At least we have divorce laws now. When Bezos' wife got half his money, it was a very good thing for the world. She has done far more good with it than he ever will. Maybe Jensen's wife will too.

I tried by a moment after it opened two thirds of the screen was covered by a giant ad telling me I needed to subscribe to read it.

All the early ones seem to be kinda janky, but the idea was compelling and there wasn't really anything else like it - an open world criminal simulator.

Everyone was struggling to make the transition to 3D back then, so we shouldn't be too harsh on the first 3D GTA game. I tried V out and found it was just a bit awkward to play. Might have been my controller or something. I mostly stick to 2D and some Dreamcast era 3D stuff now.

Luxury!

When I was growing up nobody had a pot to piss in! We just had to hold it until the economy improved!

Or too poor for your kid to do their homework.

Even 10 years ago when my kid was in high school (Christ I'm old) it was impossible to do your homework without internet. You couldn't just do it at school they would kick you out after closing because nobody wanted to pay for teachers to hang around and watch the kids and there was too much legal liability otherwise.

There are libraries of course but never mind the fact that there isn't wanted biking distance most of the time let alone walking and we often don't have anywhere the kids can bike safely on our roads anywho. Before I got old and sore and tired with a bad back (again, Christ I'm old) I used to cycle a lot and it's a fucking mess out there for an adult much less a kid. Plenty of places that you just cannot cycle without getting creamed by a car.

Point is internet is a necessity in our modern economy and society. It is up there with water and electricity. It didn't have to be but it is.

"Here's a good reason to never inconvenience Rich assholes" -article written by, some rich asshole.

Any evidence obtained wouldn't be admissible in court and the attack from the orange pedophile would fizzle out. It would still be financially devastating of course because of course it would but it would be useless for putting somebody in prison. We are always off from president pedo being able to order his enemies jailed and or killed. He can of course attack them financially though

I'm on dial-up so I think I should have it done around the time GTA 7 launches.

Automation means you just don't need all those men anymore. If anything they cause all sorts of economic and social problems.

So it's perfectly okay to throw them in the meat grinder. There is a small risk of depopulating large parts of the country and then having China or India move in. Russia has been threatening atomic strikes to try and keep that under wraps.

But it's not that big of a problem because China and India both have the same declining birth rates so it's not like they are heavy into territorial expansion right now. They will certainly take every ounce of land and money and power they can get their grubby hands on because they're both fascist States (as an American I'm going to talk but at least we took a step back from fascism recently). But it's not going to have the kind of pressing need that countries have had in the past.

All of this means Russia frankly does not care about their declining population. And with drones taking over more and more military rules they're going to care less and less.

Regular citizens need to understand that they are no longer valuable to the ruling class. And I don't know how to get that message across to people or what to do even if you did.

During this time China has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. Having visited, I can see that many of them enjoy a good standard of living. In fact some of the apartments and homes I was in are much, much nicer than the ones in the UK. They looked like something out of a catalogue. I could hardly believe that people were living there, with kids and pets no less.

While it's far from universal, it's still hundreds of millions of people. When it comes to quality of life, things like air pollution matter. EVs reduce that considerably. By adopting renewables we can have a better standard of living. It's not a loss, it's a huge gain.

You can slice it different ways. China is at over 4PW/year renewable generation, the US is around 1.1PW/year.

I think per capita emissions are the fairest way, but we should also look at how fast each country is installing renewables.

The mid-range is 800 to 1000 and the top end of a gamer card is pushing 1800 dollars.

This is all because AI slop and crypto.

Woke sjwdei feminists did not come for your games. Finance Bros who want to replace you at work did.

Remember all the whining about how we would have to go back to being an agrarian society and suffer a massive decline in living standards to get to net zero?

China is proving that isn't true. In fact, it's proving that all the fearmongering about net zero costing us too much is nonsense, and it's actually a huge economic opportunity. They can't make solar panels, wind turbines, EVs, batteries and all the other stuff fast enough to satisfy the huge demand. The energy produced is the cheapest available, which further boosts their manufacturing.

We do need to do a lot more. China needs to do a lot more. But you can't also expect people to accept poverty to get it, so the only way it will work is if we ramp up the transition to a better lifestyle and lower costs as quickly as possible.

What other fair measure is there? Unless you expect China to somehow reduce its population to US levels, per-capital is the only way to do it.

And let's not forget that a lot of those emissions are things made for American companies and sold to Americans.

Because China's population is 1.4 billion people.

What's more important is the rate of change. Every country goes along a curve where emissions increase, peak, and then drop. China was on the up slope as it industrialized, and is now starting on the down slope. The peak was far, far below where the US and Europe peaked per capita, the only reasonable measure unless you think their One Child policy was a good idea.

The rate at which China is installing renewables and storage is staggering. Just the newly installed renewable capacity from 2025 produced as much electrical energy as the whole of Germany consumed that year. Just the new stuff, and this year they are on track for it to be even more. They are adding more than a Germany sized amount of renewable generation to the grid, PER YEAR, and accelerating.

If Europe and the US were doing that too we would be in a much better position regarding climate change. It would doubtless be a huge boon for those economies as well.