Delaying a game like this relatively last-minute and giving it an extra year of development is waaaay more expensive than the bonuses would have been.

Is it still more expensive if they just shelve it and pretend to give it extra development? I haven’t seen any details on why it wasn’t ready for release or what they are changing or adding? A quarter billion dollars in savings seems like pretty good motivation for a company to park a project for 6 to 12 months.

Not as long as people keep voting for republicans and moderate democrats.

I would suggest going to either carbon steel or cast iron pans.

Particularly since the article that poster was referring to (I think this was the one) points out that the coatings were actually proprietary formulations and the manufacturers would not reveal what chemicals went into the manufacturing. Thus, no one has any clue what is really coming off in your food nor how toxic it might be.

It still is, and I think it’s universal for the English speaking parts of the world.

The result of addition is the sum.

The result of subtraction is the difference.

The result of multiplication is the product.

The result of division is the quotient.

Those ending in a ‘-t’ are archaic forms left over from Middle English.

You can learn to consciously control a lot of things that various ‘lie detectors’ monitor. I took a stress management/biofeedback class in college where we learned to raise and lower galvanic skin response, heart rate, and blood pressure. It was a fun class, and in learning to control them, you can also reduce the chance of getting a false positive by keeping any of those variables from drifting to far from the expected range.

They don’t work.

“There’s no unique physiological sign of deception. And there’s no evidence whatsoever that the things the polygraph measures — heart rate, blood pressure, sweating, and breathing — are linked to whether you’re telling the truth or not,” says Leonard Saxe, a psychologist at Brandeis University who’s conducted research into polygraphs. In an exhaustive report, the National Research Council concluded, “Almost a century of research in scientific psychology and physiology provides little basis for the expectation that a polygraph test could have extremely high accuracy.”

The real question is, why do people think that they work? Why do government agencies use them to grant clearances when there is no evidence that they can reliably detect falsehoods and ample evidence that they are known to give false positives when people are actually telling the truth?

Go take some classes on stress management and biofeedback and learn to control all those things they are testing for. Then you won’t need to worry about what the questioners mean when they ask you something.

To confirm your identity…

Yeah, bullshit. This is to help train their facial recognition AI.

I tend to hear fer-uh-ner

Either that or everything is in every Klein bottle.

That would still be a no because no ship can be put in a Klein bottle if every ship is already in the Klein bottle.

A little more than that, actually.

The company says Llama Productions chose to replace human performers’ work with AI technology but did so “without providing any notice of their intent to do this and without bargaining with us over appropriate terms.” As such, SAG-AFTRA has filed an unfair labor practice complaint against the company with the NLRB.

Fair point but I’m not sure that naming every permutation is possible. We might be better off trying to make do with charts or something.

I think trying to define it is fairly pointless. We love what we love and we lust what we lust. Rather than defining it, I wish we could all just accept that and stop hating people for having different preferences.

History says yes, but if a loving god truly exists, one won’t.

Trump is president. Clearly there is no loving god.

Don’t ask Lemmy, man. This is a time to see a doctor.

That’s four of them. I rather think Carter was a good human being, regardless of whether or not you think he was a good president.

Hydrogen peroxide is not the same as bottled water. Water is H₂O. Hydrogen Peroxide is H₂O₂. Don’t drink it.

You’re just trying to stir shit up for no reason.

They are stirring shit up to, I assume, advocate for change.

He can’t blanket pardon people.

Where did you get that idea? It’s been done before. In 1977 for example, President Carter, issued a blanket pardon to everyone who dodged the draft during the Vietnam war.

There are, in fact, very few limitations on the power of the pardon.

This ProPublica article is good reading. It discusses a company used by many insurers, including UHC, to deny claims using AI. The name of the company is EviCore. I suppose the “Evi” is supposed to be short for “evidence” but I think it is pretty clear that it’s just short for “evil.”