Sad. In a way, it is amazing that The Sims 3 is 15 years old now and still, no game is able to match it.

Two reasons:

1. public domain is not very well legally recognized, so code licensed under MIT is easier to use internationally than code in public domain.
2. MIT includes disclaimer of liability, which as an author you want just to be safe.

Here's my take: the bear thing is causing such a visceral reaction that it is very hard to take a step back, not take it personally and have a rational discussion about it.

Imo the bear thing was phrased in a way to cause that visceral reaction. It was intended to be antagonistic. If the same point was phrased the way you phrased it above, I want to believe we would have much more civil discussion about it. But instead, the posts put many male readers on the defensive and those that tried to explain were seen as defending this antagonistic stance.

That is no excuse for DM harassment or harassment on other posts, just my take on the reason the discussion turned so uncivil.

Science is feelings

Typo? 🤣

I wanted to post something like this but could not write it well. Thanks for posting it.

Exactly. As a SW engineer, I don't know how far we are from an AGI exactly, but I am confident enough Altman and openAi have no idea where to even start.

Well, disregarding the normal fear of death that would be there regardless of the method, I think the issue is the mask. It would be much better to just fill the room with N2. You can do this easilly enough by evaporating liquid N2. Of course, this would not be "medical grade" so people would complain just to complain.

So the gov wants to claim the FDA did not regulate mifepristone hard enough, but this is perfectly fine. What a world.

Wait, what? $44 milion in revenue? Thats peanuts for company this size, isn't it?

Because the founding fathers had to make a lot of concessions to the already existing states that were not thrilled to give up their power and rights?

States literally don't even have to have elections. If they pass a law that the their electoral votes will be given to a winner of a raffle or a quiz show, they can do that according to the US constitution.

The will federate, try their best to suck as many users from fediverse as possible into threads, then defederate and become a walled garden again.

As for how they will suck users away:

• Make their algorithms prefer posts from threads, so anyone wanting to reach a wider audience needs to move to threads
• Add twitter like checkmarks that are only available for users of threads (they will say it is for security since they need to verify the idwntity of checkmarked people)
• Add features that are not exposed on activity pub, so that you have to be on threads to use them (twitter did the same by for example not making polls available over API)
• Intentionally make their activity pub slow and unreliable to make it look like other instances are broken and threads is fast and reliable.
• Probably much more

By the way, it is and amazon is already being sued by the US FTC.