It's probably just money laundering. It's just much larger scale than we are used to seeing.

This is like 6% of their total worth. No they can't cover it. If I had to guess they are in on it somehow. With the complete lack of any law enforcement for white collar crime right now thanks to the current political administration they can get away with a hell of a lot for a very long time. I am guessing this is something like a Bernie Madoff level of scam where the people involved are hoping to just keep it running indefinitely.

If they can prevent changes to the current political climate they can keep the scam going just like scams never break in Russia or China unless you don't give the party heads their cut.

Has been labeled Mecha Hitler by the internet community at Large. Naturally Twitter and Facebook have tried to bury that but it hasn't worked.

Us old timers looked at them selling shitty microtransactions slop and knew it was garbage. It wasn't like the arcades where your quarter bought you as much of the game as your skill could handle and 1ccs were part of the fun. It was an infinite money machine where you kept pouring more in and getting less out. Like when the CEO of activation famously bitched about all the time people spent playing call of duty without constantly paying for it.

Basically you do the evil thing and kids grow up with the evil thing and the evil thing is normal so kids don't know any better.

It's like how you can live in China was absolutely no civil rights whatsoever and it's just normal so you don't think about it and you just live like that. Or like how in America every few years we freak out about some stupid moral panic because that's just part of Living in America. And we all act like it's normal and good.

They will do the same thing with ai. They'll keep cramming it down our throats until we have to take it because they're the ruling class and we're too much of a bunch of freaked out weirdo cowards to do anything about the ruling class. If all else fails they'll use the classic hey that guy's going to steal your cookie trick from the joke about the union guy and the non-union guy at the table with the factory owner...

I don't know what you do with these basic problems with human cognition. I don't think our species has enough time to evolve around them.

This is exactly what the PR company was trying to do and they succeeded wildly with you

Both Depp and his ex are pretty terrible people by all accounts but his publicist was better than her publicist and so you're only focused on what they want you to be focused on. Meanwhile why the fuck would you even give a shit about any of this in the first place?

Do you have enough money in the bank account? Have you got enough retirement savings that you don't need to go back to work when you can't anymore? How is gas prices treating you? How are your kids doing? These are all things that should be substantially more important to you but a publicist managed to make Johnny Depp's messy divorce the most important thing for a brief period in your life and Lodge it in your brain so thoroughly that you immediately responded to my post when I brought it up as a knee jerk defensive action.

You're not defending Depp and you're not going after his ex, you're defending yourself because they managed to convince you that for you this entire thing is personal.

That's the point I'm trying to make. The PR company very easily manipulated you and you're not even aware of it. If you manage to read this post congratulations you're now aware of it but what you do with that knowledge is up to you.

Odds are you're going to go back on the defensive rather than learn anything from this experience because people really do not like being reminded that they got tricked and easiest way to deal with that situation is to just pretend you were never tricked in the first place...

Sue. Go look on YouTube Rebecca Watson has a video about it where she describes it in detail. Again it all came out during the trial proceedings and discovery.

To go after his ex. It came out during their divorce proceedings that he did it.

The PR company had a bunch of people go around social media pretending to be people saying bad things about Depp's ex.

It created a eating frenzy and the right wing picked it up and ran with it.

The head of the PR company in internal emails expressed... Let's just call it concern about how easy it was to turn the entire public against somebody with a handful social media posts that weren't even automated.

The point is it's really easy to set the public off. Especially these days when if a cooler head shows up and tells everyone to calm down they get dismissed as one of them Washington insider expert scientist types...

*You* may know that, but that doesn't make it true. It *may* be true. At this stage I expect most attempts to use AI to fail. The same thing happened when computers came out. And again when personal computers came out.

Power new tools have a learning curve. AI is definitely a powerful new tool, but it's currently changing so rapidly that we haven't really started learning how it should not be used.

Well, the first computer game I found really attractive was Orbquest, a text game on a Unix system. No graphics at all.

Obsessing over graphic is at right angles to the quality of the game.

Wasn't Ajax an Ancient Greek (super) Hero ?

The problem with blankets, is not that they are too short, its that they are too narrow.
They need to be made 1 meter wider.

(of course this also applies to top sheets)

Its obviously to late to do anything for this event, so how about:

In March, we move the clocks forward a half hour, and then leave them there.

Thus we end up with permanent 1/2 hour daylight saving.

Why the anger against crypto bros? The damage on the crypto market is limited to those that participate in the crypto industry - anyone outside the crypto market is safe. Being out of the crypto market means not involved either directly or indirectly.

Seriously, did you even bother to read TFS? Of course not...

And it was a disaster. It turned into the samurai armor into cylons. When I first saw the screenshots I thought it was somebody making fun of AI instead of actual AI slop. They have the pull the game from steam.

So yeah we know it's being used in the industry and it's laughably bad and it's damaging the industry and costing the industry money for very little or nothing in return. Stop it already.