Source: https://poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/just-one-problem/

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1365612/my-daughter-asked-me-what-games-i-played-on-the-tablet-when-i-was-a-kid-and-i-told-her-i

A young man travels from New York to Switzerland to try to persuade acclaimed thriller writer Patricia Highsmith to write one final installment of her Tom Ripley series, with his efforts gradually turning more sinister.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1084409-a-talent-for-a-murder

The Trump administration could make the bombshell declaration as senior defence officials at the Pentagon try to force allies to hit Nato's 5 per cent spending pledge.

A senior official in the US reportedly told The Telegraph that Britain will receive "special attention" from Washington in its attempts to get Nato up to the spending figure.

The source said: “I would expect the UK to receive special attention because it has so much potential.

“We will therefore continue efforts to incentivise and enable the UK to step up in a major way.”

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to buy at least a million dollars worth of robots from Boston Dynamics, the company that makes the dog-like SPOT robots, with the purpose of improving “officer safety,” according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announcement.

The Mesozoic marine revolution (MMR) refers to the increase in shell-crushing (durophagous) and boring predation in shallow-sea (neritic) and some deep-sea marine organisms throughout the Mesozoic era (251 Mya to 66 Mya), along with bulldozing and sediment remodelling in benthic marine habitats

It coincided with the rise of large secondarily adapted marine reptiles... proliferation of shell-destroying mesopredators... a trend toward benthos infaunalization,[2] and extinction/habitat restriction of sessile organisms incapable of reattachment once dislodged

The MMR is an important evolutionary transition from the Paleozoic fauna to the more modern-looking fauna

It is thought that the break-up of Pangaea and the formation of new oceans throughout the Mesozoic brought together previously isolated marine communities, forcing them to compete and adapt

"Well John, it was just nobody figured that automation would put so many people out of jobs so fast without some other sector being able to absorb the labor glut. Combined with these evil BNPL subprime loans, the credit industry took a shock, and pulled back. The unemployment numbers didn't paint a real picture of the long-term unemployed who then had to default on their credit obligations because they could no longer rely on BNPL for their day-to-day needs like groceries. And because they were short on money and work, housing took a huge bite with a large number of foreclosures, further tightening the credit squeeze. And a lot of these tech firms ran out of AI-related investment cash which forced massive layoffs from not only tech firms, but tech-adjacent firms as well, which made cheap AI labor even more attractive to companies who needed to cut expenses to stay alive. Now we're in a low-sell, low-buy market where nobody has the funds to actually buy anything which puts companies at a disadvantage to hire anyone. And some people lost out on their retirement investments because the administration made it legal for 401k and retirement account managers to invest in unregulated private equity firms who bet the farm on AI datacenters and lost. Where we go from here, nobody knows..."

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