Thinking of the future (making sure there is no wall in front of you), letting go of regret and the past (not looking at what happened behind you). Inspirational.
The first two numbers are the year the car was ~~bought (or made?)~~ registered, as @TWeaK@lemm.ee pointed out . In this case, 2025 since the number plate starts with 25.
The numbers are the year it was registered. The car could sit on the lot for months before being registered, or the car could be made to order months+ in advance and delivered fresh from the factory and registered immediately. But the registration comes after the purchase for a new vehicle, and doesn't necessarily happen at the same time.
Either way though, he might have bought it last year or so, but that was hardly before Elon went crazy.
I like to point out that he's always been a fascist, people just didn't pay attention.
His dad's been in the press as a racist for decades. His maternal grandparents were part of the Technocracy conspiracy (yes, really) and fled Canada for South Africa in the 50s, and his grandmother played a role in raising him.
He's a born and raised fascist from a fascist family, he just played yall for suckers.
If you bought a car in 2000 and registered it with a new plate today, wouldn’t it have a new plate with 25? They could have had their plate stolen and requested a new one no?
Could this be from someone who immigrated to Ireland from the US after Trump got elected again? I could see someone on the left buying a Tesla years ago for the environment's sake and deciding to flee the country after the election, with obtaining a job, immigration, etc. taking a couple of months.
I don't own a Tesla, but I'm looking to get out of the US.
I think that many of the people who do depictions of prehistoric creatures lack imagination so they do the bare minimum they possibly could to "imagine" the skeleton as a living creature. Imagination is absolutely required to get a good depiction of them that looks lifelike and not creepy and unrealistic.
Any which way they go with it would be a guess based on limited information. They're most likely going to be wrong, and if they were exactly right, we wouldn't know it.
I found this interesting. It looks back at Sir Keir's five years as the leader of Labour.
Here's an interesting quote:
He turned left to win the party leadership and turned right to win a general election.
And regarding his campaign for the Labour leadership in 2020:
To win the backing of left-wing Labour activists, he backed a wealth tax on the top 5% of earners, abolishing university tuition fees, nationalising water and energy and restoring freedom of movement between the UK and EU countries. Whatever happened to those promises?
Sir Keir Starmer's first five years as Labour Party leader have seen dramatic highs and lows - but the next five will perhaps be even more challenging.
For all important matters, Starmer is as bought up by corporate interests as the tories.
It isn’t that to win the election he has to please voters. He mostly has to please the upper corporate class, who will use their immense media and financial power to do the rest of the work for him (ie. pleasing voters).
Unfortunately, he did that, and is little more than a corporate puppet.
Elon Musk broke with the president's decision to impose expansive tariffs on most foreign nations, saying that he hopes to see a 'zero tariff situation' with Europe.
We envision a compassionate and equitable society where individuals who are hospitalised can recover without financial hardship or fear of losing their benefits.
The idea feels like sci-fi because you're so used to it, imagining ads gone feels like asking to outlaw gravity. But humanity had been free of current forms of advertising for 99.9% of its existence. Word-of-mouth and community networks worked just fine. First-party websites and online communities would now improve on that.
The traditional argument pro-advertising—that it provides consumers with necessary information—hasn't been valid for decades.
What if we made all advertising illegal? It's such a wild idea that I've never heard it in the public discourse.
Just saying it is so far outside the Overton window that it makes you sound more unhinged than wanting to nuke hurricanes (as some politicians proposed).
But why? It makes perfect sense. The financial incentives to create addictive digital content would instantly disappear, and so would the mechanisms that allow both commercial and political actors to create personalized, reality-distorting bubbles:
Clickbait, listicles, and affiliate marketing schemes would become worthless overnight.
Algorithm-driven platforms like Instagram and TikTok that harvest and monetize attention, destroying youth, would lose their economic foundation.
Facebook, X, Google, YouTube—all would cease to exist in their current forms.
Ad companies are never going to regulate themselves—it's like hoping for heroin dealers to write drug laws. Think about what's happened since 2016: Populists exploit ad marketplaces, using them to bypass traditional media gatekeepers and deliver tailored messages to susceptible audiences. Foreign actors do the same, microtargeting divisive content to fracture our social fabric along existing fault lines.
Outlawing advertising would help protect and reinvigorate our minds and democracy.
Even as an advertiser (especially as an advertiser), I am convinced that outlawing advertising is the best thing we can do for our world now. More than gun control. More than tackling climate change. More than lowering the price of eggs.
Removing these advanced manipulation tools would force everyone—politicians included—to snap back into reality. By outlawing advertising, the machinery of mass delusion would lose its most addictive and toxic fuel.
Any form of paid and/or third-party advertising would become illegal. Full stop.
The idea feels like sci-fi because you're so used to it, imagining it gone feels like asking to outlaw gravity. But humanity been free of current forms of advertising for 99.9% of its existence. Word-of-mouth and community networks worked just fine. First-party websites and online communities would now improve on that.
The traditional argument pro-advertising—that it provides consumers with necessary information—hasn't been valid for decades. In our information-saturated world, ads manipulate, but they don't inform.
The modern advertising apparatus exists to bypass rational thought and trigger emotional responses that lead to purchasing decisions. A sophisticated machine designed to short-circuit your agency, normalized to the point of invisibility.
“But it's free speech!”
Bullshit. No one is entitled to yell at you “GET 20% OFF THIS UNDERWEAR YOU GLANCED AT YESTERDAY” with a dopamine megaphone in your bedroom. And to track 90% of your life to know when and how to say it. That's not free speech, that's harassment.
When I say advertising, I also mean propaganda. Propaganda is advertising for the state, and advertising is propaganda for the private. Same thing.
I know this proposal won't be implemented tomorrow. But even just stepping back from constant consumption and contemplating what poisons our democracy is a liberating act in itself. An action against that blurry, “out-of-focus fascism”—that sense of discomfort that you feel but can't quite point out (I'm preparing a longer essay about that.) In this world, any mindfulness act—stopping to think rather than reacting—represents a micro-awakening of the self.
I know, it sounds surreal. Yet, many things once thought impossible are now considered basic standards of a decent society.
I think there's a world where we'll look back on our advertising-saturated era with the same bewilderment with which we now regard cigarette smoke, child labor, or public executions: a barbaric practice that we allowed to continue far too long because we couldn't imagine an alternative.
Imagine how much labour and money we’d free up to do actually useful things like help homeless people and disabled people etc. If we cut all those marketing and advertising departments.
It’s a whole massive industry that takes massive amounts of financial resources and human labour and doesn’t contribute to anyone’s wellbeing except the stockholders of the company.
Yes, this means a ton of carbon ends up in the atmosphere instead of in the trees. The right move would be thinning and prescribed burns, but this administration isn't going to do that.
Trump is speedrunning to aim for the lowest biodiversity index in North America.
Maybe if we stop ridiculously subisidising corn everywhere, some that gets thrown away because we have way too much, we could replace a couple dozen sq km of corn fields with more sustainable agroforestry, and thereby massively increase our logging output, instead of yk, cutting down the last wildlife sanctuaries? Not holding my breath tho.
After the decline of the once robust fields of science and technology, a new energy source known as magic fuels the modern era. Humanity creates forbidden biological weapons: Gears. Those Gears eventually stand against humanity in a rebellion.
I know basically nothing about this franchise, I decided to get into it only for Bridgette, but I like what I'm seeing. It looks delightfully cheap (in a good way, like a cheesy B movie).
Sin somehow reminds me of the protagonist of D4DJ, but as a buff dude. So goofy lmao.
Kdenlive is a completely different beast than the one that I remember using a couple of years ago. It has so much functionality in it, like all the "TikTok effects", proxy clips, rendering previews, visualizing effect curves between keyframes... like damn. This is actually legit software now for my basic needs.
The thing is, it seems like these were all added in the past 2 years, because I had 23.x installed through the Debian repo and I upgraded through Flatpak to 24.12 and it seems to have added all of these?
Anyway holy shit. Go give these guys some money. This is game changing
I mean, who was his Republican counterpart? Because I feel like Fettermen would likely be better than them.
Not saying I don’t wish there had been a different dem candidate in his place, but you can’t really fault voters for not realizing he was a bait and switch. Be it intentionally or the stroke.
Giving politicians money is a good idea, when you can be reasonable sure it'll be beneficial to you or society. Money is needed for elections, and if you don't give the rich will win all of them even more so
We’re heading for a caps-lock DEPRESSION that’ll probably be worse than the 1930s, because the world is likely going to move away from the USD standard as a result of this, all of the trade alliances we’ve built for over a goddamn CENTURY are being shattered as we speak, and we have a whole hell of a lot further to fall than we did compared to the 1920s and 30s in terms of standard of living. I would not be surprised if this ends in the balkanization of the US. For fucks sake, countries are starting to reconsider buying shit from our military industrial complex - say what you will about the corruption and waste, but we do make a lot of the best military hardware in the world right now. And that has implications for our own military as well, because the economy of scale is probably going to completely evaporate sooner or later.
I think he's trying to crash the USD so he can claim it's more volatile than crypto, and miraculously be the owner of the solution where he will continue to bleed the rest of the world dry of capital.
That makes a depressing amount of sense, and it’s also why the rest of the world will probably shift away from the USD standard within the next six months.
And that would result in... What? A bunch of do nothing Democrats? We're so fucked every which way. They can't do anything to stop him. It's all theater
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I tried playing it but it's so incoherent (walls becoming paths, dead enemies randomly coming back to life, health pickups that do nothing, etc) that I'm not even sure this counts as a game. Typically a game has rules so that you can set how you play according to those rules. This is just poorly-generated trash, which I guess fits in with the rest of the hot garbage AI we've currently got.
“We’ve talked about game preservation as an activity for us, and these models and their ability to learn completely how a game plays without the necessity of the original engine running on the original hardware opens up a ton of opportunity.”
No, I don't think that you're talking about preservation then. Not even game emulation. You're talking about game hallucination.
I’m pretty sure they’re just referring to using the techniques to replicate things after learning, not hallucinating the whole game as if it would be a 1:1 copy.
I read this as they're even generating the frames with AI:
The tech demo is part of Microsoft’s Copilot for Gaming push, and features an AI-generated replica of Quake II that is playable in a browser. The Quake II level is very basic and includes blurry enemies and interactions, and Microsoft is limiting the amount of time you can even play this tech demo
While Microsoft originally demonstrated its Muse AI model at 10fps and a 300 x 180 resolution, this latest demo runs at a playable frame rate and at a slightly higher resolution of 640 x 360. It’s still a very limited experience though, and more of hint at what might be possible in the future.
Teams is kind of awesome of what you want to do is exchange emojis and funny gifs with your co-workers. Not so much if you want to work.
I miss the days when applications were coded like applications, not like web sites. The ammount of clutter that goes behind the scenes to get a simple OK button on screen these days must be mind numbing.
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Trump’s sweeping global tariffs are causing rising consumer prices, market losses, and job risks, but his administration defends them as necessary for long-term economic independence.
Critics warn the tariffs hurt low-income households dependent on cheap imports, especially from China.
Officials argue the American dream isn't about “cheap baubles,” but higher living standards. However, economists say tariffs worsen inflation and housing affordability.
Despite past GOP support for cheap goods, MAGA allies now downplay short-term pain.
Even if the stated goal was to reshore large amounts of production of goods to the US, there are several problems with that.
One, history shows that it is largely not possible, at least in any practical sense. US companies make t-shirts in Vietnam and Pakistan because they can sell them to consumers here for $10. Are US consumers magically going to decide they're OK with an Old Navy (low quality) garment costing $35 instead of $10?
Secondly, standing up manufacturing and distribution domestically isn't an overnight thing. Funding, site selection, construction, supply chain integration etc. all take time. Trump thinks he can trade a few weeks of bad headlines and market hit, for some magically reappearing domestic manufacturing. It doesnt work that way. Even if it were possible, it wouldn't create positive economic conditions on any kind of timeline sufficient to offset the negative effects real consumers are already experiencing.
"Sorry little Johnny, not only can we not afford new Nikes for you anymore, but also you can forget about that Nintendo Switch 2 for Christmas because we can't even order one. But at least we know your GED-educated uncle Jimbo in northern Michigan might be able to get a lower-middle class factory job assembling widgets again... maybe... in 2 years."
Trump thinks he can trade a few weeks of bad headlines and market hit, for some magically reappearing domestic manufacturing. It doesnt work that way. Even if it were possible, it wouldn't create positive economic conditions on any kind of timeline sufficient to offset the negative effects real consumers are already experiencing.
A few weeks? Try a few months. Or years. I think Trump is fine with bad headlines for months on end.
The positive interpretation is: Trump's confident that he's right. He's confident America will be better off under his tariff plan. OR he's confident he can use tariffs to force trade deals that benefit America and exploit the rest of the world. And he knows voters have short memories. As long as the economy is strong in fall 2026 he can take credit for it and give Republicans overwhelming electoral victories at the federal and state level.
The negative interpretation is: Trump doesn't care about public opinion because he doesn't think elections are going to matter anymore.
Either way, what the media and the voters think about tariffs now doesn't matter to Trump. Trump does what Trump wants and the rest of the world submits to him. It's everything he's always wanted.
Purchasing power in the form of cheap goods is really the only thing distracting people from the fact that we are being ripped off by the wealthy. Now that Trump has levied tariffs as a political cudgel, when the nations of the world insulate themselves from our influence, people will have no one else to blame.
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All non-unique monsters have less life, tapering from 100% to 75% of what they had between levels 8 and 15. All monsters between level 15 and 46 now have exactly 25% less Life. All monsters between level 46 and 64 now have less life, tapering up from 75% to 100%. This results in all monsters in Endgame having the same Life as before this change. Their thresholds for Crowd Control and Ailments have been adjusted proportionately by the same amount.
Rogue Exiles have had their Life reduced by 40% (on top of the change above).
The "of the Hydra" (Life Regeneration) Monster Modifier now only appears at Level 65+.
Tempest Bell's Combo required to use has been reduced from 10 to 4.
Explosive Grenade and Voltaic Grenade Cooldowns have been lowered to 5 seconds.
All Curse Skill Gems now have a higher growth of radius per Level. Starting at 1.5 metres at Level 1, Growing to 3.1 metres (from 2.1 metres) at Level 20.
All non-unique monsters have less life, tapering from 100% to 75% of what they had between levels 8 and 15. All monsters between level 15 and 46 now have exactly 25% less Life. All monsters between level 46 and 64 now have less life, tapering up from 75% to 100%. This results in all monsters in Endgame having the same Life as before this change. Their thresholds for Crowd Control and Ailments have been adjusted proportionately by the same amount.
Rogue Exiles have had their Life reduced by 40% (on top of the change above).
The "of the Hydra" (Life Regeneration) Monster Modifier now only appears at Level 65+.
Edit: Apr 04, 2025 07:54 PM (GMT): We've temporarily reverted this as some of the changes require a realm restart to safely deploy. We'll be including it in the next restart which we'll do as soon as we can!
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