This would be a horrible investment anyway. I use Affirm, which is similar. You pay for something kind of expensive - minimum is 100 USD - break it into 3 or 4 zero-interest payments, use a virtual credit card they generate, which is tied to your real credit card or bank account, to make the purchase. Every few weeks, they take a payment from you from their automated process to repay the loan from either your real credit card or directly from your bank account. You pay your real credit card balance every month and viola! you have your merchandise and don't pay anyone any interest. I may be an outlier doing it this way, but I don't see how money is being made except possibly through some sort of affiliate program. The other way is to take a plan that bears an interest rate that is similar to real credit card rates, which is not a good decision to begin with. That said, it's no different than using a real credit card and having a balance. Those people have always been a high risk, which is why the interest rates are high to begin with. If memory serves, they have been defaulting at an increasing rate for years, so they may have reached a point where those loans are also unprofitable. In any case, I don't see these services making money. YMMV.

Like.....Put a chick in it and make her gay!

Who would have thought the AI that depicted Vikings and Nazis and being Black would have faked output. I'm shocked! Shocked to find that fake output is going on in here.

Isn't this the AI that generated photos of n\Nazis as Black people? Why would anyone expect it not to suck?

The surveillance is being done for their safety - and if they are not doing anything wrong, they have nothing to worry about. RIght?

In this case, literally.

Twitter is raw sewage passed on as news in all too many instances. No one reports Facebook stories except when they are about Facebook.

Waiting for her defense to invoke the 1st Amendment - she can code whatever she wants, as it's just written words and does not incite to riot or advocate violence.

I used to own a VW diesel - for ten years. When I got it, diesel was much cheaper than even the cheapest gasoline (87 octane unleaded). At that time, it was much cheaper to run the diesel than a gasser. Once the US government mandated the use of low sulphur diesel, the price of diesel became as expensive as the highest grade of gasoline (unleaded premium - 93 octane) and the cost advantage became a liability even considering the increased milage given by a diesel engine. The sound depended on the quality of the fuel you used - I added cetane boosters, which increased milage slightly and eliminated the clattering noises you speak of. I never had any performance issues and the engine itself was bulletproof as far as reliability goes. I sold the car to a friend of mine and it's still running like a top. Not saying a gasoline engine would not be, but diesels are known for being reliable and my anecdote bears that out.

I do a lot of hiking (recently completed soloing the Palmetto Trail), and ibuprofen and Tylenol are commonly used for the minor injuries that are common. Not sure how effective they would be against starvation. You may be right, but there's nothing unusual about using them on the trail. What shocks me is the lack of a cell phone and/or GPS. I carry paper, too, but as a backup to my backup. Likely some form of mental illness. Sad case.

to start working on movies that are not remakes and/or sequels. And if you could scrub the SJW/PC/virtue-signaling elements, that would be nice, too.

Or whoever is hosting - or refuses to host - those web sites.

This would have been news if it had been OpenBSD posting this. :-)

The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. /rimshot

I hope their smartnet contracts are up to date and that they get someone on the phone they can understand.