Hmm quite interesting 😊

The $199 side omits that the poor ceo had to buy his 3rd luxury car in 2 years time because reasons.

I was going to suggest CoD as well … the whole series is mostly a carbon copy of the previous version. Let alone the gameplay is "run for 30 seconds, die, respawn and repeat.

It’s the now age old Trump-Tariff faux-paradox …

Country A has a package to ship to the US …

The US tells Country A: 'aha tariffs need to be paid"…

Country A says “okay, tell the recipient to pay the tariffs and give us the ok when they did so we can deliver it past your border”.

The US gets angry: “no no someone else pays tariffs not us! How dare you put the tariffs on us! Others are supposed to pay!”

Country A mumbles “ok, be that way”, returns the package to sender, sender might refund but keeps shipping costs… and the US customer loses out twice.

For some reason this brought back old old memories from the trams in Vienna.

Yeah about Japan … the US kinda lit the fuse on that one when it got spooked by Japan’s growing (manufacturing) power and expansion in southeast Asia.

So it declared Japan should not be able to buy oil on the open markets and demanded a full embargo against Japan.

Granted, Japan was expanding its influence aggressively but the US actions caused things to get worse quickly.

It’s not so much that they down- and upscale the video of shorts, their algorithm changes the look of people. It warps skin and does a strange sort of sharpening that makes things look quite unreal and almost plastic.

It is a filter that evens the look with images generated by, say, grok or one of the other AI filters.

In a year people will think that “AI-look” is a normal video look, and stuff generated with it is what humans can look like. We will see crazed AI-fashion looks popping up.

Adding to that: Star Wars 1313

Would have been amazing to get a gritty Star Wars game with a good storyline. Star Wars Jedi:fallen order leaned a bit towards it but is not so gritty/dark.

Bah, each time I want to do the manual upgrade from 23h2 I have to postpone it again due to some stupid bug or annoying feature that makes me reconsider doing it.

What if you want America to flourish, but Trump is failing both his presidency and America itself, then who is what?

So, was the ‘bald eagle statue’ gift properly laced with listening devices? :-p

The great dealmaker says someone else should make the deal…

I say force each chat bot to declare itself an ai bot every 3 lines of text it produces, if it’s owner/developer does not comply give him/the company an instant, unappealable, fine of $30million per incident.

There is no legit reason a chat bot should pretend to fully be human other than dupe someone on the other side. So hefty fines are warranted for these transgressions.

16th century? Huh I would have expected a far more accurate version would have been made and accepted long ago.

Especially since during all the centuries since then accurate navigation was needed, even around Afrika, and not make journeys last far longer by keeping an incorrect map.

It kind of sounds like the beginnings of star trek’s replicators…

But that aside, somehow I doubt those are the exact only “ingredients” they use.
And it wouldn’t surprise me at all if the end product contains all kinds of trace elements of various not so healthy chemicals used to get the parts to combine into the actual butter.
Like the process to get the glycerol or lecithin in a state they can use.

Ofcourse a lot of our dietary ingredients are contaminated in various levels anyway.

…temporary… peace.

If it’s not Israel first then trump will not get his Gaza bungalow park, so everyone must be forced to work towards that …

I still have a gut feeling that if they had given Tim Walz a timely nomination for president he would have fared a lot better…

Ofcourse there still would have been vote manipulation and fraud, somehow resulting in a reelection of orange trump, perhaps even a mysterious landslide victory in NY and California.

Rarely the first, but always the inventors …