When the Iraq war started, Sony embarrassingly trademarked “Shock and Awe” based on the bombings on TV to use in a video game. They were criticized and never used it, but the phrase was everywhere in 2003… because of popular news coverage of the bombings.
[NBC TV reporter Peter] Arnett was not alone in calling it “shock and awe.” That term, which had burst suddenly into public awareness in January, was by then in near-universal usage to describe the US strategy for Operation Iraqi Freedom.
“Shock and awe” was repeated endlessly. In the week the war began, more than 600 news reports around the world referred to “shock and awe,” according to a count by the Washington Post.
I would actually bet that this is a major reason Trump is doing it. For the ratings.
SK opened the $2.6 billion battery plant in Commerce, Georgia, in January 2022. The Korean company notably supplied the Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck. Ford announced plans to cancel the fully electric version of the truck in December.
So you built a $2.6 billion battery plant to build batteries for the truck Ford abandoned immediately. Who could have possibly seen this coming?!
Window decals may help, but they must be placed no more than 2-4 inches apart in order to be effective. Birds will try to fly through larger gaps. This means that on large windows, many closely spaced decals may be necessary to deter bird collisions.
4 inches is about 10cm
There are more tips in the article but stickers don’t help nearly as much as people want them to.
There are companies that are experimenting with whole window films, but when I looked a bit ago they didn’t seem to be widely available to consumers.
Rock Paper Shotgun is somewhat misrepresenting Myrient’s original posting. As is to be expected, I guess, since Rock Paper Shotgun is using Kotaku as a source.
The reasons in the original posting were in order: Increasing traffic costs, download managers, then increasing hardware upgrade costs on top.
Here is what the original posting says, in order:
As traffic continued to increase last year, the amount of funding from donations remained the same. I have been paying more than $6000 out of pocket every month in order to cover the difference which is not sustainable.
This is obviously the main issue! $6,000 out of pocket is clearly unsustainable.
The rest pales in comparison:
Paywalled download managers:
In the past several months, many specialized download managers were created that completely bypassed the site, donation messages, and download protections. Some of these download managers locked certain features behind a paywall that required users to pay in order to gain access. The use of Myrient for commercial, for-profit purposes has always been strictly forbidden. Such egregious and abusive usage of the site cannot be tolerated anymore.
Then it talks about hardware prices.
Rising RAM, SSD, and HDD prices:
Since last September, RAM, SSD, and HDD prices have surged dramatically and continue to rise due to the ongoing extreme demand for AI datacenters. This has caused Myrient's hosting expenses to go up as well.
“As well.”
With a large number of servers and the aforementioned existing monthly deficit in excess of $6000 out of pocket, there is no way to pay for the increased hosting and hardware upgrade costs.
I added emphasis. Note that it says “aforementioned existing monthly deficit,” $6000 a month. Hardware upgrades are in addition to the massive traffic costs. Not the main cost.
Kotaku turned that into “AI-Fueled RAM Crisis Forces Retro Game Preservation Site To Permanently Close.” And Rock Paper Shotgun fell for it.
a new Race Day expansion will arrive on March 10th giving you options to transform streets into courses for motor racing, running, and cycling events. On top of that more paid and free content is coming with the Iconic Brutalism and Renewed History content creator packs, a new radio station called 8 Gear Radio, and a free patch adding roadside fences and a new Employment Info View that allows for a closer look at a city’s workforce.
I’m totally in on building a race track! I also really love brutalism, so both of these sound great
Myrient is a popular video game preservation service that has over 390 terabytes of classics
Increasingly popular, according to the owner, which was part of the problem. Myrient was costing them $6,000 a month to run after donations.
Which is why people don’t start these things out of pocket. At best it’s questionably legal to distribute ROMs… but it’s really expensive to pay for the traffic.
They blame rising component prices as well, but the main issue was traffic costs.
The only thing crazy about this is that this journalist is using the term “back.”
It was just a few years ago that there were more large cars on the market because the automotive chip shortage supposedly made it less profitable to sell smaller cars.
Large vehicles aren’t “back,” they’ve intentionally created an industry that makes stupid people feel more capable with a large vehicle.
The narratives journalists create to perpetuate these stupid markets are honestly impressive.
Have you tried tagspaces? It’s not primarily an editor (from what I can tell) but if you want to split file editing from grouping/tagging, it might be worth a shot.
I haven’t tried it but I will, because I really like ways to organize files that don’t require actually changing the files themselves!
Sometimes solving the problems separately (organizing and editing) can be better for specific purposes. on a computer with a keyboard, I like an editor that just edits.
I think it might just be for the sight gag of the snake’s skeleton, but I could be wrong.
It’s hard to think of something sillier than having a snake skeleton as a jumpscare from a closet, while also making it somewhat straightforward to draw.
When the Iraq war started, Sony embarrassingly trademarked “Shock and Awe” based on the bombings on TV to use in a video game. They were criticized and never used it, but the phrase was everywhere in 2003… because of popular news coverage of the bombings.
I would actually bet that this is a major reason Trump is doing it. For the ratings.