So, re-release Tay as a sex chatbot, got it, on it!

That’d still be better than Xbox S, Xbox Series X, Xbox One S

Having access to the raw materials is the hard part, depending on where you are. If the place your or any other tribes migrates around lacks the raw rocks, you’re shit outta luck.

Copper and tin are relatively easy to work, as you can melt the metal into an earthen or sand mold. A furnace that can melt it isn’t too hard to create. From that to a steam engine isn’t that big of a jump, the Greeks figured that out but never thought about making it do labor.

Another hurdle is surviving long enough, as you wouldn’t have access to sanitation or medicine.

Yet several cultures across the world developed means to drink milk and eat cheese. The mongols’ fermentation process allows them to eat and drink despite being lactose intolerant, not to mention they make kumis from mare milk

Not all obesity is solely due to what you eat. Hypothyroidism can cause obesity even if you eat healthy.

Also, most of these fat looking statues are of women. It’s important to keep in mind that, back then, they were likely to give birth to 4+ kids (child mortality was high) and pregnancy can cause all sorts of changes in their bodies.
A woman looking like that statuette would certainly be rare, but you could expect to find something “close enough” from a number of women aged over 50 that had many children before menopause.

China does something similar, but they used pandas

Takenoko intensifies

Darkest Dungeon?

Age of Empires 2, despite being Microsoft owned, is easily one of the best strategy games of all time and has very clearly stood the test of time. It’s over 25 years old and people kept playing it a lot even before the HD remakes. I remember reading that the folks that made the 1st game often had to choose between “actual history or hollywood history” for some details, often going for hollywood because it made for a more fun experience.

I suspect Factorio might stand the test of time as well, and it’s clearly something made by someone who really understands the medium. I haven’t begun my factory yet.

And you didn’t even blow

Last week, as this discussion was getting media attention, Meta said that “most of those posts only stay up for 4-8 hours before the (uploader) deletes it, before we’ve had time to review”

Dunno how truthful that statement is, but that really shows how easy it is to game their system

Deliciously ever-hot orange pie

Right now at least, AI is being more of a headache than anything in coding. Microsoft itself was responsible for one such gaffe in May, as an actual coder had to tell the AI to fix an error, again and again, as each time it’d make a different mistake

The main problem is that the platforms have a money incentive to keep spam and scam posts online. They pay meta and TikTok for boosts, the scam gets boosted, all done.

Frankly, it seems like the problem could be solved by forcing the platforms to get a Know Your Customer level of information and putting that info on every boosted post, so people know who’s paying for that.

Buuuut, it’s Brazil. Justice and fairness only ever happen as side effects from judges’ decisions

And if you’re a cop, you’re gonna work after death

Now that’s The Joker

Any influencer that relies on YouTube ad money won’t make the full jump.

Other than that, they’ll very quickly find out that keeping a video focused service running and serving 10k views daily (300k/mon) is very expensive both in storage and bandwidth.

LineageOS works on a bunch of non google phones

Wrong root password, this incident will be reported

The problem isn’t the toys and dolls, but being overly attached, which can happen to any material possession, even “adult things” like cars or clothes.

Eeeehhhh, I’d silently judge anyone with a Funko collection. 2 or 3 would still be fine