DeepThought42
From my experience 4chan is not a place for any sort of serious discussions. From what I saw there it's about trying to shock, disgust, and/or troll people as much as possible.
Reddit lost what little interest I had remaining when they announced they would be selling our content to train LLMs. To be clear, they were already on a downward spiral before then with their ever increasing focus on monetizing the platform as much as possible, but the "AI" business was the straw that broke the camel's back for me.
Also made the jump multiple times so far, when the servers were cooperating. While everything visual is pretty much just placeholders for now and it's clear a lot more work is needed, it's still very encouraging to experience the JP actually working and allowing transit from Stanton to Pyro and back again.
I wish the media wasn't so focused on stuff like this. It's only feeding their egos and driving them to even further to out compete each other in the worlds biggest a-hole contest.
X4 - Foundations. I've played over a thousand hours of this game, and cursed it's name through much of that gameplay. On the surface it's a passable first-person space-flight simulator (in the loosest sense of the term) with combat, trading, and various missions. It also supports higher tier empire building and strategy, which I've found the most compelling, but that aspect is often at odds with it's first-person nature. I grit my teeth every time I've had to interrupt the act of building out a new station or coordinate an assault on an enemy system in order to personally save a single transport ship from a pirate/Xenon/Kha'ak attack because no matter how good or how many NPC escorts I hire they are never adequate. And if you lose a ship, good luck figuring how which station or trade routes it was servicing. The one saving grace was the ability to pause the game in order to do things like designing a station or directing ships without the concern of being interrupted. Naturally, this drags out the game significantly.
Other major detractors are the clunky, thoroughly inadequate UI (yes, there are mods that help, but they never go far enough) and the laughably bad missions. However, I must stop myself here or I will end up writing a lengthy thesis on this game.
Suffice it to say, it's a flawed, but oddly addictive game.
Assuming their assertion that porn causes brain impairments to be true then it becomes easy to surmise that their politicians have been watching a LOT of porn.
During the course of the investigation into the shooting, deputy Herandez resigned from the force.
Good. So now maybe they should look into their hiring and retention policies to ensure this doesn't happen again.
They have to know that if they reject the sound logic of the lower courts then their heads could be literally on the line, if not from the current president, possibly the next.
The Supreme Court is the final appeals court, so it makes sense that they can be asked to review cases like this. However, in this case I certainly hope they do the logical thing and pass on hearing this case since the appeals court clearly got it right.
It's scary how close they came to pulling that conspiracy off.
Good to be reminded of this again, thanks. I just wish that it didn't feel so .... relevant.
Time to put away the pitchforks. It's not what the title and description might suggest. This is just an exposé by Johnny Harris on the history and overreaches of the intelligence apparatus here in the US .
Aside from the one line of text in the description, at no point does the video attempt to repudiate the great orange troll.