Your comment assumes that these tribes are not aware of us, I think that they have the exclusive right to choose when/if to reach out to the “civilized world”, we don’t have to make that choice for them.
We’ve seen what happens when we choose to meddle with these tribes when people tried to reach out to the Sentinel tribe. A missionary traveled to the island and tried to introduce them to Christianity (he was killed as a result), another group of people kidnapped six of the island’s inhabitants for the purpose of “studying” them. Eventually the situation got bad enough that the Indian government intervened and made it illegal to go the island by sea or air (they banned air travel because the sentinels would fire arrows at helicopters). We need to just leave these people alone and only observe from a great distance.
Heritage foundation has already laid all of their cards on the table when they published Project 2025, which is essentially a blueprint to undo centuries worth of hard fought progress. I doubt any kind of hacktivism or controversy can change the minds of the people they are hoping to sway in the upcoming election. Everyone opposed to project 2025 should focus their efforts on ensuring that swing voters choose their side and that liberals turn out to vote like never before.
I could see the US subsidizing most of that $100B, just because they can, and more importantly, it would be the kind of tactical advantage that’s needed to make sure US tech companies stay relevant in a world where there’s a growing desire to breakaway from them in-favor of homegrown solutions.
Switching to a Mac was one of the best decisions I ever made because of crap like this. The only thing that will ever make me use windows again is GTA 6!
You can use an Apple ID but it’s optional and it’s not tied to the user account unlike windows. A Mac OS user is basically like creating a user account on a Linux machine!
I think Linux is used extensively for the hyper-professional stuff, but those programs cost $10,000+ and really aren't meant for consumers.
I haven't done video editing on Linux for awhile, Lightworks is generally pretty ok, but I don't really know of any equivalent to After Effects or Apple Motion available on Linux, at least in the consumer space. I don't really do enough interesting stuff with video for that to bother me but I suspect that could be a blocker for a lot of people.
> I for one run an old win10 just for gaming and some legacy software. Will keep until EOL of win10 and then check alternatives
Same story here, I think the usability of Windows 10 LTSC IoT is pretty much unmatched.
It'll get security updates until 2032, doesn't have preinstalled bloat like crandy crush or the Microsoft store, lets you reschedule updates freely, and has the expanded features of Pro/Enterprise editions (group policies, RDP, Bitlocker, etc)
I don't think so. Apple is the one who really has the power to push that, and they haven't, preferring to let people port iOS games over to Mac OS. And while that is gaming, it's basically an entirely different market to the gaming we're discussing here and not a real substitute for it. While Candy Crush has a billion players, nobody is going "Oh, I can't play Cyberpunk, guess I'll just play Candy Crush". And for that traditional gaming market, Apple has thrown up roadblocks rather than assistance - their frequent tech migrations backs the back catalogue sales that help companies a lot, stuff like deprecating OpenGL for Metal means they need to write bespoke code for apple platforms when even the consoles are pretty onboard with standardisation these days.
Just this year at WWDC they announced a new tool that can port Unreal engine directly to Metal. It will only get better and better for gaming on MacOS.
I disagree. I have a bet they will kill the console market dead by 2029. Most of the games run on off the shelf tech now which has Metal back ends. The hardware is rapidly evolving in capability since 2020. The Pro devices now are quite powerful. Enough grunt to do a half decent job of being a console. When that is commoditised in the mid-range, the existing market looks rather attractive to game developers. There's also an existing marketplace (app store) and the end users, from those who I know are fucked off with Sony and Microsoft.
Yeah you're not going to run top end games at 4k on them but most people don't do that either. And the market for optimising them towards the large market scope makes sense.
I don’t think hallucinations and having a “minds eye” are the same thing. A minds eye is different in the sense that it’s entirely separate from the “visual feed” you get from your eyes, they’re not combined so you can’t really mistake them as a hallucination; hallucinations trick you into seeing things that are not really there such as when people with schizophrenia can see people who are not actually with them — I remember seeing this guy on Instagram with a proper schizophrenia diagnosis that showcased this very phenomenon in action and the way he dealt with it is by using his phones camera to check whether the person they are perceiving is real or not. You never have to do that if you have hyperphantasia (the opposite of aphantasia) because it’s very easy to tell whats real and what’s not, and more importantly, it takes mental effort to create and maintain these imaginations in your mind and you can have total control over them.
I also found this study asking a similar question about many different types of mental illnesses, though some of it is about making people that have aphantasia better able to visualize to treat things like PTSD:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9614338/
I think adults with hyperphantasia can easily tell what's real and what's not, but I had a lot of trouble with it as a child. My parents were afraid I was hallucinating, so took me to see a child psychologist, but it turned out I was just pulling things from my extremely acute mind's eye into reality while awake like many people do while dreaming, and I hadn't figured out that didn't make them "real" in a way other people could see like it did in my dreams.
(I shudder to think how differently things could have gone if I had been misdiagnosed with a severe mental illness when all I actually have is an unusually powerful imaginative ability.)
Aside from a couple of dysfunctional police departments, everyone wants to catch violent criminals and put them away—no one is arguing against that. The problem is that they can’t be found for a multitude of reasons, this is also compounded by how easy it is to acquire bullets and firearms in the US.
I think California tried to tackle this issue by fingerprinting bullets (microscopic stamps I think) which can then be traced back to the person who bought them, but these people just end up buying bullets from other states and transporting them to California.
This is a very complex issue, prosecutors can’t just wave a magic wand and selectively put these people away. You have to find them, and build a case against them that has proof beyond a reasonable doubt that they were the perpetrator(s).
“Everyone wants to catch violent criminals and put them away”
I assure you this is not true in Memphis and many other cities with District Attorneys that are focused on elimination of jail time for nearly all crime. The DA blames gun policy, but then releases violent criminals (with real victims) back out on minimal bond. It is really sick. It’s not a complex issue.
100% this, with the modern redefinition of the word “racist” a lot of statistical correlation is being being reinterpreted as causation and people in control are attempting to manually “fix” systems that aren’t broken. It’s gotten so bad that crime itself is no longer punished in the name of “reparations”
From what I understand space is full of errant radio signals that are not generated by us, the beacons we send to voyager or it to us is most likely indistinguishable from the multitude of others in the same region.
I think the idea of an alien race attacking us is sort of a catch 22 because if they’re able to attack us (technologically speaking), then they wouldn’t perceive us as a threat because we would be insignificant in comparison to their power.
The DMA repeatedly requires gatekeepers to act in a "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory" manner. The "spirit" is very much baked into the language.
Obligatory IANAL and speaking mainly from an American understanding.
"Fair", "reasonable", and "non-discriminatory" all have clearly defined legal definitions, which are not necessarily aligned with commonly understood or dictionary-defined definitions.
The only thing that ultimately matters is the letter of the law. If the letter is contrary to the spirit, the law should be rewritten.
Yes, the courts will lean on legal dictionaries such as Black's Law Dictionary and Ballentine's Law Dictionary.
reasonable. Not extreme. Not arbitrary, capricious, or confiscatory. Public Service Com, v Haverneyer, 296 US 506, 80 L Ed 357, 56 S Ct 360.
"What is reasonable depends upon a variety of considerations and circumstances. It is an elastic term which is of uncertain value in a definition." Sussex Land & Live Stock Co. v Midwest Refining Co. (CA8 Wyo) 294 F 597, 34 ALR 249, 257.
America exists because we couldn't stand Europe, and we've had to go back there at least several times to fix the mess y'all keep dispensing before we just said "Fuck it." after witnessing WW2 and made our presence permanent for the forseeable future.
Now that I got the snark out of my system, I personally prefer a legal system everyone will agree on even if not everyone will like it.
Heh, I’m from the US actually; moved to the Netherlands before shit got weird there. Every time I go back to visit friends and family, I get a reverse culture shock.
The legal system here is mind-blowing compared to the US. My son got beat up by some thug-teenager for being from the US (the teen was Afghan, so makes sense why he would feel that way, but to take it out on a 6 year old is kinda fucked up). Anyway, watching that play out was very interesting.
Even just dealing with employee background checks is interesting in that only certain crimes (relevant to the work you are asking them to do) show up. So if an embezzler wants to go into childcare, nothing would show up (probably, I haven’t actually done that, so I have no idea for this specific example, it’s just an example).
It’s so fascinating… but if you are ever looking for a way out of the US: Dutch-American Friendship Treaty is a way.
We’ve seen what happens when we choose to meddle with these tribes when people tried to reach out to the Sentinel tribe. A missionary traveled to the island and tried to introduce them to Christianity (he was killed as a result), another group of people kidnapped six of the island’s inhabitants for the purpose of “studying” them. Eventually the situation got bad enough that the Indian government intervened and made it illegal to go the island by sea or air (they banned air travel because the sentinels would fire arrows at helicopters). We need to just leave these people alone and only observe from a great distance.