Dog hit the Post button.
some sort of hero or defender of civilization. if you remove traffic accidents, caused mostly because they drive like assholes, they fall considerably lower on the list too.
Indeed, I've done several of those jobs and never insisted that society treat me as some sort of
The fun thing in this story was right at the end. They're going to allow the Flock license to expire, but unless they pay extra to remove them the cameras still stay and they're still collecting data 24x7.
If the police ask you to tow a car because it's evidence in a crime, how do you not know how to tow a car without destroying evidence?
Simple. There is a difference between not knowing and not doing. People do not always do their job correctly because they don't care.
Low paid profession? Average police salary is over $76,000/year, well above the US average.
I would agree with that. The last micro transaction I purchased was - I kid you not - the WoW celestial steed. I'm not proud of it, but in my defense I didn't know what that would mean.
I have never bought another skin, cosmetic, or piece of gear for real money since. I don't buy battle passes. I bought the base game for Diablo IV and play each season, but the "Shop" is ignored.
What if there is an innovative, engaging game - a nearly original premise, even - that is well executed but just happens to be created using AI tools? The answer? There's no value there because within 24 hours of any inkling of success, the AI clones will hit the market.
I think Indy game development is on life support and headed for the casket. The only real barrier to this new ecosystem is what can only be found in very deep pockets, and the companies who have that are already bleeding out from different but concurrent reasons,
Right when gaming hardware is vanishing over the pricing horizon, the game production industry is throwing up all over itself.
I'm pretty glad that at 56 I no longer care very much. I have my three games I play, and I hope some updates are made, but I'm off the treadmill.
SystemD people finally building the secure OS they always talked about.
It's not secure.
Reagan and Stockman made much of the 'multiplier effect' to justify their bloated military spending, but actually NASA has the highest multiplier effect of anything the US gov't does, something like 7 to 1. This would indicate NASA's R&D generates enough in taxes that they actually **MAKE MONEY** off the organization. Gerard O'Neil's university class did a study in the late '70s and found, to everyone's astonishment, that just the taxes of the advances in telecommunications generated by the space program would have paid for the entire Apollo program by the mid-'80s.
By all the gods, conservatives are the biggest frelling cowards on the planet. We spend more than the next ten countries COMBINED, eight of which are our frelling ALLIES, and it's still not enough to calm their fears of the boogieman under the bed.
The US military has two uses currently, as a protection racket for multinational corporations and dictatorships which reward our high officials sufficiently and as mercenaries against the powerless who attempt to resist them.
My ballot this year was full of bullshit designed to trick me into voting for bad things that would hurt me or bad people that would hurt me and it was a good 40 or 50 minutes spent sorting that out.
Ah, live in Colorado too? Seriously there were something like 14 props/amendments on the ballot this year, most of which were insane right wing copypasta that some megadonor group apparently pushes every year in every state with direct ballot initiatives. The couple that were specific to our state were switching from flat tax to income tax (and a tax cut for everyone making less than $250000) as well as another right wing one to trick people into undoing the income tax change.
Don't get mad at Meta, look into how the Supreme Court starting with Sullivan vs New York Times has created a legal environment where public figures like Haidt effectively have almost no recourse to defamation protection unless it is in a very narrow window of extremely blunt bad behavior.
It's the cost of a viable and vigorous free press. If it is easier to sue an win a defamation suit, it becomes a powerful tool to stifle reporting. It's also important to people who post on public forums because lowered protection cultured result in expensive court cases for them as well.
In Meta's case, if they actually did it then that may reach the actual malice level, depending on what was said, but IANAL so who knows?
If you suspect a man, don't employ him.
