What is this obsession with pedophilia? I'm really getting rather suspicious of MAGA. I suspect your average Catholic priest or Southern Baptist youth pastor thinks about nude children less than most MAGA individuals.
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?
China calling Elon. Come in, Elon!
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.
bah.
Let me know when they start making *autographic* 120 film again. I have the camera, and am dying to shoot a roll!
The last rolls were apparently made in 1932. The cameras had a flap that could flip up and allow writing directly onto the film with a stylus. When you see handwriting on an old picture print, it was likely shot on autographic.
[and, yes, in fact my autographic camera *does* have bellows!]
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.
That Electrolux isn't really an Electrolux.
a couple of decades ago, in one of those weird corporate maneuvers, it sold the name, and now sells its vacuums under another name, while the buyer sells non-electrolux as Electrolux.
So what she knows of Electrolux from the late 20th and early 21st centuries no longer applies.
But, yes, they were very good and lasted forever. Also extremely pricey.
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.
The company's "crime"? They didn't tell he owner the reason they had to put their vacuum on their wifi was because it had an under-powered processor and needed to access outside servers to function.
Or alternatively you could have read the article and discovered that actually, the company was sending bricking commands that he found by looking at the logs.
Probable Cause is a meaningful standard and theres a LONG history of cops getting dragged over the coals by judges for failing to apply it properly.
try using mirrors. What could go wrong?
We had to have our entire roof reshingled after a particularly bad storm.
It turns out that of the various colors, the lightest (or 2?) was actually energy star rated. So we took it.
It turned out to be worth about 2F inside as compared to the prior black shingles.
We got another 2F when we replaced the swamp cooler--the newer model had an 18" pad instead of 12".
Between the roof and the bigger pads, we only had a single non-monsoon season day where we had to switch over to AC this summer--in Las Vegas!
(I'm going to miss the swamp cooler when we move, but they're apparently not allowed in new construction. I have no idea when the cutoff was)
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