I see brown and tan herringbone with paisley patterns blooming through it.

Seriously. How many ways are there to make an humanoid robot out of stainless steel and aluminium?

They tried AI the nice way and nobody gives a shit about it but billions have been spent already so they are tightening the screws to make you use it. This is late stage fuckery and hopefully the whole thing will collapse soon.

And the third is broken into two pieces

Because the US health care system already serves the wealthy and abandons the poor, any expensive treatments are seen as just further steps into a Gattaca future of even more dystopian disparity, especially when driven by a rich asshole personally.

Universal negativity is also kind of the norm around here. A lot of folks on Lemmy believe we are slaves sucking Satan’s cock for breakfast, and anything that isn’t a complete burn down of our system and way of life is a negative.

I can’t guess at what the price will be or what makes sense for Valve, but I’m not interested at $1000. I can do a Linux box on my own for much less, or for about the same amount, a Windows box that can run all games without tinkering.

It’s too early to have much idea of “his policies.” At best, we can keep an open mind and watch him govern for a while. All you’ve read is speculation and PR statements by him. So maybe don’t yell at people for not analyzing his policies JUST yet.

Allow me to match your pedantry.

A “denotation” is an exact, codified definition of a word, commonly thought of as a “dictionary definition.”

A “connotation” is a less official but culturally understood meaning of a word, often dependent on context or setting.

“PC” connotes Windows in the gaming world. But thanks for taking time out of your day to tell me what it stands for, etc 🙄

If you have a good job that’s not too demanding and are still feeling this, then you might think about it as a health issue and look into it with your doctor. You have two paths:

1. look for some treatable malady - perhaps depression

2. focus on wellness and fitness: exercise more, get your electrolytes, fix your diet

Either of those two paths may lead to more energy. I don’t know how old you are but this kind of thing doesn’t get any easier with age so I highly recommend getting ahead of it as soon as you can.

I’m curious about the “it’s a PC” aspect of the Steam Box. Because a device that plays all Steam games but isn’t a Windows computer is extremely appealing, but I admit if I can’t install a few non-Steam games on it, that’s a spoiler for me. But if the whole “it’s a PC” provides some avenue to that, I’m definitely ready to stop building a gaming PC every 5 years.

Agreed. It is highly reductive to refer to GRRM merely as “American author.” His works have been translated into over 45 languages, and he has won award in (at least) England, Ireland, France, Spain, Russia, Japan, and Finland, not to mention multiple wins from highly international completions like the Hugo and Nebula awards, the International Horror Guild, and Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world. He is one of the most popular authors of all time and if there is a line where someone crosses over into international relevance, we could debate where that line is, but there should be absolutely no doubt that he is far past it.

What, all of them?

Do you mean you’re trying to get into tech? If yes then it’s a terrible time for that. No harm in trying but it is not the rapidly expanding field it once was, sucking up people from all other industries left and right…

We must work at the same place.

We need to figure out what to call him now, I guess. Can’t call him Prince Andrew. How about “Handsy Andy, Duke of Diddleshire?”

What is it exactly that you think I agreed with?

And yes, son, we’re all aware of how the post history works. Stop posting pictures and be specific. Your credibility is zero with me and I’m not going to strain to pull your point out of a screenshot.

And suggesting she staged her own sexual assault is not holding a leader’s actions to a higher degree of scrutiny. It’s a disgusting accusation in a long tradition of discrediting female victims.

Your position is as ludicrous today as it was yesterday. But at least today you seem to realize that it needs defending. Nothing you wrote here is remotely convincing. You’re manufacturing the appearance of circumstantial evidence at absolute best and straining through a heap of passive sexism to do it. But at least trying to explain yourself is progress from your lame attempt at haughtiness in the other thread. Eat shit, y’all.

Yep. If people don’t like DEI programs, they could always, you know, just treat women better.

I’m glad you don’t automatically dismiss that she was actually assaulted (!!!) I mean that’s pretty much the bare minimum everyone should do. This was captured on video. You can view it for yourself. Her guards did intervene, just a step too late. That does not mean she staged it for attention.

But everyone would love to feel smart and come up with some alternative theory of what happened rather than contend with the sordid facts.

Yes, thank you. It’s less overt of an assault on women then physically groping them, but it’s perhaps more insidious, because an environment of ignore-and-excuse puts ALL women everywhere at risk