Drones are already geofenced, according to what drone hobbyists have been saying
I am pretty sure that's true for DJI drones, but building your own drone, which is achievable by anyone who can do internet research and competently operate a soldering iron and allen wrench, has no such limitations.
There are a hell of a lot of other legal limitations, though:
You must have direct, unassisted vision of the drone at all times. This means long distance flight and all FPV flight (goggles connected to a camera on the drone) are illegal. I've been told you can get around this by having a "spotter" while you're flying FPV, but essentially everyone in the hobby ignores this, which is fine up until a cop decides to make a problem for you.
You must have registered yourself and your drone with the FAA unless it weighs under 250 grams, which is not very realistic. This involves the FAA getting a bunch of information about you.
You must fly with a remote ID module. This is a fairly expensive device which broadcasts the GPS coordinates of the pilot and drone, and the FAA ID number from the previous step, at all times, over bluetooth, so anyone with a phone can receive the signal if they want. This is widely perceived as a mechanism to enable Karens who wrongly think all public drone flight is illegal to find and harass drone pilots, which already happens at a fairly high rate. I honestly don't even know what the point of this is from a safety perspective, besides to fuck with drone operators and hugely reduce their privacy. I doubt planes can pick up the signal in time for it to matter (not that drones accidentally hitting planes is a real problem to begin with), and anyone with actual criminal intent will just turn the feature off. It's like demanding that everyone install an electronic tracking device on their gun- do you think maybe the criminals would turn theirs off before they commit a crime, or simply not install it to begin with? It applies at all times, even if you're flying at the height of one foot over your own property.
There can be additional local laws. The FAA claims sole jurisdiction over the air, so NYC for instance can't actually ban all drone flight, but they can apparently ban taking off or landing, so that's effectively the same thing.
You must obey FAA flight regulations about altitude. Mostly this means you have to fly under 400 feet, but there are areas, like around airports or various government facilities, that drop that altitude to less, sometimes to zero. Under 400 feet and not at airports is the one regulation that actually makes some sense, everything else is just fucking with drone operators because some idiots panicked and want to do something, even if it doesn't make any sense.
Flying a drone for any commercial purposes- which is defined very broadly and includes posting a video from your drone on youtube- requires an additional FAA license which you get from passing a written test and jumping through a fair number of additional hoops.
A lot of drone equipment either outright violates FCC regulations on signal power or requires you to have a ham radio technician license, which involves passing a test which is mostly not remotely applicable to drone operation.
But the short of it is that most recreational drone operators regularly ignore some or all of these laws, which is fine up until a cop decides to make an issue about it and arrests you, then starts looking for laws you may have broken. It fits into a broader pattern of basically making it impossible to live a normal life without violating enough laws that the government can seriously fuck you over at any time they wish.
They prioritized telling the story they want to tell above being a good game or allowing player freedom. Walking next to talking people is not gameplay, and having the player swing from being a god of death when it's not plot relevant to being unable to kill a few guys when the plot demands it is both bad storytelling and bad gameplay. If you can't tell your story without taking away control from the player, then make a movie.
Further, It's like someone told them "Unskippable cutscenes are bad", so instead of removing them, they said "Well, if we make the player hold 'W' to walk during the dialogue, it's not technically a cutscene, problem solved. It's still unskippable though."
I could watch a western movie while holding forward on an unplugged controller and have a similar experience.
After resuming college in 1989 to finish her bachelor’s degree and then getting a master’s degree in history from Cal State History, Lofting became a librarian and started “bartending with books.”
She also had a son. So connecting some dots, she was a stay-at-home mom who took up voice acting at the age of 39, followed by a variety of other activities, as a hobby after her child left home.
The design is not great.
People spawn behind you in areas you've just cleared in a way that absolutely murders immersion. It doesn't feel like you're in a world that has people moving around, it feels like you're in a world composed of inhabited points of interest with a barren wasteland in between, with the game occasionally rolling some dice and spawning guys just behind you. The developers apparently saying they have a good system in place but it's just broken right now is an obvious 'dog ate my homework' level lie.
The economy is a joke. Every guy you fight obviously has infinite ammo... except when you kill them, you find they had a partial magazine in the gun and less than ten extra rounds in their inventory. On top of that, their guns are almost always in such poor condition they're totally worthless, yet they never jam on the AI, only on you. They're also visibly wearing armor, but that armor lootable less than 1% of the time. It all adds up to a feeling that the game is constantly rewriting reality to keep you from making money too fast. The repair costs for your gear once you've upgraded a couple times is so high you'll be running in the red every time you go out.
The day/night cycle is very fast, and the game is not particularly fun at night: it's just too damn dark to see anything, your flashlight has a maximum range of about 15 feet, the enemy is almost impossible to see beyond that range, and there are no flashlight upgrades or night vision in the game. I suspect the AI entirely ignores nighttime vision penalties.
There's paid fast travel between bases, but with how valueless the in-between space is, this is a game that would benefit from unlimited fast travel between all discovered locations. The amount of time it takes to run from spot to spot is the primary factor in whether I'm willing to explore a spot I haven't been to. That goes double if I'm trying to bring back enough gear to afford my repair bills.
Sony's gaming division is a pretty small part of the company, though it's a bigger percentage now than it was even ten years ago, and it was always about encouraging secondary purchases which would likely also be Sony products. The playstation was created largely to get media players into people's home, because there's a good chance Sony publishes the media and makes the TV/stereo you'd play it on, especially in Japan. The first playstation was a trojan horse CD player, then the PS2 was a DVD player, the PS3 was a bluray player, PS4 was bluray 3D, PS5 was digital and UHD Bluray. For a lot of people, their gaming console was the first or only device they had to play these things.
The odds are EXTREMELY good that it should be rephrased like this:
2024 was the year that my increasingly insane definition of 'rape' and my increasingly false recollection of the distant past met in the middle and invented a rape out of nothing.
Biden chose one of his weaker opponents for VP so as not to be overshadowed
He chose a black woman because she was a black woman. He announced during the primaries that he was going to choose a woman VP, and the summer of love kicked off a few months before his pick, so black became a fairly sure thing. I'm willing to believe she legitimately was the best black female choice.
That sounded odd to me, because I'm pretty sure that if you kill someone, you aren't allowed to inherit from them. So I looked it up, and she killed herself after being confronted by the cops (As an aside, she was an abusive nutcase and it's a shame he didn't leave her). I also didn't see any results online similar to what you're saying. I think you're mistaken.
Why play a far-right vigilante murdering undocumented asylum seekers from hell in Doom?
Why play a walking environmental apocalypse, razing forests, slaughtering the natives, and producing thousands of tons of air pollution in Factorio?
Why play the divisive, violent, masculine 'X' versus the inclusive, soft, feminine 'O' in tic-tac-toe?
The escape was the subject of a television movie in 2017, New York Prison Break: The Seduction of Joyce Mitchell.
"Seduction": Good to know that even when the men are actual prisoners, they still have more agency than their own prison guards, if those guards are women.
aired on the Lifetime Network.
And their aired it on a women's TV network, but don't suggest women fantasize about fucking violent criminals, that's sexist.
I predict some but not all of the blocks will be undone, there will be an announcement along the lines of "We regret that some actions were taken that don't represent the Godot project, we apologize for that. Godot has always supported all voices in game development. #LGBT" And the community manager will continue merrily on.
I invite anyone to read https://godotengine.org/code-of-conduct/ and not conclude they are woke. It's like the "Expectations" part was written by a normal human and says all they need to say, then there's a "Restricted content" part that's five times as long, totally unnecessary, and can be summed up as "We know you disgusting white males are going to be disgusting all the time, and look forward to banning you when you inevitably make a brave womxn of color uncomfortable." They actually use the word 'uncomfortable' as a bannable offense.
In other news, unity has removed their per-install pricing and swears that any future changes will only ever apply to versions introduced after the change. I don't know if they're woke.
In theory you could have your partner become your surrogate, guaranteeing your full rights to the child no matter what.
We live in a world where prenups are thrown out because the judge just doesn't think they give enough money to the woman. Contracts don't mean anything if the state doesn't think they should, and the state has a pretty clear opinion that men are obligated to serve women, and never the other way around. I would be shocked if there was any way, regardless of how many stacks of contracts she signed, that a mother living with her biological child would actually be prevented from getting at least partial, it not full custody if she actually wanted it. Especially if she was willing to claim abuse.
Very much not even then. That would just be added to the long list of crimes where they either don't report on it, or don't report on the race or motivation of the killer. All the left will hear is "Violence against gays is up, we should discriminate against straight white men more to counter it". So of like "Gun violence is up, better blame whites in rural areas" is totally disconnected from the reality of black violence.
My gift to autists everywhere: You're weird and socially awkward because you're autistic, not because you're a woman. Transing yourself won't give you the social life of a teenage girl in an anime, it will give you the social life of an autistic man who frightens children because he now looks like an AI image generation accident.
How much money does it even take to hire some otherwise unemployable assholes to write a few pages of text every day, and maybe occasionally play a game for half an hour? I suspect their operating costs are pretty low. There's no reason for them to have a physical office. Their minimum audience before they're no longer financially viable is surely small.
I assumed the post title was making fun of the article, but no, that's the actual title of an actual article in the new york times. This is 100% a "Huge numbers of men are dead, women most affected" article:
For women, the problem is particularly acute. Tens of thousands of men have died. Many more are on the front lines, some have fled the country and others are reluctant to leave their homes, fearful of being stopped in the street by draft officers. In cities like Kyiv, the capital, the presence of men has noticeably dwindled. In some villages, conscription has hollowed out the male population.
Tens of thousands of men are dead, women most affected, right there.
The war has also heightened ideological divides, crushing potential relationships that may have blossomed before the conflict. Some women now refuse to date draft dodgers, saying that they are unpatriotic.
I see the white feather movement is alive and well.
Ask two questions: Does it benefit women? Does it benefit men?
You get positive points for the first one, negative points for the second. If your score is negative, congratulations, it's sexist. Games with attractive women appeal to men but don't benefit women, so they're bad. Onlyfans whores are a massive wealth transferal system from men to women, so that benefit to women outweighs the benefit to men, so they're good.
The line between "objectification" and "empowering" is simply whether there's a woman benefiting from it.
Right, it does fall apart if you look at it that way- the soviets being dead doesn't make Americans less dead. It does make sense if you open it up to a wider timescale, though- if the Soviets knew you'd retaliate because you'd been doing that all along about the smaller things, they'd be less likely to launch a nuclear first strike. The principle of mutually assured destruction is a strong deterrent.
Certainly many on the left won't have enough self-awareness to think about it that way, but unilateral disarmament is indistinguishable from surrender.
Maybe I'm too much of a pessimist, but I've always assumed that the tool quality in shared workshops wouldn't be great due to occasional misuse, and the fees would be relatively high, again due to breakage from machine misuse or people walking off with things. Have you found otherwise?
intelligent, knowledgeable, educated, learned
These are more or less synonyms, and are a 'wet streets cause rain' situation. The actual cause is going to university. The effect is they are indoctrinated by the mostly extremely left-wing professors running often extremely left-wing programs like women's studies. Feminists don't have college degrees because they're smart, they're feminists because they have college degrees. There's also a huge bias towards women who value having children... having children, which does not require a college degree. Leaving the feminist types who don't have children to be increasingly over-represented in more advanced degrees, not because feminists are more capable, but because non-feminists married a man instead.
financially empowered
This means "Earning money". This is just a sneaky way to say that women who choose to have a career are good, women who choose to raise children are bad. And also that, somehow, men who spend half their lives working and then give that money to their wives are oppressing them by doing so.
successful
As illustrated above, this woman's definition of successful might as well be "Be a feminist". You can pretty much rewrite that sentence as "Feminists don't have children" repeated six times in a row.
Wake me up when they acknowledge white men exist.