If it's in the CPU I bought, how should it never have had that feature that's clearly in the CPU I bought?

This is the CPU equivalent of those car makers wanting a subscription to enable the heated seats. Maybe AMD will enable it for $5 a month or something.

No, but they grow up into voters. And Starmer wants to allow 16-year-olds to vote in the next election because he hopes they'll vote Labour.

Hermes Agent already creates new skills as it learns the things you want it to do. I need to add an MCP server to it but I'm waiting until my Raspberry Pi arrives so I can move it off the main system and let it do whatever the heck it wants to do on that one... I'm pretty sure it will be able to do that itself.

Which is one of the risks of this stuff: I don't know how to do it because the software will just do it for me. Neither do I know if it's a safe thing to do or if it's inviting the entire world to come and party on my SSD.

> The alternative is that we are completely out of touch with reality.

You need to remember that most modern companies don't exist to produce products people want, they exist to push up the stock price so the MBAs at the top can cash out and move on. Everything about the modern economy makes a lot more sense when you understand that.

Bingo. It's not about the kids, it's about the adults.

Adults will complain that they have to send in info to prove they're not kids, and Starmer will say "it's funny you mentioned that, because we already have the solution. Just apply for your lovely new Digital ID."

I am an immigrant.

Never once in my life have I or any other immigrant I've known said they moved to pay Boomer pensions.

What was left of Britain after the British Empire collapsed died under Blair.

Not that the post-Blair Tories were any better, but they were just following Blair's script.

Foreigners are totally looking to come to the West so they can pay for Boomers' pensions.

Starmer has clearly given up on the youth vote and is now trying to appeal to the Boomers.

I may be hallucinating, but I'm sure I remember an article recently about Nvidia lending to AI companies so they could buy Nvidia chips?

If it's true, giving money to customers so they can buy your products doesn't sound like the best business plan ever.

That was thirty years ago, when universities were full of smart kids.

Quite likely. With less money, schools either scrap the new-fangled fads or face parent revolt when their kids are unable to cope with anything in life.

A few years ago I read a report that student loans were the largest generator of new credit keeping the US economy afloat. I presume it's now AI Data Centres.

Is only half of women being able to read at all really the counterargument you were trying to make here?

And we're just talking the most basic aspect of an educational system. Kids today learn to read early in grade school.

> We let both of them watch tv and play video games. But it is time limited. Neither has a smartphone. The one that likes to watch dumb YouTube shorts is the one who does well in school and is self motivated. Our kid that struggles to care about school hates YouTube and tells his brother he is rotting his brain watching that garbage. So go figure.

One's a midwit, the other is smart. The smart one is bored out of his mind at school because he's stuck in a room with normal kids where 100-IQ teachers think they can make him do stuff he either has no interest in or could master in ten minutes if he cared enough and hasn't already.

School is mental torture for many smart kids.