AND even if it tried to do more than basic income, inflation is the counterbalance that would keep that from becoming a reality. The demand would increase so much that the supply can't keep up so the price has to increase to the point that the demand comes back down to a manageable level.

The only real way to remove the supply/demand problem is to have infinite supply, or fixed demand (population control), and I don't think either of those are real, achievable outcomes.

Given this is the only top level comment so far that's not a joke or a political POV I thought it was worth a response. Thank you!

A 515-mile lightning flash is possible because it occurred within a massive thunderstorm system, called a mesoscale convective system (MCS), stretching across multiple states. Instead of striking the ground, the lightning traveled horizontally through the upper cloud layers—typically 8 to 12 miles above the surface—where the Earth's curvature is less of a barrier. At that altitude, the horizon extends far enough for lightning to propagate through charged regions in the clouds over hundreds of miles. These rare “megaflashes” are made possible by the right atmospheric conditions and were only recently measurable using satellite lightning detectors like NOAA's GOES-16.

(Yes, I used ChatGPT. Still interesting stuff.)

That said if they have the AI described in the summary, they are pretty close to it already, right? Just need to give it a way to grab the material that can't be recycled and pull it out.

This is the take that makes the most sense IMO. Amazon's quality in many ways has gone down - the products aren't compelling, there are way too many knockoffs to weed through, the search results are way off from the search terms because of how Amazon has monetized them.

I was in the same boat as you this morning after I read this headline, but after spending an hour on there I think all I bought was a kindle book that was on sale for $2.99.

You do know that Amazon doesn't set prices for the vast majority of products it sells, right? The sellers set those prices.

The summary does say this very clearly, more than once.

"it is how the U.S. and other nations north of Panama eradicated the same pest decades ago"

"the U.S. and Mexico bred and released more than 94 billion sterile flies from 1962 through 1975 to eradicate the pest, according to the USDA"

Fuck having to run umpteen different gaming platforms, keep them all updated, have their agents running all the time. Can't remember which game is on which platform, etc... It's asinine. Sure it's a power grab by MS but all the other folks left themselves open to it by not finding a way to cooperate.

It's an interesting thought - though I suspect Trump may only "be" communist when he's the one running the government. When it's not him, you can be damned sure he doesn't want whoever it is (regardless of party) to be telling him what to do the way he's trying to tell Tim Cook what to do. IMO Trump does what Trump thinks is best for Trump, and that's literally the whole story.

Open your mind

Maybe in reference the asterisks in OP's comment

I know this is just a prototype but I wonder how they will deal with resolution when it stretches. Can they detect how far it has stretched and adjust?

How do you figure society isn't concerned with dying in motor vehicle accidents? We have all kinds of campaigns like "drive sober or get pulled over" or "it can wait" and we have seen huge improvements in passenger protection in the vehicles themselves over the last ~40 yrs. Seat belts, Airbags, side airbags, crumple zones, automatic braking, etc. etc. etc. We also have all kinds of laws trying to improve the safety of motor vehicles. Speed limits, for example... and we've even changed our roads to make them more safe. Not terribly concerned? GTFO.

Everyone said the GOP needed to soul search and rebuild after the 2008 and 2012 elections and they came up with Trump in 2016. What makes you think somehow doing that again will yield a better result?

Damn it Uncle Ralph, nobody wants to see you naked! Stop asking!

Well said. I dream of a world that doesn't need heroes, not a world full of them.