Right wing people fucking love Star Trek and I’ve never understood it. I once heard one of them argue that replicators were only available on military ships because their presence in the general public would destroy society and he was so close to getting it.

Cool Do the 2nd next.

I love it that the B2 is a dive bomber now.

A big part of what’s going on in Venezuela is denying their oil to countries unfriendly to US interests. Bad news for Cuba, an antagonist who relies on Venezuelan oil for electricity generation.

Cuba and her ability to generate electricity are already shaky.

Well, then it must have been pretty true to the character because many people felt the antagonists had a good point in that show. In fact, many believe the series failed because of the way this arc was handled in that respect.

Just for those who don’t know: Maj. Bong was the highest scoring American ace of WWII with 40 (IIRC) kills. He mostly flew the P-38 in combat and was killed test-flying the P-80 shortly after the war.

This is what Waffle House use to decide to close stores.

Reminder that undocumented people don’t receive Medicaid. Their targeting family members of beneficiaries, mostly the parents of kids.

You would have to design the game around an LLM, not just drop one into existing games.

It might be cute for the guards in Skyrim to have unique dialogue, until one of them denies the Holocaust or says feminism is cancer.

Cash Patel has improved the FBI. His incompetence means that it can’t intimidate, prosecute, or oppress as many people as they otherwise would.

I’m jealous of the optimism that markets can fix stuff.

On the whole, achievements encourage players to do stuff that isn’t fun. Sometimes they’re funny or encourage good gameplay, but too often they’re just busywork, mindless random drops, or insane investments in time/skill.

Democratic leaders are chosen for their ability to fund-raise.

He’s popular with the people who write checks. They think he’s effective; because for them, he is.

This is what happens when you pay too much attention to any kind of taxonomy. Even scientific and rigorous taxonomy disintegrates into subjectivity when you look too close.

The idea of precisely labeling and categorizing things appears to be a human desire imposed upon an uncooperative universe.

The T-15 is an awesome machine. They’ve spared the Ukrainians from this mighty beast out of kindness, I suppose.

If you’re important enough, your tomb may become a unisex urinal.

Linux can be intimidating. And there is going to be a learning curve. Especially if you’re the kind of windows user who’s familiar with gpedit and has custom .bat files.

But what get’s left out is the joy and satisfaction that comes with learning how to Linux. I just re-installed my OS a week ago, and I was able to recognize and resolve dependency and permissions issues without having to look anything up. I also finally learned and started using rsync for backups over SSH/SAMBA. I know it’s not much, but it made me feel like a real hackerman.

The only thing I learned in my last few years of Windows was how to disable features that annoyed me.

Because of the massive amounts of data LLMs need, there will always be garbage input. So the overall quality is limited to “average” writing. Punctuation, grammar, and spelling can be imitated rather easily. Quality prose cannot.