And game companies and media outlets advertise the shit out of them because they drive console sales.
I much prefer to be on Steam, think, "Oh, that looks cool," then forget about it on my wishlist for two years until it pops up at 80% off.
Trump's term is four years, and he ain't getting any better.
Yeah, the Colorado river is nuts. It's crazy to think that the river that carved the Grand Canyon doesn't even reach the sea anymore because it's all used up along the way, mostly by the U.S.
Honestly we have enough of these fucks already and could do without another.
The point is probably that Trump's influence has led to conservative losses in two recent elections (Canada and Australia) and arguably contributed to the AfD loss in Germany, so hopefully New Zealand goes the same way.
I highly recommend Kill Anything that Moves by Nick Turse. The My Lai massacre wasn't the exception, it was the rule. The true scale of rape and murder by U.S. forces - often against our supposed "allies" among civilian South Vietnamese - may never truly be known. But Turse has done an admirable job in trying to discern it.
Apparently, January was before they identified some of the production issues that led to recalls and so on. And also that Tesla has done a bad job with the recalls so even the "fixed" ones have misaligned panels and so forth.
Why anyone still has any interest at all in buying this piece of shit eludes me.
Yeah, I just want to play Dungeons and Dragons, not drive a Nazi car.
It's because they can't afford $3.50 for a single hash brown, not because they all decided to start eating healthy.
Probably good for their health either way, though.
Agreed. It's framed incorrectly, but the real problem is the "duck curve," the time disparity between peak generation and peak consumption. Pumped hydro, battery storage, electrolysis, and mechanical storage are all options, but each has its own constraints. Ultimately, though, it's an engineering problem with viable solutions. We just need the political will for the investment.
I think it all comes down to implementation. The first-line approach to mental illness that results in, for example, homelessness, should be minimally invasive. Permanent supportive housing, mental health and substance abuse treatment, etc. There is a huge lack of resources for people without the support structure to get their lives back on track if they don't have friends and family to assist them.
There are probably cases where institutionalization is warranted, but it should be used sparingly and only in instances where someone represents a danger to themselves and others, and the less invasive support methods have failed. I think the danger here is that the supportive methods are expensive, and historically governments have been unwilling to invest in them. So there's a danger that institutionalization/incarceration simply becomes the go-to while skipping over a broad range of strategies focused on rehabilitation.
He's been talking about them since he campaigned for his first term, so I'd argue we're closer to a decade in. Which of course just strengthens your point.
Bolsonaro tried to make it a dictatorship. He attempted to convince the military to annul the election result and stage a coup to keep him in power. But he failed to prevent the transition to Lula, so for now, Brazil's democratic institutions were strong enough to prevent it from becoming a dictatorship.
No, no, see - he said the other countries would pay us the tariffs! We'd all be rolling in money!
And some appreciable fraction of the American public still doesn't understand that's not how tariffs work.
Well, he destroyed the federal government, and he's locking up brown people while trampling all over their constitutional rights. Naturally, the Republicans love him.
My comment was in jest, but there is a reasonable argument that biological organisms are also predictive input/output machines. It's especially evident in simple organisms, like an amoeba, where some physical or chemical stimulus in the environment triggers a mostly predictable response.
The argument that human consciousness is fundamentally different - not just that it's more complex but that at some point the physical determinism of electrical and chemical impulses gives way to an authority that overrides that physical basis, enabling free thought or free will - remains scientifically unsubstantiated. We know of no mechanism by which that could occur.
And the philosophical arguments aren't much better - I've never seen a theory of dualism articulated in a way that doesn't invoke ghosts or magic.
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It will be amazing if AI destroys humanity without ever becoming conscious. Everyone was envisioning Skynet, when in reality we'll just cook the Earth with GHGs so that data center GPUs can hallucinate legal cases.
"Disappeared" is the word typically used when authoritarian regimes arrest and incarcerate (or worse) people extrajudicially, without due process. "Trafficked" doesn't have the authoritarian government connotation.