"It's Biden's fault! He left his auto-pen on and it poked holes in the dike." (No, I don't mean Melania.)

Climate change is a participant in their water supply problem, but not the sole cause.

Different translations seem to imply different things. Any Greekologists here?

> Matt 19, Mark 7, 10

I don't see anything direct.

> prevents Christians from effectively spreading the word of Jesus... use them to muzzle Christians

Example?

I'm fine with the repeated addition. My objection is the OR in your statement. Apparently not. The question was 5x3 and the kid wrote 5+5+5=15 and got marked wrong with no explanation because the teacher wanted 3+3+3+3+3=15. So I guess that you would have had a 50% chance of being marked wrong on a 2nd grade arithmatic worksheet as well, as absurd as that is. Correct answer notwithstanding.

BTW, that's not at all new. We covered multiplication that way in the 3rd grade back in 1975. Memorizing the table was just to make it quicker. I quickly "discovered" the commutative property while looking at the multiplication table and cut my memorization load in half. The part that confused the father was why is 5x3 = 5+5+5=15 "wrong".

As for 37+55, we decomposed that in the '70s as well, but I soon decided the easier decomposition was 37+55= 87+5 = 90+2=92. So I would say that meme was just someone wanting to complain. Of course the "old way" ends up in 30+50+10+2 anyway.

Shut up and memorize was not in practice during the education of the parents of today's students.

In case you're unaware, copy/paste, even on Linux, is context aware and does smart things. No LLM integration I'm aware of, but it's not just plain text. You can try it. In a (possibly Linux) web browser, copy a big chunk of some webpage, then paste that into a new gmail message (or somewhere that accepts context-type: text/html). Bullet points, tables, font sizes, etc.. will be retained. Those aren't plain text.

Even more simple of an example: you can copy/paste images.

Given that there's already some hooks in there to do things with the clipboard data based on context, it's not *too* big of a stretch to see them try to hook in other stuff... not that I want it. I frequently find myself pasting to a temporary vim text file just to ensure I'm removing all the unseen markup before pasting a message (email, comments, IMs, etc..). I should probably setup a shortcut to paste as plain text someday.

Agreed. My first thought was that likely meant they'd do local transcription, then use that for other things. That's how most audio stuff gets processed anyway, and that would skip the bandwidth heavy step of transferring the full audio (when needed, they can just transfer the transcription text). If that sounds like I'm gung ho about it, I'm not. But it is still an improvement in user control; Maybe we could probably swap the local transcription engine with a no op?

WTH are you trying to say? OP said, "They will likely still listen to and record everything." That doesn't state anything about ex-filtrating that data. So if the processing now has an option to be done locally, that means it's doing it one way or the other, does it not?

We're already aware of troves of data that does get sent to them, and I suspect you've heard of MS Recall? If they can justify regularly saving full screenshots, then could easily justify saving a transcript of all the audio they record.

SO MANY posts excusing this behavior because of the licensing fee BS! Wow! Anyway...

Let's go with that and say that's a fine reason to disable HEVC. Should they not offer the ability to re-enable it for said fee!?!?!?

IMHO, it should be required to do one or the other:
A) Ship it enabled. Eat the cost or include it in the purchase price if needed, but ship with the features the hardware has.
B) Ship disabled, but include options to re-enable it, possibly for a fee. Ensure users can actually make use of the hardware they purchased.

If "B" is too complicated for them, they do "A"; Don't just shit the bed.

Right? At least link to the site for the game: https://kingdomsofthedump.com/

It means fewer cats died.

hard to dispute

works for spammers & scammers

Even a broken horse shits correctly twice a month. (Or something like that.)

I don't think a better Constitutional can protect a democracy against conflicts like the culture wars. Cultish demagogues will always exist.