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Nah, but I would expect its price to be in the low 5 figures, maybe 6 figures.

Will to bet that Musk ends up owning it.

Also many of the “private security” (mercenary) companies do union-busting.

1. It was insecure. It leaked credit card numbers and personal information like a sieve.
2. It used CCP money to bribe companies into throwing away sales. An act that while was short term good for the companies, permanently poisoned them afterwards.
3. They didnt have basic functionality like preloading games. They had to pay Gearbox to do that for them
4. They still dont have feature parity with Steam, even for the few features they have

Glad you laughed, wasnt entirely serious

Qbasic, if that.

Biden is a blue dog and never cared about infrastructure. Trump cant spell the word. Obama did, but for overpriced drones and oil. Bush only did for oil and deregulated to make things worse. Clinton cut thing Bush Sr cut things. Reagan fucked everything up with “trickle down”

Meaning the last president that did major infrastructure spending is at best Carter, Ford or Nixon.

$8 Canadian for a dozen fully free range chicken eggs from the farmer that raises them at a farmers market.

Their image gen app isn’t theirs through and through. It runs on Dall-e

A fun anecdote is that when my friends and I tried the then brand new MS image gen AI built into Bing(for the purpose of a fake tinder profile, long story).

The generator kept hitting walls because it had been fed so much porn that the model averaged women to be by default nude in images. You had to specify that what clothes a woman was wearing. Not even just “clothed”, then it defaulted to lingerie or bikinis.

Not men though. Men it defaulted to being clothed.

Give Sarah Palin’s village to Argentina. Because that would be funny.

This. All this means is that they trained all of the input commands and documentation in the model.

But you arent doing that.

You cannot do that fairly without pointing out, for example, the brutal and vicious racism where the British compared the Irish and the Scottish to Apes and to be different, inferior races.

You need to go further back than just 1500.

Western European thoughts on this were heavily influenced by the Ottoman and Byzantine empires.

Which were in turn based on the Roman empire.

Which were in turn based on the Classical Greeks, particularly those of Athens.

To exclusively blame western Europeans for this, when they were nearly wiped out by the Roman empire colonialism, is very short sighted.

I know that. Calling out that the ice cover though.

Greenland is still mostly covered with water and that is a known, so the map is wrong.

Also might be an amusing map if you look for water cover including water in the atmosphere. Only the worst deserts would show up.

Investors.

China’s entire modern “economic miracle” is founded on housing as an investment vehicle.

You can in part blame Canadian Conservatives in BC, specifically Bill Vanderzam, Christy Clark, Gordon Campbell and Kevin Falcon; as well as federally, Brian Mulroney and Stephen Harper, for importing this behaviour and concept from Asia and its rise here. Initially in the late 1980s and early 1990s it was about attracting the elite of Hong Kong, who were afraid of what the handover of Hong Kong to the CCP would mean. (And rightly so, as it turns out.)

Vancouver BC is infamously unaffordable, and its entirely because of investors, both national and international using its real estate as a ridiculously effective investment vehicle. If you had purchased a home in the suburbs for 500k in 2006, that home would be worth well over 2 to even 3 million dollars today.

When Vancouver started capping out and hitting limits investors moved on to apply the same practices all over the continent.