He said "Buy my crypto or no funding."

I mean maybe, in theory, but how often do prices actually drop on hotels? Prices are usually based on occupancy, so unless somebody cancels a block of a hundred rooms or something, this seems unlikely to make a meaningful difference in hotel revenue.

Meanwhile, if this had happened five years ago, it would have meant not going on trips for me, because traveling with my dad in his last couple of years had a decent risk of having to cancel.

There are people for whom being able to cancel a trip without significant penalty is the only thing that makes travel possible. And if hotels are more concerned with maybe losing a few bucks in rare circumstances than they are with whether the elderly and disabled get to have a vacation at all, then F**K those hotels. They aren't worth doing business with.

Because AI is not very important. Large Language Models are morons,not Artificially intelligent.

No intelligent human lets a LLM do anything important beyond suggesting stuff.

LLMs do a lot of minor tasks.

Yes corps could use LLMs to feed people propaganda. Guess what, they did that BEFORE LLMs and if LLMs vanish, they would still be doing it.

What you are describing is called Plutocracy, not capitalism.

Plutocracy is rule by the rich. Nobody wants to admit that so often they lie and claim to be a Capitalist.

Capitalism is about the Free Market (Free as in choice) not ruling.

You are doing better inthe UK (as of 22024) then the US. Here it is still legal to feed antibiotics to animals.

But you can still buy antibacterial soap in both the UK and the US

Immediately after covid, the main reason for the inflation was the covid checks. During covid their tax revenue went down but their spending doubled. How? The was the government printing money.

When you print money, you create massive inflation. It took a while for the economy to react, but it definitely did.

What happened next is called inelastic supply and demand curves. What that means is that prices take a shock to change. For a long time we had cheap food in part because no one would pay extra. Then covid hit and we were willing to pay MORE.

Now that prices went up, no one is willing to sell for less. They know we are willing to pay X amount and they are going to charge us X amount.

Worse, they think we will pay more and are doing everything they can to test it. The food industry has learned we can pay more for food and doing their best to get as much as they can.

It should be illegal to get the majority of them without a prescription.

The most important practice we need to stop is giving it to livestock as a way to increase growth. If the animal has not been examined by a veterinary and given a prescription, it should be illegal to feed it an antibiotic. Currently it is possible to buy tons of food with antibiotics installed.

Also, this means those hand soaps with antibiotics, we need to outlaw them. Alcohol gels do a BETTER job of killing the bacteria and the antibiotics just breed resistance.

There are three separate issues that cause this problem.

1) Distribution costs. Power is used up in sending it long distances. In addition, the infrastructure to distribute power is both expensive and limited. We need to build more power lines as well as power plants. Takes time.

2) Most types of power plants have severe limitations. Some cause pollution, some incur fear of radiation, some are intermittent, some are dependent on physical features and a good water supply. It is NOT a market distortion to deal with these issues, it is the free market reacting to various different concerns besides power.

In general, the best solution is to design industrial centers that contain both a power plant and a bunch of businesses in areas chosen for the benefit to that type of power plant. You could build a data center in a high solar area with a built in power bank that lasts the night.

And trucks should be forced to us an entirely different set of roads.

Your idea is an entirely different kind of stupid. Most electrical grids are a hugely expensive piece of infrastructure.

Been a while since I've flown a budget airline. On the normal flights I've taken, there's always a few people (usually older people) with paper boarding passes.

There was no new agreement, Disney flexed and lost. They figured YouTube customers would loudly complain then switch to the new Disney platform. What happened was life just went on with out Disney and they watched their "profit" dry up. YouTube is carrying Disneys' lineup at the same pricepoint they did last year.

The electric motor is efficient and powerful, they really are. The aceleration is stupendous. Batteries on the other hand LACK severely. Hopefully the solid state battery grail will pan out and we can finally see a genuinely useful EV.
I need a 300 mile range and a 4 hour turn around. I want to take the wife out to a movie in the evening after a long commute.

We do not want a singular AI that is unified and acts as one.
The AI War is what we want to prevent this.

Ideally we want hundreds of them, each with different purposes, from different builders - companies and countries.

If one of them wants to say convert all metal into paperclips, another will say slow your roll, I need the aluminum to make as many sapphires as possible. A third will say I need the copper for my pipes!

Or maybe it will be more sophisticated disagreements, but it does not matter.

End result, the AI's differing objectives will prevent them from taking control of Earth. The plucky humans will say they learned their lesson, but let's be honest - there is going to be a sequel to this movie.

You are thinking of wiring a whole house for outlets, lights, heat, appliances, etc.

This is more like you buy a set of solar panels and a battery that comes with say 6 outlets. The kind of thing you use for Glamping.

Then you get 6 extension cords and glue them to your walls. Do not staple, GLUE.

You have to get cable installed because it does not come with the house.

In Africa, you have to get an electrical line installed because it does not come with the house (except in the Urban areas - where it is just like America.)

For 50 years, many African leaders keep promissing that the Utility company will build an electrical grid that goes to the rural areas and but they have repeatedly failed.

Now, you can just get Solar power installed and screw the utility.