Canada didn't kick the crazy people out of the party. Carney put them in his cabinet.

If the recent change to Twitter which put location on user profiles is anything to go by, most of the troll farms seem to be in India and Pakistan.

What happens when all car manufacturers are displaying ads?

It's spreading...I just read something or maybe I saw it reported on YouTube...about Jeep doing this very same type thing....advertising something, I forgot exactly what it was...but was very similar to this.

For some things you don't even need ChatGPT. If you're having the flu, it would be really nice if you just call the doctor to get the prescription instead of having to pay a visit where the doctors says "Yeah here is the prescription, bye and come back if it doesn't get better". Sometimes you really don't need a long diagnosis.

What meds for the flu?

I mean, there is Tamiflu (sp?)...but that's really only effective if you catch it at the beginning.....but the best diagnosis is generally, treat the symptoms, plenty of fluids, rest and let it run its course...

Flu is viral....so NO ANTI-BIOTICS....no matter how much the patient bitches and asks for them....

In the USA car companies are bribing politicians to keep fuel economy standards low because they do not want to spend money on R&D. Meanwhile the Chinese car makers are designing dark factories that crank out electric cars that are better and less expensive than anything made in the USA. Ten years from now there are going to be Chinese factories in the USA cranking out amazing cars. And it is going to be a bloodbath for the companies that want to keep living in the past.

Those cheap Chinese EVs aren't going to do a damned bit of good for the at least 1/3+ of US citizens that have no way to charge at home.

Unless you live on one of the extremes coasts, there just is not sufficient public charging infrastructure......hence, there's not likely to be much more EV demand in the US than there is now for the most part.

People largely don't want them....the ones that do, have them already.

Sure, low cost will win a lot of people over, BUT that hits a brick wall when you can't charge the damned things at home and they don't fit within your lifestyle .....

This is bizarre, not to mention terribly Boomerish.

They could say no. No-one is stopping them.

They won't because they care more about money than their long-term customers.

This is why such people shouldn't be in positions of power. And won't be in the society that arises from the collapse of this one because we'll be damn sure to drum into the survivors that the merchant caste can never, ever be put in control again.

You Can Just Say No.

The only people who believe they have no choice are the ones who chase money at any cost. This is why such people should never be in positions of power.

I'm just glad we upgraded all our PCs over the last few years before the "AI" scam wrecked the computer business.

Well, this is it.

Yeah, with my old gaming PC I stuck to Windows 7 for years since it was pretty much only used for gaming and not browsing pron sites. But then Steam decided they wouldn't run on Windows 7 any more so I had to buy a new one.

Which wasn't such a bad deal as it would probably cost 50% more to build today. But with the downside that it has Windows 11.

Having set up two Windows 11 PCs in the last couple of months it's amazing how much work it takes to get a usable OS after installing it.

And who decided that moving the start menu to the middle by default was a good idea?

MBAs only care about the value of their stock options, not whether their ideas are nonsense.

And AI is The New Hotness right now.

A bunch of reasons, but the most obvious is that they want to tie your soon to be mandatory usage of their "AI" cloud to an account so they can store all your stuff on their servers and cut you off if you use those bazillions of GPUs more than they expect.

Also, Bitlocker seems to be tied to a Microsoft account because it appears they store the password there. I set up a new Windows PC recently and it decided to turn Bitlocker on without asking me, but ultimately it didn't seem to encrypt the disk because I'd set up a local account... it just flagged it as an encrypted disk but didn't run the encryption process.

Because the processed food companies deliberately design their products to be as addictive as possible. As a society we (correctly) recognize that drug dealers bear some responsibility when users overdose on drugs, and cigarette companies have lost lawsuits because they knowingly sold an addictive and dangerous product while pretending it was perfectly healthy. Processed food companies are doing the same, even deliberately targeting children. Their products may not be *as* harmful as drugs or cigarettes, but they are still harmful and deliberately addictive, and they ought to bear some of the social responsibility for the damage their product has done (since they reaped **all** the profits). "Privatize the profits, socialize the losses" has been going on for a looooong time in this country, and it's pushed this country to (and perhaps past) it's breaking point. Freedom of choice is all well and good, but it requires people to be properly informed, and to actually have a choice (which many people, especially those living in food deserts, who tend to be poor and not well educated to begin with, do not).

I'm sure it must have happened sometime this year, but I don't remember the last time a Falcon 9 booster returned to the launch site. Everything I've seen recently landed on the barge.

New Glenn does have a better launch envelope by being able to hover to land in bad sea conditions, but the extra fuel cuts into the payload more. So there are benefits and costs.

According to what I read yesterday, it looks like one engine restarted then something went badly wrong. It would likely have landed or at least hit the landing pad otherwise since it hit the ground not far from the pad.

So they've done the first 80% of the job and now it's a question of how long the remaining 20% takes.

But as you say it did deliver the payload to orbit so the actual launch was a success.