You asked a brother to watch you, and Meta accepted your offer.
Exactly. Orwell was an optimist. When he wrote 1984, he thought that the government would have to force people to submit to surveillance. Instead, people willingly paid money to buy these stupid glasses, and gave up their most intimate details to a private company.
"Now is a great time for the V-8 engine," said Ryan Shaughnessy, the Mustang's brand manager.
"Now is a great time for the Edsel" said Henry Ford.
"Full speed ahead," said the captain of the Titanic.
Out of luck without running an extension cord out your door.
Is this so bad? I run an extension cord whenever I need to recharge the battery in my ICE car in the driveway (it's an old battery in an old car) or when I need to run power tools outside.
As another poster noted upthread, you can get a pub burger for that kind of money. Or as I will note, a diner burger. I just got a "western" burger (double cheese, with grilled onions) from the nearest one to me the other day. It was fucking gargantuan, I have really big hands and they were more than full, andit came with better fries than BK has ever had — let alone the trash they sling now.
People go to BK because it is fast and foodlike. The whopper hasn't been worth eating for decades, since they started putting fake smoke flavor on it.
Amen to this. I just had a burger from my local independent place. ~10USD. The owner makes the patties himself every morning. There's also fresh cheese, lettuce, bacon and more on there. The damn thing is huge and tastes delicious. Every time I go to McDonalds, BK, or even a "gourmet" burger place, I pay more money for less food that doesn't taste nice.
Yes, crap and overpriced coffee, and increasingly crap and overpriced food as well.
Weatherspoons is apparently still good, but I avoid it because, excuse the King's English, the owner is a brexity cunt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Are there any rich people in England* who aren't complete arseholes?
* This includes the "tax refugees" who make sure to spend 184 days outside the UK so they don't have to pay taxes like the rest of us.
With negative wind chills caused by near daily high winds, a hothouse sounds nice.
It was 50 degrees celsius in parts of Australia a couple of weeks ago. Be careful what you wish for. https://www.abc.net.au/news/20...
Why is it so difficult to understand that by cutting the fat at the top will also increase profits and that profits can be zero and a company can still grow. So get rid of shareholders, get rid of outrageous salaries, plough back all the mansions, luxury cars, jewellery, designer clothes, shoes, etc., etc. and unnecessarily lavish consumption, there would probably be a bit left over to vicarious spend on proactive climate mitigation...
Why the hell is this modded "funny"? It all sounds pretty reasonable to me.
If, with that same data, you want to force poor people more money to go to work and heat their homes, I need your sources to not be liars.
Where are *your* sources?
LLMs have proven to be unreliable at doing actual work. They make up "facts," they summarize text incorrectly, they fabricate references, they write code that doesn't compile. LLMs haven't replaced doctors, lawyers or programmers. The phrase "plausible bullshit" has been thrown around. Pretty much the only real-world use for plausible bullshit is in advertising. The owners of these LLMs need *something* to justify all the hype and expense. Given that advertising is already a filthy amoral industry, it seems like the safest place for an LLM, far away from real work where things matter.
Nobody can find *hit on the first search
I agree with you, but FYI we're still allowed to say "shit" on Slashdot.
"AI" has not made one positive contribution to our society. The people who own it gulp our electricity, buy out our RAM, tell us that their programs are actually intelligent, when they are not. Day by day, billionaires are using their "AI" software to destroy our society, because that's what billionaires do.
I think "billionaire" should be reclassified as a mental illness. Anyone with a billion dollars could retire RIGHT NOW and spend literally the rest of their life doing whatever they want. They'd never have to cook their own food or clean their home ever again if they didn't want to. They could fly to a different tropical island every week for the rest of their lives, or conversely, follow winter around the globe and ski every day. They could hang out with their families. They could plant trees, or read stories to old people. The fact that they don't, and instead keep trying to make another dollar out of the misery of the rest of us, shows that they are mentally ill. For the good of society, and for their own good, they should be put away somewhere safe where they can't hurt themselves or others.
Remember, Google IS evil. Would an evil company lie to you about showing ads in AI interactions?
Damn straight. They also explicitly took down the sign in their main office that said "don't be evil." So it's not like they are even trying to hide it.
It's a question of arbitrarily destroying perfectly good merchandise, because they would rather destroy it to keep the price artificially inflated, than sell it off cheap and thus decreasing the average price.
This happens in tech too. At my old job, we were required to destroy returned merchandise, even if it was perfectly functional. This usually involved smashing screens, punching a screwdriver through the case, stomping on things etc until management deemed them "unrepairable." Then whatever was left got taken to a locked Dumpster so that nobody could upcycle any part.
Yea. I can't imagine that singles are selling on CD all that well.
I have a desktop for the massive (but old) graphics card, so having a Blu-ray/dvd/cd-rw in it is relatively cheap compared to the whole system.
Laptop only users seem unlikely to buy an external drive. Even though they are cheap.
I have a Pioneer Bluray writer that connects to the laptop via USB3. It's kind of a swiss army knife of optical drives, happy to work with CD/DVD too, so it gets "enough" use that I have no regrets about buying it.
The only inoculation for this is critical thinking
Getting scammed once is a painful enough lesson to make the victim aware of such scams for next time. The hard part is for that first scam to be minor enough to recover from, but harsh enough to hurt. If you're growing up poor you have less capacity to recover, and if you're growing up rich you might have enough money that it doesn't hurt enough to learn a lesson. Or if you're really rich enough you can launder it as an "investment loss" or something.
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