Ok anyone making any kinds of governing decisions or military decisions should be required to play SimCity and any RTS of their choice until they are at least competent at it. Take StarCraft or AoE for example, you never attack an enemy without having your mining, barracks, and supply lines put together first.

Flock cameras are probably less than 1% of the total surveillance state (that needs to be dismantled)

They have also been claiming Chinese models are stealing their work and intellectual property by distilling the frontier models. Which is ironic considering they stole the works of all of humanity to create it in the first place.

By the time they get a job, AI will be doing all the work anyway so I guess it doesn’t matter

I’ve checked the article, and the source data (https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/conflictCasualties/oefu/deaths), the article headline is just wrong and since this post is using the article headline, it’s wrong too. There have been 14 deaths and 417 wounded. No where does it say 600… Not sure where that number is coming from. Just FYI

We could agree to ignore the 22nd amendment for just 2028

God appeared in a dream and told him buttholes were specifically made as exit only

Years of trillion dollar budgets, weapons contracts, off books funding, the list goes on.

Choosing to voluntarily launch a ton of expensive missiles at cheap drones while wasting all of the munitions on an unnecessary war? All the funding for all of this war machine just has disappeared? That’s Soviet levels of incompetence.

Capitalism works best when it has competition… The New Deal was a response to competition from other forms of economics in the 1930s. The same kind of result could happen again.

He should return all that money the FBI gave him

1 down, 8.3 billion to go

The next part of his speech that no one talks about is just as important: “…we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite”.

Remember just a few years ago, all the main tech companies and Government were gaslighting the shit out of everyone about the targeted advertising stuff? It’s not listening to you! The ADs based on what you’re talking about are just coincidental!

Maybe no one remembers this for some reason. Of course they just get away with all the lying

It’s not like the other passages

These fools be strait trippin y’all

Trump only wins elections when Democrats are in the White House. If they rig the elections against him they are fucking terrible at it. But then again, Democrats are terrible at everything so who knows

You know Mamdani’s gotta be at least a little jealous

Americans, especially the Government, all have a collective delusion that the United States place in the world is just the way it was right after WW2 and nothing will ever change it. Over the next decade or so, reality will continue setting in…

Minecraft hunger games, h1z1, the culling.

These were all created after the original PUBG, which was an Arma mod created similar to DayZ. This existed as what we know of battle royale before any other clone, and it was also created by PlayerUnknown.

What was unique about the PUBG / Unreal Engine situation is that Epic had only used the Unreal Engine for things like Unreal Tournament. They have a large set of customers who license their engine. When PUBG, which was originally created as an Arma mod (like DayZ), was moved to a standalone company by PlayerUnknown, they began looking for engines to rapidly rebuild what made Arma special. The bullet physics, look of the engine, environment and so on. They chose the Unreal engine.

PUBG took off as soon as the demo was released. There was an ongoing business relationship where PUBG developers worked with the Unreal engine developers to add features to the developer tools, and changes to the engine, to support features that PUBG needed. These changes of course were merged back into the main Unreal engine branch, and this allowed Epic to take the work for a battle royale game from the business association with PUBG, and rapidly cash in on the battle royale craze with Fortnite. It probably only took them 14 days to create it with all the work that PUBG had funded with modfying the engine too.

That’s what is different about this, versus just a company creating a clone. It was a dangerous thing to do from Epic’s point of view too because I’m sure there could be cases where other customers could see the engine company help them create an initial product, and then use that work to rip them off with a clone.

From a business practice standpoint, this is similar to what Amazon did with Amazon Basics. Where Amazon became the main, or only, online marketplace for many products. They ran reports and data to find which third party products were selling well on their site… And then they set up stuff like Amazon Basics to essentially copy them. Eventually due to the price and shipping advantage, and the Amazon name, the original products get replaced. And it feeds into Amazons profits.

Now with AI, all someone has to do is find out which games are popular and then drop some money on tokens to try to vibe code a competing game.