project zomboid is so peak. just had an in game laundry day with my custom made detergents, sewing stuff back together and drying it on a line as all my clothes were clarted with zombie blood.
@sidereal@kolektiva.social I'm not sure what event you're referring to here, but the deployment of snipers at large events, wether they be sports games, peaceful marches, rallies, large charity functions of marathons is very common in the west: and just isn't motivated by intimidation.
The purpose of these snipers is for the protection of those events from those who would take advantage of a crowd to cause real harm. Suppose an ultra-right wing guy decided to show up at a student Gaza protest with an assault rifle to kill some students he sees as evil commies? The sniper is for those people.
I don't like going to bat for the powers that be, but it's much more reasonable to suggest that the snipers are around big events to protect people: I know I'm definitely more comfortable knowing a rapid reaction is possible to protect people from mass killers.
A lot of people don't understand that all the big companies know that tech trends are super fucking dumb, they just play the game because it attracts outside investment and thus increases stock price: which is really their ultimate goal
Microsoft will keep up the AI stuff until the endless tide of dipshit journalists and investors stop caring about it.
These people are not stupid, they're just playing the game without any care for how their actions affect others.
This is also why education is the key, we need to convince the general public that LLMs don't represent value to society,as we did with Blockchain.
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