Do you people really get fifty cents per post? Surely it's more than that by now.

Never seen such a panda hugger since someone pointed out that we should have responded to J6 like China did to 6/4at Tiananmen. It lacks the polish of using the A-10s to turn them into pink mist, but calling out the tanks to turn them into pink mash worked well. Just a remincer: when you want to overthrow the government, bring guns. Lots of guns.

Solutions starting with "everybody in society must" have a long and celebrated tradition of going immediately (and often horrifically) pear-shaped, as it inevitably turns out that most of everybody doesn't want to, and therefore won't, and in many cases, can't.

For examples, see the Soviet Union's Communism, China's Great Leap Forward, the Khmer Rouge's agricultural collectivism, North Korea's juche, etc.

While some fruit (bananas in particular) are bad for diabetics, a lot are good for us - including apricots, raspberries, etc.

The main cause of diabetes is not fruit. Almost every meal in the entire world includes large portions of:

Wheat (including bread, muffins, pancakes, pasta, etc.)
Rice
Potatoes
Corn

Even knowing about diabetes, it can be hard to find a restaurant that does not include one of these in every single meal they serve. Yeah, whole grain versions are better - as in 10%. That's not enough. Most americans eat 3x the amount of carbs they need.

Worst of all, if the food is processed it removes fiber making it bad for you (and worse usually adds sugar). It's why even unsweetened apple sauce is bad for diabetics - loss of fiber is a major issue.

In America, Diabetes is generally caused as much by wheat as it is caused by added sugar. While it's not hard to eliminate added sugar, it's just too hard to go a day without wheat, rice, potatoes and corn.

Note, even diabetics do need some carbs, but that is NEVER a problem getting.

"C.AI argued that because her son signed up for the service at the age of 15, it bound her to the platform's terms"
Seems like they just admitted there is no contract.

You're wrong about potatoes. They *are* high in starch, but they aren't "nearly all" starch, like corn or wheat.

... this year. And next year, the same logic will have us getting rid of all of the entry-level employees, and the year after that, the mid-level employees, and some years from now, all employees. Yay, progress?

In brightest day and darkest night, we will still be able to see everything. So no evil will escape our sight.

Except of course for evil from the stars, cause we won't see crap.

Seriously, that is still one of the benefits of living in the boonies. There are still places we can go more than 10 m iles from other people and have a nice, clear night sky.

But not in my home.

Xpeng claimed to have had around 3,000 orders for the vehicle

Comedians will do anything that works to get a laugh, but sourcing jokes from ChatGPT (or similar) is not an effective way to get a laugh. Comedy is based on surprise, and LLMs are based on summarizing old material, so there's a bit of a mismatch there.

Well, sure, in the same way a 747 is just a fancy mechanical bird. Which is to say, yes, but no.

Yes, it's got a long way to go. Unfortunately, at least SOME of the changes are (currently) on an exponential growth curve, and people have very poor ability to project those. (And also at some point "limiting factors" will manifest, which aren't significant during the early part of the rise.)

There are quite plausible scenarios where we are still in the early part of the exponential growth curve. Nobody can prove whether this speculation is true or false, but we should be prepared in case it is true.

Because that is the level of our best AI - an intern.

If an intern can do it, an AI can do it.

The good jobs still exist and will likely always exist.

As an American, I an assure you that our ability to totally screw up our health is supreme. We will always find a way to become obese, no matter what they do with the time.

Remember: we are talking about Business Insider here.

That kind of thing is something that centrally controlled economies are prone to. It's the mirror image is the problems experienced during the "Great Leap Forward". Market driven economies have different problems (monopolies, concentration of power in the hands of the greedy, etc.) . I'm not really sure which is inherently more deleterious. Perhaps it depends on details of implementation.