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Republican opponents are now trying to shut down the administration’s efforts to build a charging network by choking off its funding.

gasp

Krombopulos Michael, the early years.

You'd never mistake a SG team for the bigots. There are women, and non-white people on the team!

/s

Soon:

"Panera lol one per customer I just made two orders with different mobile app accounts"

We're number 1!!! Eat it, Canada!

Paid mods is almost never a good thing for the game itself.

Almost every mod out there is addressing some (real or perceived) deficiency in the base game. Good game studios look at what's popular and either pull those features into the base game, or work with the modder to do the same.

Adding a paid mod system changes that cooperative relationship into an adversarial one, where modders see their revenue stream attacked by the game maker.

(Except maybe the make everyone nude mods)

Legit, the 2.x update has been amazing. It's a whole new game.

I'm constantly amazed that we're working on super advanced power generation techniques... that still use steam to spin turbines.

It feels like we should be doing something cooler, like plasma conduits from Star Trek.

I would immediately patch in a "no witches" mode.

Every instance of "witch" is replaced with "warlock".

And if there were graphics, every witch would have a photorealistic penis hanging out the front of her his robes.

I wasn't prepared to be personally attacked like this.

I think a bigger effect is familiarity.

Bingo. It's not about making you buy something right now, it's about brand recognition and such.

To wit, if you listen to podcasts, do a little thought experiment. Name a VPN company.

Was it "Nord VPN"? Ads work.

I was saying the other day we need a neutral third party the hangs around Congress and every time they do something unconstitutional or stupid, the whole class room has to watch Schoolhouse Rock episodes about civics.

Every time.

You could go as far as to call them...

.... Deplorable?

That is a LOT harder done than said. Apple might have the resources, but they don't have the time or focus to become an actual bank.

They'll just go to some other bank, willing to take on the shittier client risk. Probably Citi or the GE/Synchrony bank. Capital One if they smile real nice and bring flowers.

This is why I have a hybrid and not an EV.

Every now and then I seem to develop some sort of sympathy for her. It's painfully obvious she's a trophy wife, and she didn't sign up for any of this political bullshit. It's equally obvious she's just in it for what she thought was the money. She signed up to sit around, fuck an old man for a few years until he died, and life a posh life sleeping with the bodyguard or doorman to keep herself entertained until he did.

His foray into politics, and I think, winning the Presidency is probably her worst case scenario. I take her "I don't really care..." sweater at face value -- she doesn't care. She didn't want it, she doesn't care about it, and she kind of just wants to go back to being a pretty face whose name you can't quite remember.

Then I remember she not only enabled her husband, but actively supported him during his Presidency. Fuck that bitch. She made her choice, even if it's for silly reasons.

A very small part. Like all the sugar you'd need for the day part.

You can, in Windows, boot into a no network safe mode and set various registry and group policies to stop Windows updates.

If you're particularly frisky, there are alternatives to the WSUS, Windows Server Update Service you could deploy on your local network.

It's a lot of work, though.

I have to believe it's mostly hype. The man was at the helm when OpenAI suddenly "changed the world" with "AI" (note the quotes) but that seems to be almost entirely a case of luck.

Like, generative AI models aren't really brand new. OpenAI just made them really accessible and easy to use for other applications, which is where Altman comes in. He had an ounce of foresight to see the tech was "the future" and a whole lot of luck executing on his plan to bring it to market.

As a figurehead and leader, that does count for a lot, but not the table-flipping freak outs we see happening.

There was one years ago I had where all you needed was to type course.pass(true) into the console.