Mainly, yes.

Ah, for the days before we discovered that Adams always intended for Pointy Haired Boss to be the hero of the cartoon.

If you are interested learning about actual science you can read the actual paper. It is not paywalled. Look up "speleothem isotopes" to learn about specific climatologic techniques for this study.

We do have records. We just can't read them. The Harappan language has never been deciphered. There are about 5000 inscriptions known.

That droughts led to the end of Indus Valley Civilization has been surmised for decades, this study provided a much more detailed account of the process.

For people to settle in "untouched tracts of land" you need to have water to irrigate it. Large empty areas on Earth require water for them to be "tamed".

You could ride a long for while claiming to recognize people but have poor name recall by saying "Hey! It's you!" to everybody, but then they could slip in someone you could not have ever met.

Anyone who slavishly uses the serial (aka Oxford) comma, and anyone who slavishly doesn't use it will create unintended word readings. It depends on the context of what is being said and intended.

Its not a matter of who it is "on". It is a matter of intelligent handling of the affair from a HOSPITALITY company. This was an opportunity to build a good-will relationship with people staying at Marriot, which could be easily spun into a positive press event for the company.

But "enlightened capitalism" is a fiction it seems.

It is not the case that this involves a "Search For Antimatter" but rather for the fundamental explanation of why there isn't any loose in the Universe. We can make it, but only by creating an equal amount of normal matter so that they cancel out.

A well aged straw man army (being 40 years old). You would have trouble finding any actual documentary support for any of these claims (that you just made up).

That means there is unlimited demand for renewables and thus it will be impossible to saturate the market with renewables. This is not the argument he wants to get people to stop investing in renewables and invest instead in non-renewables which is what he seems to want (from TFS).

So AI is going to demand all the power we can produce in our lifetimes? What if we don't meet that "demand" and allocate the amount of power that its actual demonstrated contribution to the global economy justifies? Will "AI" get mad and punish us?

The claim is an economic absurdity. The LLM frenzy is right now 2 years and 11 months old (from the time of the public GPT release). Projecting AI power demand, oh 40 years in the future, based on the power demand increase over less than 3 years is ridiculous. The current AI datacenter building race is not going to continue to 40 years. There is no demonstrated necessary AI power demand for some level of economic value.

Yep. Imagine signing up to pay someone a subscription fee that you can get a night's sleep.

A reference to selling useless products to people.

Looking for health patterns that drug makers could use to target you for a sales pitch.

Correct: "The G-Drive couldn't have a backup system due to its large capacity," merely means "we were too cheap to provide a backup".

Very few of the Middle Managers, not nearly enough, are actually being burned.