Exactly. It’s objectively not any sillier, just made me chuckle somehow. I guess it was surprising but in the same moment I had no idea why it should surprise me, y’know?

Yeah, that was the feeling I got. President is deaf. They were avoiding being subtle. Gotta say it’s kinda funny to see aliens using ASL, though. I know it’s no sillier than all of them speaking English, but it’s a little more visual so it did kinda make me chuckle

There’s definitely a number of statistical anomalies that map too cleanly to be a coincidence.

It’s speculative to suggest that it’s a factor?

Meanwhile you’re talking as if there’s a single definitive cause and effect in a fundamentally complex system.

Free Luigi

No doubt it’s a factor due to people failing to absorb as many nutrients, leading to increased over-eating

For real. The US Government has pulled worse shit for banana companies. The idea that we’d do this for oil is utterly unsurprising. I mean, just look at Iraq

Sounds like your government or ISP is blocking it

The fungal zombies seem to operate at an instinctual level, so I’d argue that yes, they are able to stay hydrated. They also seem to have some sort of hive mind going on to a degree.

Don’t tell us, tell the oligarchs

Only about 2/3rds voted, so closer to 30% voted for him

Don’t trust AI to know what they’re doing for you. The only time they work reliably as a tool is when you already know what you’re doing enough to spot their errors/hallucinations.

AI is the wrong tool here. You need to do real internet research.

Hundreds? Pretty sure it’s thousands

… as long as the giant corpos paying through the nose for the data centers continue to vastly underprice their products in order to make us all dependent on them.

Just wait till everyone’s using it and the prices will skyrocket.

They embedded a PS1 in the PS2, but the PS1 compatibility for the PS3 and later is emulation. Also the PS2 compatibility for most of the revisions of the PS3 is emulated too. Only a couple of the earliest models crammed a PS2 in there

If you think people will pay for AI slop, you must be young or deeply cynical

The vast vast vast majority of artists create art with neither expectations of payment nor the ability to do it full time, yes.

The 4.1m was the budget for the front-end. The back-end changes were initially budgeted as 31m but tripled in cost as the project dragged on and contracts needed to be extended.