Saving for months ≠ using money earmarked for necessary expenses. I saved for months to buy the parts for my PC, and all of it was discretionary income.

But I otherwise agree that you should not spend your necessary funds on unnecessary expenses.

Fucking ghoul. I wish hell was real, because you would have deserved to go there.

To quote the inventor of the Steam Brick:

Because I was so preoccupied with whether or not I could that I didn’t stop to think if I should.

All for fucking oil.

It didn’t admit anything. It doesn’t have cognition or contextual awareness. It’s just a chatbot that chose the pattern of words its algorithm determined was the best output, as designed by the bigots who built it.

Unfortunately, I tend not to play anything that pushes the power needs above 12W—usually something 2D, so it’s possible that I just don’t do anything that would make a noticeable change. Take my experience with a grain of salt.

I have not noticed that. What have you been playing? If you’ve been playing the same games, and they’ve had updates, it’s possible those updates are unoptimized or just heavier to run at the settings you had previously.

Fair enough. I’m just hopeful I’ve given them a little spark of doubt and a reminder that multibillion dollar companies aren’t in the business of telling the objective truth.

This is not a good source. This is effectively, “We’ve investigated ourselves and found [that AI is a miraculous wonder].” Anthropic has a gigantic profit incentive to shill AI, and you should demand impartiality and better data than this.

Good luck, Maine. I don’t envy having to decide if he’s your guy.

Meanwhile, I get only Trump-dick-suckers as my reps.

Yep, and it’s going into the pockets of billionaires, who are almost exclusively responsible for said climate disasters. It’s a

In a departure from the usual Betteridge’s Law of Headlines answer, probably yes, but no matter what I or the author thinks, it’s a guess. Only time will truly tell.

I haven’t played this one, specifically because people say there’s no map variety. Same path, same events, same puzzles.

Once they have some procedural generation, then it will go into my rotation with friends.

“Give me back my floppy face!”

I’m not optimistic this would happen. In countries where this does happen, they often have protections that keep them employed while exercising their right to protest.

On top of that, the US is not in a good position to strike, even if it had those protections. Unemployment is very high and only increasing. People with jobs are already struggling to pay their bills, and prices are only going up. Safety net programs like SNAP are going unfunded thanks to the Republicans who won’t budge on taking away people’s healthcare.

And to complicate matters, citizens aren’t really a united front, yet. Sure, we had 7mil people protest at No Kings, but that’s barely over 4.5% of the total number of people who voted in 2024. 7mil is a lot of people, except they’re spread out across the entire country, with a large chunk concentrated in only a few major metro areas.

So I don’t really think it’s in the cards any time soon. People are beat down and trying to form a united front that could do something like a national strike, but we’re not there yet.

I agree, and they desperately need science communicators. Every department of every university needs people who are qualified scientists who can also speak to the public about what they do.

Decentralization is the protection, but the remedy is education. Having freely available information isn’t enough on its own.

Go for it! It will be a great learning experience, I’m sure. Scratch will help you see how all the code bits work together. Maybe it will inspire more complex projects in the future!

Considering your comments, you don’t seem to know what the point I made was.

Thanks! I appreciate you noticing.

Like contributed to the project? No.

Dabbled with it? Yes. Great tool for introducing computer science basics like conditional logic and loops in a fun and visual way.