The kinds of foods that trash your LDL predate the FDA and the United States.

Theres a simple way to clean this shit up that would end this kind of thing overnight.

Put Meta financially on the hook for these scams. If facebook convinces some poor old lady with low tech literacy to hand over her retirement fund, then facebook should be on the hook to repay her. Facebook then can, at their own leisure, chase the scammer down to pay them back, but facebook must be held accountable.

Do that, and those scam ads end overnight.

Why don't you kikuyu them off your grass.

my ssid is GetOffMyLan

Honestly the issue with the story is Ken Paxton, he literally has negative credibility. I know virtually nothing about Roblox or this case, but if Paxton is the first AG to pursue it my automatic assumption is he's prosecuting them because they either failed to give him a bribe or he thought they were helping Democrats register to vote or something.

Sir, you are infringing on my trademark of Micro Softwad.

Sorry, but the only person here with Stockholm's Syndrome is you. You are held hostage to your failed beliefs that communism and socialism are the only way forward when history has shown that they simply lead to authoritarianism.

Well they sure as hell aren't when we get so intellectually lazy we dub anything to the right of ghengis khan "COMMUNISM".

Is Keynsianism too "communist" for you? Theres a solid and battle tested set of principles that build wealth while protecting the little guys.

If it is, then maybe just follow Adam Smiths advice and regulate capitalism in the interest of the common man. Is Adam Smith too communist for you?

What IS your baseline here beyond vapid libertarian-ish slogans?

SAS has been dead for 15y; it started with R and then Python absolutely destroyed it. No one teaches SAS in universities any longer, why would they? It's terribly expensive and absolutely fucking dead.

We migrated away from SAS back in 2017 and never looked back. The only verticals still using it are heavily regulated and running long-standing legacy code that they're slowly migrating to Python.

I remember absolutely dying when they tried to renegotiate our contract UP back in 2015. I flat out told them they were dead and we were moving away from them and they told me, "good luck managing your data without us!"

Two companies and 10 years later, we're doing just fine and they are not.

In that case, I've got to tell you your duplicate post commenting about duplicate posts and duplicate replies is a duplicate.

It's duplicates all the way down.

This whole speech of his seems like

"AI isnt profitable, so we'll need you to raise electricity prices on voters so you can give us free power".

Maybe, radical suggestion I know, but maybe they can just fuck off....

The faster the bubble bursts so all these shitbirds lose all their money the happier I will be.

As far as I know, there has never been any proof that dark energy actually exists, only theories only conjectures.

Dark Energy , and Dark Matter, aren't really theories in the sense we usually use in science. They are placeholders to describe missing variables in the math used to describe gravitational behavior as it deviates from the otherwise highly reliable Einsteinian and Newtonian accounts for it.

Dark Matter, because the maths and observations seem to show a *lot* more mass in galaxies than we can account for.

And Dark Energy, because something appears to be accelerating expansion, and basic physics tells us that if something is accelerating, theres a force being applied *somehow*.

But we dont know what that missing mass in galaxies, or the missing energy in expansion, is, so its "Dark". Its not a conjecture, or a theory, its literally scientists saying "We dont know whats going on here".

And you cant disprove that, because your trying to disprove that scientists dont know whats happening. But most assuredly they dont know whats happening, and THAT is what Dark Energy literally is. The giant question mark surrounding a fudge factor in the maths.

And you can't post that if you understand nuance.

Ultimately responsibility will be some distribution between Perplexity itself and the 'owner' of the robot.

Think about those lunatics who keep running people over with Tesla autopilot. Who is responsble? Well its not the car, its just an object, not a subject. The driver has some responsibility because he authorized the car to do its autopiliot, and Tesla has some responsibility, because its autopilot is shit.

In this case the customer authorizes perplexity to do this, and perplexity is the one doing it, via a robot. If its a shit purchase, well some of that will be on perplexity, but some of it is also on the customer for being so stupid as to let a robot shop for it. How a court would divide up that responsibility is likely a matter for lawyers and juries.

Cheney was in charge below before he decided on a walk-about up here. Having spread chaos and evil for a bit he is returning to his day job as lord of hell.

I agree it was a terrible terrible decision, I hated it at the time and I believe it's been responsible for millions of deaths, but I think the motive wasn't as bad as you suspect.

Basically, the Middle East outside of Israel was a bunch of dictatorships, some theocratic, some military, and many awkwardly allied to the US, but none of the Arab nations had a functioning liberal Democracy.

The neocons believed that they could go in, overthrow the dictator, and a functioning Democracy would pop up in it's place and they'd have a grateful ally, one whom they didn't need to look away as they went around murdering dissidents.

The initial returns on Afghanistan seemed to support the idea is would work, the Taliban melted away from the major urban centres and there was a government in its place.

WMDs and terrorists were both an excuse to go in and try this grand experiment in one of the few friendless dictatorships in the Middle East (the other being Iran, which they were planning, but was a much tougher target).

The problem of course was arrogance, they failed to understand the country they were attempting to launch a revolution in, and they failed to realize the kind of situation you needed for a Democracy to take place.

I think if they just stayed focused on Afghanistan, and basically ruled them by edict for a decade while they nurtured local political actors, then they might have had a shot.

But instead, it was an incompetent administration attempting to implement an extraordinarily ambitious and difficult plan.

The actual big cost in power for most places (Not just australia) ends up being infrastructure anyway.

Every now and then the local conservatives here have a sook about how green energy is making everyones bills go up. But when you actually look at where the hikes in bills came from, its almost always maintaince of ageing power grids, usually in areas serviced by the old coal and gas stations, because the infrastructure is just so old.