Given the moral clarity of the Oct 7 attacks the Left's response (hand-waving, equivocating "whataboutism", etc.) has been quite shocking and perplexing. Or maybe not.

OpenAI could easily afford to pay for a few hundred developer accounts and just scrape the site using the NY Times API.

The name of the game in web development today is Node/React, Angular javascript et al.
Using Node and Express lets you quickly prototype APIs, MongoDB schemas locally, etc, while a React frontend gives you access to SPA features and theme libraries like MUI/ChakraUI

You can do that much faster than setting up a MySQL database with Apache/Nginx and PHP.

alt.binaries...

You had to be very patient on a dial-up connection, lol!

Take the following example:

"Andie's father called them yesterday.
'Hey, how are you?', he asked them.
They were going out with a friend later, they said."

It's a bizarre, Orwellian use of the English language and doesn't really make grammatical sense when referring to an individual person.
Also, third-person pronouns are generally used to refer to people not present in the discussion, otherwise you would say "you" or use the person's name.

So really using someone's "pronouns" is just a form of thought control on their part where that person is controlling others language even when that person isn't present.

"Oh how's Andie doing, is she OK?"
"They are doing well!"
"You know, she's not here to be offended, you're allowed to refer to her however you want when she's not around. There's no language police!" (or is there?)

>California has a lower smoking rate than any state but Utah.

I guess if you don't count vaping, or weed...

> and delivers less "toxicity" and bias

Ironically you have to bias the model so it doesn't deliver "toxicity". I mean, the concept of "toxicity" is already biased toward a Western liberal understanding of various -isms that isn't used by most of the world. I mean, try filing a racial bias lawsuit in Indonesia or Nigeria and see how far you'll get...
Or try explaining to someone in Dubai how a picture of black people should never be referred to as resembling gorillas because it racist according to left-wing Western ideologies, even though some humans can optically resemble animals.

I always find it interesting how if Eric Trump had been facing even half of the accusations Hunter Biden is let alone a laptop filled with emails referring to payments to "the big guy" Trump would have been impeached 10 times over.

But for Joe Biden: "oh it's no big deal, the 'big guy' could have been anybody, nothing to see here."

>"international human rights law"

Those are just words on a piece of paper. Sure, some countries sign treaties adopting human rights laws, (see the EU) but will break those treaties when it's convenient for them because ultimately "human rights law" is based on the honor system, since there isn't any international enforcement mechanism. Other countries can impose sanctions on human rights abusers, etc, but, for example, no one is going to place Xi Jinping in jail for violating "international human rights laws" (which China isn't a party to, by the way)

If there was a company approximating Blade Runner's Tyrell Corporation it has to be Apple, right?

They're sitting on over $60 billion dollars in cash (those iPhones were VERY profitable). That's about 50% of Intel's market cap. Not including Apple's own market cap of almost $3 Trillion dollars--more than the GDP of most countries.

Instead of buying Intel, they decided to build their own! How long before they decide to build "replicants" iPeople, lol!

>Intel's new fab plants in Arizona and New Mexico also going to be at risk, with these sorts of temperature increases.

They're both in desert areas, where the temp difference between night and day can vary by something like 30F. Just run the plants after sundown and shutter them in the day, lol!

>but economics will get you to switch on the long run

Imagine the cost of EV batteries once Western governments mandate all-EV car sales. Only the rich will be able to drive private vehicles at that point, which may be the goal, who knows. However in a democracy all it takes is for a candidate to say: I'm going to lower the cost of owning a car.

>"Once most people are driving EVs",

There's evidence that we've already reached peak EV sales, at least in the short term. Everyone who wanted an EV has one, or something like that. So there's a case to be made that EV sales will stay at a low percentage of all car sales unless EVs are heavily subsidized or the cost of ICE vehicle skyrockets.

However demand for ICE vehicles isn't going away any time soon and political attempts to raise the cost of ICE vehicles will backfire. First because voters tend not to vote for politicians who raise taxes, and secondly because attempts by states to penalize ICE vehicles through "emissions" regulations may be unconstitutional.

Considering that gas in NY state now is about $3.5 per gallons, so Ontarians are really paying an extra $2 per gallon due to various taxes and excise fees, etc. The carbon tax is on top of that.

>Palestinians are not really involved with the environmental movement.

Greta Thunberg, the face of the "green" movement, posted a photo of herself and three others holding signs stating: "Free Palestine," "Climate Justice Now," "This Jew stands with Palestine" and "Stand with Gaza". In the caption, she called for "solidarity with Palestine and Gaza" and an immediate cease-fire to the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Climate activists are really just left-wing activists in search of a cause; any lefty, sloganeering-amenable cause will do. I swear if aliens invaded tomorrow and started eating human babies, these same people would be protesting any retaliation "what have the aliens ever done to you!"