It’s Shrodinger’s war. Both a war and not a war at the same time. Neither side wants the war to continue, but neither side wants to back down.

What a glorious day for Canada, and indeed the world.

Yeah because of the demands by the changeling members of the cast. They have a really strong union.

Sorry, needs an “oi” in there somewhere to be a valid reference to The Boys.

This seems more like it to me:

Oi Jim, I’m a doctor, not a fooking cunt.

Some people may not want to spend time on cobbling together a Linux machine. There’s some research involved in figuring out which hardware works best, and maybe fiddling around with configuring a system. There is value in know that all of the hardware in your system will get priority support from the OS maintainer and game developers. Some glitchiness in a game on a steam machine will get fixed before some glitchiness on someone’s custom rig.

And many of us don’t buy a new PC every year. What benefit is it to me if a new AAA game has higher resolution options that aren’t available on my 2+ year old PC unless I spend a thousand dollars to buy video card or whatever?

No idea if this will be a success or not, but there is a lot of upside to having a standardized platform (there’s a reason consoles are so popular) and little downsides for anyone that’s not spending more money on hardware than on the actual games. Sure the PC Master Race types won’t want this, but I think that’s a very small group of people.

Culture is always evolving. Some words and symbols have had different meaning in the past than they do now. With context it can be fine to use them without association with the stronger cultural associations. If I see a swastika on a Buddhist temple, I’m not going to assume the Buddhists are Nazis. But if I see a symbol or word without context I’m going to assume the strongest association to that symbol in my culture. Just how culture works.

You aren’t required to participate in gay pride celebrations this month. You can instead go watch the He-Man movie and enjoy a fun action movie about totally straight men.

You’re supposed to don your gay apparel in December.

Isn’t this just the broken window fallacy but with a poop fetish?

No, they’re saying that it’s technically possible for an Israeli company to have done this. The article says that an SDK exists, but there is no proof that it’s being used in the way they’re speculating about. They’re Just Asking Questions ™. But it’s possible and mentioning an Israeli company makes certain people paranoid similar to how mentioning Warren Buffet makes certain people paranoid.

It’s be relatively simple for security researchers to monitor the traffic from smart TV. But maybe all of the security researchers are working for the Israelis too. Can’t prove that they aren’t all working for the Israelis. Therefore we should just trust in what is implied by this one article that isn’t even showing any network packets from any specific devices.

Just how internet conspiracy theories work. People tend to not question those that are Just Asking Questions so long those implicated in the conspiracy are people they hate.

A note on what the partner list proves: Being listed in Bright Data’s config means an integration might have existed at some point. It does not by itself prove that a specific publisher’s currently-shipping app(s) includes the SDK in production. For any named publisher, per-app verification is required.

I’m not sure what this article is claiming is happening? My TV is browsing websites? Why haven’t they proven it? Seems like it would be relatively simple to monitor the web traffic from the TV to see if that’s happening, then they wouldn’t put a disclaimer about it being unproven, Are they asking me to do the verification work for them?

Yeah, Nvidia invests in Open AI, Open AI uses that money to buy Nvidia chips. More people invest in Nvidia because it’s revenue keeps growing.

Charles Ponzi would be proud.

Odd, I’ve heard a lot of people say they don’t want to get an EV because they don’t have very good resale value. A quick search shows a bunch of used EVs for sale in my area, similarly priced to used ICE vehicles. Which given new EVs go for a lot more than new ICE cars, there seems to be some truth to that. But that’s to your advantage if you want to buy a used EV.

The rich will short it and profit when it all collapses.

Do you think Trump would be super broken up if Don Jr, or Eric were killed by a bomb? He’d probably try to act like he cared for the cameras, but would he really care?

Given Mojtaba Khamenei’s history, it’s quite likely he’s a psychopath. So it’s very possible that he’s closer to Trump’s mentality than a normal person’s.

It’s odd how people assume that the enemy of of a narcissistic authoritarian sociopath that has the title of “Supreme Leader” and was personally involved with executing tens of thousands of people couldn’t possibly be a narcissistic authoritarian sociopath too.

Hitler was a bad guy therefore Stalin must’ve been a decent well-adjusted person, right?

Are you confusing Mojtaba Khamenei with MBS? They are different shitty people.

Trump does meet with MBS all the time BTW.

I can understand people sticking with horses more than I can understand sticking with ICE cars. A horse is an animal with a personality, you might feel like it’s like losing a friend.

But why do people have so much sentimentality over having cars that have tailpipes?

Don’t worry, they enshittify software in cars that have an ICE under the hood too.

Yeah if you go to film school and learn about the context and all of the innovative filming techniques used, you’ll probably consider it the greatest of all time. Which is why it’s so highly rated by film critics.

But if you’re just a regular person, it’s not particularly interesting since you’ve seen many movies that were made later that used those same techniques and narrative structure.

I did enjoy all of the Simpson’s references in it tho.

Weird that Inglorious Basterds is one of the few movies I’ve had “sexy times” while watching. Getting a BJ while watching Hitler getting machine gunned gave me a greater appreciation for the movie.