The Peter principal is the idea that anyone good at their job will keep getting promoted until they are no longer any good at the job they were promoted to. The idea is that anyone who has been in any position for any significant amount of time must be terrible at it otherwise they would have gotten promoted to a different position already.

Personally I think it definitely applies to some people but I don't believe it's the universal rule people make it out to be.

Everybody saying this is why their products are shit are really confusing me. It's not like Microsoft just started being terrible. They've been terrible for a real long time. Way before AI was a thing. This is just a symptom of Microsoft's awfulness not a reason for it.

If I'm understanding correctly there's two books being removed. And the Smithsonian is saying the loan agreement with the owner of the books, Rev. Brown, expires in May. So they're returning them to him to rotate in new exhibits per regular operating procedure. If that's true I don't really understand the issue here. Rev. Brown seems to be under the impression that they're removing the items because of Trump's order. But he, at least in this article, doesn't even address the Smithsonian's explanation so I don't really know what's going on here. But it really doesn't seem like this is because of Trump's policy. If it was why would they just be removing these two books and nothing else?

Yeah. I didn't fully read the article lol. Thats on me.

Didn't the commercial use unlicensed music too? I feel like I remember there being a lawsuit for unpaid royalties or something.

Edit: Yup!

Edit 2: I'm an idiot who didn't fully read what I posted.

Is that a threat?

This might help. If they could read.

Then Elon is going to tweet out some nonsense misrepresenting the report just like he did with their report they put out last September showing mishandled government spending to the tune of 2.3 trillion dollars between 2003 and 2023. (He first lied and said doge found the mishandled payments when they didn't. And also said the full 2.3 trillion were Medicaid payments to individuals outside the US. Which was just a blatant fabrication)

Says they dislike trump more than Democrats do then proceeds to explain why they don't dislike trump more than Democrats do.

That checks out.

This is only "baffling" if you're a total fucking moron who hasn't been paying attention.

If people these days don't know what rollercoaster tycoon is I'm going to start feeling way more old than I already do.

Until I can run special K or RTX HDR to inject HDR into games that don't support it I'm not going to switch to Linux on my main gaming PC. Its hooked up to my Nice OLED TV in my living room and games look too damn good with HDR to give that up for Linux. Yes I know HDR works on Linux now. But it only works with games that support HDR and the only "Auto HDR" solution I've found is a janky reshade plugin that only works with dx11 games and doesn't really produce very good results. I'm really holding out hope that valve figures out a nice auto HDR solution they can build into gamescope.

Your political beliefs are not a protected group. Y'all can go fuck yourselves.

Eh I see the point you're making but cartels in Mexico are a whole other breed to what's here in the US. Our politicians aren't being murdered in droves by cartels like they are in Mexico.

I laughed way harder at seeing the square root of 5 equals 5 than I did relating to the joke. Even my humor has ADHD.

Hey man, there's no need to lump the taint lickers in with this guy.

My only issue with this statement is that it implies there were cats that sounded different from how domesticated cats sound now. I'm not really conviced of that. To my understanding they have a high pitch voice because they're small. For instance you can find videos online where they record a tiger "meowing" then they pitch it up to the register of a house cat. The resulting meow sounds nearly indistinguishable (other than the digital artifacts Inherent to doing such a thing) from a regular house cat's meow. Now tigers obviously didn't adapt to meowing like infants so my conclusion is that cats just sound like that and natural (human?) Selection had very little if anything to do with it.

These things always annoy the hell out of me. Not because they're giving the game away so soon after release, but because they always say they're giving the games away for free when they're not. You have to have a PS+ account to play these. If you ever unsub you lose access to these games until you subscribe again. My library of games that I own should not be a subscription service. If you're giving me a "free" game it should actually be free and not contigent upon a $70 yearly fee. Xbox used to do the same thing but you actually got to keep your games if you ever unsubscribed from live gold.

Yes, but the question is if they model their meows to sound like human infants. We know they changed their behavior to meow when wanting attention from us. But I'd be willing to bet they didn't model their meows to sound like that. They just happen to sound like that because they're small animals with high pitch voices.