At this point big US universities are hedge funds running a teaching business on the side for tax dodging purposes.

(I think I heard this from Mark Blyth)

can't comprehend that public services are perfectly fine to be run at break-even, or even at a modest loss, as long as the general public benefits from them.

No one expects LLMs to be all knowing, but the problem is that they have absolutely no self reflection on their knowledge.
A human will tell you they are not sure, when they are not knowledgable about a certain subject, but they will also insist and try to correct you if they feel confident about what they know and you voice a different view. An LLM will confidently bullshit you with until you tell it it's wrong, then it will contradict everything it just said and tell you that you are right, regardless of what is true, or even logical.

Also, you could probably kill 10 people and force the entire industry to move forward by decades

Funny, I sideload everything too, and I keep the wifi on all the time, because I use KoboCloud to load my epubs wirelessly (and because I added google translate to the list of search engines).

having an address like
@potus@threads.net is like having

potus@hotmail.com for your email or something... It should be @potus@whitehouse.gov

The Fairphone 5 came out last month and promises 8 years (5 AOSP releases).

You had to come up with a name starting with FF and did not think of Friendfeed???

Honest curiosity, what app is that?

This is great, be sure to upload them to archive.org, you could be doing a great service to future generations!

More likely, his wife/company realised that stunts in an experimental spacecraft are not covered by the life insurance policy.

The miners could change their mind if users start flocking to a different coin. If ETH can also address the question of scaling, something may budge.

Most probably the answer is: cost of labour and taxes exceed the cost of water. The same reason why the northern states lost their car industry.

It was (is?) a race to the bottom in worker rights. The federal government should have established a level playing field, or, at the very least, a minimum standard, but chose not to.

Ultra wealth only lasts 3 generations? Have you ever heard of the Rothschilds? Not to mention the Fugger, who have been at it for the last 500 years.

For my queries the big G is still way ahead of ddg. I use the latter, but often find myself adding !g to the search query (the ddg shortcut to Google) after taking a quick look at the results.