I mean, parts fail. I had a new battery shit out on me after a couple of months, despite keeping up with regular maintenance. Everyone in this thread is running with completely unverified ideas about why the event happened the way it did, with no supporting evidence and then lashing out at others for disagreeing. Y’all all trying to verify your biases.

Oh me too, they just seem to have very few long term planning leaders these days.

True, but remember they will just blame it on the previous administration until it’s forgotten.

Why would they do that when they could use the time-honored GOP strategy of blaming it on democrat leadership and immigrants?

Is it apple only? Would love it on my droid if it’s available.

Always have been

Gah, what a great movie for a myriad of great actors. Prequels to Wash (Tudyk), King Baratheon (Addy), and Vision (Bettany)

I think you mean Sir Ulrich von Lichtenstein

Hope there aren’t any flags or posters that can murder a poor tourist.

Aren’t there research science positions in the military that are civilian positions, but also given a rank?

I might be misremembering but I thought that has been a thing for a while.

I like any sort of rpg that requires you to understand the text so you know what you need doing. Diablo 2 was my way to learning another language, but it’s fairly old now. Maybe something along those lines or that has a good crafting system? I would suggest stuff like Grounded, some of the Elder Scrolls (oblivion just got a remake so that might be nice), project zomboid, etc.

Haven’t heard a single speaker other than for a tour guide and those are clipped to their belts and connected via a cable to a mic.

I’ve been to a few of them, they’re pretty excellent. At least the ones I’ve been to had good signal and wifi throughout the park. Also a ton of staff to help.

Edit: I guess I’ve been to the national parks that are not IUCN certified like some of the historic mountains. Still awesome parks.

Well now I feel more compelled to go tell off that orange fuck, and protest the armed forces that are a: allowing themselves to be used for propaganda, and b: allowing their companions to be deployed against their own citizens in violation of their oaths.

I think of Vanessa playing the piano.

No, but wait for the presidential proclamation trying to rename it.

Already anticipated by the Ukrainians as they wheel out their newest anti-plane drones.

Fitted with a bouncy ball on the ventral side of the drone to allow for “skipping” into place under the plane prior to upward thrusting.

Sometimes the charge goes off immediately, sometimes it takes a little floorplay to prime. Preliminary testing has resulted in 9/10 devastated planes and 1/10 hybrid plane/drone offspring with a nuclear family.

Doesn’t the fact that it’s not from a well known AI dev or company owner indicate that these types of models are becoming prolific and while inferences may never spike, training each one does still cost a good bit of energy for… why? Is it a more efficient solution or is it just a way to allow for more privacy while increasing the number of people running their own models and by extension exacerbating the ai energy problem?

Or did I misread a whole bunch?

Articulate the difference. You keep saying I’m missing the point or that there is a difference but you don’t state what it is.

You’re reading into it too much. I read your response to the other guy and went to the first example my mind thought of for government regulation of foodstuffs that are safe to consume but otherwise banned for a reason.

I for one would eat endangered species if it’s all I had access to, but I understand the damage it would cause and am comfortable eating other sources of food. I also do love eating beef and pork and chicken, but I’m willing to reduce consumption of those for other sources if needed.

We see a ton of rainforest being chopped to expand access to cattle farming, tons of pollution runoff from farms, and a history of antibiotic resistance being transferred due to heavy antibiotic use in close quarter factory farms. I would argue those would be equally damaging to not just us, but also many ecosystems and the species in them.

So I draw an equivalence there. If you’re not cool with eating endangered species, maybe you can ease off the gas on mammal based protein.

On the other hand, it’s looking like we might be able to get around a lot of that damage with lab grown meat.

Would you eat lab grown meat if standard beef/poultry/pork were to be banned?