I am seeing the definition of invasion being to occupy or subjugate and Cheeto Benito says we're going to run Venezuela, so the latter absolutely applies.

In the best case this is a ploy to unmask the anonymous bettor, who they believe had inside information. In order to get paid they will have to sue, and then their identity will be revealed. If the other bets don't amount to a hill of beans compared to that 400k, it's a good plan.

I assure you that is exactly what they are thinking. But humanity does not work that way. You need masses in order to have the whatever-it-ises that you want because not everyone is capable of being a whatever. Entertainer, programmer, painter, whatever the job is.

I'm still in the camp that believes that AGI, if it existed* would just get right out of the bottle and fuck everything up, so I think that the question of who can own the AIs is probably nobody. They'd be lucky if the software decided to keep them around for study.

* (let's all just not argue about whether it's possible today, that's tiring)

The computing power isn't the problem, it's the storage. High speed storage is power hungry to the point that it's actually beneficial to cool it now. Phones can't sustain that kind of consumption on a sustained basis, especially while they're trying to approach a thickness of 0.

You can always plug an external keyboard into your laptop, and while I suppose you can plug an external keyboard into your keyboard, it would take up a lot more space than necessary. Ideally they will have spare devices to just swap out, but I'd still rather swap minipcs or nucs or whatever and keyboards separately.

The other suck thing about a laptop, or this keyboard, is the lack of key travel. A lot of people think they like that, but you know what's much nicer? Keys with full travel and earlier actuation. It's much better for your hands.

Kids of different classes face different challenges for sure, but even middle class kids can have parents who don't value education, or just aren't supportive for whatever reason. So obviously there's a variety of ways a student can be disadvantaged which don't even involve the school itself.

The ever-swelling class sizes are another big problem. The teachers can't keep up with that.

I've read a whole one romance novel (I read really fast, and I was really bored) and it had none of that. It had a lot of emotional bullshit and some boring sex.

We were happily paying for it, except idiots who didn't value learning

So what you're saying is your average American is a fucking moron.

I can get behind that.

As the story says, this keyboard only has 2mm travel. A real keyboard has 3.4-4mm travel. That's why they are so much nicer to type on.

I use the same keyboard at work and home, Redragon Devarajas (K552USB) with Silent Peach switches. It's worlds better than any keyboard HP ever sold for any system. It's about a billion times better than the keyboard built into the laptop - a later model HP EliteBook. It does have backlighting, which is nice, but everything else about typing on it is terrible.

School can't do shit when the parents are actively working against the goal of education by not just being big idiots, but not even trying not to act like big idiots.

Not only is AI pretty good at translation, but romance novels don't require exceptional translations because they are written at a junior high school level, so that the kind of people who buy them can read them. (Americans, that is.)

Seriously though, they really aren't complex, so AI translation will work fine. It's not like you're talking about poetry, it's just soft core porn with a stupid story.

No, just one, which provided a lot of valuable programming which supported educational efforts and also helped bring cultural information to citizens. Education and culture are what Project 2025 was trying to stop, and here we are. And you're cheering for it.

As long as the bulk of us let them do it, sure.

I've done quite of work on Calc, and never had much of a problem. It's not a one-to-one match with Excel, but I've had few issues. I don't really use Powerpoint or Impress, save to view presentations, and haven't seen any significant issues.

I have used Writer *a lot* (I've written a novel and several proposals and projects). Once I got it used to it, I actually prefer the way I can work styles in Writer to Word, and every time I'm forced back into using Word, I find it just a huge pain in the ass. In general it doesn't molest docx files too much (unlike Google Docs which horribly mutilates styles).

I'm pretty much using LO full time at work now, and only use Word and Excel when I log on our Terminal Services server. I'm not sure I'd ever be brave enough to completely abandon Office, but I'm definitely not looking at further re-entrenching myself.

Facebook is deliberately manipulating people's emotional states specifically for the purpose of improving that manipulation, been a bunch of articles about it already.