You don't fire them any more than you fire your king or your emperor.

You might want to check your history books before making that claim. I rather think that Charles I, Edward II and Richard II of England might disagree with you, along with Louis XVI of France. And, of course Pertinax, Emperor of Rome for 87 days before being assassinated and Didus Julianus who's reign of 66 days as Emperor was the shortest of all, would laugh at your claim, if they were able to.

Which is why they're made of fake gold. Fake gold to kill fake cybermen.

From what I gather, these are humanoid robots that walk erect and are capable of speech. Given that, I won't be a bit surprised if somebody channeling PT Barnum would start selling by mail order boxes of gold bullets to deal with them because regular bullets don't have any effect. Naturally, they won't really be made of gold but that won't matter to the suckers buying them.

Cute idea, but you're going to have to be careful about those "dog-like mannerisms." If not, they'll all end up chasing cats.

Democracy is absolutely about voting every 4 years...

If the interval isn't important, why did you make such a BFD out of it?

Democracy is absolutely about voting every 4 years- and unlike Russia- having that vote actually counted, and given not under duress.

No, there's no requirement that elections have to be every four years, it's just a common interval. In Mexico, the President's term is six years, not four. In Britain, there's no fixed interval between General Elections, but there are minimum and maximum limits on the time between them.

(Okay, I take that back: there's one version in which I'd be okay with them lionizing Sam, but it'd have to involve actual lions)

I just hope they're not going to lionize Sam. That's the last thing we need. He pulled a classic sociopath-style manipulation to retain his position in the face of legitimate concerns about his abuse of power in the company.

Not sure how well geofences work in a GNSS denied environment. When the enemy spoofs a fake fix that convinces your drone a friendly position is the killing zone I don't think people are going to be all that impressed with the outcome.

I'm sure that if that happens people are going to be impressed by the result. Very impressed. It's just that they won't be favorably impressed.

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Maybe next time you'll pick a site that doesn't forbid hotlinking.

Life is WAY better after the industrial revolution than it was before it.

People have this fantasy image of what life used to be like, thinking of picturesque farms, craftsmen tinkering in workshops, clean air, etc. The middle ages were filth, you worked backbreaking labour long hours of the day, commonly in highly risky environments, even the simplest necessities cost a large portion of your salary, you lived in a hovel, and you died of preventable diseases at an average age of ~35 (a number admittedly dragged down by the fact that 1/4th of children didn't even survive a single year).

If it takes people of similar social status as you weeks of labour to produce the fibre for a set of clothes, spin it into yarn, dye it, weave it, and sew it, then guess what? It requires that plus taxes and profit weeks of your labour to be able to afford that set of clothes (and you better believe the upper classes were squeezing every ounce of profit from the lower class they could back then). Decreasing the amount of human labour needed to produce things is an immensely good thing. Furthermore, where did that freed up labour go? Into science, into medicine, into the arts, etc etc. Further improving people's quality of life.

And if your response is "But greater production is more polluting!" - I'm sorry, do you have any understanding of how *miserably* polluted cities in the middle ages were? Where coal smoke poured out with no pollution controls, sewage ran straight into rivers that people collected water from and bathed in, where people extensively used things like arsenic and mercury and lead and asbestos, etc etc? The freed-up labour brought about by the industrial revolution allowed us to *learn* and to *fix problems*.

Meh, you do you. I'm rooting for the Torment Nexus.

Which of those things hit 800 million users in 17 months?
Which of those things hit such high annual recurring revenue rates so fast?
Which of those saw the cost of using the tech decline by 99% over two years?

Heck, most of them aren't even new technologies, just new products, often just the latest version of older, already-commonly-used products.

And re. that last one: it must be stressed that for the "cost of using the tech" to decline 99% over two years per million tokens, you're also talking about a similar order of reduction of power consumption per million tokens, since your two main costs are hardware and electricity.

You're looking at three months of very noisy data and drawing some pretty dramatic conclusions from said minimal data.

Winter demand is heavily dependent on weather. You're mainly seeing the impacts of weather on demand.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F2024%25E2%2580%259325_North_American_winter

"The 2024–25 North American winter was considerably colder then the previous winter season, and much more wintry across the North American continent, signified by several rounds of bitterly cold temperatures occurring."

I don't know how much American History is taught in modern high schools now, but back when I was in school, we were expected to know who he was and what he did, although we probably weren't expected to remember it for the rest of our lives. Personally, I remember his name and that he was important in the first half of the 19th Century and that's about it. I wonder how much the average British subject remembers about Disraeli after he's out of school.