I mean, financially it wasn’t really a choice. Cotton wasn’t profitable without slavery. Inherit a cotton farm from your racist parents and capitalism would ensure the racism kept flowing.

That’s why we had to force the issue in the first place, the south needed the institution of slavery, and wasn’t just fighting to defend slavery because they thought it was neat, it was because they needed it.

No excuses, but when immoral behavior is profitable behavior, yes, people can get dependent.

Yeah. Any Co2/other climate change regressions that the US makes affect everyone globally, and while water use is local, its also as-needed, so post-collapse you have to use up all your water anyway.

AI could use solely graywater/non-water cooling and renewable energies, and that’s the answer, just takes slowing down, building specific and rigorous facilities, . Letting the US speed along just hurts everyone due to climate change.

That and every major company economically depends on each other, and disconnecting from the US in a way that doesn’t cause backlash also takes time.

Fuck america but don’t let them drill holes in the boat we’re all riding.

Did they lose their positions? I haven’t read anything indicating that, just that they weren’t allowed back into the conference.

No.

That’s true for people. Corporations don’t learn from mistakes and cannot improve over time, they’re legally obligated to seek shareholder value.

Expecting a corporation to do things for the right reasons is like expecting AI to do things for the right reason.

If we must interact with either, we must simply be glad when the answer is correct. If we want corporations to act more like people and be able to have real values, we need to bake a corporation’s values into law in some way.

Private businesses can still have morals and can learn and all that good stuff where the method matters, but public ones will always dehumanize.

So I’m happy they hit the right result. I’m also happy they’re talking about it like this even though this talk is also just a publicity response, because other companies might see this and also do the right thing for the wrong (purely financial) reason.

But this is also why corporations shouldn’t be people and should be barred from everything involving government and all that, if not abolished altogether.

Reading the article, it sounds more like a comment on advertising as a whole and not their AI ads specifically. Polished videos vs relatively unpolished hand filming it.

Either way, they got to the correct answer.

That’s his point though, he does expect them to be able to set up themselves, and apparently Plex is good for that.

What pivoting?

It changes the plans of shuttering a server, not offering a new one. Any such independent play patch soils only be released when a company is ready to end servers.

A new game previously intended to be released December 31st of this year, caught off guard with just one day of warning, could still release without changing a thing. The game will have servers for years to come, presumably.

Yeah, fair. I dont do a ton of that, myself.

I build a heavy cargo ship with a bunch of raw supplies, assemblers, roboports, and ingredients for a rocket, go to the planet, slap down a rocket, some solar, a roboport, and logistics chests, and leave.

If I have to return in person, I have failed my challenge.

What didn’t you like about the expansion?

Biggest complaint I’ve heard (besides Quality complainers) is that they don’t like that T3 modules got retconned into needing other planets to get.

I personally find that a good change, and also quality is ignorable. I don’t have nearly the hours you have into it, but a respectable high triple digit number, and about 200 I’d guess of those has been post-space age. Haven’t actually played base since space age launched.

It was Apple.

That hasn’t been true for years now

Honestly, I don’t know exactly what google can or can’t track if the app developer doesn’t specifically enable them. I don’t have specific evidence that they’ll even be able to tell if the user was verified or not

What I do know is they have repeatedly shown that they’re happy to hide or lie about what and how they track people, and more broadly about their business as a whole.

Again I cite the drug analogy. Google is in the business of tracking people and harvesting data for ads. It’s like inviting the cartel to the DARE program and expecting everything to go swimmingly.

If they want their age verification app to actually be anonymous, they shouldn’t force people to use a tracking service to use it. The app specifically won’t be functional on degoogled android phones and won’t be offered on desktop computers. Maybe Google can’t spy on anything going on in the app, but even so, they could correlate “used verification app, roblox usage went up” or “used verification app, continued to use Tinder, concluded adult, ignoring ‘do not track’ preference as it doesn’t violate laws about tracking minors”.

It’s true that a minority of users have taken the steps where this inferred information would be particularly helpful to google, but not having the option to opt out is going to get harder and harder, and this service doesn’t provide enough good to give the information cartel that is Google any more information, even inferred, in my opinion.

It can’t be anonymous if you need a google or apple account to use. I’m not concerned about what the government tracks (well, not in this context at least), I’m concerned about who and what they’re working with to do the tracking. If the app verifies me as an adult but I couldn’t use the app without google butting in, google now has yet another data point in a secret ad profile that the government should be putting a stop to, not helping them build up. It’d be like announcing a plan to stop illegal drug usage by partnering with the cartel.

If they wanted a government-sponsored age verification sort of thing, it should’ve been an app whose only job was to type in a code you got from going in person to some government body and verifying in person. Town office, DMV, somewhere like that.

More fundamentally, though, “protecting the children” shouldn’t go anywhere near anything that can be used for identity theft. Showing my ID to the cashier at the cigarette shop is significantly safer than showing it to any business on the internet, because sharing a high-quality picture of something is giving them a copy. The cashier gets to see it, but it never leaves my sight and isn’t recorded in any way except probably some dodgy security camera where you can’t read it anyway.

Tech workers keep the modern planet running.

Do I regret the modern world frequently? Yes. But that’s like blaming the mechanic for a drunk driving accident.

I don’t have proof, naturally, but I got the sense the friends they were losing were friends made on the platform. With the account being lost suddenly, there’s a good chance they didn’t have backup contact info for them.

I do assume things based on performance based on the engine, but that’s more for moments like "new game is coming this fall, using some engine ", before tech specs are out. I find a lot of games that care to announce an engine in any way tend to be the heavier resource hogs, because they’re advertising the high fidelity of something-or-other.

But that’s not really a condemnation on any games. I do often avoid the high resource games, but that’s because I have an older PC, not because of any actual prejudice against an engine itself.

Right? They specifically set out to make sure it wouldn’t be scalped to hell and back after repeated complaints.

They did that, and now the product is real, and market predictions on existing products are much more reliable. The initial production wasn’t sustainable but wasn’t meant to be sustained, either.

ReactOS is windows. Here’s their front page blurb:

“Imagine running your favorite Windows applications and drivers in an open-source environment you can trust. That’s the mission of ReactOS!”

It’s not Linux, specifically. Its not Linux under the hood, it’s written to be windows without microsoft.

Haven’t tried it myself, but its definitely worth a try if you’ve been using Linux that long and its just not for you.

Right, that’s why they suggested the quarry. Entirely safe.

Also, while NPCs do destroy furniture, they now shove chests, so it’s also easier to find these paths manually.

It became unlimited in HG/SS, which made it easier, but also more annoying for me when I had Platinum as my hub, because it meant I needed to catch a bunch of junk to trade over to my SS if I grabbed a Pokémon from the GBA games.

Such is life.

Although there are emulators that support loading the GBA games on DS, so if you want that pal park experience you can have it properly even on emulator.