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“No threat to security,” says interior minister of state that has been repeated threatened with annexation by the megalomaniac head of a neighbouring belligerent state.

Sure thing, but a Latina from NYC won’t get votes in the flyover states and a lot of the South annd I don’t think electoral votes are distributed by population.

I know a bunch of people who readily admit they’re bad drivers. But there literally are no classes in their country to improve their practical skills.

The fact that so many people in car centric countries don't even have a back up when things go wrong is abysmal.

“We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas” is the theme with car-centric countries. Or they tried, built 1/10 of a solution and then absolutely neutered it by making it somehow secondary to cars. Where they do have practical public transit it’s absolutely slammed full of people but they wont even maintain let alone invest in it.

Yes that’s my point.

Ah, true.

Well, yes, but loss leaders are more commonly some kind of trash not open ended healthy food!

They need 50x more revenue to pay off just the data centers.

The product is already expensive; there’s been minimal tangible cost savings as a result of using AI and they still have the problem where more usage directly correlates with more cost. We’re not creating NYT Online where the cost of development is spread across n users and approaches $0 per user as it grows. This is much more like non-tech scaling costs. For every 200 people using the service in a given day, we need a new A380. If they use the service twice, we need to fuel the plane twice.

From recollection, the chip in the iPhone 15 had the capacity to do the local model and perhaps they turned it on in an iPad. Or perhaps I’m confused. That happens a lot.

To be clear, it’s not that I oppose teaching sex ed at all. It needs to happen, because kids find it on their own. It’s just that it’s disappointing that society has come to the point where we need to discuss kinks with prepubescents. I don’t think their brains are developed enough to comprehend the complex decision process behind getting tied up and whipped, which I think partly this article is seeking to address.

It’s just a sad comment on society, I think. I want to have a healthy open dialogue with my kids about sex. The porn genie isn’t going back in the bottle.

It’s been my limited experience that parental controls are pretty strong these days. I think that a really key difference circles back to the social media exposure discussion. Sure, they seek it out eventually, but with always on social media they’re going to find out about things a lot earlier than they need to, which is why I also called out the social media companies for their unethical behaviour.

I’m not sure what the angle is here because companies rarely do things that benefit both customer and the company but this seems to be a very good thing.

Veg are always expensive for grocers (special handling and storage, and they go off fast) but I guess it guarantees they won’t have any leftovers come Christmas!

Don’t forget that the data centres are owned by dedicated data centre companies and funded by loans issued based on the (declining) value of the GPUs that will be installed there, by the promised future sales of the datacentre resources to AI companies that lose more money with every additional query sent to their service, and also funded by rebates offered by the companies that are selling the GPUs, which will only pay out of the datacenre company buys enough GPUs.

It’s a fucking catastrophe.

Bear with me for a minute. Parents spend a lot of time dealing with your “traumas” at a young age, which somewhat entrains this response. As a 2 year old, the wind blew the leaf you picked up on the walk out of your hands. At 8, you didn’t get the cookie you really wanted. At 12 the boy you like made fun of your hair. These are upsetting to the child but it’s also part of a learning experience to help adjust to real life disappointments.

Sometimes your parents can’t tell the difference between a childish disappointment and a traumatic experience. They don’t see the world in your eyes. They do deal with a variety of their own issues and trauma inducing experiences, and as there’s no mandatory training course for raising a child, they don’t know how to help you through things that upset you. Usually, they care about you. But they don’t always have the emotional capacity to provide the level of support you think you need.