supersquirrel
It means centrists can conveniently forget about the promises they made to shrill, naive environmental activists which was getting hard to do anyways because it meant they had to pretend they didn’t hate environmental activism and that their lukewarm embrace of it was because… reasons…
Now those people can shrug and with a big smile gesture at AI and say “I am really sorry but we have to” and everyone just nods their head in resignation as if we weren’t killing the entire biosphere off for a vacuous series of scams nested inside of one another.
AI is invaluable to the ruling class just for accomplishing that alone.
Hey, make sure you get a balanced diet of board sports though.
You got your downhill longboarding racing with Driftwood
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2223700/Driftwood/
and your realistic, park/trick focused realistic snowboarding with Shredders
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1874170/Shredders/
All part of a healthy breakfast
Have y’all seen the TNG Christmas episode where Picard is transported back to 20th century earth and learns that santa was real and was a weird old non-violent Klingon messing with precontact era humans in their spaceship flimsily disguised as a sleigh complete with a taxidermied reindeer bolted to the front?
Picard spends the night helping “Santa” deliver presents and is moved by all the happy children but then decides the law is the law and arrests Santa for violation of the Prime Directive.
The episode ends in a famous scene of a horde of angry children chasing Picard across a field while hurling rocks at him after Picard reveals to the children Santa is a fraud.
Ok I will help you out, why don’t you think critically about how you were sure there was a decisive mass of lefty voters who didn’t vote for Kamala just to make a statement and when the numbers came in it turns out environmental voters were among her most loyal voting demographic.
Not only is your view politics broken, it is about as incorrect as it can get in this case at predicting what people will do and why.
The question is who’s self interests are you blindly serving when you decide to close your eyes and lay back into the comfy hate of the narrative (truth be damned) that selfish lefty idealistic voters voted against their own interests to prove a shrill point and now we are screwed because they betrayed us all just to give Kamala the middle finger?
We have already been through this with the “bernie bro” narrative about why Hillary Clinton lost that centrists had what I can only describe as a borderline obsession with even though the opposite was exhaustively demonstrated in voting statistics.
For me it is loading up Xonotic to strafe jump around and blast bots. The movement in Xonotic is hypnotic, and while I usually play in short bursts I don’t think I will ever get bored of returning over and over again to learn the nuances and creative opportunities of combat and movement in Xonotic. All it takes is the first strafe jump to put a stupid smile on my face.
Also I love open world driving games and Motortown is my jam. I do urgent taxi jobs and just let my mind relax as I drive like a complete madman. The tire grip and burnout mechanics along with the vehicle handling in general is the best I have tried in any game.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1369670/Motor_Town_Behind_The_Wheel/
I agree the dynamic you are describing is at play.
I also agree individual’s are responsible for the actions.
but don’t do the libertarian faceplant of then concluding that this is a purely individual problem that can’t be understood in a systems thinking way where incentives to actors in a system can either be designed to excaberate tendencies and weaknesses or mitigate them
Let me repeat myself because this keeps coming up,
It’s a superior replacement to about any other plane
Sure, if you pretend money doesn’t exist? Baseline for getting your money’s worth from spending 1.5 TRILLION more than anybody else on development of a type of airplane is that your airplane should be the best airplane of that type.
That doesn’t prove that money was well spent, it just proves you have way more money than anybody else to throw at things though I guess the confusion makes sense, we 'muricans have such a very hard time telling the difference between those two concepts.
These massive cost overruns aren’t just a single one time strategic failure, like a good modern western tech product the f35 is built to burn money over its entire lifetime by having WAY higher operating costs. Thus the failure is compounded and compounded and as Sun Tzu would point out, the battle has been lost before it even began.
