We say alleged because in civilization, you're innocent until proven guilty.

We know Eric Adams did something similar with Turkish donors in New York. There was also a ton of reports of this happening during Trump's first campaign.

There are 54 Glock models that are certified for sale in CA. Almost 1000 models from all manufacturers are certified. Plus private party transfers are legal, meaning you can just bring one in or have a friend give you one.

The rules are quite loose? Why else would they have eagle eyed officials watching closely to disqualify athletes for infractions.

Games can absolutely be played asynchronously. Games can have scoring systems instead of head-to-head.

Would you say pinball is not a game?

I didn't think I needed to get out the dictionary definition of game, but I hope this clears it up... Definitions from Oxford Languages: "noun, a form of play or sport, especially a competitive one played according to rules and decided by skill, strength, or luck."

Why track and field events not games? They have rules, can be won or lost, and can be played casually if you think that is a requirment.

Take shot put, hammer throw, and javelin, for example. The game is who can throw the object in a certain way the furtherest. I could play a shot put game with some friends at a river bank by drawing a line in the sand and seeing who can huck the heaviest rock on the shore the furthest.

There's a reason they call them Olympic Games.

Really any activity with some structure is a game if it is play and not "real", even better if it can help practice a skill useful in life. There is a difference between a running race (a game) and running for your life from a bear (not a game). Between MMA and a street fight. Between war games and a shooting war.

I wish I read this comment before wasting my two minutes as well...

If your game doesn't involve traveling above 100mph and pulling more than 2g it's not a sport 😤

What athletic competition would not be a game if all sports are games? I mean, honestly, what is the difference you see between "sport" and "athletic competition"?

You can extend or contract "game" as much as you want, but I can't think of a definition of game that would encompass all sports but not all athletic competitions (if there really is a difference).

This result has probably been priced in since it hit the current floor in March. The bump after the report is likely because there were no bombshells in it. They're saying they're still on track for all the vaporware that the valuation is based on. It will drop again when they're inevitably delayed and it becomes clear the robots and AI taxis aren't revolutionary but just exactly what other companies already beat them to.

It's certainly AI.

The far away details are clearly fake. There's a lamp post that just fades out of existence, random junk where there should be road, and the bushes change shape across lamp posts.

The 5 on the interstate logo also has a telltale, it's all weird but the rest of the text on the sign is pixel perfect.

One person's streaming "surging" the capitol's internet is not clear if it is satire?

Or are you using "genuine" like "literally"?

I had scanned through it, and it looked like the exact same stuff that Google and Microsoft say. Paraphrasing: "we value your privacy" "we're de-identifying your data" "the processing occurs on-device"...

Apple probably is better on privacy than other big tech corpos, but it's a race to the bottom, and they're definitely participating in the race.

Apple is the best on privacy though right?

James Webb didn't do shit. The man is dead.

That link is just awful. Very difficult to tell where events are or how big they will be.

It's definitely highly edited. It probably isn't AI, but I wouldn't be surprised if the editing was heavily AI assisted. I found the original source on reddit itookapicture 1 year ago, which isn't 100% evidence, but AI was way worse then and it doesn't have any of the telltale AI signs.

It's says he recently started sleeping at the park, not recently became homeless. It could have happened to him at any point in his life, based on this story.

My friend's dad fell off a ladder and nearly broke his back when we was in his close to 60, if not older. He luckily had family and was about to retire anyway, but imagine if he were a single construction worker in his 60s with no 401k.

back during covid

Few people mean this literally. We all know covid is still around and will be quite possibly forever. What it means, depending on context is "during covid lockdowns" or "during covid restrictions" or really just 2020.

It's not a pandemic anymore, it's endemic now. Get both your shots every year now. Covid isn't the new flu, it's flu's new buddy.

In California (see the plates on the car) there is almost nowhere you can get a sunrise over the ocean without seeing land on the other side across the bay or whatever. There are a couple spots where if the sun was as far south as it gets in winter then you might be able to get a shot with no land across the water. But this is almost surely not one of those.