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Comment Re:Trump a "lame duck" president? (Score 1) 232

Those who believe a Democrat Congress (or the courts) will be able to significantly derail Trump agenda are naive.

Even more if you think they'll roll back the power grabs and demolishing of democratic institutions. Both parties like having unregulated power, just not in the hands of the other.

Comment Re:Laundry folding? (Score 1) 55

Yes. But folding clothes is not high on that list. Of the entire wash cycle, that's literally the easiest part. Now if it could put together all the socks into matching pair and store them away, we might be talking.

I would consider that folding clothes. One would assume the ability to hang shirts as well, which is the 90% time sink for me.

People are going to want to buy this and keep using it for literal decades, because they'll see it as an appliance, not an electronic toy.

Other companies have moved us away from that model. It used to be that you buy a washing machine and you're done for most of your life. Ok, maybe you'll need a second one one day but that's about it. Not anymore. I'm on my third fridge since moving into this house a decade ago. They barely offer repairs anymore and it's often cheaper to buy new. It's ridiculous, really.

And this is why I try to avoid buying products from those companies. That said, if you're on your third fridge, maybe don't buy from that company ever again. I've never heard of any fridge lasting less than a decade except perhaps Samsung.

Comment Re:Google is a dead company walking (Score 1) 61

they just lost 10% of their stock value in a day because it was revealed that when AI search results are showing, there's fewer ads to show (and even fewer get clicked), meaning revenues are down.

this is just compounding that problem. they're shoving AI in ways that are losing their core revenue base and that's already screwing them.

Comment or not (Score 1) 52

so they really and truly get a transformative benefit from these projects

Except that they don't. Data centers create a tiny number of jobs and not for the people who usually are looking for a job in rural communities, they don't draw in visitor, tourists or other kinds of customers for local business, they don't create any product that the community would benefit from - what benefit is he talking about, much less "transformative" ?

Comment Re:"BAD FLOCK DATA"... (Score 1) 128

Youtube is full of 10's of thousands of videos of very confidently wrong cops

Some of which are marked as AI generated, and some which are not marked as such. I've seen some very plausible YouTube videos which then failed simple fact checking.
In this case though, a policeman simply decided that Ms. Crump's car was "the one" and ignored evidence to the contrary, maybe demoting him would be sufficient punishment. I do agree with King_TJ in the comment above though, there's a good chance that the vehicle owner is milking this incident in order to get that vehicle replaced (and serves the police right for supplying her with possible cause).

Comment fuck them (Score 1) 128

they "understand that Ms. Crump did not ask to become part of this investigation," and that they recognize the "frustration of having a vehicle towed and subsequently damaged."

So many words for "lol, yeah that's a them problem, we don't give a shit".

That this is even a matter for insurance is pathetic. The police caused this to happen, it needs to pay the bill, in full, including any costs the innocent person had for the time they kept the vehicle illegally.

Once cases like this drain the police budgets, they'll have an incentive to actually do a good job instead of fucking around and offloading the cost of their stupidity on ordinary people.

Comment Re:Laundry folding? (Score 1) 55

No, this is *exactly* the kind of thing I want AI to do. Clean my house. Straighten my house. Put things away. Fold clothes. Free up those hours so I can do something more fun, more interesting, or more productive.

Yes. But folding clothes is not high on that list. Of the entire wash cycle, that's literally the easiest part. Now if it could put together all the socks into matching pair and store them away, we might be talking.

People are going to want to buy this and keep using it for literal decades, because they'll see it as an appliance, not an electronic toy.

Other companies have moved us away from that model. It used to be that you buy a washing machine and you're done for most of your life. Ok, maybe you'll need a second one one day but that's about it. Not anymore. I'm on my third fridge since moving into this house a decade ago. They barely offer repairs anymore and it's often cheaper to buy new. It's ridiculous, really.

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