Yep, and its played totally straight with a character that is not supposed to come off as a creep. Like, they put this in apparently for no reason other than to normalize this kind of activity.
I mean, the ENTIRE movie is right wing propaganda, so the fact that this is in there really kinda makes sense in that light, but it was still a weird choice.
Its like how literally every time you post about how common pedos are or some specific statistic about assaults, you end up with dudes popping up to clarify the difference between the various kinds of pedos and point out deficiencies in the stats and stuff. Some dudes are REALLY invested in normalizing this shit.
The main red flags were that the artists released several albums in a short time span and had no online presence on any platform you would expect to see musicians on (Bandcamp, Discogs, etc) besides YouTube and the streaming ones.
Honestly, those seem like pretty big red flags since that is how actual bands manage to actually get paid.
Russian capsules have returned to land since their very first launches.
The decision has more to do with geopolitics than physics. Russia does not have a robust Navy with access to equatorial waters on which to land a spacecraft, the US does. Given the historical accuracy of landing a capsule it is actually a hell of a lot easier to drive a big ship to the eventual location than it is to drive a big truck into the middle of a desert. The reason western nations return capsules to the sea is because its easier to recover them there.
Both approaches have technical challenges. Returning to land requires a slower landing speed (although as a percentage of the starting velocity of a spacecraft its a pretty insignificant difference) and landing on the sea requires the carrying of flotation devices and designing a capsule with buoyancy in mind.
In other words this post is completely inaccurate.
11 person company with 65,000 subscribers to their channel. Dude pays like $3000 per subscriber. Be cheaper just to pay people to listen to him.
It literally would have been cheaper to pay every subscriber a thousand dollars to listen to him.
He has made billions of dollars of the presidency and made himself everyone’s fucking problem, probably everything that he ever wanted.
Isn’t this one of those states that instructed people to report all their immigrant neighbors?
I guess they didn’t mean white immigrants.
If anyone is curious here’s a fairly exhaustive description of the radio situation for this flight:
Steam is a great example of how a privately held company can out compete publicly traded and venture capital funded corps.
It can take greater risks and can fund initiatives that won’t pay out within the current quarter. The steam deck is a great example of that. A device that no other corporation thought that we wanted and that required like a decade of working with open source linux projects to make happen, that isn’t something that EA would have been able to manage.
Except that your boss just found an employee it likes more than you that doesn’t cost anything. The fact that it sucks at its job isn’t immediately apparent because your boss is an idiot.
Right, you can afford to do that because the company you are using is taking a loss on the product.
They are good enough to see points of light in a black sky.
For the simple reason that is is REALLY cheap to make and monetize real porn.
The only people using AI to make porn are people who wouldn’t be able to pay for it if they charged what it costs to use.
Yep. I bet the reason they never actually closed the deal with Disney is that Disney discovered that shitty Sora CG cost more than their in house systems.
That was probably what sunk the Disney deal.
Disney can already make shitty CG animation for basically nothing. What Sora did was offer a way of doing it without any real expertise, but Disney already had that. It was probably impossible for Sora to actually produce lower-tier Disney content for less than Disney is already able to do it for.
Yeah, i think they are already doing it as a pass-through with some other company.
They are probably licensing some bullshit to someone else.
Sure, until it starts flagging normal pictures with its janky AI and you get your door kicked in based on a warrant signed by Google.
How can it usher in a thing that’s been going on for at LEAST the last 15 years?