bigbangdangler

It’s partly because there realistically is no substantial left-wing voice remaining in the US. The right and corporations do their best to label centrist positions as far left positions, and the Overton Window continually shifts to the right as a result.

It’s also really, really popular to hate on California at the moment. The facts never matter.

Definitely sad that it’s NPR in this case, though.

The United States of America undertakes with regional partners to develop a definitive, mutually agreed plan with at least USD 300 billion for the ​reconstruction and economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The mechanism for the implementation of this plan will be finalized as part of final deal within 60 days. All required licenses, waivers, and permissions needed for the relevant financial transactions will be granted by the United ​States of America.

Note that this suggests that VP Vance’s recent claims of effectively “the gulf states will pay for it” is NOT in the language here. From my reading, if that amount cannot be brokered with those countries, the US still ends up holding the bill, since there is a 60-day deadline and failing to broker it would violate the terms of the peace agreement.

I’m not seeing how there isn’t a significant chance that the US taxpayer directly funds this line item. In fact, the point of having Vance make such comments is probably to assuage at least their own base, so they aren’t paying attention in 60 days when the money has to come from somewhere.

No no no, you see this Iran War wasn’t a war. Neither was Vietnam.

Congressional inaction means that US “war” success remains unchanged. /s

For those not getting the reference:

Thought to have died of indigestion arising from eating melon, though his opponents alleged he died while being sodomized by a page.

Doesn’t seem far fetched to think the indigestion was an excuse. Though to be fair, I’ve had some rough melons in my day.

How dare you come at me with self awareness!!

Definitely agree that its the “oh, how did this happen?” that is hugely problematic.

They either knew they were rolling with AI assets, or they are so disorganized to not have known there were AI assets shipping. Either one offers players a good reason to think the game will be shit and/or misrepresented.

Wait wait, does this mean we can just get one of these magic private funds and give the US population healthcare?!

If no one is working because AI causes massive unemployment, “dissent” isn’t really the right word. It would be “survival”, amidst a “collapse”.

That’s a good point. I should have picked a weaker bird, but I know very little about birds.

If these “prominent GOP hawks” haven’t seen the writing on the wall by now, I don’t even know what to say. Sounds more like pigeon than hawk, with no offense intended to pigeons.

It’s made to be artsy more than it’s made to be entertaining. I think that’s what makes it a polarizing film.

Those bits that should have “stayed on the cutting room floor” are all shot and framed in a spectacularly consistent and artistically pleasing way. If you’re the type that enjoys video essays on blocking, you probably love 2001. If not, it’s likely not your movie.

Do they call them bicycles though? I’m guessing Amazon has chosen to call the DC one a “bicycle” (despite 4 wheels) because of some regulation they’re avoiding with it or (more likely) some kickback they get for using bikes.

I don’t have a problem with the vehicle itself. Seems pretty neat. But it is not a bicycle.

The post suggests that the Jobs/Wozniak prototypes are no longer accurate. I think I generally disagree. We simply have many, many more Jobs than Wozniaks now.

A lot of people now going into tech fields aren’t doing it because they love tech already and want to apply it (Wozniak); they’re doing it because they see the money coming out of tech and they want that money (Jobs). We used to have way more Wozniaks, and now it’s just ever increasingly inverted.

The administration is negotiating a federal preemption of state AI laws

It’s soooo much fun watching States’ Rights be either the most important American tenet ever or a stumbling block to progress, depending on the issue.

No see because Iran doesn’t want world peace, so the bombing is just to get the peace without their consent. It’s warpeace.

/s

It definitely was.

Besides just the bugs back in the day, the nature of them was so drastically different between systems. I played at launch on PC, and even then I put ~100 hours into it. The bugs on the PC version were more gameplay/story based and less about performance. I think it was easily the most playable version at launch. Some of them were just funny and I remember giggling when a car would fly into the air or an NPC would t-pose. But I was able to progress and the game didn’t run like dogshit.

Console versions depended heavily on which console. The PS4 (non-Pro) version probably just should never have existed. Downright unplayable mess.

But the turnaround really even rivals No Man’s Sky’s turnaround. It helps that the story in Cyberpunk was always pretty solid. I still wish there were more variation between character paths in the early game. That’s really my only remaining gripe.

Ok, no reddit

Totally agree.

The biggest problem with AI isn’t the theft of everyone’s labor. It isn’t even the energy usage.

It’s the fact that no one, ever, considered the fact that humanity has no plan at all for how to deal with the impact of AI. We are watching it take over literally everything, and losing ourselves in the process. No one even considered the absolute negative impact on humanity purely from the standpoint of mental health and wellbeing.

Of course there are.

It also shouldn’t be surprising that something like Lemmy, an open-source project originally aimed at tech geeks and still used by a LOT of tech geeks, is filled with Linux users. Linux is an open-source project used by a lot of tech geeks.