Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow @ Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow @lemmy.world

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Good thing we made this illegal for decades, imagine all the terrible building materials, textiles and medical breakthroughs we'd have

Can't believe Bethesda own id Software and at no point set them to work updating the engine to a modern standard.

Don't foldables use OLED?

He's very careful not to criticise Dutton but he's clearly cognisant of the problem Dutton has caused for the LNP.

Dutton for probably the last 10 years has gone about politics like we're the US or UK where you only need to actually motivate 20% of the population to win an election. You ramp up fear and anger and you get your base chomping at the bit, and you sow division so your enemies can't unite against you (look familiar, "Progressive No"?)

The problem is Australia has compulsory voting, which means Australia has the highest voter turnout in the democratic world at over 91% - and Australia has preferential voting, which means a divided opponent that outnumbers you will still elect one of your opponents.

To win an election in Australia you have to appeal to the political centre, and you have to appeal to people who are the opposite of rabid - to people who are just living their lives and don't care about issues that don't affect them.

So what does Dutton do? He stokes the flames until we have Cookers and Nazis rioting in our streets over things regular Australians don't care about. He goes on and on about Nuclear when 1/3 of Australian homes have solar and can see the huge difference on their bills.

He has to convice the centre to be scared of the LGBT community, after 2/3 of Australians voted in support of gay marriage. He has to be able to convince the centre to be scared of China, when 20% of Australians are asian. Australians at the centre enjoy the status quo, and the status quo is no longer the Australia Dutton is trying to resurrect.

People are concerned his strategy is working because he's winning the No vote. But a zero-sum election between change and the status quo is perfect for his political strategy. In a real election he's going to drive the LNP towards Mark McGowan levels, and like in WA the Nationals might start to rethink the balance of power in the party.

The problem is, and this happens a lot in science, often it takes so long for scientists to be vindicated they die poor and in disrepute. If the pandemic had never happened she may have gone the same way.

The one truly great thing about Skyrim is the ability to just wander and fall into trouble.

That simply doesn't exist in a game where travelling is a loading screen.

The cost will skyrocket as the ruble collapses

I literally don't care if it's God's gift to video games if they haven't removed operators yet.

A home console only slightly more powerful than the Deck (as reported) would be a flop. It would be less powerful than the PS4. People will be plugging this into 4k 120hz TVs.

I'd be very surprised if it was a home console unless they have some kind of magic upscaling they've built into Proton.

Sock puppeting works because it's cheap, requiring payment would be a big spanner in the works.

Ah, so no

This is out?

Don't even need nuclear, renewable energy at its current pace will get us to 100% renewable by 2050, which is about as far away as any nuclear plants you started constructing today for way, way less money and zero waste storage issues.

There's basically no point building any other kind of energy at this stage. Giant, expensive power plants that require huge amounts of expensive fuel and large expensive workforces simply can't compete with panels pumped out by factories you can install anywhere that generate free energy for decades with little to no maintenance.

We can't make long enough pieces of anything strong enough to handle that level of strain.

Very interested to know what Valve are aiming for with the Steam Deck console, in terms of specs. All the APUs except for the consoles are very light in terms of graphics power. Do we have a rough idea where the Sephiroth APU is going to land?

People are going to have way, way bigger expectations for a console running on their 4k HDR TV than the Steam Deck on the washed out 8 inch.

So are we safely in get excited territory or still in ignore until announced territory?

You think they can make a machine do parkour, and they can make a machine navigate collapsed buildings, but they won't be able to make a machine that can clear a building?

Sorry Maverick you can't drop the drone because it's forbidden in the Terms of Service, over.

No I'm agreeing with you.

I'm responding to people sweating about these "new" capabilities like the US has been caught by surprise.

What does "nigh" mean here?

Is this going to be announced in the next couple of months, or next couple of years?