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Comment Re:More BS from the regime (Score 2) 491

Tariffs aside - Trump has spoken many times about how he wants Canada to become the 51st state. He's mentioned attempting to destroy Canada's economy to coerce us to become the 51st state. To quote Canadian MP Charlie Angus:

Well, I think Marco Rubio probably needs to be sent back to school because when you say that someone doesn’t have a right to have a country, that’s an act of war. When you rip up, arbitrarily, trade agreements and threaten and say you’re going to break a country, that’s an act of war. And Canadians have responded in kind.

Comment Notepad was fine as it was (Score 5, Insightful) 78

Literally the first thing I did when setting up Windows 11 was delete the new notepad and install an older version. There is no reason whatsoever that notepad should do more than text editing - that was what Wordpad was for, so bring it back if you (Microsoft) want something with more features.

Comment Re:Leaving Politics out of School (Score 1) 378

Linguists understand English grammar. At least, as well as anyone understands the grammar for any language. Of course, linguistics is not particularly useful for the average person so I don't think that it should be taught in schools... but maybe a little bit of it should replace grammar so that the average person has a slightly better foundation for thinking about sentence structure.

Comment Re:What, this again? (Score 3, Insightful) 325

I grew up driving 900km to see my cousins about once a year. We'd drive all through the day - one day there, one day back.

In an EV, that would never happen. We wouldn't have flown - too expensive. We wouldn't have taken more than one day - that would require a hotel. We wouldn't have made multiple long stops - small children and road trips are already challenging without making it longer.

You have a somewhat narrow view of why people like to be able to only make short stops.

Comment Re: What, this again? (Score 1) 325

Nobody says *all* existing ICE need to be replaced.

Nobody except California, Canada, or the UK?
I know, I know, banning the sale of all ICE cars by 2035 probably doesn't mean exactly that (and I'm not inclined to dig through the various laws to see what exceptions they make), but I'm fairly certain that some people are saying that "*all* existing ICE need to be replaced". Even if the people who actually make policy are better-informed.

Comment Re:Wrong way (Score 1) 45

Open source AI tools are currently way more capable than commercial ones, at least in the image generation space. There would have to be a new innovation that can't be replicated easily for that to change. I wouldn't put my money on that.

And no, there's no reason why I can't generate an image in the super-advanced thing photoshop will have 10 years from now and then remove the watermark in 2023's stable diffusion. It still won't require any artistic skill.

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