“You can’t take American taxpayers who paid for roads and block them out and say you can’t access this unless you pay additional money,” Duffy said in the administration’s defense.

Has this jabroni never heard of a toll road?

In case you haven’t seen it, Tom7 created a delightful exploration of using an LLM to manipulate word counts.

They are talking about themselves in the third dragson.

Google removed “Don’t be evil”

Still parading that lie around? It’s easily verified as false. Their code of conduct ends with:

And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!

Steam has a decent review system at least. The eShop is truly horrible.

Mario AI

One of the things Notch (of Minecraft fame) was known for before MC was a Mario remake that infinitely generated levels and had API hooks for quantifying progress. This was used in AI competitions.

Similarly, one of the old Trackmania games has been modified to output position and track info around the player along with fitness measures, allowing someone to train AIs.

Jesus was born in the spring, not the winter. Christmas is an adaptation of northern winter festivities and they slapped a Christian justification on it.

Fake. I can use the same tree year after year.

They are small cylinders, so without gloves lots of half prints will be left. Fingerprints are so similar that that is unlikely to be usable to find the loader without a ton of effort. It is very useful to tie a suspect to the weapon after they have been found through other means, however.

A smart criminal should always wear gloves when interacting with anything that may be collected as evidence.

Federal or state/local?

Notch worked at King before, so MC is directly related to one of the companies on the list.

Microsoft now installs games in an unprotected directory because people were so annoyed they couldn’t use the mods made for other storefronts.

It won’t go to SCOTUS because the AG would have to defend it for it to go anywhere.

Plenty of 60-year-olds play games. They were in their 20’s and 30’s as gaming matured. The N64 and PS1 target audience was people who are now in their 50’s and 60’s.

It’s an interesting thing to consider. If someone lies all the time, is it inconsistent to distrust the positive things they say but take the bad at face value?

Washington Mutual didn’t get bailed out. The feds forced Chase to buy their accounts, making it less dramatic than Leeman.

Expanse does too, though it isn’t common in that world.

Babylon Bee promptly started posting ‘satire’ pieces about Clinton whining about Russian interference the moment the news dropped. The right’s response appears to be to connect this to the prior cases, which they already got people to believe a false narrative about.

Kerbal Space Program 2

It gets called that everywhere. Most people never need to know the actual specs for a screw, so language diverges from the classification system.

I usually keep the corrections to myself, but when somebody else is already correcting someone and they say the wrong thing too it becomes hard.