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What if Gabe Newell is already dead and his existence is entirely AI, now?

I've long since held the belief that Valve, and gaming, tech, and much of society, is held up by GabeN. The world WILL feel it when he goes, parts of it maybe not immediately, but it will ripple effect most places and parts of the world.

But so, what if he's already gone, and he preemptively invested in putting himself into AI, or Valve props him up as a figurehead? Would that be good if that happened?

(Just a passing thought, I'm curious what people think about any of this. Maybe this belongs in shower-thoughts or gaming. I dunno.)

I think we all need a way better solution for VR input to core legacy input devices. Floating keyboards are ass and we all know it. Using gestures is also bad and solves nothing.

Hardware needs to finger register better. Make grooves or lines on the capacitive controllers so that fingers don't get mixed up, and just have people type like normal. Let me play world of Warcraft in emulated flatscreen in vr. Have triggers of the controllers count as touchpads to work as both touch mouse clicks and micro adjustments for virtual mousing. Maybe even have dual actuation or multi level haptics on the trigger mechanism so that you can actually click the topmost or bottommost of the trigger.

I'm sick and tired of actual normal pc I/O besting VR and being something to fear while in VR, that's dumb. VR is supposed to be better in every way, not a trade-off. The answer to "can it do x?" Needs to be YES. VR isn't a console, it's an evolution of I/O. So until keyb+mouse doesn't need to be used, VR needs to get its shit together. And I don't know about you, but a pretty gd big part of language and using a computer requires letters, and numbers. Phones are 90% of the way there and good enough. VR is not, it just tries to avoid it by design, but it always inevitably needs it, because at the end of the day, at least for now, that's how stuff actually works.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. /rant

"An evil corporation is a term which frequently appears in science fiction and or dystopian works to refer to corporations that ignore ethics, morality, laws and social responsibility in order to make a profit for its shareholders."

Just thought everybody should know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_corporation

Also, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_company_(Japan)

Do you work for an Evil Corporation? Do you know anybody that works for an Evil Corporation?

Would you work for an Evil Corporation?

Are people that work at Evil Corporations evil people?

For those of you who eat tuna spread sandwiches, you may know that portioning the amount of spread is... Variable... And sometimes messy. It depends on the bread type, thickness, toast level, etc., as well as the spread's qualities, AND what you're feeling like.

I wanna know:

How The Heck Do YOU Make Your Tuna Sandwiches?

Tips? Tricks? Secrets? Ingredients? Spill the beans! Er, tuna.

I'll go first. If you use a fork to kind of...wipe each slice of bread carefully with its own mechanically-stable layer of tuna and THEN put them together, I've found that it usually ends up being the perfect amount. It takes a little longer, but gives a boringly great result.

Dr Powers is dropping all out of state patients and multiplying fees by several times over. He cites the current federal administration and hints at litigation, as well as death threats and other violence, and losing one of his employees.

I'm so tired.

I'm in the USA. I've had a flair classic. It was able to make better espresso than most baristas, but because of preheating and cleaning, the first shot could take like 15-20 mins.

The weird plastic portafilter grew a hairline fracture and so I can't make espresso at home anymore.

I want something, new or used, that costs under, say, 700 usd (possibly closer to 400 usd), and is faster and possibly more automated, and makes just as good espresso, that I don't have to fiddle with as much once I've gotten it honed in.

I probably don't need a grinder because I have one of those hundred dollar hand grinders that does a pretty good job.

I also want a good steam wand on it to steam milk.

I'm considering like a sage/braville bambino, but that's such an influencer brand that I can't trust anything I see on it. Also considering a gaggia classic. But I haven't used any real espresso machines, so I don't know what I'll like or not.

Durability/robustness, espresso quality/output, and speed/time-to-coffee are my big priorities.

Any advice is welcome!

They stayed up late putting in edits that bans Medicaid from covering gender affirming care even for adults now. They said they were going to. It may be voted on in the house Thursday, May 22nd. Trump is pushing this massive spending bill to be passed ASAP.

The House needs to vote on it, it succeed, it go to the Senate, they vote and it and it succeed there, then the president accepts it, for it to become law.

Republicans hold majorities in both the House and Senate.

They will likely try to pass through the filibuster in the Senate with Budget Reconciliation so as to not require 60 votes, and therefore just a simple majority. That has its own rules though.

Edit: This morning the house voted for and passed the bill. Off to the Senate it goes. This is where everything happens.