Ah, I see now, my bad

But as you just demonstrated, the generalized term should be used when specifics aren’t available.

Sorry, I’m not sure I understand how that makes it useless. I get the feeling that you just want to feel smug, so if it makes you feel better go ahead, I guess.

Going to have to disagree with you there. I’ve gotten plenty of use out of chat GPT in multiple scenarios. I find it difficult to imagine what exactly you think is useless about it because it seems so indispensable to me at this point.

Uhh, you may need to check your math again

The reason the pilot ejected is unknown to the publication, not the military.
Also, it looks like the entire article is based on a boilerplate tweet informing the public that an investigation is underway, everybody’s safe, and if you have information please contact them.
If you want to write a click-bait article based on no information, this is how you do it.

Having only recently seen the show, can you point me to more information about Lee Burger? Is there an agenda there beyond trying to make money?

Short answer is yes. I’m not a fan of open-world games, but being able to drive around in my customizable war machine was pretty badass and I ended up 100%-ing it, which I normally don’t do.

For what it’s worth, I liked PS4/5 Spider-Man and didn’t like Breath of the Wild, if that gives you any idea of my mindset.

Holy shit, I hadn’t even thought of that. Does Amazon have a responsibility to ensure the information it sells is at least, “commonly thought to be true”(or whatever)? What would the metric be? Who could claim jurisprudence?

IANAL, but I love the implications of case law.

Is the economy an outside force or is it controlled in some way? If it’s uncontrollable, does that mean that there’s no way to insulate ourselves from its effects? Not as individuals, but as a society. And if it’s controlled, is there a way to control it in such a way as to benefit more people?

I suppose I’m coming from a mindset of “billionaires should not exist,” so take it with a grain of salt when I say I agree that it’s entirely possible to do everything “correctly” to improve your station in life and only do worse regardless of what the economy is doing. Further, I think that outcome is not only desirable for the shockingly few people who directly and indirectly benefit from it, but that it is the natural outcome of such a system to begin with.

Have you looked at big-ass computer monitors? They probably have a lot of things you don’t want, but I’ve yet to see a smart one. Maybe a cheap one would fit the bill?

It does. Applying the video game logic, it looks badass at first glance, but once you play a little bit and learn more about what’s out there, you find out it’s kinda a noob trap.

For clarity’s sake, the original intent behind copyright was definitely to protect authors and thereby foster creativity, but corporations like Disney have lobbied very successfully over the years to prevent original works from becoming public domain.

Meanwhile, in classic fashion, those same companies have taken public domain works and turned them into ludicrously successful IPs!

I argue that this is a positive aspect of capitalism that our governments have unduly suppressed in favor of corporate sponsors (further solidified by an increasing legal allowance of such sponsorships), and that we should return to a more reasonable timeframe for full exclusivity.

I think so. I get the same sort of articles pushed on me in my news feed, like “How this 20 year old’s side hustle allowed her to buy a house with cash!” It feels sometimes like a narrative being pushed by media conglomerates to keep people hopeful or to sway public opinion, but I assume the actual answer is that those articles generate a reliable number of clicks and therefore revenue.

So yeah, it’s infuriating to consider that people are being manipulated like that, but in most cases it doesn’t really affect me, so my fury stays at a mild level.

It sounds like you think this shouldn’t be here, but do you think it’s not worth talking about or that we should all be more than mildly infuriated?

The only way I see it as being negative is to look at it like the “yeah, okay” Jennifer Lawrence meme.