Yeah, but the scale of the current set of data centers has gotten to a point where they are becoming a problem for the communities they inhabit. If data centers stayed at the consumption levels they did decades ago, I don’t think we’d be seeing organized political action against them.

So, even though Fetterman was a huge disappointment who needs to be primaried out in the next election, Dr. Oz was the alternative.

Yeah, and they also seem believable as a rogue clandestine agency that the Federation is ok with having on “their side”.

Unlike the Obsidian Order or the Tal Shiar, the Federation has plausible deniability regarding the use of Section 31. Few powers seem to even know the agency exists.

And unlike the Obsidian Order or the Tal Shiar, Section 31 does a good job at being a clandestine agency. The Obsidian Order and Tal Shiar’s response to the Founders was to build a lot of ships to bomb a homeworld, something outside their expertise that gets them destroyed. Section 31, instead, genetically engineers a virus that attacks the Founders, a virus so effective that the cure is used as a bargaining chip in getting the Dominion to stop the war.

Given that cameras are readily available to the public, these glasses will likely only be banned in specific controlled locations.

Gatorade never had vitamins, even in its original formulation. It was flavored water with salt to help athletes with electrolyte depletion.

Also, Gatorade is owned by Pepsi. Maybe you’re thinking of Powerade, which was crap.

And Meta probably have Luxotica a large sack of cash to make these glasses.

In general, the Wikimedia Foundation needs some reform. This strike feels like the mod strike when Reddit removed API access.

The hiring is done mostly by professors, who are usually highly competent in their field.

But being competent in your field doesn’t make you a good manager or leader. The problem is that you have valuable technical experts with poor leadership abilities put into power. If there is an HR problem, the institution is usually incentivized to defend the expert and their atrocious behavior over junior staff.

And it doesn’t end up being a problem for academia if researchers leave the toxic workplace because spots are desirable and there isn’t an issue replacing those who leave.

JD did kill the last pope.

Cheney also knew how to pull the levers of power.

The federal government provides minimums for voting, but they’ve never tried providing a maximum requirement until Trump. A state, in theory, could allow various kinds of non-humans from voting.

It is part of the reason why national elections are based on state population, not number of voters.

This isn’t really enshittification, though. People used to always have the right to self repair. That right got curtailed once it became a threat to profit margins.

This is a law issue.

There’s nowhere to expand to.

There is a question of timeline. Maybe in 10+ years, but not 2.

The early wave of layoffs in the sector “due to AI” were at the same time as the interest rate went up, pushing all tech companies to start focusing on profit. A lot of unprofitable divisions were cut because it stopped making financial sense to invest in products that didn’t have day 1 revenue.

You’re now seeing companies doing layoffs and claiming AI to either hide that development in their companies have stalled or they are taking advantage of their new shiny remote work platforms to push wages down by shifting workers to places with lower cost of living.

AI labor isn’t worth its tokens, even when they are heavily discounted to gain market share. It might be in a decade, but not now.

But the IP is still for children and it is still very likely that Game Freak and Nintendo want to make sure that the IP stays kids friendly even if the card game is mainly played by adults.

The tournaments are likely adults, but the IP is definitely being sold to kids and I wouldn’t be surprised if childhood is when most players first start playing.

Pokemon has a vested interest in keeping the tournament scene kid friendly even if most of the players are adults.

I feel like that’s because the concept of software architecture isn’t really taught and understood industry wide; it is like getting a journeyman carpenter to design an addition to a building but they don’t understand how the original structure was built so they recommend to tear the original building down and start from scratch.

It is made worse as programmers have a vested interest in maintaining a construction once maintenance mindset since construction requires more labor then maintenance.

Google destroys its products all the time. This isn’t new.

Well, what else would those engineers work on? Most of Meta’s product lines are either stable or dead. If they weren’t going to AI, they would just be going away.

Starbound was an example for how to not develop a video game. I feel like the have could have done a lot better if they spent more time trying to refine small parts of the game before building it out.

They wasted so much time redoing work because they developed on poor assumptions and then had to go rip out back out when it failed.