I don't think there is much of a coherent plan tbh. I think they think they're moving towards Curtis Yarvin style techno-feudalism, but Yarvin is an idiot and so are the oligarchs pushing for that. They have been lulled into complacency by the status quo their predecessors engineered to make revolutionary movements unlikely to gain traction (basic social safety net, reasonably affordable food, a general sense that the state represented the people even though in reality it's been captured by capital for some time, etc.) while undermining the elements of that status quo that weren't already collapsing.
It's madness. They think they can just do whatever they want and people won't resist, while systematically dismantling everything that stopped people from resisting. This will not go how they think it will. Thankfully they're mostly surrounded by sycophants who tell them all their dogshit ideas are genius actually, it's like Putin in Ukraine. They will overplay their hand due to false encouragement from their subordinates, and it will be what destroys them.
You can be perfectly skeptical of the miraculous claims about Jesus, but he's about as well attested in history as Alexander the Great.
This is an insane take. There's like 2 or 3 references to him from the 1st century CE written by sources not affiliated with the early Christian/proto-Christian movement, which is enough to conclude he probably existed but not much more.
The consensus is that he probably existed, but he's far from one of "the best documented historical figures ever", there's like 2 or 3 mentions of him in sources outside of the early proto-Christian movement from the first century CE. That's better documented than most, which is why he probably was a real guy, but we can't really say more than that with any level of confidence. Calling him one of the best documented historical figures ever is genuinely unhinged imo.
Roman censuses also didn't make everyone return to their ancestral home because that would be inefficient and dumb. They almost certainly made that bit up to make Jesus fit prophecies about the Messiah (explaining how Jesus of Nazareth would be born in Bethlehem, even though it's wayyyy more likely he was born in Nazareth)
No one in antiquity would have thought he was born of a virgin, the word used in the original greek is parthenos, which also just means young woman. The virgin reading is just a translation error afaik.
Iirc the current consensus among critical/secular Bible scholars is that he was probably a real guy, but the stories about him in the Bible are mostly fictional (eg, he was probably born in Nazareth, not Bethlehem, did not have any supernatural abilities, and did not resurrect after being executed). Pretty sure Josephus, a historian who wrote a few decades after the historical Jesus would have died mentioned him, and iirc there's at least one or two other mentions of him in non-Christian sources (or non Christian adjacent, Christian orthodoxy hadn't really formed yet) from the first century CE.
Imo the most likely scenario is that the historical Jesus was an apocalyptic Jewish preacher who publicly opposed the Roman state and was executed for it, and most of what we consider modern Christianity was invented by Paul and his clique.
Of a 360 game? No. There might be a different game with the same name and characters tho. DS "ports" of home console games were usually just completely different games.
I think the concern is that eventually it will become required to run some games and used as a crutch to pay fewer artists (eg, using simpler models and textures, then 'upscaling' with DLSS 5). I'm not worried about that tbh because any studio that would consider doing that just makes slop I was never gonna play anyway.
KDE has nearly all of these now. Not all of them are official Wayland protocols (I think global keyboard shortcuts fall under that umbrella still). Some of the issues you're complaining about I've never even seen a Wayland desktop have (eg not letting you set a window to stay on top, literally every wayland desktop I've ever used has had this).
And graphical performance for Wayland native apps has been on par with or superior to xorg for a while, however running software through XWayland does add some latency, so for very fast-paced games running in Wine, X11 is still the move.
Wow. Project that started out by framing itself as the anti-woke X11 server is developed by obnoxious shitheads. Who could Possibly have forseen this. 🙄
I mean the best local models are only a few months behind the the best proprietary cloud models. Just look at Qwen 3.8 Flash or 27B. Imo local models are more than sufficient if you're going to use AI for programming. Who cares if the small model can't oneshot the whole patch, you shouldn't be submitting raw LLM code to public repos anyway. Imo the only acceptable use of LLMs for coding is as a way of rapidly prototyping ideas that you will later mostly/entirely rewrite by hand, or as an extra static analysis tool for finding potential security holes.
And as someone who frankly doesn't give a shit about intellectual property over code, my main ethical issue with LLMs is the monstrous resource consumption of hyperscale datacenters, so local models are strongly preferable. Also for privacy reasons.
I don't think there is much of a coherent plan tbh. I think they think they're moving towards Curtis Yarvin style techno-feudalism, but Yarvin is an idiot and so are the oligarchs pushing for that. They have been lulled into complacency by the status quo their predecessors engineered to make revolutionary movements unlikely to gain traction (basic social safety net, reasonably affordable food, a general sense that the state represented the people even though in reality it's been captured by capital for some time, etc.) while undermining the elements of that status quo that weren't already collapsing.
It's madness. They think they can just do whatever they want and people won't resist, while systematically dismantling everything that stopped people from resisting. This will not go how they think it will. Thankfully they're mostly surrounded by sycophants who tell them all their dogshit ideas are genius actually, it's like Putin in Ukraine. They will overplay their hand due to false encouragement from their subordinates, and it will be what destroys them.
99% of the games worth playing on them come out on PC, so yes.
What the fuck
This is an insane take. There's like 2 or 3 references to him from the 1st century CE written by sources not affiliated with the early Christian/proto-Christian movement, which is enough to conclude he probably existed but not much more.
The consensus is that he probably existed, but he's far from one of "the best documented historical figures ever", there's like 2 or 3 mentions of him in sources outside of the early proto-Christian movement from the first century CE. That's better documented than most, which is why he probably was a real guy, but we can't really say more than that with any level of confidence. Calling him one of the best documented historical figures ever is genuinely unhinged imo.
Roman censuses also didn't make everyone return to their ancestral home because that would be inefficient and dumb. They almost certainly made that bit up to make Jesus fit prophecies about the Messiah (explaining how Jesus of Nazareth would be born in Bethlehem, even though it's wayyyy more likely he was born in Nazareth)
No one in antiquity would have thought he was born of a virgin, the word used in the original greek is parthenos, which also just means young woman. The virgin reading is just a translation error afaik.
Iirc the current consensus among critical/secular Bible scholars is that he was probably a real guy, but the stories about him in the Bible are mostly fictional (eg, he was probably born in Nazareth, not Bethlehem, did not have any supernatural abilities, and did not resurrect after being executed). Pretty sure Josephus, a historian who wrote a few decades after the historical Jesus would have died mentioned him, and iirc there's at least one or two other mentions of him in non-Christian sources (or non Christian adjacent, Christian orthodoxy hadn't really formed yet) from the first century CE.
Imo the most likely scenario is that the historical Jesus was an apocalyptic Jewish preacher who publicly opposed the Roman state and was executed for it, and most of what we consider modern Christianity was invented by Paul and his clique.
I feel like a cardboard cylinder would be more manageable
Every accusation from fashoids is a confession.
Of a 360 game? No. There might be a different game with the same name and characters tho. DS "ports" of home console games were usually just completely different games.
It's not stupid, it's evil. They know this will kill people, and that's why they're doing it. I hope the lot of them jump into a wood chipper.
Rot In Perdition
Big Beautiful Obituary when
I think the concern is that eventually it will become required to run some games and used as a crutch to pay fewer artists (eg, using simpler models and textures, then 'upscaling' with DLSS 5). I'm not worried about that tbh because any studio that would consider doing that just makes slop I was never gonna play anyway.
Less cryptofascist and more crypto fascist lmao
KDE has nearly all of these now. Not all of them are official Wayland protocols (I think global keyboard shortcuts fall under that umbrella still). Some of the issues you're complaining about I've never even seen a Wayland desktop have (eg not letting you set a window to stay on top, literally every wayland desktop I've ever used has had this).
And graphical performance for Wayland native apps has been on par with or superior to xorg for a while, however running software through XWayland does add some latency, so for very fast-paced games running in Wine, X11 is still the move.
Wow. Project that started out by framing itself as the anti-woke X11 server is developed by obnoxious shitheads. Who could Possibly have forseen this. 🙄
I mean the best local models are only a few months behind the the best proprietary cloud models. Just look at Qwen 3.8 Flash or 27B. Imo local models are more than sufficient if you're going to use AI for programming. Who cares if the small model can't oneshot the whole patch, you shouldn't be submitting raw LLM code to public repos anyway. Imo the only acceptable use of LLMs for coding is as a way of rapidly prototyping ideas that you will later mostly/entirely rewrite by hand, or as an extra static analysis tool for finding potential security holes.
And as someone who frankly doesn't give a shit about intellectual property over code, my main ethical issue with LLMs is the monstrous resource consumption of hyperscale datacenters, so local models are strongly preferable. Also for privacy reasons.
This article seems good, it cites relevant scientific papers: https://med.stanford.edu/news/insights/2025/01/microplastics-in-body-polluted-tiny-plastic-fragments.html