Suppose that I grant to you that Trump has no desire to conquer Canada. I don't think that's remotely true, but whatever.

It's still an indisputable fact that Trump has made many threats against Canada.

Tariffs aside - Trump has spoken many times about how he wants Canada to become the 51st state. He's mentioned attempting to destroy Canada's economy to coerce us to become the 51st state. To quote Canadian MP Charlie Angus:

Literally the first thing I did when setting up Windows 11 was delete the new notepad and install an older version. There is no reason whatsoever that notepad should do more than text editing - that was what Wordpad was for, so bring it back if you (Microsoft) want something with more features.

I'm colourblind too - and to me the roads and parks are now nearly indistinguishable.

Linguists understand English grammar. At least, as well as anyone understands the grammar for any language. Of course, linguistics is not particularly useful for the average person so I don't think that it should be taught in schools... but maybe a little bit of it should replace grammar so that the average person has a slightly better foundation for thinking about sentence structure.

It's valuable to be able to confirm, "This specific picture was taken by a camera - not generated by an AI". Being able to remove that data is not an issue, because you're also capable of not removing that data.

Yes, we know. World War V will be fought with crossbows, World War VI with lasers, and World War VII with blowguns.

Valorant is PC only.

The claim was that few people want a quick fill up/battery swap. My response was not that EVs are a bad thing, but that there is good reason to want short stops. "Might as well get used to it" sounds like you're saying "yeah, EVs are worse but they're inevitable". In which case, I agree.

I grew up driving 900km to see my cousins about once a year. We'd drive all through the day - one day there, one day back.

In an EV, that would never happen. We wouldn't have flown - too expensive. We wouldn't have taken more than one day - that would require a hotel. We wouldn't have made multiple long stops - small children and road trips are already challenging without making it longer.

You have a somewhat narrow view of why people like to be able to only make short stops.

Nobody except California, Canada, or the UK?
I know, I know, banning the sale of all ICE cars by 2035 probably doesn't mean exactly that (and I'm not inclined to dig through the various laws to see what exceptions they make), but I'm fairly certain that some people are saying that "*all* existing ICE need to be replaced". Even if the people who actually make policy are better-informed.

Open source AI tools are currently way more capable than commercial ones, at least in the image generation space. There would have to be a new innovation that can't be replicated easily for that to change. I wouldn't put my money on that.

And no, there's no reason why I can't generate an image in the super-advanced thing photoshop will have 10 years from now and then remove the watermark in 2023's stable diffusion. It still won't require any artistic skill.

You say that, but FIFA.

If nothing else works to get rid of the watermark, I can always toss it in a local stable diffusion model and run it through img2img at low denoising. It'd be identical to the casual observer, but completely destroy any stenographic properties.

Give me a break. We don't know how to make a decent AI for Axis and Allies - the 1981 edition. I've got half a dozen more complex wargames on my shelf (including newer editions of Axis and Allies). Go has a branching factor of no more than 19*19=361, and this is frequently used to estimate the complexity of the game. A toy version of Axis and Allies with only 14 countries has a branching factor around 10^16, and the standard game is of course much higher.

Sure, Go is the most complex ancient board game. But just like how ChatGPT writing passable emails doesn't imply that it understands the semantics of what it's writing, KataGo and Leela Zero being good at Go doesn't imply that similar systems would be capable of playing more complex games.

And this isn't saying that Go is easy! Just as calculating complex integrals is easy for computers but hard for humans and classifying pictures is hard for computers and easy for humans, Go is on the easy side of games for computers.