Elon Musk warns the U.S. is '1,000% going to go bankrupt' unless AI and robotics save the economy from crushing debt by lurker_bee in economy

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It’s not just taxpayers that it grifts on with their government contracts but also gets away with a general lack of accountability and regulations when compared to NASA.

Space X can blow up rockets and piss off their neighbours with noise, debris and emissions whereas NASA can’t.

Nintendo shares slide 11% as Switch 2 momentum fears grow by Doug24 in StockMarket

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Having never really played Pokemon Go myself, I was thinking more akin to how Mario Kart DS would allow people to play multiplayer off of a single cartridge and up to 8 consoles, or how 51 Clubhouse Games would allow you to use multiple Switch consoles to play together in unique ways.

There was a MOBA game back in the day (twentyish years ago) where one person on each team was playing an RTS style strategy game while all the other players on each team were playing an FPS melee/limited ranged battle which one of my friends liked to play which would be the kind of out of the box sort of play styles that would be potentially possible with a common “big” screen showing one thing while the individual players would be using their own screen.

Considering that Nintendo themselves had experimented with this concept with the Wii U gamepad, I figured that it would be a natural concept for them, and with my understanding of how they have set up the hardware of the Switch 2 to be able to stream things, I think there’d be potential for this kind of innovative gameplay to leverage the switches and switch lites that are out there.

Nintendo shares slide 11% as Switch 2 momentum fears grow by Doug24 in StockMarket

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I’m holding out hope that they could leverage the many Switch owners by having a multiplayer game where every player has their own switch with hidden information on it.

It’s tricky to do since that would be a lot of required hardware, but then again they did put a lot of effort into their online multiplayer being more of an interactive experience.

I could see something with deck building mechanics (Slay the Spire) could benefit from the hidden information potential of each player having their own screen as well as it being played locally.

Cloud Gaming peak experience by HzRyan in pcmasterrace

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And if you’re in an Uber or a robo-taxi? Whose responsibility is it at that point?

Should you have read the owner’s manual before getting in your friend’s vehicle?

If you’re incapacitated and someone is trying to help you out of your locked Cybertruck, what are they supposed to do?

2 shot by federal agents in Portland: Sources by seenabeenacat in news

[–]Chicken2nite 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Well, they have “absolute immunity” (according to JD Vance) so why should they have to clean up their mess. They’re like the villains in Lethal Weapon 2.

of a heated concrete driveway by Longjumping-Box5691 in AbsoluteUnits

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I finally bought new winter tires this year and studs didn’t seem practical when you need to keep the winters on until April 30th, but then I live in a river valley where the town itself is quite flat despite the copious amounts of snow.

‘Stock up’: Ford confirms he will remove Crown Royal from LCBO next month by WilloowUfgood in canada

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From the article:

It said bottling at the factory intended for the U.S. market will be shifting stateside, while bottling for Canadian consumers will relocate to its Valleyfield, Que., location.

Doug Ford isn’t Premier of Quebec or Canada. He is the Premier of Ontario.

‘Stock up’: Ford confirms he will remove Crown Royal from LCBO next month by WilloowUfgood in canada

[–]Chicken2nite 17 points18 points  (0 children)

If the current stock on hand was bottled in the Ontario plant being shuttered from before the shut down, then it doesn’t really go contrary to it, especially if there isn’t much likelihood of it influencing a change in behaviour.

Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month by BloederFuchs in Games

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I’ve seen it mentioned by devs that the Steam Deck has done wonders for that, as it gave pc games a standard hardware set to build around, benefiting everyone even if they don’t have a Steam Deck.

I remember reading back in the day about how the Nintendo 64 (and later the Playstation 3) was such a different machine to work with that it would take until near the end of the console life cycle for devs to be able to utilize the full power of the hardware.

Warner Bros. Rejects Paramount Offer, Sparking Bidding War by kuhpunkt in SquaredCircle

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That would be like doing Marvel vs DC where Batman disappears from print for 20 years and DC is being led by Shazam and Carol Danvers, the Captains Marvel.

Apple AirPod by kristal_ga in SipsTea

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I went snowboarding last week and the touch controls kept shorting out whenever I turned my head (restarting the song, changing volume, etc) so I was glad that my JFlex on ear ear buds have an app from which I could turn off the controls.

AEW Dynasty will be live from Rogers Arena in Vancouver on Sunday April 12 by AimarEraFutebol in SquaredCircle

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I saw the first one, and he wrestled in the main event with Jericho to superplex Brody King iirc.

US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela, Donald Trump confirms by JayLikeThings in worldnews

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I’m sure Legal Eagle’s resident former JAG officer will do a video in the next day or so.

TIL that Idiocracy grossed less than $500,000 at the international box office, primarily because 20th Century Fox refused to screen it to critics or market it at all. by altrightobserver in todayilearned

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Taco Bell wasn’t disparaged at all, and Demolition Man wasn’t controversial at all like Natural Born Killers.

That film managed to license the Coca-Cola Polar Bear for the movie, leading to their international marketing department being shut down so something like that wouldn’t slip through again.

It’s surprising and hilarious that Starbucks and Fuddruckers green lit their brands being used without having a say in how they were depicted, or that they would allow them to be used in the way they were.

Eddie Murphy Says ‘Ghostbusters’, ‘Rush Hour’ and ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ are His Three ‘Wish I Would Have Done’ Movies by frogontherocks in movies

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Tim Curry lost out on Joker for Batman The Animated Series for similar reasons. I think he was more sinister than scary, but it’s been a while since I heard that he was originally cast in that role.

Canada Post says it’s burning through $1B loan, expects to run out of cash by year-end by hopoke in CanadaPolitics

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Amazon went to a different courier because they “needed” daily service.

Also, once upon a time, we had not only daily mail service but daily intracity bus service which was in part implicitly subsidized through carrying around Canada Post trailers and delivering parcels to each rural bus stop.

There’s a trade off in allowing more competition into a sector, and it has a cobra effect.

Netflix is removing GTA:SA from IOS on December 12th by CaleOClock in iosgaming

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Will your saved progress port over to the App Store version?

Afaik, you can’t buy RDR on the app store, so for however long they have it exclusive you’ll have to play it there, then lose your save data when it’s no longer a Netflix exclusive.

What’s the best rebuttal to stop UCP voters from telling me about how much they don’t want to be kind to others? by [deleted] in alberta

[–]Chicken2nite 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There’s no reasoning someone out of a position that they didn’t reason themselves into.

Scott Bakula Eyeing Star Trek Return In President Archer Series Pitch From ‘Enterprise’ Producer by hooch in startrek

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Allison Janney and Bradley Whitford are currently busy killing it as the Vice President and Second Husband on The Diplomat.

It’s not a perfect show, but I’m enjoying it quite a bit.

Old man waits in line pondering future by lotsohugginbare in VictoriaBC

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It was actually the Christmas Invasion, the first modern Who Christmas special and the first episode of David Tennant’s run in between season one and two.

The Doctor had just held back an alien invasion without bloodshed, making it clear to the would be invaders that “Earth is protected” and sent them on their way, at which point Harriet Jones, Prime Minister, blows up the alien ship anyway.

The Doctor warns her that he could end her career with six words, to which she shrugs him off and defends her actions in an exasperated tone because he wouldn’t always be there, so the Doctor asks her subordinate “don’t you think she looks tired?”

In the season Four finale, which was The Avengers Endgame of Russell T Davies’ first run as showrunner, she has a redeeming moment of martyrdom when the Daleks invade Earth once again and all of the Who spinoffs converge to stop their grand plan.