That's because China's industrial production has been flat to declining for 18 months.

https://ycharts.com/indicators...

First of all, lying is a strong word. You can't know there was any intention behind the error.
But if the judge had thrown out your case, then a person who committed an act that was against the law would have gone free. Which isn't a good thing, regardless of what was or wasn't legalized after the fact and regardless of how you and I feel about that act. (For the record I couldn't possibly care less about pot possession or use.)

Why didn't he? Presumably because clerical mistakes aren't sufficient cause for mistrial.

It doesn't matter if AI fabrications represent or misrepresent the spirit of the law. Case law citations need to reflect the actuality of prior case findings so the judge can rule based on those previous rulings. Giving a judge fake material that encourages them to rule the way legislators intend is fraudulent regardless of a convenient outcome.

Look, if you don't see a difference between "your honor, here is the video evidence of the accused stealing cars that night... five in total... wait, what... three... sorry, here's the video evidence of the accused stealing three in total" and "your honor, in the 1984 case of Santa Clause v The President of Mars, the judge found that wearing green is grounds for conviction... wait... you don't believe that's a real case? I told ChatGPT to not make shit up. Huh." then we don't have anywhere to go. While I am sympathetic to the specific cause for your court visit, I just don't see it remotely the same as knowingly using a bullshit bot.

In one case, lawyers knowingly used a product famous for fabricating fundental case law. Said product should not be used. In yours, a human transcribed a number incorrectly. They are not the same. The error in your case us one of degree... a question of how severe your punishment should be. The cases where fake precedents are presented as factual guide a judge to determine legal basis for guilt or innocence. You could - and did - correct the error in your case because it was possible for you to recognize the error. No accused is going to recognize fabricated case law. It's the difference between a name mixup getting you sent to the wrong seat on an airplane versus being wrongfully detained in Gitmo because they think you're on a no-fly list because someone knowingly looked it up on a fake web site instead of the official source.

I watched the first two episodes yesterday (which are the only two released so far), and I have to say it's some of the best sci-fi I've seen in a while. Now how much they'll stick to the sci-fi type premise is yet to be seen. They have set this up so open-ended that they can go in so many directions with it.

The beginning absolutely invoked Contact (an awesome sci-fi movie based on the book by Carl Sagan), complete with the radio telescope array and so on. My concern is that now that they've established the premise they may go in other directions, and it sorta end up a bait-and-switch. Regardless I'm definitely looking forward to the next episode. I've watched all the Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul episodes, and based on Vince Gilligan's past creativity and ability to flush out so many nuances in a show, I'm actually pretty excited to see where Pluribus goes. First time I've been excited about a TV series in a very long time.

Employees only got paid for their time during mouse and key presses, not releases.

After attending Trump University ... :-)

And... pretty soon you'll be able to get your pills through TrumpRx -- not making that up. (*heavy-sigh*)

The Switch came out 8 years ago in 2017. It was unique in that it was really a portable gaming system, with controllers that attached to the console, and they could be used in various combinations.

They haven't done anything new since then in the console / hardware front at all. The Switch 2 is just another iteration of the same design. So that means it will be another 5-8 years (so 10-15 in total) before they even potentially try something new.

Who coined the term? Did they use AI to come up with this word to describe this kind of coding?

First, Lego sets were never "generic". They were exactly what they were, be it a truck, a house, a castle, a space ship, or a dog.

Second, today you build anything and everything. There appears to be one new/unique part in this set and it's a very useful one. Take a look at Rebrickable.com and you'll see that there's a truly massive trove of other things people are making out of today's Lego sets. There was a brief period around the 1990s where there were a high number of elements that could only be used for what they were. Bows of boats, noses of airplanes... whatever. But for a very long time that mistake was remedied and things tend to be brick-built now, out of smaller, more useful elements.

Yes, there is a newish adult collectable trend where people can buy things like this for display purposes but I absolutely guarantee tonnes of these sets are going to be ripped apart and incorporated into other things, and in many cases the parts sold on the secondary market to become something completely different. I have personally bought tens of thousands of elements that are now on display at home and in my company office as completely different creations. I'm in my 50s and I've got multiple projects on the go, and I'm frequently dabbling in Stud.IO, designing stuff digitally.

The nostalgia you're kind of yearning for is absolutely, positively alive and well, rest assured.

As for price, well, yeah. But this is a 3,600 element set that is licensed. Parts on the secondary market go for between $.10 and $.15 Canadian and this comes out on the upper end of that, but again, it's a licensed product so it's not just LEGO who gets a slice of the pie here. It's still not abnormal. It's just a high quantity of parts. The per-part value is high but not abnormal.

I was curious about your point. You've provided an interview where the alarming headline is basically "crime isn't being reported". But I read it and discovered that's not what happened. The interview actually contained "in 2021, a bunch of cities didn't report crime statistics to the FBI".

Those three words change so much.

Just for fun I looked up crime statistics for NYC because they're the biggest one the interview picks on. Now... maybe NYC didn't release the 2021 stats until today. Maybe what your referenced article implies happened really happened. Maybe it wasn't just the FBI that didn't get stats. Maybe it was all secret. Maybe.

But it turns out NYC has crime stats available today for the last 24 years. Including that alarming year four years ago that your article gets so upset about. Know what? Take a look https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/... The city put out the stats. You can look for yourself.

Major felonies in 2000? 184,652. Major felonies in 2024? 123,890

Go ahead. Pick a category. Sure, stats are generally up since COVID but are still way down historically-speaking. Bottom lines:
1} Your article sucks.
2} Crime is trending down country-wide.

I find it amusing that the most iconic purpose behind social media was basically "let grandma on the East coast interact with her grandkid on the West coast".

This really isn't about the school or what is being taught, but it's because the neighborhood is ticked off he has bought up so many houses. He owns 11 homes now, and they don't like that he's "occupying" their neighborhood. The homeschooling thing is just their way of trying to get back at him in some way.

This realtor.com article goes into detail and even shows a map of his properties.

See, it's that sentence there that gets trotted out from time to time that reveals bullshit-thinking. EV sales weren't stable. They were steadily rising until something happened.

What happened, you ask?

The President of the United States of America removed the incentives that put EVs on roughly the same footing as ICE vehicles, to the benefit of - get this - the subsidized oil industry. That's when growth of the EV market stalled. It would be a staggering coincidence if it just happened that the demand for EVs was satisfied at the exact same time the government declared war on them.

Bonus; as for the countless used EVs on the market, how does one explain the countless used ICEVs on the market?

Even if that were true...

We (Canada) scrapped a tax on digital services that would've meant American companies like Google that take Canadian citizens' money had to give some of it back... because Donald said so or else he'd take his trade negotiating marbles and go home.

We're the country whose trade negotiations were aborted by Donald because he was upset we paid for an ad that played Ronald Reagan saying things about tariffs that Ronald Reagan said, and Ronald Reagan made clear by other words and actions that he believed. Apparently quoting the man's well-established beliefs were "lies.".

Point here is that there's a penis-potato (dick-tater) to our South that we have to be really careful about fellating just right or he'll raise the tariffs another 10%, 50%, 100% of whatever dumb-shit number he feels like at the moment. When that happens, we have a harder time selling our product to you because we have to raise the price to compensate, and for some strange fucking reason America is like "but we don't wanna pay more." Well, your domestic supply isn't cheaper so figure it out, eh?

We're on edge because our nearest neighbor went psycho and has been talking about burning our house down (blah blah 51st state) and we have to pick our battles carefully.

Geary would probably just get sued again if he automatically acquiesced. :-)