So… the PayDay devs have … basically admitted PayDay 3 was a mistake… and are going back to PayDay 2…

I may have an idea for some new heist content.

Well… I’ve…

… never licked a spark plug

and I’ve never sniffed a stinkbug

and I’ve never painted daisies on a big red rubber ball

and I’ve never bathed in yogurt

and I don’t look good in leggings

and I’ve never been to Boston in the fall

I uh, don’t know what to tell you…

I don’t do anything.

I mean, this has been well established by various psychological studies for like 30 years now, at least.

You don’t have a belief, you have an accurate understanding of reality.

Higher ups in most hierarchichal organizations are significantly more narcissistic than average people.

I have a motivational quote for them!

“Everybody has a plan, untill they get punched in the mouth.”

Wow, are we going to learn that sunny days tend to be warm, and the sky tends to be blue, next?

I’ve been saying this since the Return to Office shit started: A huge part of it is narcissist management that need the narcissistic supply of being able to excercise power and judgement over others, in person.

… the other part is that if you don’t actually need all that office space, well, then all the fraud and money laundering in commercial real estate gets significantly harder to hide.

Death is not ultimately escapable.

You are not permanent; one day, you will go to sleep, and not wake up again.

… but you do have the power to influence the path you walk on the way toward death, the face you’ll be wearing, the stories you’ll be able to tell, when you finally arrive in the company of the reaper.

You can be secure in knowing that it is not possible to escape this fate… and in knowing that you lived not in an impossible attempt to avoid the unavoidable, but instead, that you chose to tread the path as you saw fit to.

The Greek Gods were said to be envious of us mortals, because our mortality meant that what we did with our one life… was important, and meaningful, in a way that nothing the Gods ever did, could be.

When you realize that nothing objectively ‘matters’, to ‘the universe’… you are now free, to decide what matters to you, instead.

And, perhaps ironically… that’s kinda part of the point.

Valve literally presents the Steam Machine as a possible gaming device for the open ecosystem they ‘religiously’ believe in.

But not the only possible gaming device.

The original idea of the Steam Machine, over a decade ago, wss that it would basically be a performance and component spec standard, basically just a known quantity of kinds of hardware that they could say ‘Steam and most games on it will run on something that meets these standards!’

There actually were a number of pc builders that did their own attempt at making their own version of a ‘Steam Machine’.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Machine?wprov=rarw1

Valve is here, now, doing basically the same thing, they just… literally built their own benchmark as an exemplar device, and also now have an operating system to actually center the entire concept around.

I think they’d be greatly pleased if this new Steam Machine, version 2, actually spurred on other manufacturers to make their own… just like how Valve keeps working to make SteamOS work well on other handheld PCs, made by other manufacturers.

Its because most people have a childish understanding of complex issues that basically boils down to ‘thing either bad or good’, ‘thing either perfect or evil’.

Fanboy/girlism applies to sociopolitical idologies too.

Its easier to perform purity testing to establish yourself as a morally/logically consistent person, its easier to criticize flaws…

… than it is to realize the fundamental strategy that has to be involved in achieving any kind of change from the world as it is, to the world as you’d prefer it to be… than it is to think about broad patterns underlying decision making, as well as what those broad patterns could lead to, in a complex world with other actors who have other ideologies/behavior patterns.

You can argue that this kind of fast-food opinion/judgement formation is itself a personality aspect caused or exacerbated by the instant gratification of modern digital hypercapitalism.

Like, I don’t think Valve or Gabe are perfect moral actors, I don’t agree with literally everything they do or espouse.

But… on net? In the big picture? Nearly every other major or even notable actor in the space is morally atrocious in comparison to them, and many things that Valve does are effective counter pressures to those much more atrocious things.

I mean honestly, pretty neat!

Had I any other machine than a Steam Deck right now, I’d give it a whirl… unfortunately, that thing is all I got right now, really don’t want to chance losing all my shit, as I don’t have a sufficient backup external drive either.

I mean yeah, it would/could just be the inverse of what millenials/zoomers grew up with: ‘you have to go to college learn a skilled trade if you want to have a decent living!’

Hard to forecast precisely how strong the effect would be, but absolutely yeah, if a bunch of people flood into a specific category of labor… they will on aggregate depress their own wages.

… This is why the luddites smashed things.

Partially because the machines actually produced inferior output products, mostly because their proliferation caused mass unemployment/immiseration.

A society that wants to technologically progress must also socially progress, otherwise, you’re just building a tinder box.

What do you mean ‘deal with Baulmol’s cost disease’?

You mean general, broad inflation, right?

You’re worried that non-automatable low wages jobs will continue to be non-automatable low wage jobs, but slightly less low wage?

You’re worried that jobs tend to need to be done by people who can afford to be alive?

He is desperately rhetorically flailing, trying to pitch the idea that temporary demand in construction of data centers = job creation.

Despite that the entire point of an AI data center is to automate away 100x to 100,000x as many jobs, permanently, as will actually exist for maybe 18 months, to build the thing.

Its a nakedly bad faith line of bullshit, literally insultingly stupid to anyone that’s taken a year of macro econ.

Even if you build the datacenters, … the amount of power needed for them would be roughly equivalent to building the entire electrical power infrastructure of Germany, and that would need to be done in 18 months.

Conpletely impossible, that’s like 10 years of the world’s current production rate of power transformers, in 18 months.

These guys would need a top down command economy and 5 year plans to do this, and they do not have that, so they’re basically just pretending they do. When it becomes evident that they were bullshitting, they’ll try to say ‘well thats how things should have been the whole time, with me in charge of everything!’

Delusional.

Broad rule of thumb for me:

If your website needs ad revenue to either exist, or that’s fundamentally its entire business model?

That website does not need to exist.

Now sure, are their caveats to this? Yes. But broadly, its usually true. The website should exist as a small loss leading part of your whole shebang, or should have some kind of membership or donation model or something else, to fund itself.

Its also not that hard to make a website follow broswer agnostic standards. If the website can’t figure out how to do that, if they think its fine to be a browser-vendor exclusive website, I don’t need to use it.

No, that’s actually exactly the same.

I can also promise you that at the end of this, I will have a yacht and bunker, and you will probably have impostor syndrome.

Fair deal eh?

The ‘copyright claims’ (patent violations, actually) are currently being challenged in court, that is… what the lawsuits are about.

They are also not settling out of court… they’re in court already. Meaning that the eventual settlement will be that adjuctated by the courts.

Given the total extent of damages and violations that Nintendo was originally claiming… and Nintendo’s reputation as a litigious legal juggernaut…

The common expectation, when this all started, was that Nintendo would be able to functionally sue PalWorld out of existence.

That is not what seems likely to happen.

Instead, it looks like PalWorld is going to walk away from this with some scrapes and bruises, but mostly intact, Nintendo is having to massively scale back the extent of violations and damages they claiming, because basically, their legal foundation for much of it was dubious.

Yeah, not a total victory for PalWorld, but surviving at all is an incredible victory, in context.

Part of why it is an incredible victory is that it shows that Nintendo can be successfully fought in court, and you can come out intact… as opposed to just being afraid and conceeding to their demands, assuming you would certainly lose in court.

Yep. To attempt to tl:dr;

Shaheds are more like cheap, slow, cruise missiles, tomahawks.

They’re meant for attacking stationary or very nearly stationary targets, on the ground.

Not interception of in flight aircraft.

Its… possible that this was essentially an ATC vectoring failure … because there is no monolithic ATC in an active war zone.

Just… lemme help folks out with the corpo speak here.

‘leading-end’

Ok now watch this ->

‘lead-ending’

mind explosion gif

If one is said to ‘wax lyrical’, would this not carry forward to ‘wane gibbous’, meaning to gibber as an ape?

Yeah, precisely.

There are actually quite a lot of regulations, in not all, but a lot of US states, that mandate varying levels of safe storage of firearms.

The problem is that to actually enforce that fully, you’d basically need surprise food inspectors, but for guns… which would probably run into the 4th Amendment… or, you’d have to actually revamp the 2nd Ammendment to mandate that people be required to regularly retake/retest on some kind of firearm safety course… I dunno.

But yeah, an actually responsible gun owner… probably has something like a dedicated sand bucket to point a semi auto weapon into, while they are verifying that its fully unloaded and cleared, juuuuust in case some kind of uncommanded discharge happens when you’re racking the slide to get the (potentially) chambered round out.

And yeah, never sweep anybody (or a place where anybody could be, within a mile) even with a gun you personally just unloaded. Never finger a trigger when you don’t need to. You just don’t do that.

I would at least say its possible the dog discharged the weapon, but it doesn’t matter, the situation where that is a thing that can happen should never have been allowed to arise… and yeah, the situations you describe that lead to an ND occuring are much more likely.