I’m literally just a cancer patient in the states, but go off bud. I’m not being defensive, I’m telling you my experience. I’m not disputing the possibility that a disinformation campaign went on that long. But cool cool, your original message was kind, but this is being a jerk. Not everyone can know everything and you can take what people tell you about their experiences or you can say they’re “being defensive” for admitting they hadn’t actually thought about it in years.

Thanks for the heads up, but yeah, my opinions of this were developed during the Bush era and it was from US media sources discussing the issues with the F-35’s development. I honestly hadn’t thought about the F-35 in years and had to go to Wikipedia to make sure I was thinking of the right plane. I’m generally anti-war so I thought it was pretty wasteful in general at the time.

Graphic designers suffer from similar customer issues as well… or did until the whole AI art thing came along.

I mean, Musk isn’t totally wrong, the F-35 isn’t all we’d hoped for. It had a well documented history of cost over-runs, problems in development, and failing the way all multi-tools do, they generally don’t do as good of a job as specific tool. Further, the drone war in Ukraine/Russia is showing how effective drones really can be. However, drones are also a specific tool for a specific type of job.

I think it’s reasonable to think that both types of flight-based warfare will continue to be relevant, and neither will necessarily dominate the other, because… once again… the right tool, for the right job.

he’s a pioneer because he bought Tesla and pays people at SpaceX to do engineering that’s well beyond his capabilities.

Funny, this is what these app stores were marketed as protecting against originally.

They even invented a fucking marketing term for how you traditionally install applications. Fuck “sideloading” its fucking “frontloading.” Needing a fucking app store should be “sideloading,” not the other way around.

Anyway, “sideloading” is (according to Google/Apple/Microsoft) “more dangerous” because the files could have come from anywhere, ooh spooky. Yeah, that’s why we’ve had file hash matching for like 20 years or more for file downloads. Every reputable site publishes a current hash, so if the package isn’t legit, the hashes won’t match, and you can just delete it.

It’s sad that Nintendo has so much money that these devs keep caving, when they legally have a right to develop an emulator as long as they’re not distributing them with title keys and such.

I think a major reason they went so hard on this issue is the rumors that Switch 2 will have largely similar hardware and backward compatibility, including use of the same type of cartridges. As such emulating Switch 2 could easily just be a simple continuation of the work on the original Switch and it’s going to be a bad deal when their brand new system can be emulated on day one of release.

Personal opinion, it’s the natural result of them keeping their systems so low-end for so long, emulation of them is just easier than emulation of a PS5 or an Xbox. (do you even have to emulate xbox? aren’t they technically UWP windows apps?)

no Christmas presents for us this year

Plot Twist: Gabe Newell gets Santa Clause’d and gifts digital games.

You’ll have to give me a few minutes to dig up what episode it was. I looked on Wikipedia earlier, but all the descriptions are too short.

I just remember the wallet phone and keys getting scared by “security dog” Rocky (Scott’s dog) and wandering into a closet full of old outdated software and phones.

EDIT: Season 4, Episode 29: A$AP Rocky Wears a Black Button Up Jacket and Black Sneakers

…to stay alive, naturally.

Kind of like Chiquitita in Dan Da Dan.

Anyway Santa gives gifts in exchange for keeping him alive with sustenance one night a year.

I would always say, if we justify some killings, there is always a chance people will abuse this “loophole” for crime we created.

Oh you mean how UHC uses that loophole to kill people with social murder, and our moral system doesn’t consider it a crime because they didn’t directly stab someone to death, but instead purposefully denied them care that they had paid for by paying for insurance, leaving them to die.

So saying all killings are illegal is kind of the best application of our morals we have.

Except, we clearly don’t say all killings are illegal, as evidenced by what I just discussed. We have clearly made the choice that social murder though things like denying healthcare or denying housing and pushing people into the frozen deadly streets of winter are totes okay. That’s literally what’s at issue here, is that a whole swath of killings are allowed, and not just allowed, but are allowed to be profited from, and handsomely. Which is far darker and worse, imho.

Genuinely, it’s easy to say that we have banned all killings, but we clearly haven’t. Cops even have qualified immunity to murder with impunity. We have the largest military in the world, and we’ve been known as the violent “World Police” that will bomb your country to the fucking stone age. Those deaths and that violence is normalized. That’s why they say “the state has a monopoly on violence.”

I guess my point was that the only way first-world countries can live in such excess is by massive exploitation of the world’s poor. Resources are massively unevenly distributed worldwide, and first-world countries are using like three times more resources than they actually need to, if not more. There are so many people in such abject poverty that real redistribution will mean people like you and me living with less, too.

Redistribution will have to happen, but I think for it to work we’ll all have to accept some limitations and a lot less “fun” extra stuff in our lives.

There’s a whole ass Comedy Bang! Bang! (tv) episode about exactly these items being forgotten.

This is capitalism everywhere. It doesn’t work without massive amounts of exploitation. We have to accept degrowth if we want our species to survive.

Twitter was never profitable, so it just kept adding ads until that wasn’t sustainable.

Okay, so Bluesky started the same way, with no plan to monetize from the get-go, waiting to monetize later. So far, they’ve not been profitable yet, either. They keep taking money but until seemingly just now have not articulated a plan on how to pay any of it back. That’s exactly like Twitter, honestly.

I think the bigger issue is who they took money from and the kind of investment returns they expect. Because if this model doesn’t pan out enough for their greedy little hearts, they’ll demand ads and worse, too.

I just want one reporter to ask “Can you confirm that if this was indeed a top secret military program in development, that your first response would be to deny it was the military to keep the program secure?”

Like stop asking if it’s the military, get to the point and ask if you’d be told to deny it if it was the military.

Personally, I think it’s ramping up for a drone surveillance state in the US. As the homeland security administrator said, they’ve been concerned about how people talk on the internet for some time, long before Luigi Mangione popped off. They’ve viewed their own citizens as the enemy for a long time now, and the mask has been slipping hard.

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

EDIT: I only noticed the username after I posted this, since it’s clear this is what you were making reference to ha

I think the failure of the phrase ACAB is that it pins the problems of the system just on cops. Corrupt lawmakers, judges, district attorneys, prosecutors, and defenders all play into this as well. Lawmakers made the laws defer to cops over citizens, judges treat a cops word as more truthful than a citizens, same with district attorneys and prosecuting attorneys. They’re all scratching each others back in a sick system where nearly all of them are essentially above the law. Cops are enabled by all the other groups.

It also seems like a convenient bogeyman for lots of politicians looking for clout to go “This is unacceptable!” while knowing them shouting and stamping their feet won’t amount to anything. But they need to be seen shouting and stamping their feet so their constituents know they’re a “free thinker” who “tells it like it is.” Knowing full well that no answers are forthcoming, but they can be seen making “transparency” demands around things that don’t actually matter, while promoting the idea that they care about “transparency.”

I live far away from where all of this is happening, so I was hoping some Lemmings might live in NJ and have a more personal experience and thoughts to share.

Looks like it’s been time for unrest for over fifty years now, since this kicked off in the early 70’s.

It shouldn’t have taken a murder to wake people up.