To be honest, I'm kind of surprised this bullshit doesn't happen organically.
Presumably ChatGPT reads plenty of advertising copy as it trawls the Internet trying to read everything it can. Why doesn't it just repeat, albeit garbled, advertising slogans regularly?
Read my post again. You didn't understand it.
Last I checked Ruby execution was slow compared to Python. That, however, tells you where you shouldn't use it, not *that* you shouldn't use it. And Ruby can easily call C routines (with the usual caveats).
OTOH, in some task spaces, design in Ruby is fast compared to design in Python, and in almost all it's fast compared to design in C. (That said, I generally prefer to design in Python and then re-implement in C++.)
Whether it's serious or not depends on what you're doing. For me it fails only because I require Doxygen compatibility. (Mind you, I would rarely choose to use *only* ruby, but for some things it would be the superior choice.)
OTOH, Ruby is not a low level choice. It's a slightly higher level than Python. And I often design things in Python and then convert them to C++ (with, of course, minor rewrites).
So, "What do you mean by 'serious'?".
My sympathies to the woman involved, as Linehan is a shitty person and no-one other than actual pedophiles deserves that kind of label (can I venture a guess that the woman involved was being accused of that because she felt suicidal children suffering from gender dysphoria should have access to psychiatrists, who in turn should be able to use mainstream psychiatric therapies for GD?), but I'm reluctant to say that ambushing someone with a camera and microphone isn't a legitimate occasion to have your device(s) damaged. You're intentionally trying to piss someone off.
It sounds like the failure here was X holding Linehan to account (whether due to their own policy, or the UK not having laws allowing obvious defamation to be pulled down.)
I'm increasingly of the opinion we protect property far too highly over privacy and other basic rights to be treated humanely in the western world. And everyone can be manipulated into doing things like property damage or minor "violence" (pushing back, etc). These things shouldn't carry a criminal sentence, not even even if you're a rotten person.
(Oh, and cops are notorious for being able to do that kind of manipulation to get bogus assault charges against victims they've provoked, it works both ways.)
Break the fucking cameras.
I'm not advocating this, I'm just pointing out that there are many more options than you make it out to be.
...no real evidence either way.
Most of the opponents are unions. Their interests will be ignored unless a Democratic government is somehow put into office before the merger completes, which is doubtful.
Paramount opposes it, but every argument they give would also apply to the Paramount takeover of WBD they are arguing for, so... I don't even know why their lawyers submitted this brief.
This year there have been multiple mergers, all heavily against the public interest, where it became clear the deciding point was whether adequate fealty was paid to Trump. Two massive TV station operators were involved in seperate mergers that are only going ahead because they opposed ABC showing a comedian critical of Trump and because ABC "settled" a bogus lawsuit filed by Trump. CBS is going ahead because it cancelled a major Trump critic, also settled a bogus lawsuit with Trump, and the new owner is run by a right wing nutjob relation to Licence Ellison. T-Mobile bought US Cellular after dropping anti-discrimination policies, paying towards Trump's inauguration fund, and funding the "ballroom", despite DOJ objections. And, so on.
The merger will go ahead just as long as Netflix keeps up its steady stream of crappy right wing action movies and right wing comedy specials. And, of course, makes "donations" to Trump "causes".
2024 Corollas aren't like 1997 Corolla's, they're pretty much the size Camrys were back then. The fact it has grown in size, and the fact that there isn't a lot of competition (does Ford even make sedans any more? Best I can find is the Mustang - a quick look at this page shows that "alternatives to the Corolla" are mostly crossovers, the Jetta, Forte, Impreza, Elantra and Civic (of course) being the only similar vehicles considered competition), suggests that the entire market segment is poorly supported by both manufacturers and consumers alike.
While have you seen the amount of SUVs and pick-up trucks on the roads? It's absurd, especially given the vast majority are owned by people who'll never use the things that make them expensive and fuel inefficient.
So one Ford pick-up truck, out of a selection of Ford vehicles that makes up top selling pick-ups and SUVs, outsells the Corolla 4:1? That's a sign Toyota might eventually phase out the Corolla in the US, not a sign the Corolla's market segment is popular.
It sucks, but there you have it. Hopefully things will change, but with this administration in charge, it's going to take a while.
Are you claiming that inflation was the fault of Biden? You do know what happened the year before Biden took office, right? That continued for two more years and caused supply chain issues that wreaked havoc on the entire economy?
Also throughout 2021-2024, despite all of this, we had full employment. I'll take temporary inflation over unemployment thank you, even if it's not been US policy since Carter decided to adopt monetarism.
Even the summary gives some context to this, which is that it's about lowering fuel emissions standards in the supposed belief that this will somehow make small cars legal (uh, what?) So, it's still dumb.
And I'm not praising Trump for some slightly positive thing he might have said any more than I'm going to praise a certain German dictator of the 1930s for building an interstate highway system, improving the trains, and starting a company to make small affordable wagons for the volks.
Look, in the end, we know what Trump's doing. It's a grift. It's not even a smart, well hidden, one by a smart person, it's just dumb shit that takes advantage of marks who'll buy anything. Trump accepts bribes, he sells things with his name on it at ridiculous prices, he's in it for one thing only. In the meantime he hides, as his ilk always does, his gross incompetence by pointing a finger at minorities with no power, claiming they're responsible for everything wrong, and making public displays of "cracking down" on them, where the cracking down is intentionally cruel and rotten so nobody can claim he isn't "doing anything".
So he promoted small cars? So what? You think he's doing that because he cares about global warming or intracity congestion or sky high car prices? You think that him promoting them will in any way make America a better place, even if that's not the intent?
Think that's still going on. We had to replace our minivan recently, and I got a three year old Odyssey for only slightly less than what it cost new three years ago. And that was very much market price, we couldn't find anything much cheaper. Of course a new Odyssey would have cost 25% more.
The situation is insane right now though, with a lot of people completely priced out of the market. And then there's people who shouldn't be spending $70K on a pick-up (for example) who are doing so anyway because they think they have to.
Another reason to hope that $25K electric pick-up will be a success. If nothing else, it might smack some sense into an industry that's gone insane.
> the testimony of children damaged by the invasiveness of transitioning and paying dearly for the results of surgery and injection of powerful chemicals
Stop. Fucking. Lying.
This blood libel against trans people needs to be recognized for what it is. A step towards the agenda of ultimately committing the mass murder of trans people - just as Project 2025 argued for.
(For those confused, no surgeon would perform a sex change operation on a kid, even if they wanted to, they would lose liability insurance, their hospital would refuse to give them the facilities, their hospital would also lose its liability insurance if it didn't even assuming it was OK with it which it wouldn't be, and we'd hear non-stop about lawsuits from these kids once they reach the age of 18. As for "chemically transitioning", hormone therapy is safe and reversible, and not generally given until pubity, and pubity blockers may have minor long term consequences, but if you're truly in favor of making sure people make the decision when they're old enough, then they're the only thing on the table. You literally have to be in favor of them or opposed to letting them make a decision when they're old enough, you can't have both positions simultaneously.
Also note that these are only given to kids that have attempted suicide. That's why they got in front of a psychiatrist in the first place.)
I am not entirely sure why I failed to notice you went on to cover those drugs. I saw the denial and assumed the rest was on that, which was dumb of me. I apologize!
There are Alzheimers drugs that can slow the deterioration through, which is almost certainly what was being referred to.
Source: personal experience, I have a close relative on it. Also https://www.mayoclinic.org/dis...
(Disclaimer: I have no evidence that Trump actually does have Alzheimers beyond the rather weird behavior he shows regularly, but I'm not sure they'd let him out in public if his symptoms were severe at this point. My relative started showing signs ten years ago, but we didn't realize because it wasn't memory loss at that stage, it was more crazy behavior. Based on that it's possible Trump has it and is in early onset Alzheimers, and the evidence the GP mentions maybe raises that to a probable, but it's far from proven.
And before any Trump and Reagan supporter mentions Biden, I've had two close family members suffer from Dementia, the other not being Alzheimers, and Biden's behavior wasn't consistent with either. It was consistent though with an old man who's suffered a life long stutter. Especially reading the transcript of the debate everyone threw a fit about, it's obvious to me he's not got dementia in any form. So... can we actually wait for medical confirmation before just assuming? I'm not happy with the GP over that either. It might be better to just say Trump shows signs of being out of touch with reality, because that is legitimately something you can say, there's no need to armchair diagnose here.)
Were there fewer fools, knaves would starve. - Anonymous
