You know what would improve recycling? Single-type plastic packaging. Single-type adhesives. Single-type label materials. Single-type label colors and dyes.

This is as much a ‘video game movie’ as “Ready Player One” was...

Not exactly. It *ALSO* gives them another weapon to wield against blacks and other minorities by further cash-strapping schools in districts that are predominantly black. Just a new form of red lining, really.

Yeah, see, that was a simple miscommunication. What he *MEANT* to say was the ‘sanctity of whiteness.’ Perfectly understandable and all. These racist motherf***ers do, after all, think they’re one and the same. You’re only a person if you’re white. Otherwise, 3/5ths, remember? And that was a compromise. What they…

It’s ‘supposed to be symmetric,’ as in that’s the plan, as set forth by one Elon Musk, the man behind putting Starlink together. But plans can and do change, which means it’s not set in stone either. Until Starlink is out of beta, one should not assume any specific feature or capability (or lack thereof) is an…

Only if it doesn’t support the white-supremacist GOP agenda. That’s when it’s okay for forcibly, even violently, overthrow the government. Otherwise, you’re traitors and terrorists and should be shot in the street like dogs.

Haven’t you been paying attention? Revising History has always been the first move in this kind of bullshit. Hell, half the time they’re not even waiting for it to BE history to rewrite it. Have we forgotten Trump and his sharpie revisions??

It’s supposed to be symmetric rather than asymmetric, so I would assume the up and down are the same. However, the service is still not up 100% of the time (it has intermittent drops), and availability is still limited but expanding. You also can’t just ‘get’ Starlink because you want it. It’s still (as of last…

The problem isn’t that ‘ai’ is vaporware. The problem is that the AI we have is extremely narrow in scope and can’t operate outside its tiny envelope. What you’re talking about is Artificial General Intelligence, and that’s still a long ways off (or a major breakthrough), and nobody is saying otherwise. There are just…

The governor has made his intentions and affiliations perfectly clear, and his reason for keeping an innocent black man in prison is because he’s black. Frankly, at this point, keeping him there should be considered a hate crime, but also reckless endangerment — prison is a dangerous place, and everyone standing in…

It’s almost as if they might have had a life and possessions before they became homeless! How dare they!

Indeed. See: “realistic” Simpson characters for why the ‘cartoony’ proportions belong with cartoony aesthetics and style.

While I can appreciate the sentiment, I’m pretty sure murdering people by jettisoning them at altitude would fall very harshly on the wrong side of the lawsuit line.

That’s a ‘killing a mosquito with a cannon’ solution. As evidenced by law enforcement failings all across the country, adding additional air marshals to flights is unlikely to fix the problem without creating all new ones.

Who wants to bet the ‘proper procedure’ for restraining an unruly passenger is “Just ignore them unless they try to enter the cockpit.” Because do attendants have handcuffs? No. Do they possess any means of physically restraining a violent passenger? No.

Another baby step on the road to having truer, fuller control over our own bodies, instead of having to essentially bargain and plead with our biology to get the results we want...and even when we do, we’re still not guaranteed to get it.

...flawed? Flawed?? The people who do a good job most often get *PUNISHED* for it by being saddled with more work and less time. The people who do a shit job get rewarded and promoted.

Exactly. The games suited to dynamic streaming will just be able to stream larger volumes of data. And the games better suited to front-loading will front-load more data instead of front-loading the same (or less) data faster. Faster storage access isn’t going to suddenly change any of that.

That’s awesome, and hopefully they’ll continue to evolve into a more welcoming environment for hobbyists and indies. Most other publishers are...far less enlightened.

This is where modern publishers are falling down — there are plenty of talented indies and hobbyists out there who could give these publishers a license to print money -- at no cost to the publisher -- just by selectively licensing their IPs to said indies and hobbyists. But they’re of the old “with an iron fist”…