I find the fact that it can play some games interesting and there's probably something to follow up there for those smarter than me.

(Though I don't care enough to see how well it plays the games it's "good" at).

I think it's more:

Company falling behind in AI tells everyone "let's slow down".

My understanding is that they're pretty similar in performance and an order of magnitude more expensive than the Chinese models (some of which are open weight), and behind Anthropic and even Alphabet now for work.

Only the government can bring criminal charges.

These companies can file complaints and hope the government tries criminal charges and the companies can file a civil suit.

We definitely need a way to attach criminal charges to entities that can't go to jail. I'd propose socializing the company for the length of the prison sentence before then returning it to shareholders.

It can be pretty hard to get a job that uses your potential and drugs that stabilize mood in the US. I don't think Brqve New World applies at all.

El Nino is more accurately Christ Child.

It's a reference to it being warmer water in the Christmas season.

Wasn't it so with power too?

We managed that as a society.

This is about "tech professional connections" being available. Not being the lowest speed sold.

This isn't a conservative vs non conservative thing. That would be cutting the funding.

This is "let's give government money to bad solutions instead of good ones". That's neither conservative or not. It is currupt and/or inefficient.

I had rock solid dialup connections in the 197xx area.

They're already competitors and Netflix has more streaming time than YouTube.

Netflix has a larger share of online streaming hours than YouTube.

Neither is a monopoly in the streaming and I don't think this would count as google leveraging search (where they definitely are a monopoly).

Aside from carrier level NAT 5g internet thwomped Xfinity for quality in my neighborhood (this may have changed now that there's competition).

My choices (at the low end)were:
  200/6 cable $75
75/50 5g $50

These were observed speed. The 5g was sold as 150/50 and cable 300/6. To get acceptable upload speeds to do remote work with cable was $185/month (I forget if that was 25 or 50).

Verizon ran fiber and now I'm paying $50 for 300/300 and getting pretty close.

Xfinity is now offering reasonable plans for $50 also, not sure if that's because of fiber or 5g. It could be either.

That's why I'll never get a modern car that checks my attention.

Makes it hard to change my CDs on the fly.

I imagine my software that simply returns "not a shop lifter" would have a similar accuracy rate.

Because some people won't pay $120 for a game.

They sell it full price new, then when the hype of new has passed they discount it for people that are more frugal.

Since $60 is better than $0 they can make more money overall. They probably have sales data to support this (or at least Steam does, since they keep doing pretty deep discounts for their sales).