bigbangdangler

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.

They should be paying as well.

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.

Ffs. Shit like this is why so many people hate taxes and don’t understand what they’re for.

These fees pay for roads and road maintenance. They should be paid by those using the roads. In this case, these vehicles will likely use the roads much more than most others.

Why the fuck should people, who potentially use the roads less these businesses, be the only ones paying for them?

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

Placeholder art is nothing new. Using AI to generate it is a legit practice

Funny how placeholder art existed long before AI slop, and it didn’t seem problematic.

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.

It used to be limited to Tuesdays, but now tacos are an every day thing.

Really though, the amount of flip flopping is staggering. It’s because the President of the United States has literally no clue what he’s doing.

It took Arch ~19 years just to get archinstall.

Something tells me there won’t be a script.

It is. Easily one of the best games of all time.

You know how you can put something on eBay for any amount of money? Of course it won’t sell if it’s priced too high, but the price can be set however.

Then people with random items go on eBay. They see their item priced at some exorbitant level and make the jump: “this thing is worth so much money!” Even though it isn’t worth that. It never sold for that. Someone just picked a number.

Starting to feel like this is how valuations work.

No one wants to work!

Correction: no one wants to work for little to no reward. A broken social contract with zero upward mobility. Benefits of a job well done only go to the fat cats at the top. Many more reasons than these, too.

The whole “movement” should have been treated as a risk to public safety from the start. Only the antivaxxers ever thought it was just a “personal choice”, because they’re the ones too stupid to understand the issue in the first place.

Don’t want to vaccinate your kids? Keep them the hell out of public then, and yourself included. Oh, you think that sounds oppressive? How about putting other people at unnecessary risk because your dumb ass thinks they know more than decades of medical science?

There is serious danger in the Dunning-Kruger effect which is strongly exacerbated by the existence of the internet. This is one example where it can and has literally lead to the loss of innocent life. It was never worth it to allow some insecure helicopter parents with chips on their shoulders to pretend their parental instincts meant more than the lives of others. We hand down consequences for folks who endanger public health in other areas all the time.

This is my only qualm with this. AI slop is not made by “synthetic performers”. We shouldn’t be elevating it with that wording, which sounds like it’s trying to give agency to the slop.