The most asked question is : "How to turn it off?"

Don't Firefox devs ever thought why is that?

Industry consumes electricity, lots of it. Datacenters is just one example.

Aluminum plants consumes gobs of electricity, profitable plants usually locate next to power plants with lots of stable and cheap power, like geothermal or hydro.

I heard someone wanted to bring manufacturing back to the US, are there power plants being built to support the factories? Where are the new dams being built to give hydro power and also serve as a giant battery?

Some factories also consumes lots of fresh water, especially semiconductor fabs. Where does the water come from?

Americans will soon find out that doing things is so much more difficult than just talking about doing things.

Eventually, AI will be able to use the *original* voice (e.g. speaking Japanese) and change the language to English, with all the emotion intact. Even if the result is only passable, the cost would be so low that everyone will use it.

What these voice actors are doing is similar to harbour loaders protesting against automation. The final result is building new harbours that are 100% automated from the start, then letting the old manually loaded harbours go bust.

or you are compensated heavily based on the company's profit, it is foolish to be engaged in your job.

Your job is not your life. Your job is just a means to earn income to support your life. Being "engaged" in your job means sacrificing part of your life for free to benefit the owners of the company. Why would anyone sell themselves short?

The only exception is when you are properly compensated, see the exceptions at the top.

Use the money you earned to find fulfilment elsewhere in your life independent of your job. That way, your life will not collapse into emptiness when you lose your job or when you retire.

that a bank put up their customers' data for sale for a price, or that other companies thought they should get that data for free.

This would be similar to a Math Olympiads giving participants questions of multiplying 20-digits numbers. Or weight lifting in the Olympics where one contestant wore a powered exoskeleton to help lift the weight.

It's no wonder in those cases a machine can do it better than humans, and it only demonstrated the poor level of organizers, that they were unable to come up with good worthy questions for the participants, rather than anything about such events itself.

That's what we should call companies like Google.

Next in the news, a startup company announces AI job application services, which will write resume and conduct video interviews using AI avatars with their customer's faces. Only companies reaching later stages in the hiring process get to meet with actual human applicant.

The startup claims that with big data, their AI avatar knew the correct answer to every stupid HR question threw at them, making sure their customers will get through any screening hurdles HR put in their way.

and stop pretending Canada has sovereignty. Otherwise Canada is just asking to be whipped and humiliated in front of the world.

Slavery and child labor "worked just fine" before, too.

The fact is "just fine" isn't really fine for many disabled people, and years of working remotely proved that remote work is feasible and practical.

Funny how all these remote workers worked just fine before, until the PHBs called for everyone to return to office, then somehow remote working isn't fine anymore. While at the same time, outsource to India is still fine for the same PHBs. You cannot get more blatantly double standard than this, unless all PHBs have split personality.

Isn't it obvious enough yet?

To have a proper perspective, you have to keep in mind China has more than 13 million high school graduates in 2025, with only about 5 million seats in higher education.

277,000 enrollment is only 2% of the total, or about 3-4% out of those 8 million who cannot get into local universities in China.

The 100,000 or so figure throw about for other destinations is less than 1% of this year's high school graduates.

So the change is about less than 0.5%. About as significant as the Dow dropping 200 points.

Stack ranking is how you destroy a company from within, putting all your staff into a perpetual game of survivor is going to promote backstabbing at worst and information hoarding self-preservation in the least.

The sooner this Meta-stasis is gone from the world, the better for everyone.

Everyone in China have been watching all these sanctions applied to Russia, well aware that one day, the same and worse will be done to them.

Hence the Chinese have been building their own version of everything that used to rely on other countries, most recently being their own PC OS, and the most notably their own chips.

I guess we will be seeing their own gaming console in the next few years, and then Sony can say goodbye to the Chinese market.

Don't you love it that Google peeks into every one of these 1 billion messages every day?