Personally, I think the R&D times of planes and other mainstream gear takes so long, is because there isn’t genuine necessity. First and foremost, the MiC exists to enrich elite critters - actual defense of the nation is tertiary. The secondary is just to make fancy gear that looks neat for battle glamour, but lacks substance for warfare.

I suspect an actual peer-to-peer war between NATO and Dogey America would result in much faster development time. Also many failures, but necessity would force rethinking on how to produce weapons. I listen to many videos about plane development, and WW2 really stood out in how many fails there were, while the envelope constantly got pushed.

My prediction is that Europe would be much better than America when it comes to transitioning into a true war economy, because they have a less corrupted MiC to get in the way.

I am hoping these end up as ICE vehicles. 🔒 🔥

If America has a major revolution, I suspect many of the financial assets would turn out to be smoke and mirrors, rather than something of concrete value.

Maybe you can try Adobe through CrossOver Linux’s demo and see if it works? They contribute lots of work towards Wine, but also sell a more ‘hacky’ commercial software that isn’t as strict about how it does stuff.

After switching to Linux, I will try out their software and decide whether to buy a lifetime license.

SteamOS comes with a mighty corporation to fully fund its development, plus likely being the default for the wider gaming community. If the desktop version is flexible enough to let me do mods, locale, and so on, it would be ideal for my usecase. I hate the idea of distro hopping, because I don’t want to spend time and energy figuring out things more than once.

It is my preference to only have one OS for each machine, for its entire lifespan. I would stick to Windows, if it weren’t for Microsoft being invasive and commandeering.

SteamOS Desktop can’t arrive fast enough. Once it has, I will jump ship to either CachyOS or SteamOS, depending on what reviewers say.

I was never wealthy enough to make the most of my youth. Consequently, I couldn’t leverage my youth to age happily.

It is with this premise that I began to formulate a concept of UBI, ranked income, and so forth. People simply can’t do stuff if they don’t have enough things to support a baseline existence. That baseline should be strong enough to offer education, health, freedom to wait for jobs that aren’t abusive, the ability to travel, and so on. Agency is the core to an effective human, and our capitalistic society is designed to confer that agency upon a few.

Good. Trump’s “helping” hand is covered in blood and shit.

It isn’t about the size of the dog, it is the fight in it. The Iranian chihuahua has a death grip on the neck of the American doberman.

If kids are willfully seeking porn, then it ain’t anybody’s business to stop them. Exploring and enjoying your sexuality is part of growing up, and “moral” whackjobs shouldn’t get to decide how people grow up.

Protecting the kids should be about providing useful information, contraception, and official aid against predators.

Wonder if I would grow some extra inches, if I made bread out of this yeast?

As if they weren’t already scooping up people’s information already. The point of VPN and other defenses is just to make investigation too expensive to do as a free action.

If there are reforms, I think that one of them is access to lawyers. Rich or poor, you shouldn’t pay for lawyers. Instead, they are all placed into a common pool, where each side picks their representatives. If both sides happen to pick the same lawyers, they roll a dice in front of the court until someone has the higher number. That person gets the lawyer, and the other side draws someone else of choice from the pool.

I also think that lawyers should rotate in the role they may serve after every case. Prosecution -> Defense -> Prosecution -> Defense, for their entire career as courtroom representatives. If a lawyer refuses to represent, they are barred from serving as a lawyer for four months, and their refusal goes onto a common dossier that anyone can see.

This encourages the whole profession of lawyers to ensure that the courtroom is fair to both defense and prosecution, and that both roles are equally valid when it comes to reputation.

No, I didn’t use AI for that. Humans tend to come in many flavors.

The previous post assumed that there are onlookers who don’t have experience with AI, thus wouldn’t be aware of the possibility that they can run it on local hardware.

Keep in mind, a 122b (Qwen3.5 family), is high end for consumer machines, but it is likely that DQX would be using a much smaller model. Currently, we have Qwen models that are 0.8b, 4b, 9b, 27b, 35b, 122b, and 397b. Plus, ‘quanting’ can reduce how much memory a model takes up - at a tradeoff, o’course. I am guessing DQX would have multiple local models, and use the player’s hardware metrics to decide which model to deploy.

When it comes to how much RAM is required, this screenshot from UnSloth about covers the current state of things. 4-bit is the sweet spot between quality and size, for now.

Alternatively, the Chatty Slime could rely on cloud AI. Depending on Square’s strategy, that could be a freebie or a paid service. If the Chatty Slime gave options to the player - say, trading a potion for a stat seed, or responding to a quiz, Square could sell player behavior data.

…Anyhow, my room has a mini-split AC. One of the best purchases in my life: my room lacked insulation in the first place, so it becomes toasty during summer. The side effect is being able to just run my GPU and not become a human slushy.

On my system, I can play a RPG Maker game and use a 122b LLM at the same time, alongside to a podcast. A model in that parameter range takes up about 70gb of DDR4 RAM and 36gb of VRAM. However, it used to be that a 120b AI would take a larger footprint, bringing the system to the brink. The hardware requirements are going down, and the quality also increased, alongside speed. I believe when the next major sea change of hardware happens, AI will become very practical for gaming.

The US is much like the man at the top: talking to itself, incapable of understanding the world around it.

While I think AI will be good in games, the games in question should be built with the AI in mind, rather than just shoving the AI into an existing game.

Square-Enix was doing a remake of an old detective game called Portopia, with the idea of being able to converse with NPCs about the case. That made sense, but they have seemingly abandoned the project. They should have kept working on that, instead of doing this Chatty Slime scheme.

Considering what was already happening to Gaza and Palestine, plus the egging on of the USA into war against Iran, I think Israel was already fully galvanized to make war. Israel up to this point has suffered no consequences for their actions, so there wasn’t real pressure to change things. Plus, they were taking territory from others and were enriching their populations - which is pretty popularizing by default.

Iran, on the other hand, wasn’t gaining new territories to grease the palms of their citizens. That gave much stronger incentives for their population to be opposed to their leadership, up until they got bombed by “freedom”.

Different nations, different circumstances.