There is a demand for the data centers, but its not ai. That’s just the excuse. They’re building a surveillance state to track everyone. You thought the Chinese social credit system was bad just wait for the American freedom to lick billionaire boots surveillance system where anyone critical of the new nobility gets locked out of social mobility.
Also didnt they start planning this thing like three months ago. Most performers have their schedules set like a year in advance. My understanding is that a bunch if the acts didn’t even know they were in it.
The point of the Obama Iran deal wasnt to stop Iran from getting the bomb. It was to diffuse regional tensions by having a publicly contrite Iran work its way back into the global economy. Moderate dems have always believed in peace through economic colonialiam. Similar to how his administration softened on Cuba.
If it had been left in place Iran would be selling oil without sanction to the whole world right now, and building a larger economy of manufacture for the region. Any guess as to who in the area didnt fuckin want that?
Did you know that many of the companies that serve these cameras are data collection firms that sell the data they collect, often to governments for the purpose of tracking people wherever they go. But yeah I guess this the only way we can get people to slow down.
You know, speed cameras are expensive to cities, and a lot of the fines go to paying the company servicing the cameras rather than filling the local coffers. Not to mention they contain a Iot of copper and other sellable materials.
Yes they all should.
Honestly, im pretty sure our voting machines are rigged. Thats the only way that makes sense for Ted Cruz.
My favorite weird little guy was a halfling rogue, but he had an academic background. So he played like this overly optimistic nerd who just wanted to make the world a better place. I was playing him in a way that his optimism would fail when facing reality, but I kept rolling 20s. “Couldnt we all just get along?” Solved two conflicts. The best one was, “perhapse you have forgotten the power of love!” Convinced two dragons who hated each other to date. I miss that little guy. I still use his voice sometimes.
You telling me the gang wouldn’t get sidetracked by a locked door?
My friend ran a one shot session a while back. Lots of fun, new players to the table, but everyone was experienced. The boss that night wasnt the commissar or the backstabbing official that gave us the mission, it was a locked door. Sometimes it’s not about the storytelling or the hooks. sometimes even good players in a good group are dense and all you can do is sit there hoping they figure it out as they bang their heads against the wall.
On the one hand, “Oh yall latched onto an inoccuous flavor comment I made and now you want to go somewhere else entirely? Okay, gimme a minute.”
On the other hand, “please for the love of God I set this situation up specifically for the players background and character growth so stay here a minute and just solve the goddamn riddle. Its horse, okay the answer is horse!”
A.friend of mine recommended this when I mentioned peanut butter and banana. Its not bad, though the peanut butter gets more viscous so the whole thing is a bit more messy.
Ow wow she got to meet Stephen King?
I mean have you seen this administration?
Actually, for a fascist it’s very easy. When words dont really mean anything and your ideology demands no consistency you can say what you want and defend the indefensible. If you think that rational people would see through all that you’re right, but their followers arent. They’ve been trained for over forty years to be led by the nose by their media peer group. Be it conservative news or Facebook posts or green text or their local evangelical demigogue, whatever it is they will be told what they want to hear. Trump is right, and by extention they are right too. And to question it is to put at risk all the relationships they’ve built up over their lifetime. To be wrong is too risky, so they simply arent. And people like Sean Hannity can say whatever they want without question.
My friend ran a game recently where the final boss ended up being an open door. Good times.
The arc of technology progress since the crash in the early 2000s has been pump and dump scams perpetrated on the entire market.