There are no applicable laws that I know about, and as a voice actor I am similarly concerned. There is a lot of focus on this in the industry atm, but we all know how glacially slow government moves. SAG-AFTRA and NAVA have this as a focus currently, and I’m watching with interest.

Thankfully there are alternatives out there, and we should be using them.

They don’t. The message right now is to boycott Spotify.

I think he’s right, but is anyone else annoyed at the suggestion that anyone is truly ‘provoked’ by weakness. Prob just a translation thing?

Oh yeah def picking this one up! What a Starship Troopers game should have been! looking at you, Extermination

Remember when Jane Fonda went to Vietnam?

I think there ARE other ways to combat this, and the main one is ending activist investors that empower the Jack Welch pump and dump doctrine.

If someone wants to invest in something because they like it, they should be able to do that. What they should NOT be able to do is overwhelm a company they may or may not even like with dollars and then tell the company how to run its own business. If you don’t like what a company is doing, you SELL YOUR STOCK.

It’s this incessant worshiping of the shareholder that is step # 1 of enshittifcation.

Cancelled two weeks ago, and while it’s too early for me to have a fully informed opinion, so far I’ve noticed that if you just hold items in your cart until you reach some kind of threshold (and I admittedly don’t know what that is) you can get free shipping anyway.

It’s almost like I was paying all that money just so I could one off order anything on a whim. I’m an adult, I can exercise impulse control and stick it to Amazon in some small way by doing it. Win/Win.

That sounds like someone else we all know.

I dunno, I’m seeing this somewhat differently. Their ‘claim’ was that Ukraine shot down their own people.

This intelligence that they were going to have important targets who were originally going to board the plane hang back at the last moment gives a VERY different story, and that’s why this is news.

What it says is that they decided to kill the POWs themselves and make it ‘look’ like Ukraine did it, so they stopped regular travel for their own people.

Henceforth I will refer to OpenAI as ClosedAI.

Cry more.

Case closed.

Yeah I too have their prices to thank for finally quitting their health damaging products.

Not entirely sure what you mean, but the image in the thumbnail is taken from a video describing an old theory that stars might have a black hole at their center. It would just look like a star. You couldn’t see the black hole, but they visually cut out a section allowing you to see the center.

The question of dark matter is something that is gravitational and invisible spread in patches around the universe that can’t seem to be tracked. The idea of primordial black holes (that are clearly gravitational and they are invisible) fits the amount of dark matter predicted by our mathematical calculations under specific circumstances which are detailed in the video. It’s a theory, it’s not proven, but would answer a lot of questions.

As far as the gravitational well question… there’s only so much matter that can fit into an atom sized aperature, and all the rest of the matter trying to fit in ends up rotating around the black hole so fast that it flings away other matter trying to get in. Does that help?

Video beamed. Video intercepted by aliens. Think cats rule earth.

They’re right.

It’s real and it’s happening everywhere.

Heck, I bought BG3 for an old D&D buddy of mine who didn’t have much monies and have gotten nonstop enjoyment watching their complete addiction.

It might be the best gift I’ve ever given.

I would surmise they’re talking about a system to let us know where the worst effects are happening so people can prepare. This article says the fastest storms take 15-18 hours to arrive and most are slower. https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/phenomena/coronal-mass-ejections