They definitely do, especially legacy stuff that’s still kicking. Sweet, sweet tech debt that you hope won’t be a real problem until you’ve moved to a different company.

I’ve used word/onenote or FOSS equivalents the same way, they’re fine as a scratchpad for notes. As you said it’s nice being able to shove images in there. There are so many things that don’t belong anywhere else that I will forget after even a half hour break.

Nintendo Lawyers realizing some of their IP is represented in LLM training data and outputs.

Depends on what you do. Plenty of people only have to walk from car door to heated building so crappy winter clothes isn’t a huge deal. There are those people that wear shorts year round based on that principle.

As a counter example my wife and I have separate rooms and some hobbies that we don’t share…and it’s amazing. She’s still my best friend, we still hang out every day, we still do the dirty, we’re still very much in love…we just realized that we both love some degree of personal space, personal time when necessary, and sleep 10x better in separate rooms. I think we still fit the idea of “best friends doing life together” despite not wanting that 24/7 always together lifestyle.

Yeah that’s probably it. I haven’t seen Snowpiercer and was mixing the two up.

For some reason I always thought it was an fps that takes place on trains…I’ll check it out now because I like city builders.

1. Take dog that’s not well trained to a pheasant hunt.
2. Get mad at dog for not being a well-trained pheasant hunting dog.
3. Realize you don’t have enough cages to take all the dogs back safely. Leave the untrained dog in the back of your truck hoping it jumps out and dies or runs away because you’re mad at it.
4. Stop by a friend with chickens. OMG the untrained dog that was left unsecured in the back of your truck that you’ve been teaching to hunt birds has killed some chickens.
5. Shoot the dog because you’re angry.
6. Shoot a goat as well because you’re already on a rampage and hate it too.

The Kristi Noem one, when I heard the news I assumed it was just unavoidable farm life type of shit. Like the dog got rabies or seriously injured and putting it down was just the right thing to do…

Then I read the story and holy hell that woman shot a perfectly healthy dog out of spite. South Dakota has animal shelters, Kristi, you psycho.

Yeah people are really sleeping on the “Cheat the election or try to start a civil war” possibilities.

Too bad the latest reboot season failed to meet its funding goals. It felt like it was just starting to hit its stride.

Waymo(google) is already doing a full self driving taxi in San Francisco.

Edit: Well not quite full there is a support team of real humans that remote controls the cars when they get stuck because the car can’t figure out a safe enough next move - mostly in parking lots.

As a fun bonus there was a small bug, the cars are programmed to give a honk when they see other cars driving towards them from the front or something and there’s a parking lot where they all go during low activity times…but the waymo cars were just constantly honking at each other while trying to park. - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yvDuUCxvkO0

I can admit I delay work more from home than I did when I was at the office. I do about the same amount overall I just don’t get around to it as quickly.

But the company I’m with would also have to pay me 20-30% more to go into the office as I have better offers for that already and I’d still probably just hop to another company that lets me work from home for a similar salary.

People in this thread don’t seem to understand how anti big business the FTC has been since Lina Khan was appointed. These reports are meant to be used by congress to help guide real policy. It’s one thing to just assume social media is violating privacy, it’s another thing to have a facts-based report on exactly what is currently happening.

Of course the FTC needs new laws to do any enforcement and there’s probably not enough anti corporation politicians to pass laws that give them real teeth on data privacy issues.

Luckily radiation levels have pretty much dropped back to pre-war levels now so new steel can be low-background as well. It was possible to make new low-background steel from 1945 onward too it just would have been more expensive than salvaging pre-war ships. I like the analogy though, it fits.

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I think “cause” is a little bit of a strong word here unless there are studies I haven’t seen. The studies I’ve read are about correlation between simulated gambling and problem gambling. A child who spends a lot of time on simulated casino games is more likely to problematic gamble as an adult - but that’s not a causal link. The child could like the simulated gambling and real gambling because they were already predisposed to gambling in general.

The problem with loot boxes and micro-transactions tied to chance is they let kids actually problematic gamble. And this lootbox/real world money style of gambling is also correlated with problematic gambling in adulthood yet they’re being left at mature instead of 18+. It really doesn’t make sense treating simulated only gambling harsher.

Read the article, they mean both.

While I’m happy they’re doing something, they got it backwards. In my opinion games that have simulated gambling but don’t take any real world money should be mature (age 15 suggested) or even unregulated, and games that have real world money that control an element of chance should be 18+ (legally required).

Here’s some games/series that would be 18+ if released under this law: Pokemon Red and Blue, Ni No Kuni, Knights of the Old Republic, Witcher, Yakuza, Fallout New Vegas, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Fable, Mass Effect, Jade Empire, many more.

Simulated gambling isn’t really a problem it’s the real world money tied to elements of chance that’s the problem.

https://youtu.be/bFM9HHB9JXI?t=714

It was a clip from this video.