My sister-in-law just traded in her Fiat 500 for a Hyundai Tucson. Because she and my brother were in an accident (not their fault) in my brother's bigger car, and is still recovering from her injuries. I fully understand. But I'll be driving my 2200 lb convertible as soon as the snow and salt is gone.

"High Speed Rail" has been defined as 85 MPH, and it's regulatory, more than practical. If you run your trains at more than 85 MPH, you have to update all your grade crossings so that they put the gates down a constant time from the train arriving at the crossing, rather than a constant distance. Steam trains would exceed 85 MPH at times in the 19th century. I believe the record is above 100 mph.

It's been theorized that Canada's import decline has a lot to do with why Jim Beam, which has a hand in pretty much all bourbon distilling, is shutting down its main distillery in Kentucky for all of 2026.

Heavens, they released a product with new features?

The author (in the summary) specifically claims "Anker no longer lists a display-less model in its 20,000mAh range." Anker doesn't seem to offer any 20 Ah powerbanks so I assume "20,000mAh range" means 20 Ah or more, making the claim untrue. It's also cherrypicking one company and one specification.

Some people obviously want LCDs on their powerbanks. One of the posters above wants a flashlight. Whatever. There are still lots of black boxes with batteries available for sane people.

"AI hardware" isn't "LLMs". It's a souped up vector unit. You can run LLMs with it, but I doubt very much that's what Dell or Microsoft want you to do. Especially Microsoft. That would spoil the business model.

They want your processor to have hardware support for image and video processing, voice recognition, text to speech and a bunch of other things that nobody has thought of yet.

Neural networks have more applications than LLMs.

LLMs are neural networks.

Spam filtering, translation, battery life indicators.

iOS is using on device machine learning models for text translation and dictation today.

Define AI. Modern smartphones use ML tools and models everywhere, from text prediction to touch detection to voice recognition to photo processing. They're not just limited to chat bots.

The point is: it is not an invasion until they actually invade.

He can say so all he wants, but at the moment Venezuela is under control of the existing government, under the vice president. There are no US troops in the country. What we have seen in Venezuela is, for lack of a better word, a special military operation, with the intent to extract Maduro, not to occupy or subjugate the country by military force.

Discord is fine when it's just video and chat. The problem is that gaming communities, modders and (worse) companies have started to use Discord for things that it isn't: a discussion forum, a help desk system, a knowledge management platform. It is ridiculously bad at all of those, mainly because content is invisible unless you join that particular Discord community, and the content is not indexed by Google. Inside Discord, there is no search across communities either, and the limited search function they have is terrible.

More and more, I see information and discussions disappear off websites and forums, and end up on Discord, never to be found again.

not new for most palces.

Maybe it's just a US thing?

I doubt very much this was, or is, normal in most places. Perhaps in the US, which is about 4% of the world by population and about 6% by land area. We certainly read the whole novel in the 80s and 90s. No individual chapters, ever.

Vietnam required a draft. If the US tries to actually conquer and occuply Venezuela it would too. Canada or Mexico as well.

The US has gotten by with decapitation strikes, the same thing Russia tried to do to Ukraine, and only a couple of actual occupations supported by international allies and a lot of contractors. An actual war against an actual determined opponent, especially without allied support, would absolutely require conscription and even then would probably grind down into another Vietnam or Ukraine.

Of course they're going to do things of consequence. Most of the US's allies are trying to de-Americanize their military and other supply chains as quickly as they can. This will encourage that even more. The US's non-allies can now point to renewed American aggression and sphere of influence foreign relations to justify their own actions. Unaligned countries will likely start cozying up to China for protection. Several countries are likely to be pushed in the direction of developing nuclear weapons of their own.

Nobody is going to invade Texas over Venezuela. That doesn't mean there won't be consequences.

Precisely zero of those other buildings host the security council or has the facilities for that.

Seems like feature.