Many of the ones I have listened to were mentioned on other podcasts.

I don’t really have much I would recommend, but mostly because the quality is inconsistent and I don’t know you. Econtalks has always been mostly good, just with some annoying guests. I haven’t listened as much since October 7th as it has taken up a lot of the host’s attention.
Gzero World can be interesting sometimes. A bit produced but okay.
Here Comes the Guillotine is fun. Scottish comedians joking darkly.
There are some good TTRPG actual play podcasts. I’d highlight Final Show Films, the Apocalypse Players, and Push the Roll. Quality varies but sometimes really fun. Zizek & so on can be interesting if you like Lacanian psychoanalysis and the like.

I have a hypothesis people seek out in fiction what is missing in their life. If everything is going well, people seek out cathartic drama. If everything is going poorly, they seek out cathartic resolution. Part of why people are so into things like comic book stories is how they usually have a clearly defined villain, problem, and solution, while much of our world right now doesn’t feel like there are any solutions to the problems, or the solutions are so complex people can’t understand them, or even the solutions seem like problems in themselves.

Unreasoned denial and emojis. I’m not going to continue talking to a child. Goodbye.

Killing and murder are the same thing. Killing in defence is called justifiable homicide. Don’t play language games.

children communicating to others, that are not their parents ** ESPECIALLY ANONYMOUS\PSEUDONYMOUS STRANGERS, WITHOUT THEIR PARENT’S GUIDANCE** is bad and we should generally have rules against it.

FTFY

There are three groups who seek out kids online: companies who want to do bad things to them, adults who want to do bad things to them, (or are just weird, so probably not good role models at least, even if they might not be technically predatory) and other kids. Given the first two are big and malign, and the third can be accessed by going to school, an extracurricular activity, or through means that connect through but are distinct from access to the open internet, it’s a bad idea to let kids have open access to the awfulness of the modern web.

A small number of kids, in a small number of cases, might benefit from access to the internet in the same way a small number of kids, in a small set of circumstances, may benefit from antibiotics, but we don’t put bottles of penicillin into kids’ pockets and blithely trust them to use them wisely.

Quite simply, if you believe kids are capable of making wise decisions regarding their online actions and interactions without parental guidance, you are granting them the autonomy and authority to offer informed consent. Is that really something you are comfortable with?

Thanks for reminding me to get a new battery.

Unironically, be bored more. If you are so tweaked out by the constant stimulation of modern life that even the deluge of content can’t suffice, your brain has been broken. Meditate. Read. Listen to the sound of your breath. You will want to do something else. Do not do something else. Teach your brain to live at the speed of life.

Ignore it? Just because a thing exists doesn’t mean it has to serve extra purposes. Space is fine as space if you don’t already want to use it for something.

‘Killing people is bad and we should generally have rules against it.’

‘But what if I need to defend myself?’

Do you think that limited circumstance warrant throwing away the rule? Or maybe, just maybe, we stick to the general as a general rule but excuse violations of the rule where it seems reasonable? The vast majority of kids are not endangered by queerness, and those that are should be helped, but the answer to a few kids needing help is not to open the floodgates on everyone else. Computers are great tools but the modern internet is no place for an unaccompanied child. It’s probably not even good for adults, but adults can at least pretend to give informed consent in a way kids cannot.

So you say, and yet not any hint of how.

Wow, such a substantive argument. /s

The internet is for communication. A child has no reason to communicate with anyone independent of their parent. No internet.

The one I always think of in response to this question is Cirice, originally by Ghost, but covered by Saint Raven. The original is good but I like what Saint Raven did with the vocals.

Cost, bad PR, etc. Wouldn’t end the BS entirely, but it would decrease the general BS level.

Get rid of them entirely? Not happening.

Severely reduce them? Ban advertising. As it stands, you can spin up hundreds or even thousands of free accounts on any given site for not much investment, which means banning a troll account doesn’t do much. Without advertising, the web would require you to pay for access. If people have to pay real cash for every BS bot account and trolling shitpost, they would be less inclined to spam or harass people.

I tried installing Drauger before Bazzite but never got it to the point of stability before breaking it and moving on to try other things. (I know he put out a new version recently so I might pull something together to try it again to see if it improved.) Really, though, I’d say just go with Debian itself. Between Steam, Lutris, and Heroic, you don’t need to install gaming tools yourself much anymore, and if you are a fan of the Ubuntu toolkit, that’s mostly Debian. I’ve done a bit of gaming on Debian and never had any issue.

What are you having trouble with on Bazzite that you expect to be different on anything else, though?

I can’t prove it but I suspect that they are having about as many children as they want and our expectations of ‘fertility rates’ are actually skewed by the number of unwanted pregnancies that were forced on people who then existed in the space of ‘We didn’t ask for this but now we love the little shit so I guess we’ll make the best of it.’ The world is and has been changing so fast for the last century or so that our sense of long term trends is much harder to understand.

*coughFloridacoughcough*

*coughcoughCornwallcough*

LLMs do not ‘believe’ anything. They are very big, very expensive autocomplete. They don’t know any information. They don’t think about your prompts and propose an answer. They are a system that takes what you put in, assumes what you have entered is the first X words of a document that already exists, and then makes a probabilistic prediction what the next word will be.

No thought. Only probability.

I got Slime Rancher as similar. Much of steam’s ‘similarity’ system is broken by the popularity of games tying together things that have nothing to do with one another.