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  • They’re struggling because they’re not learning, or learning how to learn.

    LLM outputs aren’t reliable. Using one for your research is doing the exact opposite of the steps that are required to make good decisions.

    The prerequisite to making a good decision is learning the information relevant to the decision, then you use that information to determine your options and likely outcomes of those paths. The internalization of the problem space is fundamental to the process. You need to actually understand the space you’re making a decision about in order to make a good decision. The effort is the point.


  • It’s not the same thing. The federal government probably can shut down any dispensary they want, but has made no effort to do so, largely because their actual authority to prohibit substances that don’t cross state lines is not supported all that well constitutionally. That would likely end up in a lengthy legal battle either way. But it likely wouldn’t require state agencies to actively enforce federal law, because there’s no legal basis to force proactive law enforcement like that. (They can force action in other scenarios, eg forcing states to issue marriage certificates to gay couples, but the drug laws we’re talking about don’t dictate anything like that, and again, the actual authority behind regulating substances behind state lines is questionable at best.)

    The fact that interstate commerce is explicitly entirely federal authority and that the Constitution explicitly prevents states from restricting it most ways makes it so there are no meaningful legal questions to an action like taxing exports. That ruling would be immediate, and anyone attempting to enforce it would be doing so in direct violation of a federal court order. There’s plenty of legal basis to prohibit an action by a state that violates the rights of others.

    And the federal government would absolutely make it a priority because states crippling interstate commerce would destroy the economy.











  • I can give you my reasons, but can’t comment on anyone else.

    A. I would genuinely buy PS5 over Xbox just for the controller. Third party utilization is hit or miss, but Sony games pretty consistently feel amazing with the trigger feedback and precision vibration.

    B. There are a bunch of system seller caliber games made by Sony. There weren’t many made by Microsoft before the Activision merger and even since stuff like Starfield hasn’t been as popular as they’d want. But I’d pick PS5 just for Horizon, just for the Last of Us, maybe just for God of War (over any single game Microsoft has, though I’m not as into it as some), and their catalogue last gen was way better and benefits from the faster storage making a huge dent in load times as well. As someone who likes playing punishing games, loading 20 seconds after a death compared to waiting several minutes breathes a lot of fresh air into them.

    C. The low end Xbox along with their requirement for parity between the two made it a lot harder for third parties to support them.

    D. There isn’t a lot that really takes advantage of it, but their built in hardware compression is still tech that’s really exciting to me in terms of how seamless you can make open world games without arbitrary limitations. There are brief loading screens when I die on current gen games, but never hitting them during traversal no matter how dense or busy a world is (without the elevator trick or whatever to hide loading) really adds a lot of immersion. I haven’t experienced it in Xbox, and I recognize that the actual speed of the drive is also a key part of the real world difference, but there are also hardware and software components of how fast loading is, to the point that PS5 games pretty consistently load well faster than PS4 games that don’t leverage the tech. Also, the PS5 lets you just use a regular nvme drive to expand storage easily.

    They also have the same cost restrictions Sony does because they’re using very similar components, so they can’t undercut them.