Indeed. Conservatism is the sidekick of "Progressivism" and exists to ensure that nothing the "Progressives" do is ever rolled back.

This is why Conservatives have never conserved anything of value. "Conservative" is at least as much of a lie as "Progressive."

If Conservatives didn't exist, Progressives would have to create them.

Most game developers can't write good code either. A friend used to write 3D drivers and had to put in various workarounds for the crappy code in so many games asking the driver to do really dumb things which slashed performance.

This is why these days they typically rely on the good developers writing engines that they license.

And then we have the numerous flops where developers decided pushing politics was more important than making a good game. If they were even capable of doing so in the first place.

It's not that long ago that actors didn't get paid $60,000,000 for a few weeks work making a movie. They may have to go back to the days when they were merely well-paid rather than obscenely well-paid.

That's if we don't return to the historical norm where prostitution was considered more socially acceptable than acting.

Why will billionaires choose to pay more tax so unemployables can sit around eating pizza and watching porn when the billionaires can just build Terminators instead?

UBI fanboys clearly have no idea of how psychopaths think. The people who want to steal all the money in the world are not going to give it to "useless eaters".

Uh, the "upgrade" to Windows 10 was forced too. It just didn't force you to buy new hardware as well.

My mother-in-law called us one day because her Windows computer had suddenly started looking completely different after Microsoft installed Windows 10 on it without asking. It wasn't something she wanted.

> the TPM requirement is for very old PCs

"Very old PCs" which were working fine with Windows 10. And still work fine with Linux.

It's also weird because I remember Microsoft telling us that Windows 10 was the last version of Windows and there'd never be a Windows 11.

Midwits don't understand that billionaires don't care about making money. They sell things to you so they can build spaceships and buy expensive yachts.

If all production is automated, they no longer need the money so they no longer need to sell things to you.

What billionaires really don't understand is that most of them have no useful skills in a post-neoliberal world and their wealth is more likely to end up in the hands of their security staff, who have a very particular set of skills.

Probably, but Microsoft will re-enable it all with the next update.

Who creates the incentives?

Around here, detached houses are being knocked down so developers can build a block of condos on the same land and make a ton of money. It doesn't matter whether people want to own or rent detached houses if they've all been knocked down.

Yeah, but that's evil and you should live in a Stalinist apartment block comrade.

In the real world, communists love "high-density development" but actual people want to live in a house with some room and a yard and in much of the West suburbs exist because much of the population will literally pay hundreds of thousands of dollars more to not have to live with the kind of people who live in "high-density development" in the inner cities.

Communists can't solve that, but they can force people to live where they don't want to live.

James Cameron was famously (and successfully) sued for stealing ideas from old TV shows.

With an LLM you can--at least in theory--determine exactly which books it took words from by following the data through the model to the output. You can't do that with a human, unless, like Cameron, they publicly admit what they did.

> Only for people with really simple minds.

Gee, I guess the people at one of the world's top universities who gave me a science scholarship must have been impressed by my "really simple mind."

But back then "Climate Science" was the Special Ed of Physics.

> The media hyped a few proposals for "global cooling" at one point but it was never anything like a scientific consensus.

It's truly bizarre that people think they can tell people who lived through events that those events didn't happen.

AI is the new hotness and AI data centres can't be powered by solar panels and windmills. So "Climate Change" is done.