should not make it easy. That’s all, really. It’s not particularly high level thinking or anything.

People suffer from limited attention. Trying to take a purely principled approach and investing the energy to give back to every project you may want to can become impractical. Especially if one had a busy family and professional life too, it may just not be worth it, however much someone may wish to help.

It’s just the organization of priorities, and simply put, sometimes a few minutes really is too much to ask in certain circumstances.

Thus, removing as many hurdles as possible is probably a worthy investment of a devs time if they want large amounts of feedback. Pragmatic, not based on any ideas of what might be right or wrong, but simply what is probably going to happen most of the time, with no consideration to why that might be or what might be better. Pragmatism is frequently unethical.

Oh, trolling. Yeah, that’s an interesting term for that method. But no, I’m being serious. I’m just politically flexible instead of any kind of purist.

I think you missed a third group. MAGA is not all repubs, there’s all the Liz Cheney types they forced out. I assume he meant they were fascist too.

Operation Sealion was a German WW2 plan for an invasion of the British Isles. What’s it mean these days?

Side thought: If someone just puts an email address for receiving feedback somewhere where I’ll see it, I’ll use that too. A UI button isn’t really necessary, just so long as I can send the feedback without having to do my own research in order to do so.

I can write an email though.

Yeah, I won’t argue that Biden has some conservative in him. I’m not a big fan of it either.

In principle I agree with you. But people sitting behind their keyboards will also be fairly pragmatic about it, pretty often.

I don’t know about perfectly, I don’t see the hallmark ultranationalism in Biden, and he also seems to care about election results, which makes dictator a little harder to say. I also don’t see force being used to suppress his opposition, since Trump is still free and able to defend himself. Few others, but those are the big ones.

So, you just think they’re all fascists then? What does fascism actually mean to you?

Just out of curiosity, what do you think the mainstream repubs and the MAGA people are then, by comparison?

If you give me an extremely easy way to submit feedback, then I will. Don’t expect me to go way out of my way, though, researching how to get into contact with you and such. I don’t actually care that much, you know how many products exist out there, right?

But, just by way of example, an early access game I started playing recently has a very convenient button in the main HUD for submitting bug reports/suggestions, and I’ve been considering different ideas to submit with it. Any I cannot throw out as impractical or counter-productive will get submitted eventually. I’ll also report bugs I encounter, of course.

I will not look up your team’s forums just to talk to you though.

YES! Bots to moderate the bots! It’s genius I say.

New to me too. I want to eat one.

I’m imagining kiwi-stawberry, but frankly that’s just my animal brain drawing stupidly simple connections.

Not necessarily. Equality of opportunity already being achieved is a common right wing talking point. You cannot look at the handicapped and actually say they all get the exact same chances as we do though, that’s frankly pants-on-head silly.

There’s a whole lot they can’t do.

Yeah. Equality of opportunity is an aspiration to be fought for. Not yet a pre-existing reality, though.

It’s a gap because there’s no infrastructure crossing it. Not because people can’t walk through it. To prevent that, it would probably need to be a waterway, which would force people to use boats or swim. It would still be passable though.

There frankly aren’t many places humans can’t traverse with our own bodies. We’re an extremely versatile, mobile species, even to the point of being capably semi-aquatic sometimes.

After making a slightly snide comment, I decided I had to redeem myself by actually finding the answer. It’s surprisingly difficult, but the engraver was likely Charles A Brooks. I cannot determine the name or subject of the engraving itself though, though I’m merely using google searching. The answer is probably sitting in some record books in some archive somewhere.

His engravings were nearly photorealistic, so a reverse image search from a cropped pic of just the portrait may yield something–his original source potentially.

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