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So...if the Supreme Court for some reason rules that US Presidents are basically immune to criminal prosecution...then could Biden have Donald Trump assassinated then rely on the Democratic-majority Senate blocking impeachment?

Either I'm missing something or I feel like the insane conspiracy theorists aren't thinking this one through...

Think RimWorld is a Unity game and it would be a chance to migrate to using DOTs if they stuck with Unity, which has more optimization and multithreading oppurtunities than classic GameObjects did.

But if there's no fundemental architectural improvements you can make that increase performance, a fresh start only really lets you throw away bad decisions you made that you still have to keep working for backwards compatibility (and instead make a new set of bad decisions!).

It's fun, definitely not something to do every run but poking Cthulhu in the eye every now and then is a nice change of pace and I can see lots of the features for Anomoly/1.5 being useful for modding (the Engine now supports cells not tied to a world tile, which is *huge* for mods considering the hacky solution Save our Ship et al had to do to fake that).

The only other thing I could see as a big shakeup DLC tbh is either bringing in orbital exploration, or vehicles. I could see an 'exploration DLC' adding both on a similar theme. But adding 'narrative options packs' like this is an interesting way to drive more development, and the 1.5 changes alone are pretty cool and something I can see being built on for future DLCs (and of course many mods).

From the BBC News articles, it seems they managed to stop the civilian traffic in the two minutes between when the mayday was issued and the collision happened, but there was still a road crew on the bridge at the time of collision and six of them unfortunately likely perished in the water.

4) While there is certain excessive hate in Ukrainian society I hope to never live to see a day when Ukrainians will drag a half-naked body of a likely raped to death Russian woman over the streets of some Ukrainian city with crowds celebrating a bloody raid into a Russian city. If I do, I'll consider a different self-identification. Don't compare my nation to... those people with a culture of institutionalized hate.

Uh-huh, and if Ukrainians were like Hamas or Israel in tactics against Russian cities, I'd be advocating only providing humanitarian aid and not military aid. Guess what my stance on Israel/Gaza is?

Both sides deserve humanitarian aid, neither side is deserving of military aid. Hamas may be worse than Israel in many ways, but they already don't get military aid from the West. Israel do get military aid from the West. That's the issue I take. That innocent families and innocent medics are killed with Western-supplied bullets.

Apparently USA are saying ISIS claiming it backs up the information they passed on, so seems like they're more likely.

Which would suggest if it is a false-flag, it's an "allow it to happen" type rather than a "orchestrate it" type. If not...well, cock-up over conspiracy and all that.

The tldr of my opinion is:
Whenever there's an advancement in AI it's always that there are two possibilities:
a) We're just at the forefront of what can be achieved with this new advancement and we're on the verge of a singularity
b) The room for growth in this new advancement is actually fairly small before you run into intractable problems

And every time, without fail, it's talked about like (a) will happen, and every time, without fail, (b) happens. So I'm going to need extraordinary evidence of a before I don't treat that claim like I do claims of aliens. "It's never aliens until it definitely is aliens", so to speak.

For the new LLM models, the intractable problem I think it seems to have is *context*. To generate a whole novel with consistent context, you'd need to tokenize the previous data and feed it in when generating the next chunk. This is an exponential problem, and basically kills any significantly large content generation.

Which means when the inevitable gold rush calms down, for creation it'll settle into a place as another tool for speeding up work and like all other such tools it'll cost jobs when the total required output is limited such that you'd be creating more than demand with current numbers.

September 11th 2001 was quite a day.

And of course it can never be forgotten, the release of Portal Runner for the PS2.

Lest we forget.