Games were better before achievements. Admit it, you’ve played a game in way that you actively don’t enjoy or long after you’ve lost interest, just to pop some worthless achievement.

I understand a few studios take the time to make achievements humorous or worthwhile to the actual game your playing, but that’s just another reminder that most studios don’t.

Consider that the cost of energy is going to be the limiting factor on AI. When the VC dries up, who is going to pay the light bill?

I don’t understand the nuance of Syria, but even I can tell that this is a rock in Putin’s shoe and I’m here for it.

These are not the same person. They fit the description, and where near the scene. Police would want to talk to both regardless.

Nevermind the Tax stuff. I was soooooo looking forward to his gun charge going to court.

if you don’t know, he was charged with perjury because when you buy a gun you have to check a box that says you haven’t abused drugs in 90 days or some shit. With this SCOUTS, it would be hard to imagine this provision surviving a challenge. After all, if we accept that buying a gun is a right, then some government agency can’t deny you that with an arbitrary rule.

The gun nuts would be forced to choose between persecuting Trump’s enemies and gun rights.

It’s obtuse to treat the bear metaphor as a math problem. It’s doubly so to correct the work.

The first half of your comment is an acknowledgement that you don’t understand American culture and the second half is you casting declarative judgement upon it.

I don’t know which one of your minds to respond to.

A quick Google search of the name leads to results about British adventurer and environmentalist David Mayer de Rothschild…

This is likely the explanation. GPT has some kind of bug in the antisemitism filter.

New CEO --> layoffs ----> line go up ----> ops, not genius after all ----> deploy golden parachute.

Consumer goods become cheaper through innovation and economies of scale. Freeze drying is a mature technology with limited appeal.

And then there was that bogus article that said Argentina had lowered it’s inflation to 2% and you find out in the article that’s monthly inflation and the yearly figure was like 190%.

Musk’s abrupt firing of the team initially seemed like a display of power—a way to assert control and show he could make tough decisions in the face of investor pressure.

This is justification for wrecking 500 employee’s lives? So he could show he’s a tough business boy? In order to reassure people who’ve gotten over 50% returns for a decade? In a company that’s “worth” more than the GDP of Saudi Arabia?

Investor confidence is so important to Musk because he knows Tesla is a bubble.

There are two genres of capitalist optimism.

one is the “it’s going to be different this time baby I swear” and the other is “prayer to an angry god”. This piece obviously is of the former category.

It’s not fair to describe the western models as “closed”. All the tech bros have a open-source ethic that would embarrass a FOSS developer. At least when it comes to training data.

When you hear Republicans say Russia is “defending Western values”, this is what they’re talking about.

It’s the playstations and Nintendos that always had a worthwhile ascetic. The kind of line and color that would be attractive next to a DVD player or Stereo receiver.

The Microsoft consoles meanwhile seemed to stick to that anti-ascetic popular with juvenile-boy coded gross-out toys. And this keyboard leans into that hard.

If the cartels had their cargoes insured for loss we would know exactly what it was worth. But as it is now, the value of drugs is limited only by the imagination of the police in charge.

I’ve seen pigs weigh entire marijuana plants, terracotta-pot and all, then multiply that figure by a “street value” that’s 10X what I’ve ever paid for premium bud. I’m convinced that many drug dealers go their start after seeing these inflated values advertised on TV.

Neutrinos can totally go back in time. It’s essential to the plot of “Watchmen” 2009 and that’s as good as peer review. it’s just not in physics because Einstein was a Marvel fan.

By the time RFK jr. is done, the vegetables will have a warning label for Haber–Bosch nitrogen and MAGA will insist their food be grown on untreated human feces.

I don’t know about STEM, but Youtube appears to employ more philosophy PHDs than any dozen universities.