No one is really suggesting"at ANY price point". No one thinks renting rooms at 10 dollars is better than nothing, but renting rooms at 100 dollars that normally rent for 200 is better than nothing. And there is nothing stopping you from renting last minute, except the possibility of not getting a room or at least the room you want. If you want to take a chance of not getting a room to save 50 dollars you go right ahead.

I just don't get how Google was found liable and Apple was not. Google had at least alternate store (Amazon) while Apple has had none. Google allowed sideloading so there was (and still is) a way to load apps not in the store while Apple doesn't allow sideloading. You can say Google suppressed the development of alternative app stores, but Apple never even had to suppress because there was simply no way to get them on the device. I am not saying it was wrong to find Google liable, but the fact they have to make changes and Apple continues to have the most locked down device and app store around just boggles my mind.

There's a burgeoning therapeutic and social skills D&D market currently, and a load of research that shows all kinds of significant mental health, social, and personal wellbeing to having a regular gaming group. What's a bit frustrating is she didn't actually do any serious research with geriatric populations, who would likely benefit from a regular RPG group. There's a lady in Germany who ran a little house on the prairie RPG at a nursing home, and did some great work there, but outside that little has been done.

I didn't read anywhere that their complain was training (there are many complaint about training though). But Sora2 is creating basically infringing videos and that seems to be there issue. The whole reason training on copyrighted works get brought up is because it then allows the models to create infringing work based on the original. The whole worry about training on One Piece is that they can then use it to create videos with characters from One Piece or based on One Piece, which would be infringement. If they trained on One Piece but you could never tell when you were using it, no one would have any reason to complain.

Why would the numbers not justify the warnings? The warnings cost absolutely nothing. Putting a trigger warning on something takes really no time and costs nothing. Even if it only affect 1% of the people who engage with the material, is no cost worth that 1%? I would say yes. Now the flipside, are the people constantly complaining about trigger warnings worth it? If you see a trigger warning and it doesn't affect you, what exactly have you lost that you feel the need to tell everyone how you feel about the warnings?

I'd love to know how many of the 320M users are forced to use it because the bean counters saw "Teams messaging" as a free line item with their Office360 subscriptions and decided to make everyone use it instead of practically any other team messaging/interactive platform on the planet.

Ant bets that the deal specifies WHICH US data it is trained on? None of the liberal stuff, just right wing data. I think TikTok is going to end up being the video version of twitter really quickly.

They say it will price them out, but that depends on the break point. The reason they like H-1Bs is they can get workers who will work for less and work more hours because they are trapped in the H-1B structure and are terrified to lose their job, because then they will be deported. So if they truly make $15-20k in profit for the company, will changing to a US based worker who likely will want a higher salary and not work crazy hours be worth it? My guess is they just lock in the H-1Bs for more years and pay them less to keep their profits up. Or they try outsourcing straight to India again and skip bringing them to the US at all.

"EVs can lose almost half their driving distance when temperatures drop"
"In January, Seattle-based Recurrent, a company that tests and analyzes EVs, found an average range loss of 20% in extreme cold"

No one would say 20% is almost half. That is not how numbers work.

I'm seeing a lot of people with kneejerk reactions, so I want to highlight a points: ADHD is very easy to diagnose. Unlike autism, which requires a whole day of screening and thousands of dollars, ADHD can be diagnosed in an hour. However, when this happens, parents are usually very receptive to medication because it's both an easy fix and they're probably struggling at home for any number of reasons. If you're slammed, working two jobs, stressed out, barely able to pay the bills, and a pill that promises to make your kid be able to get through their math homework without crying comes along, you'll take it. The alternatives like therapy and parent coaching and stuff are difficult to get, unfortunately, and while schools are technically supposed to provide support, that's an issue. The other issue is that a lot of kids that may be autistic are getting ADHD labels- you've got a kid that gets distracted in class? It's entirely possible that they are autistic and struggling with sensory overwhelm so it's hard for them to think clearly, but ADHD is a convenient dx. Finally, there's long been a real push for pharmaceuticals to be prescribed at a young age, with drug reps targeting both teachers and pediatricians. While providing meds to help, unfortunately for them to work out in the long term it's critical that kids get therapy to help them manage their ADHD, and more and more, that's just not available, so it just becomes a band aid the kids become dependent on, then as their bodies and brains acclimate to it, they have less and less ability to function, so you end up with serious issues in young adulthood. So, unfortunately, a lot of kids get screwed because they aren't getting the essential therapies they need to be able to balance meds with an ADHD toolkit.

At the end of the day, most people can get a lot of their work done far more efficiently from home, and have time to rest, take care of chores/kids, and also explore things that might actually make them even more productive. Flexible schedules help even more- Being able to take a morning off, but log on to check in with a team on the other side of the planet at 11pm can make you way more effective, rather than having to do daily emails. It's also helpful for disabled or neurodivergent folks who struggle with social situations, AND not commuting lowers your stress and is better for the planet. But, middle managers are feeling sad that they have nothing to do, so there's these stupid think pieces like this, when it's abundantly clear that WFH is just good. But it reeks of ableism and pushing out parents.

Bots and people who accidentally clicked out of Instagram.

Been putting this off for too long, but tbh Google has completely wrecked the Android experience. I'll be switching to linux for my desktop this year to avoid win 11, and I guess I'll be using custom roms for mobile.

I'm torn on this. I believe nuclear is an import part of clean energy and should be used. At the same time, I know in the US energy companies are generally private companies, meaning they care about profits more than anything else. Nuclear power plants can be run safely, but I have no faith the an American company WILL run them safely. When the choice is saving some money or raising risk by 1%, most companies will take the small amount of risk to save the money. With a nuclear plant, that should never happen.

It is because while they hate Jews, they love Israel. The biggest reason is the evangelicals think Israel has to take back all the land before the rapture can happen. So they are big Israel supporters. Mind you when the rapture happens, all the jews die and go to hell, and they are 100% OK with that.