Given the reference list, I suspect not ChatGPT, but rather https://magisterium.com/

And that's a huge part of the problem.

Here in the UK we see little Canadian content despite being quite culturally similar and very close allies, I expect Canadians see little Australian content (as we also don't see much here in the UK). UK is a bit different as the UK has the second most powerful culture outside of it's own borders, it's not unusual to find Union Jacks on things in Europe or Asia where as a maple leaf (or southern cross) would be quire rare. Australia is better known for its animals (Kangaroos and Koalas) as a symbol than our flag.

This is largely due to the overwhelming and oppressive amount of US content. Even though the likes of China, France or India would kill to have the cultural dominance of the UK it's still a distant second to the US. It's so bad that a lot of British and Australian actors have effectively started playing "professional Americans", in the words of Idris Elba.

Hardly anyone really knows about this ruling. Any reputational damage to Airbus or Air France was done and over with years and years ago. With Airbus filling their order books almost as fast as they can open them they're not really that concerned and I suspect Air France isn't doing too badly either with 1.7B Euros profit last year. It was all so long ago that the events of AF447 have long since fled our collective memory and are only of interest to those of us with an interest in aviation.

To me this seems more like "someone had to be blamed" in order to completely close the case as most actionable items have long since been done (like modification to the pitot tubes (I believe this happened before 447 as the icing was a known issue and it was an older A330), pilot training updated, et al.) hence the fines are essentially slaps on the wrist, it was really just dotting the lower case j's.

Posted this earlier in the thread:

For somewhere like Arizona the difference between summer and winter daylight hours isn't that great. If you live in Maine it is. I live around 51 N (UK) and mid summer the sun is up from 4 AM to 11 PM (and I mean fully up at 4 AM, it starts getting light at 3), in mid winter it starts getting light around 8 AM and is dark by 4 PM (and I mean fully dark, like my mood). If we didn't have DST the sun would either be rising at 3 AM in the summer or not rising until 9 AM in the winter (which means both your commutes will be in darkness).

DST helps a lot when there literally is an 8 hour difference between summer and winter daylight hours.

This is the thing, it should be left up to the individual states.

For somewhere like Arizona the difference between summer and winter daylight hours isn't that great. If you live in Maine it is. I live around 51 N (UK) and mid summer the sun is up from 4 AM to 11 PM (and I mean fully up at 4 AM, it starts getting light at 3), in mid winter it starts getting light around 8 AM and is dark by 4 PM (and I mean fully dark, like my mood). If we didn't have DST the sun would either be rising at 3 AM in the summer or not rising until 9 AM in the winter (which means both your commutes will be in darkness).

The arguments for DST definitely apply if you live further north than California.

No it isn't.

Its just that some people in the US have gone so far to the right... Also they tend to call anything they don't like "left", even when it's other right wing concepts they just don't find right wing enough.

You're right for the most part, here's some additional context. One of the core tenants of fascism is the redefinition and reshaping of the language, Hitler wanted to reform the German language, one of the biggest things was trying to expunge any French words from the German language, because he believed that if you changed the language you could control the way people think.

Socialism was one of these words. They wanted to, in Hitler's own words, "take back the word [Socialism] from the Bolsheviks", Obviously this didn't work as to this day we use a Bolshevik definition. The Nazi ideal of socialism is closer to what we'd call a civic duty. You were meant to care for your community, contribute time and goods for the common good (common weal as Hitler called it). Even this kind of thing got twisted, as we saw from Aktion T4, the enforced euthanasia of anyone who didn't contribute (the disabled, infirm, elderly, birth defects, the feeble minded, basically anyone who might be a burden to the state).

Hitler and the Nazis literally had a different definition for "socialism". Of course it never caught on.

I have no idea what your point is at all. Seriously, are you OK? Just to make it clear - I am against governments, I am against governments using any technology to make it easier for government to oppress people and this is one instrument of oppression.

Yes because no CEO would want to add new features or fix more bugs per unit time with the same number of programmers; they and their customers are happy with the same rate of progress with fewer programmers.

AI is being used as a convenient scapegoat. If a few big tech companies do layoffs, more do because it's a case of monkey see, monkey do.

> Disney's gotta nail the sweet, sweet merchandising.

Problem is that kids aren't generally buying Star Wars toys anymore, adults are, and they are increasingly detached from the new parts of the franchise.

So how can this be allowed if there is so much graft around this technology that is flowing through thousands of hands in the government offices?

Here is an example: https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/news...

This here: https://simpler.grants.gov/opp...

Funding Opportunity Number: FM-MHP-26-002
Assistance Listing: 20.245
Funding Details: $52.7 million expected total amount to award

Executive Summary:
The objective of the HP-ITD program is to advance the
technological capability and promote the deployment of
intelligent transportation system applications for CMV
operations, including CMV, commercial driver, and carrier-
specific information systems and networks, and to
support/maintain CMV information systems and networks to
(i) link Federal motor carrier safety information systems with
State CMV systems; (ii) improve safety and productivity of
CMVs and commercial drivers; (iii) and reduce costs
associated with CMV operations and regulatory
requirements.

Eligible Applicants
1.1 General
The HP-ITD awards are available to States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto
Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin
Islands. FMCSA may award HP-ITD funds to eligible applicants that have an approved program plan as
outlined in the Fixing Americaâ(TM)s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act. Individuals and businesses are
not eligible to apply for HP-ITD funding.

This entire thing is premised on the idea that there will be *more* information available to the federal government to work with, not less. They are fully committed to using these ALPR cameras that are everywhere now to track everything all the time and to put every truck driver out of service for any inconsistency in their visual data and thus hand out more fines, more court time, more oppression.

This is just one single program, one example, there are so much more, there is so much money at stake, never mind the actual flock graft itself.

A longer period of time with those you love, engaging in the activities you find fulfilling,

Drinking and eating steak are two of the most pleasurable and fulfilling activity's I can think of right off to bat....P So, I'll take the steak and alcohol....and it's fun to cook and consume these with those I love....

Fuckerberg has always strived for low morale. He thinks it weeds out the weak.

Hmm....only up to about $4 or so here where I live in the New Orleans area...maybe a bit more...I bought at Costco yesterday and didn't really look that close at the pump, but was in the $4 range...

How about we just nuke the Congo?