A betting pool in which big-tech company will finally pop the bubble?

Maybe there is an upper practical limit to how much can be mined out of the training data? Most newer stuff is corrupted with AI generated results creating problems that some compare to inbreeding.

How about Unidentified Flying Force?

Okay, but "religiousist" isn't a real word. My first boss always told me not to complain without first forming an alternative plan.

AK47's

"we demand our sovereignty, and also demand you relinquish yours!"

They were pretty honest about it. AAA games made a lot of money when they succeeded but it tended to be kind of All or nothing and they just couldn't handle the risk anymore. I can't really blame them you're really betting the entire Farm every time you put out a game that's got to be miserable and high stress.

Sega for example had a string of well received Sonic the hedgehog games none of which they made any money off of. But the brand itself and the movies made a shitload of money to make up for it.

On the other hand the new wolverine game just looks completely unfinished. Like they built the story parts but not the game parts so you've got this elaborate story and no game to go with it. That kind of sucks. It might have just been rushed out to get out the door before GTA 6 though. The entire industry is basically going to shut down for a year or two while people play through that. Kind of like what happened with Skyrim but on a much larger scale

The other major shipping lane. At the rate Trump is going we're going to be the United States of Iran by the middle of his third term.

Is the idea that God punishes everyone for the sins of some people. Like a fucked up all powerful drill sergeant with a violent streak.

If you take this to its logical conclusion then the world has what can be described as a kind of sin thermometer. There's a certain amount of ambient sin in the world and if it gets too high God smites us all.

So if you are an Evangelical then anyone committing sin is an existential threat to you. You of course are minimizing your sin as much as possible but no matter how perfect you are you are always going to send because of The Fall. And you are already as perfect as you're able to get.

So if you are an Evangelical extremist you're going to go around to everyone else who is sinning and fuck their shit up if they don't stop it right now. If all else fails you'll lock them up or kill them. And if you look around it doesn't take much to find Evangelical Christians in America talking about stoning gays to death.

This is the inevitable consequence of right wing extremism where you will push to achieve your goals by any means necessary. Right wing politics fundamentally do not work in the real world and so they inevitably become extremist and destructive. Because as their policy continues to fail right wingers are forced to confront those failures and they have to resort to increasingly extreme measures and increasingly bizarre rationalities and justifications to stay right wing. They could of course stop being right weighing but we wouldn't be having this conversation if they could do that.

So you pretty quickly get people policing every single thing you do in the bedroom and every single substance you imbide and every single thought you have All in a desperate bid to protect them from what they see as a violent power mad deity ready to kill them at the moment's notice.

The fact that dying takes them to eternal Paradise in their worldview doesn't really seem to enter into this either. I guess consistency really is the hobgoblin of somebody's mind right?

He's pretty well hated by voters and even quite a few people in the Republican party but Abbott is very very good at voter suppression so they let him stick around. You can find video if you go looking of Greg Abbott openly admitting that Texas would have gone blue in 2016 if it wasn't for his efforts preventing his opposition from voting. Like just flat-out admitting it on video.

Bizarrely that's not the scandal that dogs him. Honestly I can't remember all the things he's done to pissed people off but you can look them up. Every single political position the man has ever held he has openly abused.

Occasionally allowing someone from your opposition to show up does not counteract the hundreds of hours of right-wing propaganda per month spewed out of Fox News. Try to actually get equal time from Fox News and let me know how that turns out for you. I am sure the Democratic party would love to have somewhere around 300 hours a month that they could spend on Fox News.

It took over a millennium. They called if the dark ages. And that was before propaganda Networks and automated kill bots.

If democracy falls again I don't think our species will survive it. And it will suck for you and me too

You don't have to fake it. You do run-of-the-mill launches that anyone can do with existing tech and then you continuously promise amazing things that never happened. That's what muskrat did and when you see something that works you copy it.

Over promise, under deliver, and then loot everyone's retirement savings to make yourself a billionaire or maybe even a trillionaire. That is how our economy works here in America and I guarantee you we're going to export that same trick to europe. Because the worst of America always finds its way around the world. Sorry about that by the way.

Aren't going to advance space travel. Space travel is difficult and expensive. The parts of it that are monetizable aren't going to be innovative or advance human civilization. Basic science does not pay off in most people's lifetimes.

So like every one of these tech Bros he's going to take a bunch of existing technology and a bunch of government contracts and a bunch of money from your 401k assuming your European and maybe even from my 401k since us Americans are handing out to rich people like it's candy and then he'll make a few tweaks around the edges to get hype and do run of the mill stuff while the government and your taxpayer dollars pay for the expensive research and he takes the credit for it.

We have been dancing this Charleston for 100 years. And every few years a new generation of nerds needs to learn it. I first encountered these scammers with Elon Musk and iron Man 2 and I could tell something was off.

On the other hand the French don't have a word for entrepreneurs so...

Look up how feudalism works. It's not about loyalty it's about creating a system where everything is stratified and you have everyone in a hierarchy and everyone at each level has something to lose by breaking the hierarchy.

Extremely wealthy people go to schools where they are taught this. It's why Kim jong-un went to school overseas.

Controlling the rabble is a well understood process by this point that the rich have down to a science. And they teach their kids how to do it. You don't need loyalty you need to know a process for stratifying and controlling civilization and groups of people.