My Elsie is now fairly deaf, peversly that is a blessing as they used to send her into a quivering panic and the football training ground seemed to do them weekly a year ago. For dogs sake, I hope the legislation helps the pets and wild animals that are so badly affected by the thoughtless bangs.

These works always seem to take a surprisingly long time. Then they get dug up soon enough by utilities who fill in the hole with tarmac, ruining the whole investment in beautification.

Ah, one of my favourite terms! Have come across it in action many a time while tracking back the original source of widely used data points. AI definitely adds a new level to poorly sourced GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out).

Perhaps by good they mean accurate, not high?

Did it briefly as a teen in the UK. Hard work earning little for only months a year. Experienced, dedicated east Europeans made more reasonble money but only viable as camping on site Long termers had caravans and took £ to invest / overwinter at home. Not a long term career option for locals.

They are specialsts at rapid unscheduled disassembly. Looks glorious for a minute (from one perspective), then rains harm and pollution on the world.

Switching to see-through AR and lightweight, cool, in both meanings of the word headsets. Thats the only way to get mass traction. That's not going to be Quest 4 though.

Always thought that London will be lovely when they finish building it

Thanks so much, I think that's the one! Has been bugging me for years that I couldn't pin it down when it periodically popped into my head

One phrase that really stuck with me from my masters, 20 plus years ago: "we are building out the infrastructure for totalitarian control". Can't recall the name of who said it unfortunately, and it seems buried in the Google mind, just remember it was a woman. Anyone know?

Thats a case of 'Trigger's Broom'

Came here to say that @CMK - fight club was all about someone beating themselves and all their buddies up until they can destroy society together

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Could calso align with intent to weaken the dollar? Though from what I recall they've been a bit contradictory about that

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Why did the presenter not challenge her earlier? She came out with a slew of bullshit before that

Not my art, but one of the old Dance Macabre (iirc)from the Grand Scuola in Venice the other day

Maybe not anyone - pretty sure art/media critics and students learning the craft should do so

My handwriting is not good, but i find a fountain pen improves it

Age limiting access to harmful products is a commonly used form of regulation

Concurrent active users of the most popular (top 3 or so) worlds look to number in the low hundreds, tier two are in the tens going on what they display. Lived experience indicates they are usually young.

There were meant to be 10,000 of them already in 2022... not that anyone can find most of them though, or really wants to in most cases.

Short term gains, long term pain.

Ah it's him. Well, the second series was not good, and he was one reason why. Nonsense conspiracy plot points being the other.

My impression was they are trying to say in the subtext that it is better to break up with someone in Horizon Worlds as it is such a more personal experience.

Pretty sure I unlocked that achievement last month

Beyond shortlived hype for the word, platforms and technolgies are still operating / developing to deliver utility & entertainment via immersive experiences. The route to the metaverse end state does look very different to that planned-people not readily accepting of an imposed vision of life in VR

Short answer, this is indicative:

Same, other than WhatsApp which no one outside of the US can avoid. Quest (and I think WhatsApp still) lose Meta money, so seem less of an ethical issue to me.