But, otoh, the only people who said the west coast would be under water by 2012 were climate change deniers who attributed that to the environmentalists to prove their own "the boy who cried wolf"-point. That has been a strawman argument all along..

Yes, but one thing is that we don't have windows that open vertically. So there's no real "window-acs" over here. We do have freestanding acs with a hose, but ones for â150 won't cut it, unless you live in a closet. Useable ones that manage 80m3 start at around â700

It's not as common in private households as in the U.S. and often not that needed. But the increase of heatwaves and the conversion of fossil heating to electical heatpumps has changed that in recent years.

That kind of ruined Wanda Vision for me. They built it up for quite some time, only to descend into boring marvel-movie-punching with no stakes or impact in the last two episodes.

Agreed, it was stupid, formulaic, predictable, shallow, and mostly mediocre at best. I watched it in the cinema and can't even remember a single thing about it, asides from David Harbour and Sebastian Stan being in it. The problem is not "Too many movies", or "Feels like doing homework" (although that contributes at this level of quality) - it's too much mediocre shovelware.

Or just don't put awful music in the jukebox?

And in the case of musicians: WILL.

Not sure about the rights situation in the US, but here in Europe, playing a CD to a wider audience - like patrons of a bar - counts as performance. You don't get a license for that by just buying a CD. Same with movies.

0,5% of sales is not a lot. If you (and your customers) don't, just pay some AI-generated slop

if a game is too complex for me to comprehend all strategies and outcomes, I make an effort to be at least unpredictable. d'oh.

if something is AI or not.... Why does it make a difference then? "a connection with the artist; we can learn about their life and what influenced them to better understand their career"- all fine and dandy, but if that story that fabricates a connection is also fabricated by AI, does it make the music better? And, if an artist wants to stay anonymous, or pretends, he/she is a fictional character, does it make the music worse? Sure, for people who prefer or need a little make-pretend - but they are usually quite good at lying to themselfes, they don't need AI-labelling to break their illusion.

Seems like it's 70% quality. But when it's wrong, it misses the mark quite obviously. Not like humans who then start blaming others or manage to wiggle through. And, tbh, a lot of employed people only work 30% of their potential. So, I'd rather see AI making tabula rasa with bullshit-jobs first.

I seem to be the only one calling it." - Maybe your search skills are just bad? This is logical, has thus been predicted to make people aware who don't think by themselves and there have been articles written about it. But obviously, you don't become a journalist if you're too lazy to point out and endlessly wax about the obvious as if you're the first person who ever discovered something. (spoken from a journalist's perspective :-) )

Based on experience, there's a difference between what people say they want and what they really need. E.g. policians promoting a subjective feeling of security and objective security. Or most people wanting a keyboard on a phone until they got capacitive touchscreens.

Although this could help with peace. Keep people away from Teams and that humanitarian deed may get you to keep the Krim.