I will always cherish.those days I was taught by nuns that had various yardsticks and pointers at there disposal.

WWWHHhhaCCKKKK right on the chalkboard and everyone knew it was business time. Frozen in our seats there was nothing but dead silence.

Can confirm. Reddit has banned the real people.

I bought a Prius PHEV even though I'm firmly convinced that the PHEV is the worst of both worlds. You don't get the freedom from maintenance hassle that the BEVs give you, and the battery is small enough that it cannot fill all use cases _and do what you paid the premium $$ for_. If you want compromises, the hybrid will be a cheaper car.

Why did I buy this car? Because for reasons that I couldn't fathom, the BEVs that were in my price range were simply not available on the dealer lots at the time I needed a new car.

That being said, the car is working out great so far. Its been three weeks since we drove it off the dealer lot and thanks to our normal driving patterns (to the office / grocery store and back), we have not consumed more than half a gallon. There is a real danger that the gas in the almost full tank we have will degrade to the point its unusable before we end up using it.

Not the smartphones per se. But the fact that they tend to keep you indoors away from the Vitamin D our bodies critically need. Find 'Medcram' on YouTube for a medical perspective about this vitamin. No, pills will not work as good.

And while we're talking about things no one is allowed to talk about, let's bring up a certain under-tested mandated medicine at one time for everyone also? If you care, Dr. Campbell on YouTube is a good resource for that.

For the new piles of ewaste they're generating. It's kind of funny how Google gets hauled into court for all their anti-trust hijinks but yet to fail to see Amazon on the radar!

Person 1: "The earth is flat"
Person 2: "That's kind of a stupid take."
Person 1: "Whenever I see anyone responding with a personal attack (even an indirect one), I see a tacit acknowledgement that the point cannot be questioned on its merits."
Some assertions are so dumb, they require no refutations, because only dumb people believe them. Honestly, the reason the internet has gone to shit is because the cost to post a stupid thing is vastly lower than the post to thoroughly demonstrate why it's a stupid thing.

Google does not want its A.I. to "inherit" Reddit's users' lop-sided dysfunctionality!

I would submit that technological progress will be made to non-fossil fuel technology. It's not the tipping point per se, it's those agressors fomenting war that keeps money flowing to defense contractors rather than those technologies that decrease fossil fuel use.

About in the same ballpark as Linux on the desktop?

The fact is intelligence information was "created" rather than "discovered" in order to subvert Trump and his first presidency. Numerous evidence now supports this conclusion and has been submitted to the DOJ to be placed in front of a grand jury soon, and probably prosecuted. There needs to be prosecutions so a wooden stake can be driven through the heart of the hoax. For those that are not in the loop about what makes it a "hoax" they can find Matt Taibbi explain it in detail in numerous places esp. on YouTube.

The sad fact that the Russian Collusion hoax still gains traction on Slashdot demonstrates how far critical thinking (if not integrity) has fallen with those who still defend the party of the left. You'd think they'd get get a clue after Hunter's laptop was proven to actually be his laptop. All the effort to suppress and censor all the voices that brought that up in itself is inexcusable but no one in the media (like Leslie Stahl) have been held to account. Then let's bring up how the media worked endlessly to cover up Biden's advancing dementia that many of us could clearly see

And then the cherry on the cake are the posts in this very thread -"I don't see how half the nation could vote for Trump!"

Really?!?? Is half the nation that stupid, or maybe half the nation could identify with what boorish Trump was saying all along, as compared to the people who gave us the "Russia Collusion" baloney and the concept that abortion somehow is the number one issue facing the nation??

I'll give you the card that Trump can be horrible and maybe some of his decisions are bad. But he has managed to actually close the effin' border. I think it's entirely reasonable that the concept of nation states having actual borders is completely acceptable. Apparently this seems silly to the party that lost the 2024 election.

Just that single issue alone was a big part of what caused half the country to support Trump. Apparently they were right to do so.

Ergo, Trump is not the one driving the clown car around here, even if he clearly is boorish and highly annoying at times.

"scraping" is maybe questionable, but there's no question that an AI is accessing your website.

No one is going to be buying chips from TSMCâ(TM)s Taiwan plant when China takes Taiwan in 2027. All those military drills China does in the straits are for a purpose you know. And when that happens that fancy UV lithography machine gets bombed out of existsnce by the U.S.

I know it's a radical concept, but maybe CBS fired Corbett because they were losing large sums of money. The show costs 40 million USD a year with Corbert's salary at 20 million. The fact is that there are some large YouTubers that get more viewers than Corbett does now.

Maybe if they made Corbert's salary dependent on the number of viewers he had (like YouTube does) he might get back to doing comedy again.

But they just did not fire Corbett. They cancelled the whole show. There is no conspiracy other than basic economics.

Unlike, of course, the rest of us.

The force is strong with this one! Moderators, please mod this one up for being funny.