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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_PARTEI

Die Partei für Arbeit, Rechtsstaat, Tierschutz, Elitenförderung und basisdemokratische Initiative ("The Party for Labour, Rule of Law, Animal Protection, Promotion of Elites and Grassroots Democratic Initiative"), or Die PARTEI ("The PARTY"), is a German political party. It was founded in 2004 by the editors of the German satirical magazine Titanic. It is led by Martin Sonneborn. In the 2014 European Parliament election, the party won a seat, marking the first time that a satirical party has won a seat to the European Parliament. With the 2019 European Parliament election, the party gained a second seat, held by Nico Semsrott. The party kept these two seats at the 2024 European Parliament election.

https://x.com/CountBinface/status/2062106018058776948

Here it is: my 2026 manifesto for the #Makerfield By-Election. Makerfield Great Again! #VoteBinface #MakeYourVoteCount

I want to find the yin-yang twin for the Guiness Breweries and the Guiness Book of World Records. There has to be some sort of information/registry company that has done an alcoholic beverage.

I mean, you can make physical art using AI.

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https://www.art-magazine.ai/program

Anytime, everywhere, all about AI & generative art

A list of AI art and generative art exhibitions, festivals and events.

Honestly, even setting aside the war ending and with the fuel shortages, Russia can do things regarding fuel distribution. They're gonna have to set something up regarding rationing that doesn't have people just sitting in line at gas stations. Like, "here's your allocated amount of fuel and here's your time slot to get it".

Giving priority to whoever waits in line the longest is a really high overhead method of allocation. It's kind of on the Russisn government that they don't have anything in place.

That probably won't work, because the driver can just sit there in traffic all day, but it does make me wonder about the prospect of armed hijackings of tanker trucks, if gasoline becomes valuable enough on the black market.

A US destroyer in WW2 accidentally fired a torpedo and nearly hit the ship that Franklin D. Roosevelt was on.

https://www.military.com/history/how-navy-destroyer-almost-killed-fdr-torpedo.html

That's how NASA FIRMS draws hot areas on their website, with red squares. The infrared imaging satellites have limited resolution, so they can only get the approximate area of a heat source (the system was originally built to track wildfires).

For a while, video game sales were shooting up, during COVID-19. Lot of people inside with nothing to do.

My guess is that the people acquiring studios expected the increase in sales to outlast the pandemic, that it was a permanent change. That increase did not, in fact, persist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_on_the_video_game_industry

The video game industry was substantially impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, as most industries were. The restrictions to social events and movement globally led to a sudden interest in gaming worldwide. This was credited with bolstering the success of many games, particularly games that launched in the March 2020 window, when gatherings were first restricted in many countries. A "gold rush" of video game acquisitions and investment ensued, marked by multi-billion dollar studio deals such as Microsoft's $75bn acquisition of Activision. However, this would prove unsustainable as the rapid pandemic-era growth was temporary. Major layoffs occurred when restrictions began to ease in 2022, and it was clear that the rapid industry expansion would not be sustained.[1]

The NPD Group reported that video game sales in North America in March 2020 were up 34% from those in March 2019, and video game hardware up by 63% – which included more than twice the number of units of the Nintendo Switch console. Net spending across the first quarter of 2020 in the United States reached US$10.9 billion, up 9% in 2020 compared to 2019 according to NPD. An increase at this point, near the planned end of the eighth generation of video game consoles, was unusual and was attributed to the pandemic.[128][129] By July 2020, NPD Group reported that the total sales of video game hardware and software within the United States in the first six months of 2020 reached US$6.6 billion, the highest since 2010.[130]

Post-COVID

Towards the end of 2023 and continuing into 2024, the video game industry saw a large number of layoffs, with over 10,000 jobs lost in 2023 and at least 8,000 in 2024 by February 2024. While other factors contributed to the layoffs, such as previous acquisitions and mergers that came after 2021, the return to normalcy after COVID changed the profitability of video games, lowering market forecasts, which the inflated industry could not sustain.[300]

1. I'd hope that one's production server is backed up.

2. $ alias rm="echo Lucky boy"; clear

   "Okay, ready to play."

I thought that the Hornet was an interceptor drone.

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Oh, no, my mistake. That's "Sting", not "Hornet".

EDIT: Apparently it is from the Wild Hornets, though.

The caption on Wikipedia: "Giant huntsman protecting her egg sac."