I was gonna say. Now we get to add anti-war protesting to an already lengthy list of complaints. This is going to get huge.
You want to protest the war? We have a whole anti-trump protest movement already warmed up and ready to go. C’mon in.
Snake, this is a sneaking mission. You are not here to assassinate anyone’s work.
Did they conduct this test in Japan? I ask since we could be losing something in translation. AFAIK, the Japanese people have a habit of being overly polite and not conveying strong emotion publicly, which might explain Kojima’s reaction. If he wanted to provoke a strong reaction in people, they’d say very different things.
Well this is pretty par for the course with TACO,
Indeed it is, and I think we’re gonna see it get worse. Trump is an abusive parent/partner. There’s no “doing the right thing”, merely “make sure everyone else is a better target.” Yesterday it was Hegseth, today it’s Gabbard. Tomorrow… who knows?
Where it gets really interesting is that this behavior can create a perverse incentive for his team to undermine one another.
Exactly.
Fuck, I agree with MTG this morning? And I was off to such a good start today.
Exactly. They’re only weeds if you want your front yard to resemble a golf course.
I know everyone points out the problems with Nest, Ring, and various talking/listening/spying agents. For me, one of the worst offenders was a garage door motor that came with WiFi capability. Damn thing has the ability to just open up a door on my house on command. There’s no way am I putting that online.
Workers risk a few things, depending on the job:
These have a lot of dimension to them, including how one quantifies what “pay” actually is/for, what legal restrictions there are around taking the job (e.g. non-compete, non-arbitration), work/life balance, and so on.
Risk comes into play where the employee takes a bet that the job won’t destroy their health, work only as much as is absolutely necessary, and have taken a position at the optimal balance of responsibility, personal growth, retirement prospects, and income. It’s a risk since there are substantial barriers to changing to a new job, so you can wind up “stuck” in a bad position, but can’t know until after you start.
$0.02: good people know enough to not take the job, let alone run for it. It’s expensive to run for office, doesn’t pay enough, eats up your life, you’re constantly advertising to stay employed, and your co-workers are all politicians. It’s very much a “I offer myself as tribute” kind of a situation, even for extraordinary people.
Meanwhile, a corrupt person knows that it’s worth all the trouble if you convert political power into (illegal) money.
Honestly, short of some miracle undoing this whole mess, this was a flavor of outcome I was quietly hoping for. At some point, politicians are going to realize - much like the president’s base - that they’re going to lose power unless they mount some kind of opposition. For the very worst ones out there, power is kind of their whole bag. Take it away and they get very angry; they may even do something about it. It’s kind of the tacit driving force behind any “checks and balances” scheme: power-hungry bastards trying to out-power-hungry-bastard each other. In a gross way, we kind of depend on it.
Like everything in Idocracy, you take something everyday and make it more streamlined and efficient, then stupider, then repeat the stupid part a few more times.
In this case we see the evolution of the employee smock, apron, and id badge, into one all-purpose garment. It’s even one-size-fits-all.
Based.
Also, can we take a moment to appreciate the sheer brilliance of username on display here: “quentin quarantino”
I know that’s sarcasm, but your comment made me think. I strongly disagree with those kinds of remarks. :)
This war isn’t like a game of Poker, where everyone is dealt from the same deck. It’s more like MTG, where the real game is about who can make better strategic use of their card-buying budget.
I think the preference for Y being the vertical axis in gaming, comes from a legacy of orienting the work around screen-space (roughly 50 years ago). It was more efficient to have a memory layout that is easier to supply data to generate a TV signal. Since a CRT raster goes from upper-left to lower-right, line-by-line, that became the standard for screen-space: inverted y. So screen memory (or however the screen is represented in RAM) starts at address/offset zero, and increments from there. All the other features like hardware sprites, used the same convention since it was faster and simpler to do (easier math).
When consumer 3D cards were relatively new, this was inherited, most notably when the hardware started to ship with “z-buffer” support. Carrying all this baggage into 3D engines just made sense, since there was never any confusion about the screen-orientation of it all. Why bother flipping axes around from world and camera space to the screen?
Why not both?
I don’t trust anyone when I’m on the road.
And you shouldn’t. Everyone is equipped with a lethal weapon masquerading as personal transportation, where safety is predicated on mutually-assured-destruction and the presumption that everyone is a sane actor. Keep your head on a swivel and stay safe out there!
You’re right about turn signals.
A lot of people have “target fixation” and telegraph their moves somewhat. I look at where the car is tracking in the lane and what their head is doing (if I can see it). Most people drift left or right on the highway before they change lanes, exit, or turn. It’s no excuse for bad manners, but it helps.
IMO, the big problem is just a matter of standards and practicality. The bar for a DL is “can operate a vehicle” and not “can safely drive a vehicle in public for extended periods of time.” I agree with periodic re-licensing though; everything else called a “license” seems to need that for a host of reasons.
well done steaks
It’s like he’s good a being a monster in every capacity possible. Probably asks for the ketchup bottle at 4-star dining while he’s at it.
“Fox and Frenemies” it is then.