None of those people made advancements at the fundamental level. They all paid someone (or stole from someone) who had a college degree to do the advancements.

Websites were already getting ridiculously verbose (like recipe websites having a long story before the actual recipe) because Google favored pages like that. If you wanted your page to show up in the search results, it had to be nonsensically verbose.

Interesting, how was the corruption of the '12 Olympics involved in the Crimea invasion?

That's an optimistic prediction about the capabilities of AI.

It does all the work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.bbc.com/news/artic...

"More" is doing a lot of work, the front has expanded like 5%, we can look at this. Also Ukraine is like 2-3x on casualties. And we have to take perspective, Russia is/was the 3rd largest military in the world, Ukraine still is massively the underdog. Holding lines like this for so long says something.

I am sure here in America if we were fighting for our literal homeland we wouldn't appreciate a country capable of helping us instead telling us to give them up while we are willing and are literally fighting right at this moment. Yes it robs agency. Everything else you wrote is cope to justify removing that agency because it suits your... something, I never understand the Russia defenders, what are you defending? it's clearly the immoral position. Saving money? That can't be it.

This entire paragraph is empty words, why write it?

Oh bullshit, we are capable of holding those positions just fine. Iraq 2003 was immoral. Russia in 2014 and 2022 is immoral. Easy, i'm a human being with a brain, I can process this.

And this is just more justification for an obvious immoral action, the unjustified invasion of a nation. Something we all apparently understand? The alternative you propose is to just let an immoral actor succeed at an immoral action because... again, money? If we're talking American boots on the ground, yeah we can maybe get a little more in the weeds but this is just horseshoe tankie "America bad" blended with America First "Russia good".

I know this site is built on the back of autism but you could at least try to read like we're all human beings here.

I'm not here to defend Trump in my estimation the tariffs are not in the interest of the US and it's unfortunate.

Considering that maybe the increased military spending is good for Europe now, certainly can't blame them for finding the US and unreliable partner.

That though doesn't change the fact that Russia invasion is unjustified and should be resisted, it's actually irrelevant to that. You can admit it's unjustified and all that and still not want to defend Ukraine, that's arguable at least.

We are and have always been able to afford it, it's a political choice through and through.

Yeah that's true, I agree.

How can you be so certain? Strong AI algorithm could be invented/discovered any time.

Be interested to see the perception in other countries with different payment systems. If the cost was 1/3 the current rate all else equal does this polling move? I imagine it does.

It's much like healthcare in that despite all the evidence out in the world Americans treat these systems as intractable laws of nature, the costs are sky high because that's how they are and always have to be. Meanwhile it's just basic economics that tells you why the costs keep going up and yet we take the route of "we tried nothing and we're all out of ideas".

There are ways to fix these systems and they are obvious once you get over the scary "socialism" talking points and our own hangups that somewhere, someone might get something you personally feel like they "don't deserve"

Here's one reference, though not the orginal one I read.
https://academic.oup.com/ismej...

Note that this is not DIRECTLY eating radiation, but that's still its energy source, as that's where the H molecule comes from. So to simplify, saying it eats radiation is not wrong.

So everyone got pushed off to work retail while a few were able to make a lateral shift or take a major wage cut to an unskilled position. Given that there is no lateral shift to make here, it certainly sounds like everyone is SOL. When it averages out the "average base salary of a retail sales representative is $38,240" but "a retail sales representative at a luxury clothing brand will likely earn more than a similar role at Walmart". Which means most people are going to be closer to $30K if they are lucky.

The sound conclusion is that it will push more people into poverty.

Obviously the black box can only record what the computer tells it is the state of the switches. There's no camera looking at the switches to confirm they actually were moved. No doubt the switches are wired such that a short or an open circuit will not fool the computer into thinking the switch was moved and shut the engines down. But if something caused the computer to think (pardon the expression) the switches had changed state, it would shut the engines down and the flight recorder would dutifully record this change of state.

Suppose for a moment a computer glitch did shut the engines down. The pilot, upon noticing this asks the copilot about it and he says, no I didn't shut them down. Knowing he has to do something, reaches over, flips them to off and back to on again to try to get them going again, after which the engines did restart but sadly not in time to prevent disaster.