It is now. 222% spike at dominos, which appears to be one of very few open this early.

I mean even THIS YEAR the South Korean president made a fascist power grab and was arrested and removed from power. I would call that a successful attempt to stop fascism.

What are you talking about? It’s the best time of year to be on dating apps because the worst people are gone!

This is the take I’ve been looking for that has been strangely absent in the comments. Can you imagine if your partners dad did this?

And, as a reminder, the third biggest anti-climate lobbyist in the world, who has consistently made “EVs aren’t viable until we have solid state batteries in a decade” statements for years to deliberately impede competitors efforts to push EVs.

Glass is, however, very well suited to reuse. My favorite cider brewery will take back used bottles to wash and reuse. It’s better than recycling, and as a reminder, “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” is intended to be prioritized in that order.

This. It isn’t so much “both sides should be cheating,” it should be “cheaters are not allowed to play.”

Big “the purpose of a system is what it does now” energy

I’m pretty sure it’s a product of scale, but also, GPT5 is markedly worse. I heard estimates of 40 watt hours for a single medium length response. Napkin math says my motorcycle can travel about kilometer per single medium length response of GPT5. Now multiply that by how many people are using AI (anyone going online these days), now multiply that by how many times a day each user causes a prompt. Now multiply that by 365 and we have how much power they’re using in a year.

But it’s okay, because MY company is AHEAD OF THE CURVE on those 95% losses

I’ll have to dig up finer details in a bit, but it’s a backup device I got on discount years ago. i5 what gen I’m not sure, gtx 960m, I may have replaced ram up to 16gb at some point and it’s running on an ssd at least.

It’s always a jarring experience, going from doing it constantly to not at all. You’re not the only one in that boat at the moment

There’s a lot of wild, fun concept art for no more heroes. I remember being a big fan of, I think helter skelter, the tutorial boss in 2’s revolver with a revolving cylinder of cylinders

Time to sue my credit card company for preventing my purchases, but failing to prevent a purchase that was detrimental to me

Agreed. Fear and Hunger has it’s issues and I would not broadly recommend it to anyone. I would also say that the FREQUENCY of sexual assault in the game, and the presence of some weirdly sexual status effects like anal bleeding are a bit overboard. That being said, when one of the earliest enemies can sexually assault you, or maim your character in a way that leaves you able to keep playing, but effectively crippled, it really nails home not just that the world is dark, but that your assumptions about what is in the game don’t apply here. Anything could happen. REALLY anything. And exploring a harsh, hostile world with that expectation set is one of the best parts of the game, because it’s a unique experience that you just can’t get at that quality anywhere else.

Listen, Pythagoras gives us the hands down best way to tell intelligent life visiting earth that we’re intelligent. Drawing a right triangle and marking the sides with 3 dots, 4 dots, and 5 dots immediately demonstrates that we are a sapient species that has developed mathematics with no need for a device or language. Of course, we’re all carrying devices these days, so maybe that’s no longer relevant.

It depends. The problem with purity tests is that you’re never 100% pure. It’s why even vegans hate vegans: you can never be vegan enough. I try not to judge, but I would judge if a friend, for example, bought a diesel truck with no use for it, or a cybertruck in general. That’s doing actual, active damage, at the expense of you as a person, why are you doing it?

I remember this episode of futurama! The human asylum is full ever since being poor was declared a mental illness, so we send them both to the robot one

Yup, the common concern that I’ve heard is “AI functions as a dipshit jr dev, so we’ve fired all the jr devs, and sr devs who do the cleanup are now much more valuable. In 20 years, either AI will be at sr dev level and doing everything, or we will be out of devs because we fired all the entry level ones and the existing ones have aged out.”