With debt it is easy to determine that you are underwater and are going to be unable to make your payments in the future. Basic arithmetic really.

With climate the same is roughly true, but the models have a wider range of possible outcomes the further you go out. Still, it is not difficult to find some thresholds where the costs ramp up or thresholds we cannot not come back from with current technology.

America operates the most expensive illiteracy program in the world.

What if the machine says it in a nice way?

After the crash, they'll have to do even more layoffs.

Terran life is voracious and competitive and the result of 3-4 billions of years where only the winners get to carry on to the next generation. The life that evolved here on Earth is far more likely to destroy other planetary ecosystems than the other way around.

Obviously, precautions are warranted as we are dealing with something unknown. As you could end up with some annoying consequences like space mold eating your hatch seals. But as for some alien life showing up on Earth and taking over? If it's possible at all the probability is incredibly low, based on our understanding of life and evolution. Good luck to the martian lichen trying to pry native species out of their habitat.

And we have already traded rocks with other planets. And we've shown that some forms of life can live dormant in space for a very long time. If there is life on Mars, it is possible it's already been to Earth, and was immediately gobbled up.

Because consumers keep buying HDMI, even though it sucks.

I used to certify HDMI equipment, and the standards for HDMI were always there to protect IP rights even if it made the devices less reliable and harder to use. End-users just know that sometimes when they bought a new Blu-ray player or settop streamer that it didn't want to work at full resolution with their TV or their A/V switch or the various incompatibilities that exist between revisions.

If you're heading a company's AI division, ask yourself this:
Where does my paycheck come from? How did the company make revenue in previous quarters in order to pay me in this quarter?

The Family Of Apps (FoA) division of Meta, specifically digital advertising, are the actual superstars that keep the lights on there. And have made other projects like Reality Labs (RL) possible, supporting them until they could finally earn revenue as well.

Everywhere you look you only see your enemies, a few people have tries to lead you to a normal mode of thinking, but I always say: you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

P.S. I'm not a leftist, but thanks for playing.

Not really. One glance at a modern (post-mid-1950) curriculum will show you that.

I hope they can still teach students about a strawman argument.

Democracy and freedom isn't free. You have to fight for it every day. The religious right wants to take away my human rights and your human rights, and if you want to carry water for them then be prepared to serve underneath them on day.

Free forum is a free soapbox. I couldn't give two shits about your insufferable opinion of other people's opinions. But I think you already know that, other Slashdotters are certainly communicated a similar sentiment to you before.

Pokemon cards are fun, but the real money is in healthcare. Imagine if I could buy up all the knee surgeries and sell them to millennials in 20 years. (Sorry, I don't accept Pokemon cards as payment)

Criticism of capitalism is communism, and communism is treason.

If I can buy 1.5-2 million of those cheap and set two thirds of them on fire then they become far more rare. That will flush more of the collection onto the market and I will buy those too, and burn them as well.

We're no longer allowed to discuss gender identity or systemic inequality in US schools, so there are worse offenses when it comes to free speech rights. (A right that very few countries recognize)

Take a number, in whatever representation form you wish, let's say it's a typical binary (base-2) representation of a positive integer. Add any value to it infinitely, 1 or billions, I don't care. Every state transition from 0 to 1 or 1 to 0 takes a finite amount of energy. And every state takes physical space to store and represent (such as as an electric charge). You now need an infinite amount of energy and infinite amount of space. But don't worry, your machine won't survive that long as it will quickly take more energy to flip the bits than you can concentrate in an area of space. Your counting register turns into plasma even before that.