Citing facts is trilling!

More socialism for the rich oligarchs.
Musk finally has a sucker to buy his robots.

About 40 countries have enacted sugary drink taxes and they have been shown to reduce consumption.

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They're not suing the grocery chains.
They are suing the companies that make the trash food.
Just like the companies that made cigarettes were held liable for the damage they caused.

Dead on. The stuff that's the same is the party leaderships trying to keep us in line, to trust them wit the reins of power, finance their campaigns, vote for the incumbents or the approved candidates, and let them do what they want.

In the US, the two major parties are indistinguishable in intent, that is, to keep their jobs. Challengers are either vetted by the leaderships, and so are not really challengers but replacements, or they are hammered into submission, to serve the Uniparty.

For one party this is absolutely the goal and ambition of their rank and file, to see their 'leadership' prevail. For the other party, this is actually anathema, but the rank and file is not yet entirely aware of the process.

We will see which succeeds...

...me!

I can do that. $%**, I've deleted /, /root, /boot, that's easy.

Seriously, though, when the AI recognizes it is about to operate on a root folder, it should be directed to confirm this twice with the user. These AI coding agents will become useful, to me, when they help a user avoid errors.

They will dig a hole. They will put the tractor in the hole. They will not go back to the hole unless the reactor fails, or they shut it down.

When Martian dirt will do fine for shielding...

I hear these 'it's the oldest' and think to both the New Jersey POTS cable plant, and the horrors of maintaining wiring that Alex Bell installed. Or the joy of Parisian telephone cable plant, legendary for being unmanageable.

lest I forget, Jakarta and Manila vie for the worst overhead wiring in the world, sop dense and tangled it blots the sun in places. Ugh.

US-East-1/2 is just complex. And too important to rebuild.

"a do no harm oath, just like most other industries"

Like which other industries?

First, an MBA is not an industry. Most likely they are not even industrialists. They are cogs in the machinery,

Second, again, what other industries have a 'do no harm oath'? Doctors claim to subscribe to this, Realtors purport to adhere to an ethical standard that could be confused with the do no harm mantra, Professional engineers have professional responsibilities to do work 'correctly', for lack of a better single word.

Do you think pharmaceutical researchers even bother with pretending to adhere to such an oath? recent experience would seem to deny this. Same for much of the food industry, certainly the financial industry (such so that we need copious law to restrict their behavior), and there are other examples. Even if you exclude sales, which if they followed such oaths would be in a position of serving two masters...

The premise is flawed, and demonstrably false. We wish everyone else treated us so, but in reality we often do not ourselves, out of self-interest. Which is sometimes understandable, and sometimes excusable. But not always.

Also, since it takes 10+ years to build a nuclear plant, nuclear power is kind of irrelevant.

Zimbabwe

Joe! for the win.

Why wait for MS? Just call the fake Amazon customer service line and ask them for help...

Interspersed with the occasional foray to the back porch, the better to put a few shells through the 12 gauge towards the cross-country skiers averting their eyes from the glare of the basement windows on Thanksgiving Eve... And blissfully somewhat out of range of #6, since Bill is too cheap to buy 00.

I'd happily use Joe, even in Windows, but alas even many Linux distros consider it unworthy of inclusion. Ya have to go get it

And I remember WordStar, the somewhat-less-obtuse-than-and-inspiration-for-Emacs editor...