Gray as in that's what Nintendo believes and that's how Nintendo will act, and they have lawyers on payroll to back it up. Precedents are like crosswalks, you're best off acknowledging the ignorance of the dude who's apt to run you over

This is probably a good argument for torrents. Lame that something as gray as a simple emulator is catching flak but Nintendo can't really play whack-a-mole with dozens or hundreds of random seeders

Subscriptions. Some of them aren't all that bad. Nvidia GeForce Now for example, 100 bucks for 6 months, 16.67 per month, but if you were to play 100 hours per month and would otherwise burn .5kwh per hour running that locally, you're 'saving' the cost of 50kwh of electricity per month going this route, so 16.67 per month compared to 5-10 bucks per month in electricity (plus the cost of a gaming rig).

Sometimes it's easy to rationalize a certain subscription but they're basically everywhere and shoved at the consumer

10,000 hours: World of Warcraft

2,500 hours: Diablo 3, Fallout 4, Skyrim

1,000 hours: Zelda BOTW and TOTK, Fallout 3 and NV, Diablo 2, Starcraft 2, Stardew Valley, Terraria, Pillars of Eternity, Baldur's Gate 1

Grindy first person exploration type stuff really vibes with my inner magpie I guess

Sets out to explore phenomenon in painstaking detail

Conclusion: "Now we're even more perplexed"

We. Already. Have. Circuit. Courts. That. Predominantly. Handle. Cases. Involving. Businesses. And. Businesses. Steer. Suits. Towards. Those. Judges.

If you still can't understand you're simply naive. We already have this, it just takes a little extra effort from Nestle or Pepsi

My point is that we already have circuit courts specifically for business law, and businesses steer suits into those courts so they can have judges that are knowledgable (and favorable)

The rule, which was mandated by lawmakers in a 2023 bill, requires crypto mining facilities that consume more than 75 megawatts of power to tell the Public Utility Commission and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas

Is it really so difficult finding entities burning 75,000kWh to the point that they're having those entities come forward as opposed to just asking the utility and cross referencing the address for any sort of LLC or whatever? 75,000 kilowatts

It'll be nice for corporations to no longer go through the hassle of pre-emptively filing suit in order to choose a nice venue /s

It's really quite similar in that the most important element is that the subject be made unaware. Never works without that (kind of the opposite without that, they exhibit vigilance). Then you slowly and insidiously present whatever it may be, with nothing else to provide any frame of reference. Psychologically it's the same mechanism at work. Can't really bribe a fundamentalist so may as well convert someone with a family to become a fundamentalist and leverage them. Same thing

We've been doing the same stuff but the scale of what's happening with social media is terrifying and no one is truly at the wheel. Around the world people are just falling into holes, going far right on tabloid conspiracy theories, and everyone's blaming foreign actors or whatever but they need only nudge the ship to set it on course. Rest is just a feedback loop

Another good way to illustrate this whole algorithm gaslighting is military prisons. Pretty dirty but many a sane, reasonable, normal person with principles has been radicalized for the sake of being used as a mole simply by adjusting their schedule a little so they're only allowed to interact with a specific crowd. People are quick to abandon the notion that the sky is blue if they're only surrounded by those who believe it is green

Yeah, whereas something like Facebook determines what you want based on how long you linger on something or if you choose to interact with something, even if you choose to interact negatively towards something.

Bluesky's approach is more akin to you choosing which people you want to hang out with, which Lemmy communities you'd prefer to view, which hobby websites you'd prefer to bookmark in your phone.

A lot of other tech companies take a hands-off 'rabbit hole' approach that winds up with some people unwittingly being mired in something and being led to believe that it is far more popular and normal than what it is, based entirely on their ever-increasing exposure to that thing, and not based on their intent to have that amount of exposure, and that's the psychologically-damaging aspect to an algorithmic sort

I guess it's kinda like herd immunity. A small minority of evenly-dispersed whackjobs, not much happens. If they're allowed to concentrate into huge clump they start affecting those that aren't

Here's one more cool turkey tidbit, since we have them all over in my neighborhood. They really do fly up into trees to roost! They're super loud and clumsy, and spend more time aiming than anything. They'll eyeball the next branch, take a couple steps back, then make a huge racket and the whole tree shakes when they land. They fool no one lol

The skeptic in me feels like the psychologists over in marketing want longer lines and less sales in some key places to drive the perception that it's worth the wait. Don't get the sale at the airport, get the recurring customer in the suburbs later on, that kind of thing

Depends a lot on the turkey I suppose. Some store-bought 'basted' thing is essentially soaked in brine and 'natural flavor' and butter, and a wild turkey is quite a bit drier and tougher and has a kind of rough taste to it from whatever it eats

I don't really view it as a humiliation. I'm slightly more surprised UK joined than I am surprised UK left, given their stature on the world stage throughout the past handful of centuries. A country doesn't give up much culture or autonomy or individuality by joining but it's enough that I'd figure UK wouldn't wanna move in that direction in the first place

The dumbest thing about this is that with the incoming administration, it might be detrimental to attempt to outrace a foreign nation as a matter of national security. Us having something nobody else has is probably a riskier gamble than us hoping no one has it because in all likelihood dumbass in chief would openly invite people to come check it out

The copied text included citations for non-existent books—which appears to be one of the things AI is best at generating—including a book supposedly written by the author Jane Doe.

It'd be funny if the school leveled with them and said 'alright, since the use of AI wasn't explicitly prohibited we won't grade it on that basis' and then still give them an F for handing in a steaming pile of shit

I know turkey is kinda bland and gamey, but turkey that tastes like it was marinated in cigarette butts and used matchsticks somehow sounds like it'd be worse