I suspect the idea they are hinting at is that ancient yeast might have been living on (then-livable) Mars and got meteorite-blasted over to Earth, and survived the trip. For a temporary trip like that, survival is sufficient.

It has long been proven that all religions are untrue, and Christianity is no exception.

It gets better. In the last 10-20 years, Richard Carrier and others have proven that Christianity is a deliberately constructed lie.

So saying what Jesus said or would have done or would have suffered is just silliness, and shows the claimant to be a fool.

Charity does not necessarily involve sacrifice, I have a few fruit trees, and if I don't give away the excess, it just rots.

The town dump has been renamed "recycling center". Books, furniture, glassware, artwork, all are given away and maybe half is taken by people who want it. Charity, no sacrifice.

The article claims to measure the severity of a memory leak defect based on the amount of memory it leaked -- but most memory leaks (that are severe enough to be noticed) are small leaks that occur at regular intervals, meaning that the program's memory footprint will continually grow larger over repeated operations.

Therefore, do you want a 1MB memory leak? Run the program for a while. Do you want a 1GB memory leak? Run the program for that much longer. Keep going, and you can eventually get to any number you want, to post in your Substack article; this makes the reported numbers arbitrary and therefore meaningless.

TL;DR: Memory leaks are a problem, and they can be avoided with care and proper coding techniques, but claiming that software quality is worse now because the leaks "are larger" is silly.

OTOH there are actual Apteras on the roadways... only about three of them, but they do exist, at least in prototype form.

In general, nothing. But rich people buy sports cars for the same reason less-rich people buy video games that let them pretend to race sports cars, i.e. so they can have fun "going fast". Driving a sports car without cool engine sounds (however you want to define them) would be like playing an auto-racing game on mute -- less fun than it might otherwise have been.

It seems it can (although whether it's economical to do it at scale is another question).

The ONLY effective revolutions in all of recorded history, against authoritarian regimes, have *required* violence.

India, 1947.
Or are you going to try to make the excuse that England wasn't authoritarian?

Generally, it is possible for part the periphery of collapsing empires to break off without violence, but then I guess it doesn't qualify as a revolution. When the Roman Empire collapsed and could no longer control its provinces, was England in violent revolution? When the USSR dissolved, the newly freed nations weren't engaged in massive violence, so the only question is whether they engaged in a revolution.

Your implied claim that the US is an authoritarian regime needs to be taken in context of all countries on Earth in all recorded history, and then evaluated by some reasonable standard that doesn't result in 90% of all countries being regarded as being authoritarian. You're going to find it difficult to honestly support your claim.

Right now rich people own the machines, and the workers have to sell their time to live. That is not fair.

That's how I've lived a good life. It seemed quite fair to me to be able to support myself without having to buy a lot of machinery.

There are many occupations that don't require a big capital investment to run your own business. To be a house painter, buy a ladder and some brushes. Buy a lawnmower and cut grass for a living. Buy a vacuum, a bucket, and a mop and clean houses. The investment to be a fine arts painter isn't large.

The claim behind the massive buildout of AI datacenters is that they will be massively profitable because they will allow development of new technologies and find ways to make existing technologies more efficient. That's a long term increase in the economy and a benefit to society. FWIW, I believe the claim is overblown and possibly entirely mistaken.

People seizing and living in unoccupied houses make the news occasionally. Most of them treat the houses they occupy poorly, some of them trash the houses -- what have they got to lose? Generally, people responsible enough not to damage the building they occupy are responsible enough to find a way to pay for a place to live.

"We need to seize them...". "We" is a pronoun that includes the person generating the statement, in this case drinkypoo. By your own statement you have put yourself into the category of people who need to be seizing and consider themselves morally justified in doing so: thieves.

AI has invented a new variant of Pokemon Go. Gather points by taking virtual photos of imaginary destinations!

If the automated coding tool is reliable, you wouldn't need to be skilled. OTOH if the coding tool keeps emitting code that contains bugs or misfeatures, then someone will need to analyze and debug the emitted code, which is a skill. In some cases, that might requires more skill than simply writing the software by hand.

Some old tech has been successfully banned when proven dangerous, such as most uses of asbestos.

It's surprisingly similar to AI in that respect. Both technologies have been shown to work in principle, but neither of them has been shown to turn an actual profit, yet.

Yes, those are all great. And geothermal is looking really promising too, with microwave drilling technology potentially enabling it in locations where geography previously made it impractical.

Who said anything about waiting? We should be (and, broadly speaking, are) deploying renewable technologies now, and simultaneously developing fusion technology for later. There's no need to do just one or the other, when we can and will do both in parallel.