Blizzard wants to hide the fact that Warcraft and Warcraft II were fun, and in a completely different genre than WoW…
…and they weren’t subscription model games. I liked those games. Good Solo games, very replayable with various AI skirmish modes, and you could even get a map editor.
Roger Stone, Steve Banon, Dinesh D’Souza all sorts of other crony based pardons were already done in Trumps last term.
Your Pearl Clutching the inevitable (as of it will now be Bidens fault) is ridiculous, and out of line.
Clearly Mashable is not real and genuine journalism, and this Cecily Mauran person who wrote the article is either trash at their job, or it’s a click bait website.
There’s a list of names (taken from a social media post) at the bottom of the article. Search the first one Brain Hood, you find out he’s an Australian Mayor who sued ChatGPT because it claimed he’d taken bribes, when he hadn’t. He sued them for spreading misinformation, so they shut the chat down when he’s mentioned because he’s sued them.
I have little doubt this explains all the names.
People are worried AI will spread misinformation like it’s something new, when we have people like Cecily Mauran and Mashables already doing it.
What loved ones? I don’t love anyone.
It’s a “poison is the cure” situation, so just install ransomware from a different company, they should cancel each other out.
Now for the very dark inference we can make here: Geordi had his visor on this setting while he was hanging out with Wesley.
I mean give OpenAi refused to sell to Musk, and Musk has his own competing product (Gronk) - I think he wants just one of them to implode. Might be able to accomplish that with four years in office, definitely will if this “team” manages to stay around longer.
LBMs on both plates.
Mycology talk for unknown “little brown mushrooms”. LBMs are everywhere and hard to know what’s what, who is who.
Yes, for him it is about ego, winning, and being seen as a winner - and weirdly enough being loved and acclaimed.
He is a very social thinker.
That massive douche bag ego of his isn’t necessarily fascist in totality, but has fascist elements due to his class and capitalist attitudes… So he’s definitely some sort of threat to democracy. But it’s mostly egoic, rather than fascist by way of his values. This is difficult to explain to people because of the left/right political narrative and social prohibitions on some of these topics.
…but fascists had a bunch of values and views that Trump just doesn’t. He doesn’t want like “a greater Germany and stronger people for national and international supremacy” or anything like that. He just wants to be seen as a winner, a cool guy, and the one with the most toys.
Still a threat to democracy, and doing massive amounts of damage. Still likely to sell America to worse people (some of whom are fascists), but in diagnosing the condition it’s important to name it correctly. To know exactly which parasite is at the top at any one moment.
The do pay if their are products of the same type, eg. one is Chinese with the tarrifs priced in, the other from a country without that tariff on it. Consumers will choose the cheaper option over the Chinese tarrifed version (resulting in less sales).
Producers in china then report lower sales in the American market, putting pressure on their government.
So although the cost is theoretically paid by consumers it is still a form of pressure (depressed sales) on the producer. That’s what I meant in seeing it as a possible negotiating tool.
The left/right political narrative is elsewhere though, not in a place that is about investigating these angles of understanding. That’s okay. I accept that.
In your mind, does he care what the costs will be to consumers? Or does he just want these things in place because they might benefit him?
Because I’m saying the latter. I’m saying he’s manipulative and self-interested.
I don’t recall saying he was smart.
The election result is a very touchy and emotional subject for most Americans. On the left and on the right.
Ironically the right are less destabilized by their emotions. The left are the ones shaken and unable to recover even to discuss what’s going on.
That’s a problem. That’s part of the loss. It’s understandable it’s why he won (there was an emotional game played on the left and right by Trump’s campaign). Which is a slightly different topic than why the establishment dems lost. But both pertain to an very emotional election.
…so I understand you are rendered incapable as far as discussing these things. Your emotions are understandable. Someone in power is finally being open about selling your democracy, your rights, to fascists. That would be upsetting.
But that’s got little to do with me being able to see how his tariff plan benefits him. Nor does being able to see what he’s doing make me “full of shit”.
But I understand it’s rightfully a sore point for any American who is a reasonably intelligent person.
I didn’t say prices wouldn’t go up. Byt I don’t think someone like him worries or cares about how much people will have to pay to replace their washing machines. Do you think he cares about that?
The choice to remove his tariff. To clarify I’m not saying there’s an argument it’s a good thing, I’m saying I can see his (self-interested) logic.
Of course I also understand people aren’t able to look at his ideas yet, as post election hatred is still high, and should continue as such as he is a hyper capitalist willing to sell America to internal fascists (and probably some parts of it to external fascists too).
You don’t need ideology, Marxist theory has become just another ideology.
I think there’s an argument for what Trump is saying. Tariffs mean that Americans will chose product alternatives that don’t have those tariffs attatched. Possibly from other countries outside of BRICS.
IT also gives him leverage in negotiations (eg. He can offer to life the tariffs)… And gives him a way to appear to improve the economy (“oh look, things got cheaper and spending accelerated because I lifted my tariffs, ergo I’m good at economic management”).
I hope Captain Beverly Crusher was okay… And that none of her crew became sexy ghosts.