Seems more reasonable to put UK-blocking systems on them…

In science fiction I’ve often seen the term VI (Virtual Intelligence) to refer to machines that look intelligent, and could probably pass a Turing test, but aren’t really intelligent (normally VI coexists with actual AI, often used as interfaces, where it would be a waste, or too risky, to use a proper AI).

LLMs look a bit like that, though they’re probably too unreliable to use as an interface for anything important.

Nah, revenge feels pretty damn good.

Do the rehabilitation thing because it’s the civilised thing to do, not because it feels better. It doesn’t, we’re still violent stupid monkeys, not that deep inside.

it just didn’t display it

Wait, what? From what I remember CRT monitors might display something weird when set to an unsupported resolution or refresh rate… scrolling partial lines and whatnot… but they wouldn’t go black, it’d be pretty obvious they were trying to display something they couldn’t…

Also, the monitor would’ve worked perfectly when booting and displaying the BIOS POST, and when running DOS…

Eh, it was fine once you got your autoexec.bat configured with the proper IRQs and whatnot, and telling DOS to load in high memory, and set up to ask you on boot if you wanted extended or expanded memory (and knew which one the software you wanted to run needed, but, I mean, just RTFM like a normal person, we at least had good manuals back then!), and which drivers you really needed to waste memory on…

Neil Gaiman (yeah, yeah, I know, but death of the author and all that) also had a good video on how piracy actually improved his books sales.

Thing is, you’ll talk to people about the shows and movies you liked. You’ll recommend them. You’ll discuss them online. Maybe just upvote a post talking about them, make it more visible.

And someone who doesn’t pirate will see that, and pay to watch it. (And, in turn, also promote it like you did.)

If the product is good enough (and if people are pirating it it probably is), piracy is free publicity.

And if it’s not good enough, people won’t be pirating it anyway.

So, given that you wouldn’t have paid for it anyway, it works out that piracy provides a net benefit for the producers… and for society as a whole, since it incentivises them to make their products good enough to attract pirates, thus raising the average quality of entertainment.

EDIT: also, for the same reason they should be giving their product for free to reaction channels and even paying them (like game companies — Nintendon’t excluded — already do with YouTube reviewers), since it’s cheaper and more effective than normal advertising.

Also, having a child is morally indistinguishable from murder.

You are directly and intentionally causing that person’s death, probably after decades of suffering and existential horror.

Abortions save lives. By killing that parasite before it can become a person, you avoid murdering that hypothetical person.

They being the ones posting the usual bullshit on social media which the comment I was replying to mentioned.

the only shooter identified so far has an Arabic-origin name

So does the guy who tackled one of the shooters, apparently, but of course they won’t be mentioning him, because he doesn’t fit in their narrative…

It came with Phantom Liberty, if I recall correctly, or soon after, so you missed it.

YOU CAN RIDE THE TRAMS NOW!

I never used the fast travel systems in Cyberpunk 2077, back before we could actually ride the tram. Used to walk everywhere and take in the sights.

Now I love to take the tram every now and then and relax watching Night City go by…

Meh, just put on the boots of blinding speed, maximise the map, and hope for the best…

Heh, I remember travelling to Proxima Centauri from Alpha Centauri in Elite Dangerous… around 80 light days, one of the longest in-system distances in the game (for inhabited systems), using in-system engines because that’s too close to jump through hyperspace… last time I looked the record was at around 26 minutes, most ships probably did it in around 30 to 45.

Good trip to just set the cruise speed, grab a book, and relax…

Well, it’s called One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison, after all… 🤷‍♂️

I love when they block all the roads with tractors and spray manure into government buildings to protest the government being shitty at governing.

It conveys the emotions I feel so much better than I ever could (I don’t own large quantities of manure, not the means to propel them at high speeds).

• Insurance. Some big instances have closed down, others regularly go into maintenance, you never know when one might decide to enshittify itself. Federation gives us the ability to use a different instance if needed, and it costs nothing to have some accounts ready to use should you be unable to use your main one.
• Compartmentation. Wouldn’t want to open the account where I’m subscribed mainly to porn on the bus or at work.
• Access. Not all instances federate with the same set of instances. Having accounts on instances with different federation policies lets you access more of the fediverse.