Sorry for the threads link but I'm at work: https://www.threads.com/@skynews/post/DGnCyHfsGkG/in-the-months-leading-up-to-her-facebook-post-in-may-2020-eleanor-williams-kept-
Kinda blows the whloe thing apart.
They never fail to miss that it's why what they like is the way that it is. Education has failed two generations because it has taught them to only analyse anything in isolation.
Not just happier, but healthier. The washed out look in the original makes her look ashen and unwell by comparison.
The US have 3 issues to resolve. Production/Jobs, Finance/Debt and Military/Power.
A long period of outsourcing production has left the US vulnerable in many areas and has removed vast swathes of jobs making previously productive demographics unproductive and reliant on welfare. Tariffs incentivise reindustrialising and reverses this process because tarrifs are applied when goods enter the country. To be competitive locally those imported goods will need to be manufactured locally. Company wants to dodge? Build/start a factory, cue jobs etc. Extreme numbers over a long enough period (years, likely multiple terms) required to force hands and make it better than waiting for favourable political climate that might undo it.
Finance/Debt is all bout 10 trillion of debt incurred during covid that needs to be refinanced within the next year or so. Also why DOGE is so important atm. Tariffs can improve the inflow/outflow equation of the overall economy and create a large enough reduction in interest rates so that debt can be refinanced at a lower rate. Main goal is to head off an irreversible debt spiral that the US is staring down the barrel of. China is in a similar boat and it is bad for China for similar reasons that it would be good for the US.
Military/Power is all about China and how military supply lines have 100s of failure points because they rely on China for materials/technology etc. Not a great position to be in for a superpower and their military to be at the mercy of an immediate global competitor. They'll be focussing on bringing those requirements back to US shores or being more reliant on reliable allies for those items.
That's broadly what's going on. Each individual piece can be better resolved with other methods but tariffs are the one tool in the toolbox that can actualy resolve all of those if applied correctly. I susupect tariffs will be rolled back for the most part as everybody decides to play ball and renogotiate trade deals (inflow/outflow rebalancing) and it will make moves towards isolating China in Global Trade.
That's entirely separate to the argument that gets made though and is almost if not entirely resolved by age and natural maturity alone.
I boil the argument down to "monkey see, monkey do" and if the premise is taken as true, then it becomes immoral for law enforcement to view video evidence of murder because of the effect it would have in driving them towards replicating it. It becomes illegal to distribute it, it hugely affects what can be conveyed through the news by either depiction or description. And on and on it goes across every facet of life and information, real or imagined.
Now the argument does have some merit with firsthand viewing of any such events but it requires a magnifying effect from multiple other factors (age, mental condition/fortitude, moral compass, underlying psychiatric conditions/conditioining, cultural normalisation/commonality... list goes on but you get the idea *Forgot to add, there's also mitigating factors within similar subsets to contributing ones) to have any reliable impact on behaviours and outlooks. It's a numbers game of incredibly low probabilities and the effects can only be seen afterwards because of required diagnoses making ti not only an unreliable predictor, but an absolutely useless one even in the context of where the effect is very real.
Absurd, beginning to end. I just wanted to expand on it because the overall gets missed on the internet.
You can't just see something happen and become that thing.
Everybody goes to fiction for this argument. The same logic would be applied to non-fiction. Documentaries depict their subject matter all the time. The types of things jurors see in evidence review. Apply it to all stages of Law and Law Enforcement. People doing studies on say, oh I don't know, rape gangs etc.
People will easily dismiss the absurdity when applied to ficiton. Non-fiction is where the real absurdity rears its head in a far less ignorable way.
Don't even have to think of it that far. If any of them want to ban it (for ANY concern) they have to get it done unilatertally across the globe and even if they did manage to get that done it would still be developed out of sight and every government would still have their hands all over it. They simply can't afford to based on criminal elements within citizenry, nevermind foreign powers.
Think of it as more of a new field that has recently become more than an academic curiosity and can be applied in the real world. That alone is a huge step and now it's going to have itself applied in whatever way possible to narrow down the best use cases.
In the short term, AI industry boom as people throw money around trying to jump on new thing. Which isn't that unusual but I have to say this one's got legs. It's early stages industry-wise but it's just too malleable and can be applied to too many things to be ignored.
It may ultimately be temporary or models will develop quickly, and what we see now is it in its infancy compared to what will come, but that temporary is no short time span. My guess, 50+ years minimum that it's going to be around for. It dies by legislation if anything and there's no way to put it back in the box and forget about it.
Not true AI yada yada but the poiont remains. It's not going anywhere anytime soon, industry will build around it because it can be applied so freely and legislation will kill it or corral it once some truly big players emerge within its industry.
It has so many uses from the mundane to the magnificent that pure probability has it making a significant change somewhere. Part of the industry building is just finding those magnificent uses.
I guess the main question for me would be: is it a commercial project or an artistic project?
For an artistic project, it's entirely irrelevant and the only reason to do them would be to garner feedback you can adjust to, which defies the point of an artistic project.
For a commercial project, you should be doing those videos on the things you are looking for feedback/input on with a sparse but consistent schedule. More like monthly. Too often and it's too much feedback on too many subjects and from a consumer's standpoint not enough time to even go through the feedback before the next round of feedback, nevermind act on/react to it.
"Comfortable with an upcoming game" is a terrible thing to try and garner. You want interest and excitement. People interested in the daily dev blog aren't interested in the game itself, they're interested in the nitty gritty side of development and the game is of almost no concern to them.
So if it's a video on a part of the game you're working on, what is it about the thing you're working on that excites and interests you as the developer and why? It's your enthusiasm on all of it that will do the heavy lifting.
As an aside, you should also add a barrier to feedback. Put a questionnaire in front of the feedback that should only really be loking at where they heard about the game, what interested them to begin with so you can better judge the angle this feedback comes from. Faceless feedback is worthless feedback. Finding out somebody who primarily plays Dating Sims was first interested in your FPS game because of the artstyle is valuable feeback, finding out that they don't like a lot of the system mechanics because they don't really like FPS as a genre is not.
From a /v/ thread.
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Haven't been able to enjoy a Tekken game this much since 3 and Tag1. And my waifu main Jun is back, so yeah.
Incredible Crisis, PS1 game.
Mostly because I hate it, simply because I cannot do timing so I sucked at the basic combos.
Having played it with everybody in my mian party at least once (even maxed all of Lavitz's Additions, interestinng to find the differences between his and Albert's despite being basically the same), Kongol and Shana/Miranda was a solid choice. Kongol's D.Attack even maxed out at 4 so it was easy as fuck.
My one complaint is how it can start to drag later on, parrticularly with the later dungeons. A combinationn of the absurd encounter rate and the length of battles in them, even when doinng the fights optimally, really started ot make it unenjoyable. Everybody probably remembers how annoying that stupid puzzle dungeon was because of that.
In Wales they have in fact been looking at implementing a 20mph speed limit.
It went into effect a couple of weeks ago. It's just as awful as anybody with sense expected.
Public transport is a mess since they can't keep to their schedule and don't have the additional vehicles to cover it and they're not going to increase their fleets (and relevant staffing) by 25-50% to do so. Fresh food in supermarkets is stocked dangerously low but it's not hit long shelf life goods yet as more of their space in delivery vehicles is taken up just trying to keep up with fresh food. Christmas will very likely break a great deal of the supply chain.
Never mind emmisions, fuel efficiency and just general traffic from the increased number of vehicles on roads concurrently.
Like evrything else these retards seem to put in place, it's well meaning but unfathomably short sighted.
I think my favourite part is how it was probably lifted out of some retard's Organic Chemistry classes. We know they don't know their Latin prefixes but there's a high probability that was their first encounter with it and it was seen as nothing more than an opposite to trans-. Which is technically true but misapplied as you outlined.
I feel attacked! I mean, I wasn't in reality and I know that, but I feel it and that's what matters!
Thread in a nutshell.
I'd expect them to gloss over it and ignore it before the event but then fill the cast with a whole bunch of FtM for after and do some handwaving for explanation/reasoning.
When they put themselves in that kind of corner, they will just go out of their way to not acknowledge it or get creative with angles and only show them leaning against one wall of that corner.
Don't let them forget they were effectively stripped of those titles for not performing the duties they came with when they 'stepped away'.
I just don't think the rank and file are doing it knowingly, only reacting to stimuli as trained.
The proper tin foil hat is: it was almost guaranteed so they're deliberately gunning for mistrial/appeal etc. to make faith in the system plummet. Not guilty would be a failure of the system despite the supporting evidence while mistrial etc. could be spun as the system being incapable of prosecuting because [insert racist reasoning] so burn loot murder until we reform that system.
That's too muh tinfoil for my blood but still not outside the realm of possibilities, shockingly. (They're too independantly retarded and ideologically driven for it, those above them though?)
Yeah, I boil it down to indifferent on party but opinionated on issues. Those opinions vary with which side of the divide they're on. I'd take a single issue vote every weekend over party backing bullshit where I'm not going to agree with even half of any one party's position. It's not always diametric opposition if you were to go through each party position on each issue either. Small merits in each aren't enough for me to support either of them when they're chained to a whole host of other things I disagree with. Both sides are in fact bad, in aggregate, but people refuse to see the nuance in that position due to team sport mentalities around it.
Voting for the lesser of two evils isn't something I'll ever support or participate in.
Made a new raid group for FFXIV so I've got a bunch of babby's first raid to look after for a bit. Besides that I've been making a 95% BT PCSX2 memory card for Star Ocean 3, only 4D left to do on that one.
For that price, it's hire a live in maid that's grateful and dtf.