Roll against your wisdom to not cast lvl 3 conjure gas line

If you fail your wisdom check You’ll need dex of 18 to not start a fire.

To protect his followers from the capitalists, surely…

It clearly should not be allowed for private ownership of the means of truth creation; education, news media, etc. but the alternative is either state control, or praying that a true grassroots, democratic and consistent news media takes firm and permanent it will not only start but continue. Small wonder the latter hasny had many chances to be experimented with since the chaos out of what is almost always a revolution means when power is taken or “order restored” it again is either capitalists with means to produce news media or the state.

In 2025, costs of production are effectively zero, so it could be done, but now the monster of misinformation–which also has costs of production of zero–is a well oiled and established.

Where do you go from here?

It’s not fat, it’s festively plump!

Yeah, I just closed the agency investigating my company so there is no enforcement mechanism. Legal alludes to a system I now own and control because it’s better for me that way. Going to pass a few joke statues or pardon myself if there are any teeth left. Thanks fucking peasant.

Clown shows can be funny. This is like watching pallbearers drop caskets at a children’s hospital funeral.

It’s not necessarily you getting older; there is a fundamental difference in goals, aims and quality of software now. 99% of major software is either funded by VC or incumbent monopolists who are interested in extractions primarily and establishing moats, barriers to free and fair use, and any way possible to monetize an interaction. This is why those of us who lived through the actual innovation stages aren’t excited anymore as it’s clear this is not “progress” and the warning flags are there from the first marketing pitch.

This entire timeline though was part of the plan, it was never going to be free/cheap, functional and easily accessible forever. We are in the frog boiling phase now that doesn’t end until we take back some of what has been lost.

G-14

Jack black isn’t funny at all. He’s worse, incredibly fucking irritating and annoying and a try hard. He epitomizes mainstream US “comedy”; obvious, loud, overstating the delivery of jokes with overwrought physical humor. He and Horatio Sanz must have studied under the same Sithlord. Can’t stand him.

Everyone learned about those in grammar, don’t insult the man’s intelligence.

Lobby to get rid of government bureaucracy like Theil so you can have your delivery boy get you the info so you can sell it. Ideal.

And then one day the shareholders will wonder why they GE or Boeing or Sears.

Short-termism can be seen not only in corporate raider practices but embedded into “best practices” of management since the 80s. Sell anything for a short-term stock boost, bail before it implodes, the vacuum left behind us someone else’s problem. It’s wild that boardrooms, having this as fully visible, aren’t structured to have longer-term incentive pay packages. Pay them what they make now but have it wholly depend on variables outside of stock price. Do the right things and success often follow, it’s when “investors must be satisfied” becomes the management guidance that it all turns to shite.

Was thinking about that. The whole hardware cycle needs a sanity check where phones, PCs, money of the annual “improvements” are now just software slop, AI slop or deck chair rearranging, or breaking things that used to work.

So you’re assuming that no one in Trump’s circle made any trades in advance of yesterday’s tariff pause cancellation? Do you know the exponential return you could get on a short-term option when the underlying investment moves 20% in a day?

Narrator: “they are all pointless, low-quality, demeaning-to-thr-original cash grabs”.

Action in general is what audiences have been conditioned to accept for blockbusters, when language barriers and dubbing and subtitles and regional release dates were more of an issue 20+ years ago action is what international audiences came for. As international box office receipts can far outstrip local revenue, it’s regression to the mean or maybe “lowest common denominator”. Visual spectacle, after all is what movies can do in spades…but since everyone has been trying to make a “matrix” action moment for almost 30 years again it just means scripts and plots get subsumed by “needs more adrenaline for audiences”. Like an impatient teenager.

The best movies will always have balance, and build to action where appropriate, but we’re nearly 3 decades in to “lacking plot, directoral skill, acting, good dialogue?–throw special effects and long action sequences in”. It’s like a highschool story paper that needs to be 5 pages and you wrote 2 so add a bunch of filler. It’s a shame, visual effects, cinematography and a good action sequence are as impactful as anything else, but have been given an outsized role that boils down to “what can a casual, normal moviegoer be impressed by”?

https://www.scmp.com/yp/discover/entertainment/tech-gaming/article/3072548/lights-camera-too-much-action-how-special

We can’t bailout lunch kids, what about my meth addiction debt? Nobody helped me. BOoTsTrApS!

The graphic format doesn’t do much for those looking to learn, if I don’t already know the non-google icon or app this doesn’t help. I understand the point of the post is to drive discussion but if the whole broader goal is to help people switch listing it out in text or labeling the icons at least would make it as useful as the other breakdowns we often see here that have lists by app/category are more useful.

Mine said 42. I guess the only thing left I’m wondering is what was the question?

Translation; “were out of ideas and gave been in a long time, better dump some money to us.”

The google annual cost to have Google as default search on iPhone is north of 20b, hence the number in the article headline. They also pay lots to Mozilla and others.