Also, Americans love their single family detached housing. This lust drives all the car centric design and associated problems.

> carrying groceries in paper bags...or in the cold...or in the heat...or transporting 20-kilo items...or making multiple tripsâ¦in person shoppingâ¦

Back in the olden days in nyc youâ(TM)d do your shopping and they had a kid deliver it to you via bicycle.

>pragmatic

If your goal is a five year profit mining, factoring in ecological health may be seen as pragmatic I suppose.

But most people understand life is interdependent on this planet, and they want their grandkids to be able to breathe and drink freely. This requires a deeper, wiser understanding of physical environments, careful planning, and state regulation.

Chinal let this get away from them for a minute, but are pretty rapidly clawing it back. They have also done *way* better than America at keeping an oversized population from spreading like locusts.

Itâ(TM)s funny. Windows Phone 8 was about to pull me out of the iphone-and probably even apple-ecosystem. i was just fixing to pull the trigger when they cancelled the project. Not that a conversion of 1 matters, but I bet I was not alone.

iâ(TM)m not fully understanding the enshittification of our time. Itâ(TM)s more than just money or twisted entertainment for fat cats. A mutual aid organization (friends, not business) I am associated with recently changed their perfectly simple and functional website. Added no new features, muddied the ui, made it slower. No one has provided me with any explanation. Thereâ(TM)s no money to be made (the org part runs on like $1500/month on a good month). And ostensibly everyone is motivated by goodwill. And yet the urge to change for the worse is irresistibleâ¦

W was actually really smart. https://www.keithhennessey.com...

Which makes him and the Bush family even more diabolical.

> Ask the Biden administration, they did it to a few people.

Iâ(TM)m no fan of biden or the dnc, but i canâ(TM)t find any examples outside of pressure on youtube to remove covid misinformation.

Do you have some handy?

like everyone else?

I'm being serious here. It's one place machine learning can really make a difference: digesting large swaths of data to find important patterns. I assume JSOC and Mossad are doing this already, they're just providing the results to private enterprise and other para-state operational agencies instead of any of the agencies whose mission is to make life better for most people.

I don't know why this post caught my ire; perhaps I've heard AI said just one too many times lately.

TFA does little more than edit a few claims from the company website. And this is from Reuters, supposed to be one of the remaining standards in journalism. I mean I guess the issue is noteworthy, but the headline should read "Fivvr *announces* it's intention to lay off and switch to AI."

No one doubts the layoffs are happening, everyone *should* be dubious of what it means for them to be using AI. A better article would at least reach out to some business professor at the state college to comment on what impact this change might have on the company and the marketplace generally.

Alas that we live in the dark timeline now. How the fsck did this happen? I blame Raisin Bran.

I really wanted to have a clever comeback to express the idea of how hilarious it is you are getting downmodded by actual noobs. But I'm too tired so I'll just say it.

seriously. An apology without a plan to take responsibility for the damages is worthless.

>hooray beer

Ketamine is better. Say what you will about Musk, he is inthe leading edge of discovering our end of times and choosing a comforting solution.

Pluto will always be a planet in my solar systemm.

I asked claude about this (in a more general sense.) It agreed it might work for Broadcom make a profit on its acquisition, but be very terrible for the VMware ecosystem and ultimately kill VMWare solutions, but also drive innovation and sales of competitors. It said "Sometimes the best thing for technological progress is a dominant player getting too greedy."

I think there's a solid case to be made for both Apple and Nintendo that keeping control of ther platform ensures better reliability. I don't know enough about Nintendo to say, but my experience with their stuff vs. third party stuff is that theirs works better, even on the wii. Apple has, historically, made a way for some third party hardware stuff, partnerships the form with certain companies who seem to be able to extend functionality in an Apple kind of way, and with concomitant support of the products and their challenges. This creates an extra degree of reliability in the end user experience.

Of course the temptation to turn this into market manipulation always looms large, and Apple is not immune and I'm sure neither is Nintendo. This is why we have a robust consumer protection and regulation system . . .Oh wait. . .

I should very much like to see an 800W amp the size of an nes cartridge. The smallest amp I could find was an NAD at 30W about the size of a mac mini.