As an example of the system being reworked into a better one: Germany’s equivalent not only finances public broadcast channels, but also youtubers through the program FUNK. Granted, a lion’s share still goes into the old TV channels, but at least that includes the French/German channel Arte, which has some top notch content (though usually documentaries) that it regularly uploads onto YouTube.
Also, IIRC, having Hydrogen as a main fuel source would be pretty expensive in most places, as it would need to be produced in factory with high safety standards, and there is little demand for hydrogen, so these factories would live and duebwith the hydrogen car’s useage. There are a few places where it’s actually feasible because there are some factories that produce it, as a byproduct with otherwise little demand, so it’s effectively treated as waste.
Do you really need the entire installation? Would only the user folder(s) (C:\Users) suffice?
Alternatively, you could install Linux mint on a large enough USB stick and run it off there, if you don’t mind the longer read/write times. You’d also need to change the boot order for it too.
@[email protected] mentioned it in another reply in this post. It’s a Destroying Angel Mushroom. you usually avoid mushrooms like that by only foraging those who have no simulacrae and buying the other mushrooms in the store, or by intensely studying the differences and hoping you are lucky this time.
Also some screens still use that one to act as an USB hub for the PC. There’s also a variant that is a but taller, but I don’t know what that type is for.
It goes a bit further than just not berating. People often get defensive when you criticise something they like, which makes it harder to argue due to the other side suddenly treating the discussion as a fight. However by saying “it’s not for me” in a rather roundabout way you shift the focus away from “is it good/bad” and more about whether the other can empathise with your reasoning, and in turn reflect your view onto themselves and maybe realize that they didn’t notice something about their usage and feelings about AI that you already did.
Ah, sorry, I didn’t mean ignorant in a general way, but to the critiques on AI/dangers of AI OP referred to in their post. I’ll edit my comment.
Maybe trying to be objective is the wrong choice here? After all, it might sound preachy to those who are ignorant to the dangers of AI. Instead, it could be better to stay subjective in hopes to trigger self-reflection.
Here are some arguments I would use for my own personal ‘defense’:
What would be your motivator to pay human artists? Why sign any?
I mean, the internet has given artists a way to spread their works and profit off them without any major record labels. So what artists will lose by that are exploitative companies whose only benefit is that your music will be sold by major retailers as physical CDs or Downloads.
They took the code of Scratch 3 and claim to have made some improvements on it to make it run faster alongside some other improvements (such as rising the maximum framerate to 60 from Scratch’s 30). However, there doesn’t seem to be any proof that this is the case, so it could perform exactly like Scratch 3 without any improvements.
What is an actual bonus is that this software offers actual installation files, whereas normal Scratch 3 is only available through a browser and by downloading it from the App/Play/Windows store. It’s nice to be able to not use these storefronts because a) it means that you have a little more control over the software you use and b) you can use Scratch 3 offline on Linux as well with this.
I just checked it out. Apparently it is a fork of Scratch and supposedly applies some optimisation to it, which I would take with a grain of salt without any benchmarks.
I think the biggest advantage is the proper offline mode, as Scratch 3 doesn’t have classic installation files (and therefore no Mac and Linux installations).
Generally I think immutable distros are the best entry-level distros for newcomers. Stops people from accidentally bricking their system.
Honestly, I stopped reading after
they passed the halfway point of the Grand Line.
The power creep just got way too out of control for my liking, and while I know that the power creep always existed, I feel like the adventures before showed how you can tell a good story without just brute force. Plus, even with their superhuman abilities, their struggles still felt relatable. And with what happened before and right after the aforementioned turning point, it felt like that would be left in the dust.
I mean, Chaos, nor its subfaction Chaos Undivided, have direct ties to transgender (apart from Slaneesh and its demons being a literal amalgamation of man and woman), but generally represents countercultures opposing today’s conservatism. I’d say that those who enjoy Chaos factions, at least lore-wise, are those who can’t deal with the conformism conservatism demands, especially since it at times goes against man’s urges for self-exploration and finding one’s place in this world.
I’m sorry your brother is turning like that. Factions like those who Trump belongs to use fear and anger to coerce others to do their bidding. If you can stomach it, maybe it might be good to have a little heart-to-heart with him? To see what actually scares him. However, don’t beat yourself up over it if you can’t handle that confrontation. Sometimes people like him are so deep in the delusions of these factions that it’s similar to talking to a brick wall.
Do they know it’s similar to the Chaos Undivided insignia? If they do, it’s odd how they would neglect and misunderstand Slaanesh like that.
It’s both funny and sad how they sort of threw around money when they were swimming in it, such as the acquiring of the Valhalla engine, which turned out to only consist of the rendering part of the engine during the buyout, yet at the same time don’t seem to be brave enough to try to make something else than Payday 2. Overkill’s The Walking Dead was basically a Payday 2 clone, and Payday 3 is the official successor to it, making both fall under the shadow of its still running cash cow. Even their cooperation with Lion Game Lion to make a spiritual successor/spinoff with Raid:WW2 seems harebrained, as it would immediately draw comparisons to PD2, which it could never really overcome.
Honestly, it’s odd how they just didn’t make Payday 3 a straightforward port of Payday 2 into the Unreal engine and have a smaller side project to keep the creative juices flowing as the player base slowly switches to the new engine.
Also, don’t forget that the one in the movie isn’t a log truck at all. The bed is flat, designed for rolling machinery on and off, not one designed for logging, which has walls because it’s nigh impossible to stack logs without them because they’d roll off to the side before you could secure them.
Yes, after the reign of Stalin, where Khrushchev took over, the USSR deescalated the Cold War, yet it was the actions taken by Stalin’s regime that let the conflict start to begin with, with the USSR not retreating from Iran as the other Allied Forces did, the threat of force in the Turkish Straits crisis, comparing Churchill to Adolf Hitler and breaking the Yalta Agreement by meddling with the 1947 Polish elections.
Also, the article seems to be paywalled, so I have to see when I get around to reading it.
It might be that my comparison wasn’t the most accurate, since my main insight in the USSR is through the DDR, which was mainly a pawn in the face off between the superpowers at that time, and thus was a hotspot for tensions around that time. And I do believe that the wealth disparity wasn’t as extreme as in capitalist countries, yet it says little about what the actual average living conditions were compared to other countries. Also, corruption doesn’t always have a wealth disparity as a result. After all, people can also get corrupt due to self-preservation, which I think is most evident under Stalin’s later rule, after his wife committed suicide.
Yet I can’t really agree that it was “killed off” during its downfall, as I have my doubts that it would have survived much longer than it did without its subnations separating from it. The only way I could imagine it surviving would have been if they “licked their own wounds” after the war, so to speak, recuperate from their losses instead of its rapid militarisation that it gone through to keep up with the USA in order to win a dick measuring contest.
I wouldn’t say you’re too cynical with that view. I mean, the 2 German public broadcast channels (ARD, ZDF) are under constant fire for basically catering to an audience that is slowly dying out - both metaphorically and physically. Sure, some of these shows still have some popularity with younger generations, but that is few and far between. It’s pretty much the same idea that plagues big corporations - change is scary as it poses a risk, so they avoid it - even if they literally have nothing to lose.
And I agree that the fractured streaming environment made it ever harder to license content. However, I don’t think they should focus on licensing content to begin with. Instead, offer more grants for independent studios to create publicly available movies and shows. I mean, as we speak, Glitch is funding multiple shows to be viewed for free on YouTube. Why can’t public broadcast channels do that more too?