Well… while the price of the Switch 2 certainly causes sticker shock, when you adjust for inflation it’s only about as expensive as the SNES was at launch… and is in fact cheaper then the NES was at launch. However, in the PS3’s case when adjusted for inflation it was about 1.5 times as expensive as the SNES at launch (for the 20 gb version, the 60 gb was double).

Eh, the first Dirk Gently novel was kinda a mess IMO, I think it tried to fit too many ideas into one book. I thought it’s sequel “The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul” was amazing though.

Tennessee university reinstates professor fired for post criticizing quoting Charlie Kirk.

There fixed it.

Player: “Uh, hey… wouldn’t beating this section be easier if you didn’t jump directly into the lava pit?”

AI Ghost: “LOL, you’re right!! 😂😅🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️ I’ll try to incorporate your feed back into future attempts to complete this section!”

<Proceeds to beeline for the lava pit and jump in>

Well, he’s not “one of us” anymore. (For those that don’t know one of his campaign slogans was “He’s one of us!”)

Yep, another case of aggressively fleeing angry armed men trying to kidnap you. Just as I expected.

Federal authorities say an ICE agent, “fearing for his life” killed a woman during a confrontation Wednesday in south Minneapolis.

Can’t wait for the footage of her driving away at 20 mph.

You know… this is the first time I saw the tacked on “Donald Trump” they didn’t even manage to match the font of the original name. They somehow did a worse job then “The Ichy & Scratchy & Poochy show” did in the Simpsons.

The difficulty I see here is that it took the yeast not very long to mutate a beneficial effect, but it could just as quickly mutate away from that and even mutate something harmful.

That seems unlikely. The entire way it works is the yeast produces proteins that “look” like a virus to the immune system, causing a immune response. However that’s the only part of of the virus in the yeast, there’s nothing else that completes the virus. It’s like… a steering wheel without a car, no matter how hard I mime swerving to run over a pedestrian nothing’s gonna happen, because there is no car.

If the viral protein mutated it’d either A) still be recognized as a viral protein and generate immunity for a virus that doesn’t exist, or B) generate a non-functional protein that the body would simply digest.

There already are oral vaccines? There’s one for rabies that’s been airdropped across the US for years now… however to be fair that one is a live attenuated virus.

Edit and FTA:

Oral vaccines against rotavirus, cholera and polio exist, so it’s a viable strategy.

In this case it’s my understanding that they’re using the yeast to “smuggle” the viral proteins through the stomach acid, and then when the yeast is digested in the intestines the body is exposed to the added viral proteins. So since you need live yeast you can have vaccine beer, but not vaccine bread.

Well, duh… it’s the next techbro “We’ll replace all our workers with <fill in the blank> technology!” wet dream. And just like 99% of techbro projects (such as LLM’s being cast as “AI”) it’s very obviously an unworkable solution propped up by the techbro’s lack of understanding and billions of venture capital from rich but dumb investors.

Ran out of black markers I’d guess.

McDonalds want’s new customers too, but that doesn’t mean that they should announce that they’re going to be focusing on expanding McDonalds into a sushi restaurant. Sure sushi is great, but it has an entirely different supply chain and preparation method than hamburgers. By pushing McSushi you both risk driving away driving away customers who only wanted a simple burger joint as well as risking introducing inefficiencies as your hamburger cooks and sushi chefs trip over each other in the kitchen.

Fuuuucckk!

I mean LLM’s can only regurgitate their training data in various configurations, and CEO’s usually just repeat whatever popular buzzwords/tech trends they’ve recently heard. It seems like it would work.

Reeeally hope those were dentures… otherwise, ow.

Fresh meat volunteering for the front lines!

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I really shouldn’t joke, Putin might.

Hey, a turnip is probably worth more than the can’s recycling value, so he came out ahead!

Remember back when he supported Junteenth as a holiday?

Well of course. Honestly I’m surprised it took this long. As I’ve said in the past, there’s no bigger tent than a fascist who needs power, and no smaller one than a fascist who has power. Trump has gotten the votes he needed from the Catholics, so it’s out with “We’re all Christians here!” and in with “They’re not real true Christians!” In this case apparently because they commit the sin of empathy.