For me it was Need for Speed games blowing up when I was in high school.

Sawa is a reference to canadian actor Devon Sawa, who is white.

Oh no, I hate labubus as well, more just noting that they’re (thankfully) nowhere near as widespread yet. That or maybe I just never see them because I’m not the target audience.

Are people buying 6000 labubus and lining the walls of the winter palace with them?

Well at least it’s not money going to LLM datacenters-

“There’s limit to much how much AI can do in terms of enhancing the productivity of humans, but there is not really a limit to AI that is embodied,” Musk said.

Ah. Well, at least it won’t be used in the prison-industrial comple-

Musk also said that Optimus would change life for incarcerated people at the meeting. Instead of physically jailing prisoners, Optimus could “follow you around and stop you from doing crime,” he said.

Unrelated but this is hilarious

Tesla is currently in the design stage for Optimus, which Musk has said has proven challenging — especially when it comes to the robot’s hands. Musk said that he eventually expects to be able to sell Optimus for $20,000 to $30,000 once the robots hit volume production.

Sure, buddy, the cheapest Tesla is ~$43kUSD, and these robots for which there generally aren’t off the shelf parts or infrastructure will be half that? You’re definitely going to sell a million of these in the next decade.

They’ll just say that Maduro has to go and it doesn’t matter who comes after, like with every other coup that installs a fascist.

How did Kai Leng make it into ME3 lol, he’s such obvious garbage.

Yes, remember, even a “good” supreme court judge has lived a life insulated by wealth and cannot relate to the suffering of the proletariat.

It’s a classic case of liberals (and especially those liberals in high positions in government) believing in process over goals. To them, it is more important that the judiciary not overstep their bounds than that millions of people not starve.

I’m just shocked the dems seem to have found something to use as a spine.

Noooooo 40k isn’t woke because 2 of those twinks were killed off while one of them turned into a giant snake!

Trying to remember, have any former Fox News types ever quit being a fascist and cited the rampant misogyny and sexual harassment? I know some fascist influencers have.

Mamdani could imitate Trump by using “but who’s going to stop me?” (IE, doing it anyway and then backpedalling when the courts determine it was illegal 10 years later) doctrine, which would also have a chilling effect on pro-Israel groups. This would run into the issue that NYC doesn’t have infinite money for fighting legal cases like the federal government does though.

He’s being a pretentious asshole, replace “electrons” with “electrical power” and it becomes coherent.

There were another 3 balloons, one of which invaded multiple countries in latin america, and another of which invaded Canada. This aggression can not be tolerated!

Wood-chipper

(Disclaimer: I do not have children and never will unless something goes horribly wrong)

A lot of it is just being physically present at home. The general consensus I’ve seen from parents is that until the youngest is over 10, they need supervision, so at least one parent is going to have to be there at all times. This obviously gets exacerbated if eg the parents split up or have work schedules that don’t line up. Some people can get around this with daycare or family help, but a lot of people don’t have enough money or eg retired parents who can do childcare.

There’s also kids doing their own hobby stuff. If Timmy wants to play soccer, well, that means that the parents have to take him and are now losing their own Thursday nights and Saturday mornings. From what I’ve seen, a lot of kids will have 2-3 such activities. The parents I’m friends with generally are only free like one night a week until the kids hit their mid-teens and become more autonomous.

All of this is likely made worse by horrendous infrastructure design in the US that necessitates having a car everywhere but major cities.

That’s Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance to you, buckaroo.