So, let's summarize your position:

1) I am a liar because I've never been on Roblox.
A) I specifically said my teen was, not me. I never said I was. Reading comprehension ftw, eh?

2) My teen is a liar who has never experienced a creep on Roblox. You guarantee it.
A) you can guarantee nothing as you don't know me or my teen or anything about her experiences. She has no reason to lie about why she'd want to play on private servers. Maybe your teen lied about there being no creeps because then you wouldn't let her on roblox anymore. Ever consider that? No. Because you and your teen are ethically perfect. Everyone else is a liar. Cool story, bro.

3) First you claim Roblox doesn't have a creep problem, it's just other teen assholes. Then you turn around and say all large communities have creeps so I guess's it's ok there because every site has them? Which is it? Do they or do they not have creeps because only a paragraph earlier you got through saying me and my daughter are both liars and she never had experience with a Roblox creep.

The fact is Roblox is a target not because they have creeps but because they have ignored the problem with nothing but lip service for years. There are tons of links on this article from others going into detail about the problem. But don't let facts get in your way of hating a man you know nothing about or your personal political biases.

This is text book ad hominem. You attack me, my daughter and Paxton for being bad people while your logical arguments and facts are zero. You're just posting your feelings despite piles of public fact.

I hope your kids learn logic and debate from someone other than you. You are failing them if this is how you teach them to feel instead of think.

But this is slashdot, currently the home of the most extreme leftists full of hate and illogic who live and breathe ad hominem, straw man and flat out lies, and other rhetorical fallacies and base everything on political biases instead of publicly available facts.

Good job, dad! You're messing up your kid!

Don't let publicly known facts stand in the way of your personal bias.

You don't like him for whatever reason therefore everything he does is bad. Cool story, bro.

Do you even know why you don't like him? Because he won against his lawfare attackers? Uh huh, makes sense.

Roblox is a shit hole of creeps and wannabe child rapists. My teen has been on it for years with her friends but they only play on private servers/instances to keep the child rapists away. That's her decision, not mine. She told me it's necessary to avoid the constant sexual come ons from adult men.

You feel what you want. I'll take my kid's personal experience over your unfounded feelings about something you readily admitted you know nothing about but felt the need to share anyway. Thumbs up!

Well, it's not really AI in any sense of the honest term; it's not a self aware machine. AI has become a marketing term for servers running a bunch of fancy scripts that produce dialogue that can pass for human speech fairly well. BUT... AI is a game changer economically because those fancy scripts are already killing jobs, jobs that won't be replaced by something else. So in that sense, AI isn't "bullshit". It's an extinction level event for entire classes of formerly human work. And the economic and social and political crisis that it will create has clearly already began.

This presupposes that they don't get plenty of "real world" while they're homeschooling. As if they're in some hermetically sealed environment where bad things never touch them. When we homeschooled ours, one of my wife's single friends objected, asking us "what about socialization?". Well, what about it? There's still plenty of it with friends and family, church, and play. And when they're young adults, they're better able to deal with the scum of the world than a pre-teen or teenager thrown into the cage match that is modern public schools where you can't get to them. School is supposed to be about education, not be a Thunderdome where the weak are weeded out for the coming apocalypse. Whatever my sons missed in public schools, they're far better off not being in a concrete box where some hulking delinquent 3 to 4 years older than all his class peers is punching teachers or pulling a gun on students.

This shit is someone special violating very basic and well established zoning ordinances.

It's cut n dry stuff.

If it was a pig farm would you call the neighbors Karens? Same zoning violation: using residential zone for non-residential purpose.

He could've applied for a permit like everyone else but didn't bother because he's special and he got called out for it.

This is exactly how the system is supposed to work.

You remember that line about no one is above the law? It applies here, too.

He spends more on lawyers every day than most people make in a year. He easily could have got a permit but didn't bother.

China IS bad! Tiananmen Square massacre. Enslavement of Tibet. Uighur genocide. Constantly threatening to invade Taiwan. One-party rule, just like in California. Check out the youtube channel Laowhy86, he gives constant updates of just how bad it is over there.

We don't want to be associated with a fascist regime when the wind changes.

It's the Christmas season. Everybody loves a two-for-one deal.

Race? What is this race "to"?

What are we racing about?

Current LLM based systems are very clever pattern finders and very good at generating output for certain tasks when trained on quality data.

Ok, great. Now what? Are we racing to true intelligence? Is anyone even working on such a thing? What does true intelligence even mean? And why would we want truly intelligent computers, anyway? To serve what purpose? We already have 8 billion people who arguably have true intelligence. We need to build computers that can do the same things and exhibit the same psychological flaws but faster?

What are we races to?

And as far as "power is free" goes. No. That's bullshit. Power might be free to the AI guys but it is not free. Someone has to play for those power plants, including the huge number of new coal plants, the strip mining for material and fuel, and so on. China needs so much coal that they're a major buyer of coal from Australia to keep this "free power" lie going. At the end of the day the people of China pay for free power for the AI guys. Talk about socialization of costs with centralization of profit. It's right there.

Oh no! The West has regulations to keep our air breathable and our water drinkable and our land not a post strip mined wasteland. And we make the AI guys buy their power and make them charge customers for their services. How horrible! (/s for the aspies on that).

I've got a 5090. Paid way too much. Gaming on it is fucking awesome. But I paid for it. I pay the power for it (or the solar on my roof, same thing). Our AI guys can afford it. Let them pay for what they need in this fake race.

This sound like a Dr Strangelove complaint about the mine shaft gap.

Uhm, is there any evidence that "space itself" is a thing that can be have anything "applied" to it?

As if "space itself" is a physical entity?

How does anything apply "pressure" to "space"? Is space made of particles? Waves? Energy? But as energy it should be particles or waves or something.

What is "space itself" made from such that it can be subject to "pressure"?

Seriously, modern astrophysics sounds very little different than mysticism.

You mean watching Biden follow around his KKK mentors who he later said weren't even though it was public knowledge, just like everything else about his life story that was proved false but he repeated anyway?

Fascinating is one word for it but not one I'd use. Joe being a racist and a constant liar was neither surprising nor interesting. Same guy who called blacks animals, wouldn't have his kids in a majority black school, said Obama was one of those rare articulate blacks. Great guy. I'm sad I can't vote for such an outstanding guy again who did so much good for the country in 50+ years. Such as uhm that thing.

Yeah.

I trust Windows Server 2003 more than I trust Windows 11. It's less stable, but Microsoft isn't in control of your machine.

No, I'm not one of the 50 cent per post wolf warrior China shills here.

Oregon isn't Nigeria. All of the worker creature comforts aren't being flown in at great expense because local infrastructure and services are shit. Houses and restaurants are being built. Stores are being built. That means employing the locals for the most part, raising their wages and improving their infrastructure.

There are downsides to big companies coming into small towns. I live in one, and the increased traffic and general hassle of more people annoys the fuck out of me. But our standard of living has most definitely gone up, not down.

Unlike 99% of you, I'm not posting based on theory and feelings. I literally put my money on the table on this topic after doing real world math on my real world many years experience.

Situation:
Had older model 3. Battery had run down a lot despite taking good care of it. Blue book value of car 15-17k. Was offered 17k by non-Tesla dealer. Took it. Battery warranty is 8 years, not extendable. Cost for new battery after that typically 15k but could be higher. Meaning that after 8 years is a risk every day that car might suddenly have zero or even negative value after a battery failure. There are plenty of people posting their tales of battery woes online. It's a real possibility.

Bought replacement. Exact same everything but different color. 47k after tax credit, etc. Has base range about 16% higher than first car when new. Is way quieter on the highway. Has front camera which older one didn't. Not sure if I like that they went 100% camera for sensors; tbd. The gear shift as a digital slider is weird but not a big deal. Base warranty renewed so not paying for extended warranty or the first chunk of premium net for now.

So I got almost 8 years out of the first car for 30k. That's about $360 a month (doing simple math here, actual cost of not having the 17k to invest, etc etc etc would bring that up a bit but whatever). Let's call it 400 to account for all that shit. That's cheaper than the lease by a lot and no worries about how many miles I put on it. Buy with credit was a good deal on both cars.

I was hoping a few years ago that solid state batteries would be in production by now but 2030 is a more serious date now imo. If those cars turn out to be dramatically better and not outrageously priced then I'd swap this one for a solid state version after the 5-6 years or so. We'll see.

In comparison and why I also own an ICE:
My ice was msrp 106k but I shopped the hell out of it and got one from a tiny desperate dealer in another state for 78k. It's a year older than the first model 3 I had so these are old numbers from back then. Current bluebook is 70k or so. The most expensive repair would be a full transmission replacement or similar major surgery for about 6-8k. Let's call it 8k because my local mechanic is a rip off joint. There's no guarantee I'll ever need a new transmission unlike my Tesla battery which is guaranteed to continue to decline in range even if it doesn't completely fry one day. Tesla catastrophe = zero value car. ICE catastrophe = about 12% of car value. And my ice still has the same almost 440 mile range and 2-4 minute fill up anywhere I go that my model 3 doesn't have, never had, and never can have. I can keep the ice for the rest of my life if I take care of it. Model 3 is a throw away.

I use the Tesla for almost all short and mid range trips. I charge it at home in the garage off solar as needed. I have driven it up and down and all around the state a few times but it's a shitty experience having to be aware of range, next charger location which are often in miserable places on the highway, etc. I drive the ice 5 days a week to pick up my kid from school, visit local family, etc but mostly it's a garage princess. It gets about 3k miles a year on average. But when I occasionally need to cross the state there's no way in Hell I'm taking the Tesla. It's such a pita for that. I load up the ice, check fuel and stop for 2-4 minutes if I'm below half a tank and go, I still have plenty of gas on arrival and fuel up once more at that end for the trip back, park in the garage and still have rough gas to make several local trips before range is a concern. Current EV are just not like that.

Sure, some people will post, "But charge time doesn't matter for 99% of people because my bladder is so tiny and I have bladder control issues". I'm sorry some folks haven't taken care of their medical issues and can't go 3+ hours without a long stop. I'm not sure why they need 30 minutes in the bathroom anyway. The 99% of us who don't need a 30 minute bathroom stop every 2-3 hours like knowing they can drive through without being forced to stop but still can stop if they feel like it. The car's technical limitations don't require a long stop.

I love my model 3. That's why I got a second one without even sitting in the new one. Literally had no idea what features changed, what it looked like inside, etc. It fulfills the short/mid range transport role perfectly at a fair price.

But my ICE can do things the model 3 simply can't. It's longer range, faster refuel. More refuel options everywhere. Way more fun to drive. More comfortable. Has retained far more bluebook value. And doesn't have an 8 year then you're fucked potential like the 3 has with the battery.

Each vehicle is perfectly fit to purpose and has a reason to exist which the other simply can not fulfill.

Even without the tax credit I would've got rid of the 3 by the 8 year mark. Battery replacement cost is just too high and if anyone is going to have a problem, it'll be me. I simply don't have good random event car luck. YMMV.

Would I buy a cheap ass Chinese EV? No. They don't build their battery packs safely, don't have US standard safety and design features, and I see no reason to support their textbook illegal price dumping tactics. If I needed a cheap car I'd buy a beater for a few K from an individual and run it into the ground. Buying a full priced shitty low end car of any type makes no sense. Buy a beater or buy a real car. Note I didn't say low priced cars are bad. There are good low priced new cars but they're not made in China. Go do your own research into how companies like BYD build their battery packs compared to Western EV; you wouldn't buy one, either, once you know.