Political focus groups suggest that any opinion or stance on any issue may open a politician to criticism, so obviously doing nothing will yield optimal polling results! /s

The consultant wing needs to fucking die.

Meanwhile a surprising number of outlets are advertising %100, including corporate ghouls like iHeartRadio. Hopefully that trend continues as people get sick of slop pushed in marketing.

All the apply to my human children, depending on the day.

I was thinking that, but it’d be pretty funny if their PR was responsible for hitmen and death squads or something as a way to appease shareholders.

Don’t let the intern pay for hitmen though, they have no idea what they’re doing.

Interestingly, many skip that first step. Iirc, it’s about 30% who don’t get more awake but rather start to relax under caffeine. About the same % who also need to poop right after, but not the same people. Lol

Significantly better, actually, but it helps that I didn’t spend my teens and 20s doing hard drugs. Uhh… in the US.

It’s not legally martial law, but I haven’t claimed anything he’s going is legal. Nor are all things legal okay-- tear gassing people is legal, somehow, but not ok.

But I’m in a city he sent ICE. On average it’s more a secret police operation than a military coup.

My email keeps making fully completed response emails and they’re dreadfully boring. Same for my texting app. It’s all so… unoriginal.

Even an official reply to something, like a doctor or a student, I can’t imagine not writing it myself.

That’s why I said AI assisted. The text is top notch human.

True. Maybe a guide that mentions the big names would suffice? I have a friend scared away with the choice paralysis.

The Linux part is a bit of an afterthought in that announcement but it’d be pretty cool if they’d just go all in. They admit they’re the main browser of most Linux distros after all, why not give a specific setup a shout-out? Most of the confusion in switching is in distro and interface, after all.

As much as I believe Trump should face literally any punishment over January 6th riots, the Korean ex-president ordered a martial law shutdown and involved the military. This is more akin to what Trump is going to do in 2026 and/or 2028 when he suspends elections over martial law.

Inciting a mob is still illegal, but it’s a bit harder to prove beyond a reasonable doubt than ordering your military to stop Congress from acting. Of course, I’m not counting on Congress to even hold him accountable for abusing martial law (he’s committed crimes magnitudes worse than Jan 6th since then without any repercussions), just that we haven’t seen the martial law version yet.

At worst, AI assisted, the overall photo adds up as this is clearly at UMass and the words on the posters make sense. As for the poster in question, to imagine a college student into the fine arts being willing to boot up a student copy of Illustrator to make that background graphic and text isn’t very far fetched, though. It’s just sloppy enough that I can believe it’s not AI (I did similar posters 18 years ago in college, lol).

Only real verification is from the source, though. Lord knows every other FF music channel on YouTube uses AI slop FF titles.

Nah… they let you keep the placenta, sure, but the doc gets to keep the foreskin for their special baby skin leather doctor’s coats.

BS story, but there are indeed issues. I’ve got a 2 and 3 year old myself, and speaking from experience, it’s a mess that’ll put me in the red until my 3yo is 5, eating into my savings.

As mentioned, private is still the primary option for kids under 4 but we even have a lovely local program that can start at 3 if you’re poor enough (and in CA, that’s around 100k/yr lol). The problem is the time. They’re like 3 hour programs, some full time that’s still only 6 hour. With two working parents with minimal family support, that’s still a non starter if they can’t stay past 3pm.

At least my private daycare is cheap-ish at the cost of religious brainwashing, and that hasn’t seemed to matter for a kid like mine. Standards still keep them from, y’know, beating kids and whatnot.

Many locations had it but I’m unsure just how much was state, and even then, they usually had poverty requirements. After all, I’m a recipient and that was over three decades ago. Iirc, that was majority federal funded.

You’re looking at a mix of local, state and federal funding, and an expansion at the state level is big for less rich parts of CA, like Bakersfield and Fresno.

How I wish there was an FTL style Star Trek rogue like with minimal combat and mostly just choices and exploration.

Well, it’s “free” under insurance, yes. The bigger thing is that it’s covered under every insurance and I think Medicaid, the public assistance healthcare. Not that it’s all that expensive when a birth is like, tens of thousands of dollars sometimes.

I’ve never met anyone who paid for it, though. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was in law that you had to cover it (while shit like birth control is still debated).

The article is bunk, but oddly enough the all time high by Steamdb suggests it’s around tied with DST, Megabonk, Hades II, and a few others at 115k-ish.

Nightreign, as AAA go, 313k at peak, lol.

You can still tell the article is bunk for comparing it to Stray as a cat game. Oh yeah, sure, while we’re at it let’s compare to Hello Kitty Island players, eh? AI logic. Lol

The article is talking about concurrent play, which generally peaks near release for all genres, with a few exceptions (like Hollow Knights sleeper numbers). Isaac came out when there was relatively fewer players and it’s a slow growth, so the original probably didn’t have a very high concurrent count.

The remake is around 70k peak, although it’s oddly high at 20k right now, perhaps because if Mewgenics.