> Then they just need to keep doing that for the new code.

"You Insensitive Claude, why haven't you made Thunderbird multi-threaded yet?"

(there appears to be evidence of significant limitations in its understanding of complex code)

> Is it appropriate to cite the old proverb, "Physician, heal thyself" here?

Years before the physician was a fentanyl addict living in a cardboard box on the street you would have been compassionate to do so.

At some point you just can't help people who don't want to be helped.

It's sad because the physician was once a happy baby who gave his mother delight. So much waste of care and resources.

What's ironic is that feeds his megalomania. Extreme-ego types love that their detractors are thinking about them all the time.

"Living rent-free" is the ultimate payoff.

Best to ignore them as much as possible.

I'm going to assume you're not aware of the incontrovertible evidence done by John Bray and others proving that the "ballistic tests were inconclusive" is hardly the tip of the iceberg. It's conclusive that the 'lone shooter' narrative is false, and almost certain that a rapidly expanding explosive like PETN was involved (lapel mic). There's nothing else which fits the mutually supportive analysis work that's been done.

Nah, I just have a long horizon on my memory. "Wait a second, this contradicts what the media was just saying!" And then I look into it myself. It doesn't take speculation when there's readily available evidence to refute media claims, made by the media themselves.

The media narrative on both masking during covid, and subsequently the narrative shift over the Ukraine conflicts, are perfect examples.

Masking: masking isn't necessary; no wait, only doctors should mask; masks don't actually help; masking is good for you, actually.

Ukraine: Ukrainians are actual Nazis (2013); Ukraine overthrown by the US government; Ukraine is now, somehow, not Nazis; Ukrainians are the good guys, actually, and we have to support them against Russia

(You can do the same narrative progression to sway concensus for COVID lab genesis, the Epstein files, or any of the other things I mentioned. They'll deny it, then switch course slowly as it's acceptable and people grow fatigued. It's plain as day to anyone with the mental horizon of more than 2 weeks.

I'd argue both major political parties (and then some), yes.

Those pamphlets are nice, my state does something similar. It's problematic, however, when both sides are lying outright and it's hard to split the difference without looking at the actual bills/amendments/provisions. That seems often to be the case. It's also common for "one side"s rebuttal is actually the other side's strawman rebuttal, which may or may not be due to either malice or intellectual deficiency.

Perhaps a bit conspiratorial, but given all of Trump's other betrayals in the past couple months, this can't help but seem like it was initially planned this way: do something that makes life hard, which will make life harder in a couple months when all the other cards start to drop.

Instead of 10 activations limit it to n number of sync chains.

Pair the activation authorization to the hash of a chain code or whatever on the Brave activation server.

Reduce the number to 5, that's fine.

A good number of privacy folks have extra devices to run certain apps. You might trust Brave and have them all synced but not some odd banking apps or dating apps or stuff work makes you have.

A decent used phone can be had for $50; keeping all those apps on one device seems nuts.

5 sync chains would effectively be a family license around here. Sounds like a good deal at $60.

Having a license wear out because your phone needed a factory reset or went in for service just doesn't make sense.

Kilmer was an absolute beast when it came to diverse characters. They were all distinct and different, a true method actor.

Acting is just as much art as any other kind of art. I don't have a problem with AI actors, but I do have a problem with an actor who's got a significant body of (good) work licensing their likeness (assuming that's what happened) for AI: it cheapens the earlier work.

... and with all their mass-firings probably AI slop too.

I prefer the small rural theaters with a dozen people at a matinee.

Big and Loud will appeal to the Zoomers who aren't broke. That's about 10% of them.

These are the new Intolerable Acts.

There's a reason you learned how to be a Marine. "Foreign and domestic."

Expensive meat puppets are not required to entertain. The video game business is already bigger than Hollywood and unlike push content is interactive.

Tech will catch up to then pass meatbag limitations. Those not wanting AI are free to skip it. It's mere entertainment, just kitsch and nothing sacred.

Uncle Sugar bought the Zip drives I used at work where I learnt to dislike their meh relaiblity.

For myself I didn't bother with them since I found their high failure rate and media price annoying. I bought a parallel port HP CD burner instead whose drive lasted me many years. (I always burn CD/DVD at slowest speed available for best burn, proven while distrohopping and various live DOS and BartPE discs. Fre trial CDRWIN etc were limited to 1x which was ideal.)

The Zip and early writeable CD eras largely overlapped