Even Sam Altman can't save openAI with his Jedi Hype Master Skills when they keep falling futher and further behind. Google and Anthropic are presenting serious challenges and while OpenAI is still in the top 10, the rest of the pack is quickly catching up, whatever secret sauce they had before, it has been discovered and they have yet to find something uniquely defining that nobody else has. Raise after raise eventually isn't going to make much of a media splash and they'll lose their influence there, too. December isn't over yet, maybe they still have a compelling product up their sleeve, but this latest media blitz is a lot more subdued than last year's Dec blitz.

Don't tell me where to go. By "jerks", I mean the people responsible for replacing bilingual street signs with French-only street signs, at the expense of taxpayers. Because being bilingual wasn't good enough, they have to have FRENCH ONLY! If you're not one of those jerks, then I wasn't referring to you. (I have tremendous respect for the people that speak multiple languages fluently. People that refuse to learn the language skills needed to communicate with the people around them? Not so much.) As far as Canada being far better off than the US is under current leadership, I concur. I'm hoping when donnie dementia is no longer around I can sit down with my Canadian friends and buy them a beer again. What are y'all drinkin' these days? (Pretty sure it's not American!)

Exactly. Republicans don't understand that they are effectively 100% in favor of the next Democrat president cancelling Faux News with their current policy!

Touché.

That's kind of my point. If you've got British monarchs on your currency, you obviously still consider yourself British. The Commonwealth is awesome, by the way, it is one big happy family of 56 former colonies!

Obama wore a TAN SUIT!!! Oh, the humanity!

So "independent" agency really does mean the president can't use the agency to extort companies into punishing his "enemies"? Good to know... now how do we enforce that distinction?

They named Canada by drawing letters out of a hat. 'C', eh? 'N', eh? 'D', eh?

Yes, it was a SCSI scanner, which meant I had to buy a special SCSI card for my PC to support it too... the only SCSI device I've ever owned. Let's just say I don't miss the SCSI standard. Everything going Thunderbolt 5 now (or at least USB-C) is awesome!

Can they still do "Berlin to Warsaw in one tank"?

EVERYBODY knows what a "Gaudi" is? He's the architect that designed Basílica de la Sagrada Família. You know, the guy that gave us the cliche "What if you get hit by a bus?"

I'm guessing it's a scheme to complete Basílica de la Sagrada Família much sooner?

That's exactly why open-sourcing drivers is a GOOD thing! I once paid good money for an HP flatbed scanner, which became unusable when the next version of Windows shipped and HP declined to provide drivers for it since they were no longer making any money off the scanner. So I had to throw it away.

"Which spelling is Canadian?" Both, my friend, both!

One thing I can say for the British is that they pronounce words exactly the way they spell them. (See aluminium/aluminum). So, while my Canadian coworkers pronunciation of "schedule" bothered me as an American, I cannot call it incorrect! Obviously, the Canadians still consider themselves to be British... er, with the exception of a bunch of francophile jerks in Quebec.