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Step 1. Get a desktop instead.
Step 2. ???
Step 3. Profit
Exactly. When the person who holds your purse strings decides they don’t like something, they can influence you by simply… taking away your financial backing.
I think the Soviets and the space race with the USA would prove that the “We have to build it faster, first!” isn’t just a capitalist thing.
Capitalism incentivizes it, absolutely. To be clear, I’m not making some “it’s human nature” argument, culture plays a huge role. Capitalist culture influences it greatly, but I think humans “racing” to achieve something before another does is outside the scope of just capitalism.
Somehow not considered testimony…
In some ways, you can almost see why trying to “erase” bad ideas is intoxicating, since humans seem endlessly drawn to them.
It’s like in tech circles, the joke goes that some Sci-Fi writer creates a horrible invention and includes a warning “DO NOT BUILD THE TORMENT NEXUS” and that warning, repeatedly, goes ignored. People are like “but we could make good profit from the Torment Nexus!”
AI is a good example. “If we don’t make the terrible AI, someone else will, so we have to make the Torment Nexus, errr, I mean AI.”
But trying to stop all these bad ideas is just Fahrenheit 451 with extra steps.
That’s the plan, yes. I think it goes a little farther than “hope” with these guys. They think they can manifest reality.
We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do’.
-Karl Rove
Devil’s Advocate: It’s been needing to be determined since fucking Nixon left office, and our entire government has been waffling about it for 70 years, because it’s a question they don’t actually want answered. It’s only convenient to them now as a reason to give Trump a legal time-out so he can make it to the election without more indictments.
The District Court in question has already defined official versus unofficial acts, which is part of why the SC released this so late on fucking purpose. Because even though the DC is ready to go with their findings, they’ll have to wait until October to kick it back up the chain to the Supreme Court when Trump inevitably appeals.
And also making it so that you can’t actually use a ton of the gathered evidence:
Testimony or private records of the President or his advisers probing such conduct may not be admitted as evidence at trial.
I think this is the part that’s going to fuck up the rest of Trump’s trials. Everything is going to suddenly be a private record.
You’re missing that the Supreme Court is taking the piss and the District Court they’re kicking this back to has already done their homework and defined the official acts versus unofficial acts. They’re ret-2-go but the Supreme’s did their job of punting this until at least October, since that’s when they come back from vacation. So when the District Court punts it back up the chain to the Supreme Court, they have to wait for the Supreme Court to reconvene. It’s fucking stupid, but it accomplished getting Trump nothing but a legal time-out.
Oh, ALSO:
Testimony or private records of the President or his advisers probing such conduct may not be admitted as evidence at trial.
They literally fucked us out of a ton of evidence with this part of the ruling.
(3) Presidents cannot be indicted based on conduct for which they are immune from prosecution. On remand, the District Court must carefully analyze the indictment’s remaining allegations to determine whether they too involve conduct for which a President must be immune from prosecution. And the parties and the District Court must ensure that sufficient allegations support the indictment’s charges without such conduct. Testimony or private records of the President or his advisers probing such conduct may not be admitted as evidence at trial. Pp. 30–32
This is how fucked we are. Right here.
Testimony or private records of the President or his advisers probing such conduct may not be admitted as evidence at trial.
So nevermind all that evidence you have of them planning it out in the open. Inadmissible in trial!
Get fucked Supreme Cunts.
All I remember about Rage is buying it and then immediately refunding it. This was several years after release and somehow it still had stupid issues with Radeon video cards. Ain’t nobody got time for that.
I suppose maybe that’s fixed by now, but I never went back.
The patent is a lot less interesting than it sounds initially.
It instantly made me think of the original Borderlands and how my friends and I would try to see how long we could “bounce” on each others heads, because if you jump on top of another character, you’ll just keep “bouncing” off of their head.
It’s tricky to keep landing on them, even if they’re not moving!
I kind of figured they meant that something dumb like that could be turned into an actual mini-game within a game, allowing you keep score.
No, the patent is way fucking dumber, sounds like more stupid AI bullshit, and basically focused on dumb streamer shit.
how Sony and Arrowhead kinda shot themselves in the foot with account linking.
The graph from the article literally proves the opposite.
Account linking happened May 6th. It is on the graph as point “A.”
There is a small increase in the decline of the player count, but you had already lost almost 200,000 players since the last peak on April 1st!
So between April 1st and May 6th the game went from around 370,000 players to around 170,000 players, and the current player count literally can’t drop the same level because that would be less than zero.
So, the bigger drop came way before account linking, friend. The game was already dying, and the account linking just firmly put it out of its misery.
Synema is not a Democrat, and it says so right there on the linked page. She switched to Independent after righteously screwing the party along with Manchin. For what it’s worth, Manchin changed to Independent as well.
Both parties are more successful as opposition parties than they are actually “leading.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-the-times-and-iraq.html
This is the NYT literally apologizing for their massive fuckups in the lead up to the War in Iraq where they basically just accepted the Party Line of what was going on. Democrats fell in line as to not be viewed as “soft on terror.”
They took Republican administration officials at their word and didn’t do anymore digging.
…but sure hyping up a war pushed by a Republican administration based on lies made up by that same administration is soooooooo liberal.
lmao narrative
Jesus Christ get a grip.
I guess the NYT definitely didn’t hype us up for war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Nope, never.
The NYT never breathlessly repeated the accusations of Weapons of Mass Destruction without questioning their sources as to the validity of those claims, yup.
You gotta be fucking shitting me.
EDIT: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-the-times-and-iraq.html
The NYT outright admitting they just sold the entire country lies for the Bush admin.
Another series worthy of discussion!
Official Microsoft controllers were absolute peak with the Xbox 360…
…but modern Microsoft Xbox controllers have absolute dogshit build quality. Just the worst, constantly breaking for no reason. I’m just done with Xbox controllers because old DualShock 4’s are cheap and quality.