Kind of some level of any system isn’t it? In short if a system has a means to power that can tweak the rules. Inevitably will result in one group ceasing the rules, turning them to raise how much they can tweak them, and ensuring they continue to be tweaked in their favor.

Communism relies on a possibly impossible starting point. Theoretically if the starting point were reached, it seems the most sustainable. Whether it’s possible to reach that starting point is the great mystery.

I’m thinking, it’s an attempt to be more succesful with nerds like us? I gotta admit I thought it was possibly a real person the first time I saw it, I’m more than desensitized to supermodel looking asian pictures from when I was on dating apps and occasionally reddit. I’m guessing just a non horny, non model, claiming to be studying in STEM is trying to avoid the obvious red flags for people that know supermodels probably aren’t into them.

I mean huge swaths of basically all security in the world would have to be redone depending on how teleportation works. Admitted depending on if we are talking general beaming, pads/portals etc… I mean inherantly security itself is a factor when it comes to just what to do if someone pops into your house when you leave.

Was an old joke.

I invented a revolutionary new power generation!

“is it actually new or just steam”

“… steam”.

well yeah I generally don’t use AI for much anything, but in this case used it specifically because it’s the opinion on something written by OpenAI, which makes it’s disapproval coming from openai’s algorythm more amusing.

Plus funnier for them to have to debunk… is it better for them to argue “well our AI sucks, don’t take it’s word for anything”, or admit the obvious “you asked it for a view to the average person and not our profit margains, of course from that perspective our plan is bad”.

It’s possible to assume that the professor did the math.

But yeah any time machine would also basically have to have space travel built in to compensate.

They knew that when they wrote Dr Who (IE the time travel machine is called a TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimension in Space).

Just for humor’s sake I plugged in the proposal itself into chatgpt to have it give a summary on how it helps or hurts the average american – https://chatgpt.com/share/67d32e59-830c-800c-b9d6-c4abe50b37d4

The way I read that even chat gpt says it needs better safeguards

Overall Verdict

This proposal prioritizes AI industry growth and national security over strong worker and IP protections.
If implemented well, it could boost the economy, create jobs, and enhance innovation, but it needs stronger safeguards for workers and content creators to prevent exploitation.
The copyright section is the most concerning—it seems to favor big AI firms over independent creators.
The export control strategy could be effective in protecting national security but might hinder global AI collaboration.

Basically the way it usually works is.

Chinese knock off mass factory, makes stores and has the items.

They find a guy in America and say "Hey can you list our items on ebay, when you sell them, we’ll take $20, you can probably sell them for $50.

Guy lists item for $50, someone buys it, he then just e-mails the dropshipper and asks them to send it straight to the buyer. Sometimes he will have to give ebay a fake tracking number (because ebay doesn’t approve the practice).

Point is the drop shipper is just there to conceal the actual source of the product. That’s generally because they are sketchy in some other way.

A co-worker of mine at one point got into a drop shipping scam. She was selling golf clubs that way (she was selling them about 80% of expected retail, place she was buying from was charging her about 25% of retail. She didn’t know (but probably should have guessed) that the clubs she was selling were counterfeit, and she about had a heart attack when her 2nd customer called her out on it (she refunded him and took the loss).

Especially in response to “I’m calling 911”. You are texting your daughter. You clearly are in a safe area, your daughter is clearly hiding for her life hoping not to draw attention. propor response would be “let me call, be quiet”

Grammar is so horrible there.

Can’t help but imagine the conversation with someone more determined.

Kid: He’s inside mom he’s going to here me.

Mom: *Hear darling, haven’t you paid any attention.

Kid: Oh shit, he’s got a knife

Mom: He has a knife.

I mean it sounds to me more like they are admitting they were intentionally stupidly inefficient originally. IE the one they are comparing it to has 94% more detergent, but only does 14 more loads. (74 vs 60).

I mean that’s mainly it… it’s amazing at clearing adds off of news articles general viewing pages like blogs etc… but yes as you said, it’s not particularly great for things like youtube/spotify etc… things that deliver the ads through the same source as the main content.

I do worry a little about future antitrust actions, because while I generally like Valve as they are, Gabe won’t be around forever. They have a giant influence in the market, and they don’t even have to try (they were one of the first, so it makes sense they’d have the most market share); it could be that the company I generally like starts actively being anticompetitive or starts donating to Nazis or something.

Agreed, if there’s one potential weak point… it’s basically that valve is the 15 years ago google of gaming right now. Great support for open source and linux… mostly good policies (minus maybe their micro transaction and lack of cracking down on how say the CSGO skins feed an underage gambling industry).

But yeah, effectively we still have the worse of positions that, one bad management choice, and we could all lose access to all the games we’ve purchased from them over the last decade or 2.

well that’s common, but the big thing is, you can see what you are working with. Big difference in at least knowing you need to try a different site when say

Google: Law about X in state1

Top result: Law about X in state3: It’s illegal

Result 2 pages in: here’s a list of each page and whether law X is legal in your state… (State 1 legal)

Versus chatgpt

Is X legal in state1?

Chatgpt: No

Amen to that. I mean right now there’s also more reason than ever to convince people to leave reddit. (IE people being banned, not just for mentioning luigi, but upvoting comments mentioning luigi).

Followed by the fascist ripping it up. “DEI!”

it has voice and video… though to be honest I’ve never used it.

damn… there goes my heist plans… was going to wait till AI robots took over the manufacturing lines, then walk in and start stealing product right off the line. I never anticipated all the robots would know kung fu.

Not a bad list, one thing I would say though, for self hosting, vaultwarden is a far more ideal server than bitwarden (same clients work, but faster and all features are unlocked).

BEVs need to park for a while to get a substantial charge, not even full one. The fast chargers get Teslas to 80% in something like thirty minutes

That’s why my point was “truck stop level gas station”. IE those huge gas stations off the highway, several in most cities… huge lots, and most importantly have at least one, sometimes a few restaurants inside. IE they are already designed as a good place for truckers to take a half hour to an hour to, re-organize themselves for a long trip. Not a totally unreasonable process for a road tripping family etc… to hit every 3-4 hours that an EV can drive.

I can’t fully disagree on the potential of renting a car if it’s extremely infrequent to make long trips. Public transit would be nice, though gotta say there’s a lot of places where that’s pretty non-viable. Least from where I live the nearest bus station from me is about 30-45 minutes away by car.