Comments on: Open thread 4/4/2025 https://thenewneo.com/2025/04/04/open-thread-4-4-2025/ A blog about political change, among other things Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:35:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2025/04/04/open-thread-4-4-2025/#comment-2796024 Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:35:59 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140992#comment-2796024 they aren’t that smarl

https://x.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1908309748799176839

among other things she has killed every series she has been a part of sans greys anatomy, most recently suits, last iteration before this last one,

]]> By: Sennacherib https://thenewneo.com/2025/04/04/open-thread-4-4-2025/#comment-2796006 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 22:11:00 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140992#comment-2796006 Who has the money to waste on such advertising?

]]> By: Nonapod https://thenewneo.com/2025/04/04/open-thread-4-4-2025/#comment-2795976 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 20:04:23 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140992#comment-2795976 Speaking of Ars Technica, I saw they had a piece about small (indy) board game developers panicking about Trump’s new China tarrifs. I guess they manufacture their products in China and they believe that this will be devastating for them. Being board games they use lots of high quality cardboard prints for the board and any cards a game may use. Plus there’s obviously things like dice and plastic minifigs. I assume they use injection molding for the minifigs and perhaps the dice too? I have little knowledge on the economics of using injection molding versus 3D printing in whatever scales they ship at. But I can’t imagine they’re terribly high volume since these are often fairly expensive games, with prices ranging from $50 to well over $100+ and it’s a somewhat niche market. But who knows?

But at any rate, this guy had an example that I found confusing: “If a game costs $10 to make in China, upon receiving that game in the US, the publisher will pay a $5 tax to the US government. “. So this seems like fairly low volume, high margin situation catering to a smallish market. If they have to add $5 to an $80 game to maintain their margins, would this make that much of a difference? Will a hardcore boad gamer will balk at that extra $5?

]]> By: miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2025/04/04/open-thread-4-4-2025/#comment-2795973 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 19:50:30 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140992#comment-2795973 strong language warning

https://x.com/CherylWroteIt/status/1908240941640732800

https://x.com/zoltanspox/status/1908045350742446543

sensible behavior,

conversely,

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/04/republican-sen-lisa-murkowski-voted-against-nomination-harmeet-dhillon/

]]> By: miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2025/04/04/open-thread-4-4-2025/#comment-2795972 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 19:30:12 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140992#comment-2795972 meanwhile,

https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/04/report-idf-eliminates-hamas-terrorist-involved-in-kidnapping-murder-of-shiri-bibas-and-her-two-sons/

]]> By: miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2025/04/04/open-thread-4-4-2025/#comment-2795964 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 19:04:24 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140992#comment-2795964 usually ars technica pieces go everywhere, except when it doesn’t serve a purpose, why point out the dereliction of NASA and Boeing, (squirrel)

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2025/04/04/open-thread-4-4-2025/#comment-2795961 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:57:56 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140992#comment-2795961 Unicorns really don’t care. But their farts and skittles are ever so precious.

]]> By: miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2025/04/04/open-thread-4-4-2025/#comment-2795955 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:19:22 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140992#comment-2795955 this is the opposite of do no harm

https://x.com/wokal_distance/status/1907875354896904678

it seems to fit with the rebirth of the Old Gods,

Hypothetically an extra terrestrial vehicle, would travel at unbelievable speeds,
probably only possible through mechanism iike the alcubierre drive,

closer to home, it is striking how the real conditions of the long trek in orbit seems to have slipped out of the news,

it doesn’t serve certain interests apparently,

]]> By: Snow on Pine https://thenewneo.com/2025/04/04/open-thread-4-4-2025/#comment-2795954 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:18:45 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140992#comment-2795954 RE: NHIs and time

It just struck me that, in all of the many discussions I’ve seen dealing with the possible nature of NHIs and their interactions with us humans, no one is considering the factor of time i.e. what if such NHIs are, from our perspective, virtually immortal, and so might view matters and take any actions they might take in the context of a very long time frame?

Or, what if such NHIs “clock/frame rate” might be either much slower or faster than ours?

]]> By: Grunt https://thenewneo.com/2025/04/04/open-thread-4-4-2025/#comment-2795953 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:16:53 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140992#comment-2795953 Nonapod:

That was hilarious, thank you!

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