The best time to stop taking Altman seriously was ten years ago.

The second best time is now.

Pagliarulo says it’s now joined Fallout and Elder Scrolls on the podium

Pouring one out for Fallout and another for Elder Scrolls.

“New Thing Is Best Thing” is just the statement sales guys make when they’re selling the New Thing.

They’re going to re-release Skyrim for the thousandth time next week and claim it’s also the best game they’ve ever made.

Now you’re obligated to get a dog named Tonic.

Gaza is a cautionary tale for that

Just like with Vietnam, it seems the measure of success is in blood. Since the population of Gaza has been decimated - quite literally 1 in 10 Palestinians are now dead and we’re expecting tens to hundreds of thousands more dead before the end of next year due to famine and disease, nevermind war - while the Israelis report minimal casualties, they believe they are “winning”.

We have seen this in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Vietnam…

The lesson of these wars to the political class is that they win reelections, they generate enormous profits, and they never seem to bother the median voter over the long term.

Israel has had a scope on the head of every Arab and Persian peace activist in the region. The only folks who seem capable of surviving are the ones armed and willing to fight back.

If you want a bit of a deeper dive, Sean Carroll’s Mindscape gets into the science of aging and known workable remedies/treatments.

The good news is that Billionaires will not be living forever any time soon.

The bad news is that we’ve got a cellularly defined terminal limit and there’s nothing we can do to simply reset the clock. “Cloned Bodies” for animals are dysfunctional bordering on nightmarish. The human brain’s plasticity isn’t something you can renew with a pill or a potion. Blood Boys don’t work. There aren’t trivially replaceable components in the human body.

Amazing how that happens seemingly no matter what.

Good idea.

Great for Coding 101 in a language I’m rusty with or otherwise unfamiliar.

Absolutely useless when it comes time to optimize a complex series of functions or upgrade to a new version of the .NET library. All the “AI” you need is typically baked into Intellisense or some equivalent anyway. We’ve had code-assist/advice features for over a decade and its always been mid. All that’s changed is the branding.

Surely the immigrants are to blame??

The Immigrants:

Crazy. Plenty of people on the corners panhandling in my town, but none of them can afford rent much less a gas guzzling truck.

Oil Industry Guy When Gas Prices Go Up: “Oh no! It costs so much money to drive my big truck and cool my enormous house and afford business class airplane tickets and now I can’t afford my Carnival Cruise to Florida! This is the fault of the Evil Communist Green Party Democrats! Only Republicans can fix it!”

Oil Industry Guy When Gas Prices Go Down: “Oh shit! Oh fuck! I’m unemployed, broke, foreclosed on, and drowning in debt! This is the fault of the Evil Communist Green Party Democrats! Only Republicans can fix it!”

Oil Industry Guy When It’s Time To Form A Union: “Fuck you, you fucking socialists. I don’t need the government to do anything for me. I can pull myself up by my own bootstraps!”

Someone should create a breed of chicken that’s primarily fibrous matter and water.

I’ve noticed a ton of hexbear hate on lem.ee and dbzer0 accounts specifically. I duck my head into these instances and it does seem like they exist to shit-talk every other Lemmy instance. Then I peak into Hexbear and it’s Trans Rights, Video Games, and a top post celebrating the aniversary of the Sputnik launch.

So… I guess everything I’ve been told is true. Hexbear is a hateful group of pro-Russian bots and Marxism is the philosophy of the Damned.

What’s next, strip searches?

Hardly “what’s next”. This has been a fixation by conservatives since since the Obama Administration

Aimee Toms was washing her hands in the women’s bathroom at Walmart in Danbury Friday when a stranger approached her and said, “You’re disgusting!” and “You don’t belong here!”

After momentary confusion, she realized that the woman next to her thought — because of her pixie-style haircut and baseball cap — that she was transgender.

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preemptively, as a last resort

Getting some real George Bush Jr invading Iraq energy off this phrasing.

The hexbear uprising against the shitposters was the largest and most comprehensive online revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of karma among the terminally online