Ertebolle @ Ertebolle @kbin.social

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Biden... committed treason by not getting involved in his son's business interests when he wasn't president?

"I can, I just don't want to be"

I dunno, this is great but it's also entirely possible Tesla retaliates by making your car 'accidentally' crash or something like that.

According to their listed requirements, yes. In practice, haven't tested myself but the M2 is a bit better performance-wise than their minimum card on Windows (a GTX 970, when the M2 is closer to a GTX 1060) so I imagine it'll work but not exactly with maxed-out settings.

macOS getting a new game before PS5 does is downright cruel.

Yep - M1 optimized too, so it actually runs well on Mac.

Hardly any mention of this from Apple or their associated media, despite the fact that an AAA game launching a Mac port on day 1 is virtually unheard-of in 2023.

I blame Apple for not creating a viable system for paid upgrades; it's perfectly reasonable for a developer to expect to be paid for a major app update - even if it was largely to support a new OS - but without a subscription, the only way to do that is to launch a brand new version of your app, which loses you all of your carefully cultivated SEO / links / etc. (doing this via IAP is impractical because you can only build your app against one version of iOS at a time; it either supports the new version or it doesn't)

And I suspect Apple does this because they don't want people to have to pay money to continue using apps on a new version of iOS, or a new phone; if buying a new iPhone meant forking over $50 to upgrade your favorite apps for it, that might mean fewer people buying new phones.

So don't blame developers for this, in other words; a lot of them would be perfectly happy to charge users the occasional upgrade fee instead of a recurring subscription, but Apple doesn't want them to. (they're also very happy to have their 30% cut of all of that lovely subscription revenue)

Once claimed to stand for

Unlike the last two Democratic presidents, Biden inherited an economy that was, fundamentally, OK, and thanks to an extremely narrow Congressional majority he had a good excuse for not doing anything to help poor people and instead simply spending money to build stuff and create jobs.

He's also come along at a fortuitous time in foreign relations; China's antagonized most of its trading partners plus their economy's spiraling into catastrophe, Russia managed to stitch the EU and NATO back together and get all of our lukewarm allies back to feeling extremely gung-ho about American military assistance, renewable energy is starting to make a real dent in oil politics...

He's a perfectly competent old-school moderate Democrat and his relationships on the Hill may have made the difference with the infrastructure bill e.g. but he also came into an unusually good situation.

Also they keep rolling out new repayment plans and narrower rounds of forgiveness and stuff like that - if the courts won't let them do it all at once, they'll keep chipping away bit by bit until they forgive as much debt for as many people as the system will allow.

Just eat some damn falafel, people - it's not hard to make, it doesn't pretend to be anything other than a plant, and bulk dry chickpeas are cheap as fuck and last forever.

Stephen Miller is 37, this tracks.

I suspect enough auto makers will benefit from this change - like Tesla, a.k.a. Uncle Elon's Emissions Credit Factory Outlet - that it'll dampen much of the criticism. (and consumers will benefit from all of the extra compliance car subsidies - $20k Bolts e.g.)

Is this really necessary? Aren't most smokers, y'know, aware of the dangers of smoking by now? At some point I wonder if the warnings will get annoying enough that people will start to actively defy them out of spite instead of just passively ignoring them.

A line of guillotines, one for every tech CEO Lemmy doesn't like (plus a couple of other random people specific instances have beef with, like the Dalai Lama)

They're pretty well fucked at this point - the combination of a shrinking population + lack of job prospects for young people + looming real estate value collapse means the working age generation is going to want to save every penny they can for retirement and/or spend it supporting their own elderly relatives, and the sort of social safety net that might prevent that is something China can neither afford nor stomach. And yet they have too many people + have alienated foreign partners too much to end up comfortably wealthy through stagnation, like Japan has.

No hope of a real consumer spending rebound, no irreplaceable high tech, neighboring countries offering cheaper manufacturing of increasingly elaborate goods... they had their moment and they blew it. Xi Jinping wanted to be the next Mao and I think history will look at him as that, but not in the way he was hoping for.

If they actually get the cost down to that point then yes, it'll be fantastic, but IIRC they're not close to there yet - it's just a hopeful projection.

It sounds like they've made some progress and that they're delaying this decision for a year in the hopes that it'll encourage more, so while the notion that the reef is not in danger is, obviously, bullshit, if UNESCO can dangle that designation over the Aussies' heads as a stick for a few years and get them to work a bit harder to protect the reef, maybe it's kind of defensible?

Stewie and Harold both have vestiges of hair and Arthur is covered with fur, so I think it's more of a bald vibe than actual baldness.