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  1. Bartholomew Gallacher

    Linden Lab Lays Off 10% of Employees

    And now you are spin doctoring yourself, because it does not matter if this was put forward as part of a spin by Madi or not. A flawed opinion is a flawed opinion, regardless of its underlying intentions - and I highlighted that flaw. Nice try, bro, badly executed. We should not forget about...
  2. Bartholomew Gallacher

    Linden Lab Lays Off 10% of Employees

    Yes, the PBR release desaster sounds quite plausible as well.
  3. Bartholomew Gallacher

    Linden Lab Lays Off 10% of Employees

    Of course I did, just as Madi Perth did before, because she's got no hard proof whatsoever that the supposed user/land loss is tied to the new ToS only. Or at all. This then is her own bias on the story. It's a correlation at best, there might be other good reasons at well which happened we...
  4. Bartholomew Gallacher

    Has The Israeli Goverment BecomeThe Monster?

    Haaretz' Anshel Pfeffer is analysing while despite now being 1 full year into war the West has not really put enough pressure on Israel to stop the war, like it did in the past. Reasons are in his opinion: the special relationship Joe Biden has with Israel. it is election in the USA right now...
  5. Bartholomew Gallacher

    Linden Lab Lays Off 10% of Employees

    Fixed that for you.
  6. Bartholomew Gallacher

    AI-generated images thread

    Dunno what this is, but it looks quite interesting. Let's rock!
  7. Bartholomew Gallacher

    The 2024 U.S. Presidential race

    Do you remember the Trump Bible? It turns out sales are not going so well, but no worries, Trump still has enough corrupt friends owing him some favors. So how to grow sales? Simple: Oklahoma needs tons of new bibles for its schools right now! And they got a really clear idea what should be in...
  8. Bartholomew Gallacher

    The 2024 U.S. Presidential race

    There are also other ways, the city of Rochester, New York, for example started in 2014 to reclaim an oversized highway named "The Inner Loop" built mid of the 60s. The cost of filling and flattening it was less than repairing and maintaining it. The city views it as great success...
  9. Bartholomew Gallacher

    Has The Israeli Goverment BecomeThe Monster?

    There were Pro Palestine rallies in Berlin, which partially turned violent in burning stuff and throwing stones. Most famous participant: Greta Thunberg!
  10. Bartholomew Gallacher

    The 2024 U.S. Presidential race

    I do agree with you, but you've made now the switch from public transport to planes. The first thing to do when breaking up a car centric culture is not to build long distance travel alternatives, but to install good local public transportation instead. Why? Because the vast majority of drives...
  11. Bartholomew Gallacher

    The 2024 U.S. Presidential race

    The US railroad system at its peak in 1917 according to Wikipedia had a total length of 428.180 km, today 220.044 km. So a lot of it was probably scrapped, many stuff also in favor for cars. I mean car lobbying did its thing in many cities to prevent the installation of public transport for...
  12. Bartholomew Gallacher

    The 2024 U.S. Presidential race

    We should really open up a new topic here named "The current state of the USA according to Trump and Vance" - and sell it as dark fantasy novel later. Something like that. Make money real fast!
  13. Bartholomew Gallacher

    Throne and Liberty

    Green Lantern in disguise!
  14. Bartholomew Gallacher

    Throne and Liberty

    I have rarely seen such an optimised game since a while, it just runs so smoothly... I am amazed. I really would love see WoW 2 using the UE5 engine, it would rock.
  15. Bartholomew Gallacher

    The 2024 U.S. Presidential race

    Sky News Australia, the more wacky and distant relative to Fox News, both belonging to Rupert Murdoch. Sounds legit.
  16. Bartholomew Gallacher

    The 2024 U.S. Presidential race

    Trump returned to Butler, Pennsylvania, the location of the failed assassination attempt. Elon Musk joined him as support chanting "Fight fight fight!"
  17. Bartholomew Gallacher

    Has The Israeli Goverment BecomeThe Monster?

    The thing is that the USA probably will stay with Israel till the very end, regardless what Israel is doing. Why? Iran! While Turkey is in NATO it will for sure not do anything against Iran. Nor will KSA do. So Israel is the only ally in that region who would support US actions against Iran, if...
  18. Bartholomew Gallacher

    Amazon adding ads to Prime Video in 2024; ad-free will cost $2.99 extra

    Guess what 2025 will bring for Prime Video customers? Even more ads, since the customers tolerated the current ad load! https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/amazon-prime-video-is-getting-more-ads-next-year/
  19. Bartholomew Gallacher

    Nobody Cares: Technology-only Edition

    Jamie Zawinski has an interesting blog post about the newest developments at Mozilla, stating: "Mozilla's CEO doubles down on them being an advertising company now" They've decided who their customers are, and it's not you, it's people who build and invest in surveillance advertising networks...