Catoptric wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 14, 2023 4:28 pm

I'm sure some soulless corporation will acquire the brand. . .

It already was. Sapporo bought it 2017. People often abandon a local brand once one of the big corporations suck it up, so maybe that was the beginning of the end.

That letter seems a bit suspicious. Just a little too accurate about WWI and WWII. So far, wrong about WWII. Was fascism even a thing in 1871? Also, he sure has a burr under his saddle about the Jews. That's typical when it comes to conspiracy theorists, but not so typical about Confederate generals...

The counter point to this argument is : 1) Why has Putin been so public in condemning Prigozhin publicly and continuing to do so after the fact. Failing to punish Prigo makes Putin look soft and/or the FSB look incompetent. Not typical for Putin who likes to project a strong man image at all times. ...

I'm a bit surprised at how much media coverage this thing has garnered. Almost certain they are dead, but of course, now that's it's drawing eyeballs the media is going to drag this thing out as long as possible. Surely by tomorrow the mission will have to change from rescue to recovery (should alre...

I believe all communication with the sub was lost a few hours into the dive. The sub has 2 communication options, a text message system and a bare bones "I'm alive" ping. I believe the alive ping is a bare minimum functionality that should operate under anything but catastrophic failure conditions. ...

And if the bad guys let AI run wild for nefarious purposes (internet disinformation and the like), the good guys will probably have to let AI run wild as the only tool capable of counteracting the threat.

May you live in interesting times...

You are getting into apples vs oranges stuff. Like if Banko had simply run off (even after the fight) I would not suggest he committed a capital offence and be punished at that level, he should have just been charged with shoplifting and assault and given whatever jail time that warrants. But when o...

No, because neither of those people were committing a crime when confronted despite what their confronters might have thought. Their actions played no role in what happened to them (i.e. picking up a product in a retail store or walking through a neighborhood are perfectly reasonable, common, and le...

Though it's claimed Banko was threatening to stab the guard, they still somehow thought it was rational to start shooting them despite no knife being present in their hand or anywhere in their possession and not remaining in close proximity to the guard. For the District Attorney he probably knew o...

I have not actually paid attention to what is common in fast food chains these days. I know Pepsi has orange and grape Crush, Coke has orange and grape Fanta. I recall it used to be fairly common to find one or both flavors available, but maybe the mix of diet drinks these days (i.e. Diet Coke, Coke...