Plus they have to keep developing solutions to Nighshade 2 and Nightshade 2.1 and the Deathcap fork etc. etc. An enthusiastically developed open source project with a bunch of forks and versions is not an easy thing for a big lumbering corporation to keep up with. Especially a corporation that is actively trying to replace staff with AI coders.
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U.S. Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino, the guy that wears a Nazi costume as part of his official uniform has a favorite movie and book. That favorite book AND movie is Starship Troopers.
Think he understands that one is a satire of the other?
These guys aren't big on media literacy.
I can assure you that while billions of dollars will change hands, not one cent of it will go to actual useful research.
Finally bringing together the old nuclear fusion, AI, and Trump admin scams into a single glorious ouroboros of dumbass corruption.
Cutting the VAST majority of social media and replacing it with reading, listening to music, and talking to people, has dramatically improved my quality of life, but it really wasn't easy.
The problem is that this one device we adopted kept getting worse at what it was supposed to do and got repurposed as a real time ad delivery and social engineering machine instead.
It is easily the most common answer I hear to the "why don't you use transit in this city that is very well served by a robust network and also REALLY sucks to drive in?" question.
Reminds me of that five year period where every movie had to be shot with a 3d release in mind for no reason.
I don't know how they calculate this, but it seems like the expensive products went up a LOT more than 3% so even if that is the average across products it seems like my actual bill went up a lot more.
Most decent rice cookers have a time delay option. You load it up with water and rice and set a couple hours of delay and then in the morning you have fresh hot rice.
Asian moms.
What they want to do is scam a bunch of public money and put it into their own pockets. No research required for that.