It’s not straightforward to map 2d anime girls to irl women but most female anime characters look too young. The one on the left I would say could be 20+ if we are being charitable but the one of the right seems like a schoolgirl.

Least perverted anime enjoyer

It said something else before the edit but it’s all good now.

How does one be a populist while not pandering to the public.

It could be justified if it wasn’t so locked down. Like you get high end hardware, just so you can be sony’s paypig.

I have a PS5 and it seems like it will the last console I will ever buy. Getting second hand discs for cheap was one of the reasons how I rationalised the purchase. Sadly games don’t release on discs as often now. With that and consoles getting more and more locked down they are becoming more rent extracting than ever.

I don’t even understand the point of a beefier PS5 when games that should run fine on it run like crap. That is not something downloading more RAM is gonna fix. I’m thinking of games like Wo Long, Jedi Survivor etc.

I don’t get it

They talk more about Hamas using Telegram than white supremacist terrorists if anyone was wondering what NYT has learnt from its genocidal reporting over the last 11 months.

That’s a very good drawing for a sixth grader

I would say that is largely irrelevant. Chinese EVs are so much cheaper there is no way Western producers can compete with them barring tariffs. In a level playing field Chinese companies will completely push out the Western ones in low- and mid-range market. For luxury vehicles maybe the brand recognition can save them but in a tight economy cheaper cars will attract a lot of attention.

as well as their own operations in China

This is the reason. It is not because of their interest in fairness or free market (there is none), but because China is both critical to their production process and a massive market that cannot be ignored. If China retaliates their execs won’t be able to buy their tenth yacht.

It’s Glowtime

Yeah this is true. For companies that operate the scale of FAANG, even seemingly insignificant savings add up to become significant.

Whale is a term that became popular with the rise of online games, specially on mobiles, that rely heavily on microtransactions for their income stream

The companies behind such games internally use the term whales for players/customers who spend ludicrously and disproportionately high amounts of money on the game. Often these players are addicted to the game or there are other psychological factors at play.

Most importantly, income from whales accounts for a large portion of the total income. There is this talk by a mobile game dev that went viral because he very casually talks about the exploitative nature of his games with no self awareness: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xNjI03CGkb4

Since then the term is used in other businesses where applicable. Here a small number of customers are accounting for about half the revenue so they are being called whales.

I think it’s less about models getting smaller more about the current approach to AI (transformer based LLMs) hitting a ceiling that will cause problems for them.

Let me know what you didn’t get. I’ll explain.

What have you made me look up? I demand reparations.

Yeah. Progressive bracketing of income tax is only one aspect of the whole thing. It gets a lot of attention but once you take into account taxes on everything else, which also includes the most basic groceries for some reason, the non-wealthy end up getting taxed more proportionally to their income.

That is the policy around taxation for everything. The “middle class” always froths with rage everytime the budget is announced over this. Ever since GST has been introduced it has gotten worse as well, with more of the taxes going to the central government. The economic policies here are pretty preposterous.