It's like all of corporate America and industry is in "Bet the farm mode". Hey, let's radically shift the entire company's structure and hierarchy in a year based on an interview I saw another CEO give on YouTube last week.

I can sort of explain this away for non-tech companies like media companies but tech companies themselves should have a basic understanding of engineering principles (or one would think). Select a team or form a team with the dev principles you want and run them for a few months and see what happens. Then use what they learned to extrapolate across the whole company. But this kind of logic is something you'd find with cargo cultists...

Sooo, you think Graham Platner is not a NAZI? Or maybe you think he is a "good" fascist?

X - nee Twitter has skewed Republican ever since Musk bought it because the Democrats went "Eeew, fascist!" and ran to Bluesky which was essentially a rewrite of Mastodon which was where all the Republicans tried to run to when non-Musk owned Twitter BANNED Republican accounts for censorship reasons.

If the bulk of the content is going to skew one way that's what the majority of the users are going to see. True of X, true of Bluesky.

The only way to "win" here is not to play. Which, I don't.

Cool username, bro

"Students will be given classes in economics, banking, getting loans and registering businesses selling widgets. To graduate, students must show that their business made a profit."

WTF people?

And thus the beginning of shifting the entire government bureaucracy to AI?

Yeah, I had the eagle toy as a kid and there's vertical thrusters on the underside. What do you think blew out all that "dust" from the landing pad when they launched? The whole design was really well thought out and my only issue, as another poster here made, was there doesn't appear to be a place where the fuel was kept at.

He thinks its a fad and won't invest in new factories... but he can't SAY that because he wants that sweet, sweet AI bubble money.

Heh, back when I was a wee college freshman in the before times, one of my first jobs was helping a delivery company implement a new trial computer logging system for their trucks. Cadec. It had a steel computer terminal mounted on the dash with an LED display and numeric keypad and a slot for a large steel cartridge that contained the memory for the log. The truckers took the cartridges in the morning and handed them back in at night. I then downloaded the data to the, ONE, PC the delivery company had for logging and printing the nightly reports. That lasted just under 10 months when 80% of the systems broke the speedometers/tachometers in the trucks. Because they had spliced in the analog sensors to the cables... by design.

The problem is games distributed on physical media is a thing of the past and newer consoles have no disc drives at all. Nintendo has physical media with memory cards still but many of their newer cards are just empty cards with download codes for the digital copy (and you still need the card in the unit to play the game!).

It'd be one thing if you could download the title and be done with it but now they increasingly want you to stay connected to the mothership and re-authenticate your purchase.

I'm trying to figure out why they're requiring a "check in" every 30 days to retain your digital software that you PURCHASED.

Is this some sort of piracy prevention so users can't copy the games out to other consoles? That kind of piracy can't be any worse than the physical game copying or yore so what kind of money could they possibly be saving by screwing over their customers like this?

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