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There are plenty of movies where the CGI is creating elements that could well be real, like people or buildings. There was a movie recently where rather than go through the legal hassle of having live horses on set they just CGIed every last shot that contained a horse, even if they were just standing around in the background. You’ve no doubt watched plenty of CGI imagery that you had no idea was CGI. It looked good, that was all.

When you watch a movie with computer-generated special effects, are you happy watching a lie?

If 97% of listeners can’t tell the difference then I’m not sure the point of quibbling the definition.

Unless you enjoy music regardless of whether it’s AI generated, in which case the future’s going to have way more options.

Turns out a lot of people like how it sounds.

You can be the change you want to see.

And also distractions. And to be a “wartime president.” Lots of stuff here.

The funny thing is that we have been doing a lot about it lately, most launch providers these days take care to ensure that their spent boosters reenter and satellite operators include provisions for moving them to graveyard orbits when they’re done.

Except China, who have continued to be rather sloppy when it comes to disposing of their boosters. Maybe this will give them a nudge.

Don’t jump to conclusions. Jimmy’s “intervention” has been largely rejected by the Wikipedia community, and it wasn’t much of an intervention to begin with.

According to Wikipedia Venezuela has a single submarine whose operational status is unclear. It also has only a single missile frigate, with the rest of its navy being a few dozen patrol boats and gunboats.

Venezuela isn’t going to be attacking that carrier group. At best it’ll try to shoot down US aircraft and missiles that are actively bombing them.

I’d also be concerned about the physical capacity of the Threadiverse to handle such a huge influx of users all at once. A lot of instances might get overwhelmed.

My guess would be that they want to provoke Venezuela into defending their citizens, which they can then point to as a hostile act to justify direct strikes.

They are not yet in a similar boat.

At least Ukraine can show that some positives have come out of the war for them, too. Their bonds with Europe have strengthened, their national identity has been forged in fire. I’m not saying it wouldn’t have been awesome if the war had never happened, or that it was a net benefit, but at least they are coming out of this with some real tangible benefits in addition to the tragic losses.

Russia gets nothing and loses everything.

And Argentina’s hyperinflation is way down. Argentina had 112% inflation previously. Economies are complicated and you can have good things happening alongside bad things, for various reasons.

My point is that the simple fact that Argentina needed a bailout doesn’t mean that his policies “don’t work.” These things are more complicated than a simple red or black number in an annual balance sheet.

To be clear, I don’t like Milei. But Argentina was in a terrible state for a long time before he came to power, and whether I like a person or not doesn’t have much effect on whether his policies are effective.

Or, Argentina simply has an enormous hole to dig itself out of from its previous mismanagement.

I’m not actually fond of most Libertarian policies myself, I lean socialist in general. But you can’t judge his performance purely on the basis of needing a lot of money, he wasn’t starting from a blank slate. From what I’ve read he’s actually managed to make good progress on a couple of deep economic problems Argentina had.

In theory, the Nobel’s prize money is meant to support the winners in future endeavours. So not much point if they’re dead. IIRC Nobel didn’t really intend it to be about fame and glory, it was meant to be supporting development in those fields the Nobels were allocated to.

And then there’s the Americans, for whom literally everything has to be about America in some way or another.

I saw a thread earlier where it was pointed out that the ban message wasn’t the one typical of an inactive sub, but of an active sub that was banned due to some kind of rule violations going on there.