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Captainant

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  1. Nintendo delayed the release of Switch 2 for a year to give the launch games time to cook - I hope that translates to a murder's row of releases. The power level of the device is probably going to be somewhere between a PS4 and PS4 pro
  2. February 4th announcement with the rest of the details. I like the bigger screen and slightly larger joycons. Hopefully they've got hall effect sticks so we don't have to keep dealing with drift
  3. One major plot point I foresee is that Helly now knows that she is Lumon royalty - or at least her outie is
  4. Not like we had a million acre fire just a year ago or anything
  5. If you enjoyed Whistlindiesel's last abuse of a cybertruck, he actually got it repaired and gave 'er a round two
  6. Lol that sounds more like the Ferengi in DS9, where every social interaction and every function came with a very reasonable and nominal fee
  7. jesus fucking christ. So much goddamn false victimhood mindset. Lawmakers are expected to continue that trend during this year’s legislative session (the Ten Commandments bill already has been refiled). And pastors, emboldened by President Donald Trump’s reelection and the ultraconservative U.S. Supreme Court, said Tuesday that they believe they have their best shot yet to topple the church-state wall and the Johnson Amendment, a federal rule that prohibits churches from engaging in overt political activity. Rick Scarborough has spent decades working to do exactly that. A former Southern Baptist pastor in Pearland, he has become a leader in a movement that seeks to mobilize pastors and undermine the Johnson Amendment, which he says is toothless but has been used by “cowardly” pastors who don’t want to engage in politics. The result, he said, has been an ineffectual Texas Legislature that has often cowered to the LGBTQ+ community and their heretical, progressive Christian allies. (Texas lawmakers have passed dozens of anti-LGBTQ+ bills in recent years, overriding opposition from a large majority of Democrats). One of his movement’s ultimate goals, he said Tuesday, is to draw a lawsuit that they can eventually take to the U.S. Supreme Court, which they believe will ultimately overturn the prohibition and unleash a new wave of conservative, Christian activism. “The Johnson Amendment is nothing but a fig leaf to cover the fear that pastors already have,” he said in an interview after praying over GOP lawmakers on the Capitol lawn. “Most pastors are so fearful of their reputation that they won't stand, and they don't know how much God will defend them if they get out there and stand up and speak fearlessly.”
  8. hah rufo strikes again. Absolutely wild how that goebbels of a gremlin has been able to steer the conservative conversation
  9. CES is generally all crap, but there were some interesting tech announcements around Nvidia and their RTX accelerator software. Using neural encodings for textures achieves way higher levels of texture compression, and they're also bringing radiance caching to "store" previously traced rays and include them in the render. Gonna be a while before we start to see benefits from the tech, but I'm particularly interested in the possibility to upscale and uprez old games
  10. Unfortunately not a good update... Jones' daddy is gonna get to buy infowars back after all https://apnews.com/article/infowars-onion-alex-jones-sandy-hook-74cc3ea85352c468de88486e517c1cc0 Boy howdy I sure am glad the US court system keeps churning out dub's for society. We really are better off with Infowars and Jones going on facing zero repurcussions for the damages from their ongoing disinformation and defamation machine.
  11. Lotta money getting thrown around for hardware and computing clusters, but sitting on the provider side of AI I'm really not seeing any level of uptake from customers that validates the investment. Even the customers that do have a decent level of revenue with genAI are still just in the proof of concept phase after a year Those segments aren't exactly growing in terms of customer uptake though. Their VR hardware is best in class, but I know of more than one person that will just stay out of the space rather than engage more with meta. It'll be interesting to see if their investments pay off, especially since "Metaverse" is lingua-non-grata in the tech space after it went up in flames with NFT's
  12. There's a reason GRUhorn loves it so much and evangelizes for Texas's ongoing subsidy of the network
  13. Have you never met an O&G finance bro before? That mindset is the foundation of their entire industry lol. Uncapped wells spewing H2S out back shoulda told ya
  14. We cyberpunk now, boys
  15. Lol Trump's obsession with Greenland is him dancing along to a Kremlin tune, as always https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/01/13/danish-intelligence-russia-forged-letter-to-spark-trumps-greenland-purchase-bid/
  16. In the software/tech world there's a mountain of bad and shitty patents - the Oracle/Google fight over "APIs" springs to mind as a recent example. Patents by and large have stopped being a mechanism to give inventors a window to profit off their idea, and are now a cudgel used against competitors to drag them down and stop innovation. It's not that patents in and of themselves are a bad thing, but they are THE weapon of choice in effectively killing competition in a durable and sustainable manner
  17. Germany is a decent real world example too, they have some very VERY strident laws on the books with respect to certain groups that contain very fine people
  18. There will a ton fewer "ifs" after January 20th. That is the origin point of the the uncertainty, we really don't know what was lies and what was truth.
  19. The boomers in my life are all on it still, buying low quality shirts to give as Christmas gifts and falling for FB marketplace scams
  20. There's that word again.... Amirite @Incredulity?
  21. Who could have guessed that a guy who made an algorithm to rank the fuckability of his female classmates might be a piece of shit? It's wild that their recent changes to remove fact checking are directly driven by their need to grow engagement. They WANT everyone to argue over the basic fundamental facts of a situation - it drives engagement and clicks and ad revenue. Not to mention that sweet monetizable user data to boot. I had faint hopes of a US version of the GDPR cutting his knees out from under him, but it was folly to hope as much. Dude has too much money to worry about silly things like laws and the consent of his subjects/users/products now
  22. Reagan was the version 1.0 of this sort of fuckery and flaunting of public accountability. Ollie North sends his regards
  23. https://wyofile.com/make-carbon-dioxide-great-again-law-would-ban-carbon-reduction-efforts-in-wyoming/ "Make CO2 great again!" Gimme a fucking break
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