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I'm not. Business operate in Texas. I never said that they don't. But major politicians are not making it part of their platform.

Texas politicians never run with clean energy as part of their platforms. They still run with oil as their main shtick. That doesn't mean that they don't let clean energy operate in their state, because they'd be silly to completely turn down money. But they can't openly announce it as a point of pride because it'll anger their base.

To answer your question: Texas. Running on a platform of clean energy is political suicide in half of America, particularly in the south.

This is the real issue nobody else wants to address. Tastes have changed and genres have progressed.

A few other old time devs have tried reboots of their games (a few point and click adventures, mostly) and they were hyped up beyond belief since they were made by legendary developers and were "bringing back the classics". Then they released and got a few sales from older people wanting to get a taste of youth again, but realizing it's just not the same. Those new games by old devs didn't progress in terms of gameplay, and visually, they were worse because they tried too hard to be "retro" and made things look shoddy and low effort on powerful hardware. When back in the day, artists busted their asses to make things look beautiful on shoddy hardware.

Myst has had a bunch of sequels and remakes, but there's a reason people only care about Myst 1. It was lightning in a bottle and trying to desperately pull the "remember Myst?" card several times gets a bit embarrassing after a while.

That imaginary integrity never existed. If anything, favors for favors are now less common than they used to be.

Not sure why you're surprised. That's just how business/networking/capitalism works everywhere on earth and it's been like that since the dawn of civilization. And why would Congress stop is since they're all getting the same benefits and don't even hide it?

AI is trained on how people on the internet talk. The message just sounds like a pissed off dude whose style was copied by slopbots.

All hours humming is absolute torture and anyone who dismisses it has lived a very privileged life. Low humming penetrates walls, goes through ear plugs, and can be felt by the body. It carries for miles. It's inescapable. It makes it impossible to focus. It ruins sleep and destroys health. If I were the CIA and I wanted to demoralize a population and also cause a violent uprising, I'd have low bass humming constantly howling in the background within earshot of residential areas.

Years ago, I lived in a town where low humming would start up in the early mornings and go for hours. It drove me insane with the back of my mind trying to figure out what was causing it while simultaneously trying to ignore it and failing. I moved far away but sometimes I hear a rumble that goes on a little too long and that sense of dread starts to creep back into my mind.

Saying something is only bad if it's a crime is something only an employee of a corporation says. It's not a viewpoint. It's paid for. Very inorganic.

People who claim those things always develop moral compasses when it's too late after their/your employer fires them.

Turning oneself in doesn't absolve one of a crime. Never did and never will. Shouldn't, either.

And companies always try to pretend someone out there is worse and garner fake sympathy. OpenAI blew up the memory market and made tech inaccessible. The downstream effects of that are immeasurably massive and will have real consequences. It could even result in medical devices becoming too expensive for people. I don't care about my SSN being leaked. You can find it just by knowing where I'm born and every job I've applied to knows it already. But inability to afford technology affects everyone around me. The SSN red herring thing is not an organic argument.

"But another company did some different bad thing" is the excuse employees of bad companies all go to immediately. Just because another person did something bad and hasn't been adequately punished doesn't mean you should get a pass. If one person gets away with going 50 MPH over the speed limit, it doesn't mean every person should be allowed to do it. Everyone should be punished, but there are always instances of some cases falling through the cracks. It doesn't mean the crack should be widened so all cases fall through.

I don't assume it's trash. I know with absolute certainty. It's the same as seeing someone posting with one of those old NFT monkey avatars. You know they have nothing of value to say, and they're most often going to try selling you something of no value.

AI images are the antithesis of self expression. Self expression would involve some actual creation.

I don't pick a book off a shelf and call it my own self expression. That's someone else's output. I also don't consider a machine's randomly generated output my own self expression. No actual person without financial incentive would.

I've developed an internal heuristic that tells me people who think an AI image to fill some blank space in any way improves anything aren't saying anything of value. There's a strong likelihood they're just trying to promote some product or scam. I came to this conclusion after seeing 100% of sites with AI images plastered on them being scams and BS with no actual value.

Meanwhile, a blog that's basic HTML and text and looks like it's fresh from 1998 is generally high quality info. People who are willing to write like that and publicly share it have confidence in what they're writing. And if that blog spreads, it's because the content is good. Not because it was eye catching at a glance.