Been a while since I've flown a budget airline. On the normal flights I've taken, there's always a few people (usually older people) with paper boarding passes.

There was no new agreement, Disney flexed and lost. They figured YouTube customers would loudly complain then switch to the new Disney platform. What happened was life just went on with out Disney and they watched their "profit" dry up. YouTube is carrying Disneys' lineup at the same pricepoint they did last year.

The electric motor is efficient and powerful, they really are. The aceleration is stupendous. Batteries on the other hand LACK severely. Hopefully the solid state battery grail will pan out and we can finally see a genuinely useful EV.
I need a 300 mile range and a 4 hour turn around. I want to take the wife out to a movie in the evening after a long commute.

We do not want a singular AI that is unified and acts as one.
The AI War is what we want to prevent this.

Ideally we want hundreds of them, each with different purposes, from different builders - companies and countries.

If one of them wants to say convert all metal into paperclips, another will say slow your roll, I need the aluminum to make as many sapphires as possible. A third will say I need the copper for my pipes!

Or maybe it will be more sophisticated disagreements, but it does not matter.

End result, the AI's differing objectives will prevent them from taking control of Earth. The plucky humans will say they learned their lesson, but let's be honest - there is going to be a sequel to this movie.

You are thinking of wiring a whole house for outlets, lights, heat, appliances, etc.

This is more like you buy a set of solar panels and a battery that comes with say 6 outlets. The kind of thing you use for Glamping.

Then you get 6 extension cords and glue them to your walls. Do not staple, GLUE.

You have to get cable installed because it does not come with the house.

In Africa, you have to get an electrical line installed because it does not come with the house (except in the Urban areas - where it is just like America.)

For 50 years, many African leaders keep promissing that the Utility company will build an electrical grid that goes to the rural areas and but they have repeatedly failed.

Now, you can just get Solar power installed and screw the utility.

This is now my go to example of idiots confusing correlation (using an AI to pick lottery numbers and then winning) with causation (AI was 'used' to win the lottery).

They also need a person that speaks Russian. ;D

Ideally, it should be a hair space (because em dashes in web fonts are borderline illegible without it), but Slashdot does not support Unicode, and   gets silently swallowed by Slashdot's HTML parser. Besides, we all know that AP style is the one true style, and it demands space.

No, an en dash is used for numerical ranges and certain compound hyphentions, not for parentheticals.

The US could probably set up a system where where Canadian and American carriers count as 'valid', but any other carrier requires a call to re-establish.

Not that hard to set up an auto-call icon to simplify the process.

Humans do not want to use them. We like the hyphen. It works as an emdash. It is on the standard keyboard. Frankly, I have enough problem deciding if something is a capital i (I), a lower case L (l), or a damn pipe (|). Seriously, make symbols for humans that are easy for humans to tell apart: lI|

Could you please make no em dashes the default so that the 1% of us who actually know how to use em dashes correctly — professional writers and language nerds and so on — don't keep getting accused of using ChatGPT?

Thanks,
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