You lost years ago. Time to come in from the cold.

I think NAFO has merch with this on it.

That’s on you. I updated the firmware on a Logitech gamepad in like 2006.

I mean, that just makes you an idiot.

Illiberal democracies are a thing.

Nah, Terry Stops have been given additional reach and breadth at every opportunity.

Do you get any errors doing these things if you launch Steam from the command line?

> demands access to quality timely journalism and commentary

> refuses to pay for it

They’d have to exclude sanctioned VPN traffic, or the entire financial system doesn’t work at all.

Almost all retailers inventory on consignment. So, no.

Yup. This is the meme of a kind of person who is “tech savvy” as an affectation they use to adorn their personality. It’s nothing more, with no deeper thought involved.

Dumbest idea in here.

Dude read the Culture series, took all the wrong lessons from it and is speedrunning that horrible vision for a sorcery in his own mind.

Iceland has the luxury of not being able to eliminate the global economic landscape with one big mistake. No one here is happy with the bank bailout, but it was the only realistic option available.

Journalism’s not dead. The fact of the matter is that people don’t want to read journalism, they want propaganda and tabloid; if this wasn’t true ProPublica would have the readership that the Sun does.

Not true at all. Every well-conducted and reliable poll matters, because it determines where campaign money will be spent, where volunteers will be directed, what stops candidates make, and what issues to press on and which to pivot back to stump on.

Pretty dumb myopic take you have there, actually.

PC running OPNsense and a Ruckus AP.

paru -S floorp-bin

We’re a few major breakthroughs away

We are dozens of world-changing breakthroughs in the understanding of consciousness, sapience, sentience, and even more in computer and electrical engineering away from being able to even understand what the final product of an AGI development program would look like.

We are not anywhere near close to AGI.

Yup, AGI is terrifying; luckily it’s a few centuries off. The parlor-trick text predictor we have now is just bad for the environment and the economy.