Yip, most the "winning" in the USA trickles up, while N. Europe has better safety nets & health, better college funding, and more vacation.

Both Denmark and France are socialist-leaning countries. I didn't think the gov't would get away with increasing the retirement age.

Right-wing parties have been winning in EU of late, often fueled by anti-Muslim boogymanning, perhaps borrowing rhetoric from our Tinted One by exaggerating and highlighting crime or terrorist events*. I wonder when the anti-Muslim fervor eventually dies down if the leftist parties will adjust the retirement age back down.

* EU desperately need immigrants to keep their population from declining too quickly. They should help Muslims assimilate instead of demonizing them by cherry-picking events.

https://www.scientificamerican...

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They have those in Israel. They're called kibbutzim. I feel like you can probably automate all that food production though for less than the latest billionaire tax break.

It's mostly to warn campers and tall empty trucks, since they are vulnerable to wind.

...why can't it sort it for us at the processing site?

I've seen what is clearly automated scraping of other channel content being used to generate "highlight reels" with AI created thumbnails. Basically they're hijacking content with views, repackaging it in order to present it as new, and then spamming YouTube with variations on it to see what sticks. The algorithms will help trend anything that gets traction - if you scrape enough interesting content and then throw it at the wall, you can get some instances to trend.

The one instance I can say was probably AI generated video was one of those fake livestreams that pop up claiming to be associated with Elon Musk and SpaceX, that push cryptocoins. This is a particularly good area to exploit because the official stream is only on X, so there are no official streams on YouTube.

https://www.popsci.com/technol...

https://mashable.com/article/f...

Mind you, this was old-school fake-ai where some human probably had to do the work to stitch it all together. I haven't seen any of the "new" 100% ai generated video yet... as far as I know.

More Tariffs!

Amen, I did the same; WTF am I going to do about a lost child or Alzheimer patient 20 miles away at 3am? And then "wind advisories" did similar: it's always windy here, tell us when it's NOT windy.

They need level threshold: those who want only "major" issues should be able to shut off small potato alerts. Unless Dorothy has an 80% of flying by, I don't want a wind advisory.

That being said, major-event alarms need to be tested at least yearly using our actual phones. There is no substitute for live testing.

Jiiihna!

Has anybody seen if this AI demand is based on profitable endeavors or just companies chasing market share using excess investor cash?

How does one fix quirky bugs without understanding code? AI might help with some, but not all. It doesn't have a reliable track record finding nor fixing bugs.

Turcios is now known for being able to build anything quickly. Businesses reach out to him to contract out projects that would take software engineering teams weeks -- and he delivers in hours.

Are these just demos & one-time conversion utilities, or real software (not full of bugs)? I'm skeptical it's the latter. AI ain't there...yet.

There is a market for demos & one-time conversion utilities.

...Hacky Meal