It's also a way to get around the prohibition on setting different prices for SNAP recipients. For example you can buy over the net from Costco with SNAP on Instacart but not directly. And the prices are higher there than on their site.

If you're heading a company's AI division, ask yourself this:
Where does my paycheck come from? How did the company make revenue in previous quarters in order to pay me in this quarter?

The Family Of Apps (FoA) division of Meta, specifically digital advertising, are the actual superstars that keep the lights on there. And have made other projects like Reality Labs (RL) possible, supporting them until they could finally earn revenue as well.

It surprises me is that there is much real tension between basic research and application development two exists in Meta. For any normal company, sure. But this is a company that spent over $70 billion dollars on VR that nobody ever wanted. And they can't fund both AI research and, separately, application development?

NO! This is an outrage! [slams table]

Our religious war should be about reader's choice vs writer's choice!

about environmental causes loose their shit when you tell them to cut back or eliminate eating meat.

Geez I guess they people would want to line all those on the "carnivore diet" against the proverbial wall and shoot them, eh?

By the way....do these documents give one carbon credits if you go on a diet???

If so, what can you buy with these credits?

Ok, but which of those things came with the new law? A lot of what you're describing (I suspect all of it) was already in place. What changed for non-banned users?

Oh, so they're doing it the same way I take "good" photographs: by taking a fuckton of mostly-shitty photographs and trawling through them for the rare few which actually look decent.

Vaporware. If this feature doesn't make it into the Open Source driver so that I can know where my computer is, then I'm not going to buy any Nvidia hardware!

Nothing like having phone home beacon in your imported tech.

No Nobel Peace Prize for you, but you are eligible for a FIFO Faux Peace Prize. And it is trending, even two-bit dictators have one.

Right MCD is just looking over at KO and going us too.

A few loud people online and embittered animators are complaining about their ads. That handful of people might be mad about it. Meanwhile in terms of numbers that matter everyone else going out of their way to watch the ads, like seeking them out, just to see what all the fuss is. So they get tons of free ad impressions, and if they are lucky a few of those people say "gee haven't had a Coke in while, sounds pretty good, maybe I'll buy a case."

I haven't met anyone in IRL who is actually mad at Coca-Cola for their AI ads, but they are talking about them. Even if the sentement might be 'the old ads had more soul' it isn't changing their opinion of the product or the company really, and it is bringing it to top of mind. - Just what the ad men want..

Hard to image every other corporate marketing department isn't trying to figureout how to get in on that without appearing a little to 'us too', the funny part is that last part really does not matter either probably, they only worry it does.

No. This is nonsense. Nuclear fuel production has a massive ecological impact. Nuclear only looks good when compared to coal. Stop doing that.

If Elected I Promise to direct the State Department to issue all official correspondence in Comic Sans MS.

I believe strong this will help inject needed levity into maters of State and help anal retentive diplomats the world over not take themselves so seriously, allowing for more open and dynamic conversations.

Now about my Nobel Peace Prize...

My point stands, they did a reprint but it also labeled 'anniversary series' and it has not value. I stated a re-issue would have no value.

I don't collect cards, I agree with you in principle; but I can also acknowledge how the market works. People assign value to the originals, its like art where a skilled painter can make a nearly indistinguishable forgery / copy, some of which can stand up to quite a lot forensic scrutiny. Honestly there is no reason one of Eric Hebborn's Rembrandt's should be worth less than an actual Rembrandt. Its just people rather arbitrarily decided their should be.

The trouble with Pokemon cards is I don't believe there is nearly so much consensus on what is an original issue, when one goes out of print and when they start printing them again. Which makes the whole idea of assigning value much more difficult.

We may do better in 2026, there's fair chance of an el Nino forming and those usually bring on higher temperatures. The fact that this is a la Nina years and we're still up there is not good.