No one has "Given Up" on Mercator who actually has to use a map for navigation.

Mercator gets the angles right - essential for arriving where you want to go.

In reality: the world is a globe.

depending on the content.

I often use 75% speed when listening to foreign language videos.

However, as other have already said, pointless blathering is a major problem. I find the best solution to that is to skip to the next video. Blathering at 150% speed is still blathering.

If you store someone else's data, you should ask what should happen to it if they die (or cancel their contract).

Then you should do what they said.

If the customer and supplier are in different countries, then the presumption should be that the Client's country legal system applies.
In all cases, with no option for the customer to be bullied out of this by large companies.

If AI is used, the search tool to show "dangerously wrong" in its answers.

Once something is found, you can't unfound it.

You obviously believe in reality. Therefore you are "woke" and everything you say must be ignored!

People like Trump do not have a concept of reality. Its either what they want, or its not.

While there is a theory that there is "one God" and therefore "one truth" - because its "what God sees/saw" they do not believe that. They may claim to, but they also do not have a concept of "understanding" - again, there is only what they want, or what they don't: their brains can't pass this barrier.

They are certainly not Christians or Jews in the normal, every day, meanings of those words.
They are, in fact, idiots.

... The EU gave Samsung a good kicking!

I mean, sharing passport details with some dodgy porn website based overseas is the exact opposite of Online Safety, but you'll get scant sympathy from politicians

Surely they are the ones most likely to believe that it is safe to put your personal info on a porn site?

(Enquiring for a friend)

they want accurate answers rather than hallucinations and bs trained on reddit memes?

Absolutely not!
Most Google users are far more interested in Reddit memes than reality!

Is the average internet user really so different now?
Yes. Google has rotted their brains. And mine is next in line!

No. They are people who think "this is AI slop. I will go elsewhere for my information".

Mandate an open file format so their data is not held to ransom.

Hint: Open Document formats are your friend and MS formats are the work of the devil.

If economists actually knew anything at all, they would be billionaires, not academics and social media commentators, and certainly would not waste their time talking to politicians.

I am pretty sure that 25 litres of Avgas would go un-noticed, but 250 litres would probably cause the results we saw.

I don't think anyone is suggesting it was 100% Avgas. Just that a fuelling tanker had been accidentally part loaded with the wrong stuff, and no one admitted the error.

There are numerous other substances that might have contaminated they fuel and restricted flow - possibly metal objects where they shouldn't have been, oily rags, etc.

I think it will turn out to be fuel related in some way, and the contamination was shifted by roll-out - so likely denser than JetA and not dissolved, which Avgas would be.

We need to hear what the investigation finds. and not rely on speculation by passers-by.

... did not make thermodynamics redundant.

Some people need to know how to get from basic physics to AI - and that is what Universities are there for.

Others need to know to explain what they want - whether to AI or to their mates. That is what friends and families are for. Or, failing that Schools, and failing that, Google. (Arrgh).