Pro: a handful of my state’s absolute worst officials are set to quit their jobs and we get a do-over.
Con: they’re quitting to join the administration and they’ll be way more powerful and everyone else will suffer.
Sorry. I did what I could.
RobCo
Military contractor and aerospace giant obsessed with autonomous AI.
Replace Robert House with El*n and it’s halfway there already.
Name one of the ten commandments Trump hasn’t broken challenge [impossible]
You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.
You didn’t think they actually spent ten thousand dollars for a hammer and thirty thousand for a toilet seat, did you?
Jack left bsky a while ago.
Forget the rebels, why build the death star(s) in the first place?
It’s easier, faster, and waaaaay more effective to just send a few dozen small ships throughout the galaxy with an extra hyperdrive or two to be ready to blow up any planet with some space junk. Any time. Any place. No centralized base for the rebels to stop.
I appreciate the 30 second heads up of which exact previous scenes will be important in the upcoming episode.
Even if I’ve just binged a bunch, and don’t need a recap of the broader story arc, there may have been a name drop or specific reference that could have been missed.
They’re streaming in the 3d world detail, but the rendering engine is installed locally.
Playing on xCloud will just stream in the visuals that are rendered remotely, so a lot less bandwidth, but then you have the lag, and need a subscription.
SPF-1701
I know this isn’t what you’re asking, but there are two Mount Olympuses (?!) in the USA.
The one in Washington has a similar prominence to the Greek mountain (2,389 m to 2,353 m).
The one in Utah has a similar peak elevation (2,752 m vs 2,918 m).
Legally, it’s still a license, it’s just effectively impossible to revoke.
Edit to expand on this: A truly offline forever-purchase of physical goods can be re-sold. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine (this is the US-specific version, other jurisdictions may have similar doctrines).
American legal concept that limits the rights of an intellectual property owner to control resale of products embodying its intellectual property.
A digital “purchase” is usually non-transferable, even from GOG. It can’t be removed from your own HDD once you download the installer, but there are still restrictions attached on what you can do with it, even if those are limited and hard to enforce.
Tencent and Guillemot combined are considering a buyout of other shareholders. Most of that is Guillemot, with Tencent increasing their share very slightly from 9.2% to 10%.
Giuliani, Cuomo, Bloomberg, Adams…
Somewhere along the line, I’m sure NYC has had a decent mayor, but the recent history has been pretty fucked up.
It’s real:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/us/politics/republican-candidates-wives-ads.html
Derrick Anderson, who is running for an open seat in Virginia’s Seventh District, in a photo with the wife and children of a longtime friend.
Unhinged entry level employee screaming and swearing and threatening the CFO and spit in her coffee mug.
An email went out to the whole company telling us not to let him in the building before he even got back to his desk to be fired. This is a software company, not exactly the type of place that has armed guards, but the (ex-military) information security dude set up in the area packing for a few weeks after that.
I keep wanting to think I’m an RPG kind of gamer, but in reality, all my favorites were from the SNES.
Just got a random message from a new account I suspect of being a bot or scammer.
But lemmy is still small enough, and has mods/admins that are less jaded and defeated than the bigger platforms, that there is a bigger pushback on the scams.
Every site has a critical mass at which scammers will be more motivated than the moderators. Reddit got too big, then shit all over the experienced mods. Double whammy.
Dead giveaway that he’s not a real cop.