The article has shades of that old, trite Republican line of “Government sucks, and to prove it I’ll get elected and suck at governing.” Its proposed remedy is nonsense as a result, nevertheless it does spell out a real problem that exists.

“If America truly wants to win the lunar competition, it needs to start thinking like economists rather than politicians.”

This is what killed Boeing.
This is what killed Intel.

Both were highly successful when they had engineers for CEOs. Their fortunes cratered when accountants took over.

My experience of the game was similar. I’ve started to make a few characters and lost interest before character generation was complete. The D&D 5e rules just aren’t that interesting from a character creation standpoint. A couple times I did get to the spelljammer, even made it all the way through the prologue once, but then I found that managing progression for several additional mechanically uninteresting characters just made the game even less fun.

IDK if its just my local social circles skewing my perception of things, but it really does seem like autistic people tend to have a strong anti-authoritarian leaning.

Sometimes I wonder if that’s why the nazis are so eager to find a ‘cure’. A cynic might think what they’re really after is chemically induced acceptance of injustice and tyranny - ‘vitamins’ they can load into school lunches to turn the entire population into regime collaborators, sympathizers, and apologists.

Yes, and building permits need to be denied if they don’t include adequate plans for off-street parking.

https://xkcd.com/1114/

What are the odds this would let them make better games?

Is it worse to be owned by vultures? Or to be a publicly traded company that’s legally compelled to maximize short term profit at the expense of long term viability?

Yeah, its no shocker that 2 oversize and overpriced SUV’s are not selling well, and neither is the yet-another overpriced luxury sedan.

Both of the people who can afford to buy them already own vehicles.

BYD is going to have a monopoly at this rate. All the other auto makers seem to have preemptively surrendered to the competition. For example, Ford recently hyped a big announcement of their ‘new Model-T moment’ which turned out to be just another shitty overpriced, underperforming truck that has some secret sauce they hope will pad the profit margins (ie they plan to build it to lower quality w/ the same manufacturing techniques that are causing Cybertruck failures).

Roy from Order of the Stick

There is absolutely no chance a Toyota Corolla is slower than a Bugatti Veyron. There are so many more Corollas on the road!

If we subtract the usual degree of exaggeration about performance from the published numbers, this new battery tech looks competitive with the batteries Tesla was making 5 years ago. If CATL can manufacture them cheaper, they’ll have a strictly superior product.

The memo about the HSIN-Intel breach specifically mentions, for instance, a report discussing “protests relating to a police training facility in Atlanta”—likely the Stop Cop City protests opposing the creation of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center—noting that it focused on “media praising actions like throwing stones, fireworks and Molotov cocktails at police.”

What medias are throwing molotovs at cops, and why are the cops praising them for it?

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_49187.htm

Since the Alliance’s creation in 1949, Article 4 has been invoked seven times:

1. On 10 February 2003, Türkiye formally invoked Article 4, asking for consultations in the NAC on defensive assistance from NATO in the event of a threat to its population or territory resulting from armed conflict in neighbouring Iraq. NATO agreed a package of defensive measures and conducted Operation Display Deterrence from the end of February to early May 2003.
2. On 22 June 2012, Türkiye requested a NAC meeting under Article 4 after one of its fighter jets was shot down by Syrian air defence forces.
3. On 3 October 2012, Türkiye requested Article 4 NAC consultations when five Turkish civilians were killed by Syrian shells. Following these incidents, on 21 November 2012, Türkiye requested the deployment of Patriot missiles. NATO agreed to this defensive measure to help Türkiye defend its population and territory, and to help de-escalate the crisis along the border.
4. On 3 March 2014, Poland invoked Article 4 following increasing tensions in neighbouring Ukraine, as a result of Russia’s aggressive actions.
5. On 26 July 2015, Türkiye requested that the NAC convene in view of the seriousness of the situation following terrorist attacks, and to inform Allies of the measures it was taking.
6. On 28 February 2020, Türkiye requested consultations following the death of Turkish soldiers in air strikes by the Syrian regime and its backer Russia in Idlib province.
7. On 24 February 2022, Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia requested to hold consultations under Article 4 following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

the userbase has become degenerate and the site is now unusable due to lack of moderation

the better way is to stay far, far away

No good deed goes unpunished on Reddit.

I caught a temp ban for something similar, and decided to never return.

They accused me of “abusing the report button” for reporting a post that was advocating violence to advance the political agenda of a far right, ethno-nationalist, religious fundamentalist ideology.

Reddit admins are terrorist sympathizers when it advances the class interests of the site’s owners.

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Citizens who harbor anti-authoritarian sentiments will be . . . rehabilitated into blind servitude through torture and brainwashing.

Now they just call it “high school”.

What’s your favorite bbq sauce?

if you mean ductless mini-split heat pumps, then yes

when talking about computers, binary means 1 or 0

so non-binary can mean “not digital”

if someone isn’t digital, they’re analogue

analogue/acoustic