alt.pave.the.earth

It's adding to the cloud cover, which will reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the earth, which will cause temperatures to drop, which will plunge us into the next ice age. Then us humans will need to start burning fossil fuels again to drag us out of the ice age, just like we did last time.

Nah. It probably found instances of modern women talking about how their abortion allowed them to secure wealth and a nice career for themselves, and then correlated that with ancient practices of sacrificing children before demon-gods for wealth, power, and a good harvest, and then generated the image.

I wonder if the most influential data sources can be extracted from the system. I'll have to ask later.
Anyway, I recall that research has shown that if you limit AI to giving answers that only confirm with a particular worldview, the quality and accuracy of results goes down dramatically.

Instead of level based matchmaking, how about age based matchmaking? My group of 50+ gamers would be glad to not try and keep up with those twitchy kids, we just want to have fun.

I pay for youtube premium, and I have adblocker enabled. Lately I've noticed youtube buffering way too much. Now I assume it's because I have adblocker. They should be able to tell I have premium & not slow my shit down.

I've been using duolingo for a bit because I work on a demolition crew, and apparently I've been designated liaison with the hispanic construction workers we occasionally work with. I've pretty much reached the limit of progress with duolingo, and really just need to hang out with some native spanish speakers for a bit. Luckily one of my wife's friends is moving back to town, and her Mexican husband is all on-board with hanging out with a bottle of tequila and making fun of me in spanish :)

Revoking a degree means nothing. Potential employers only care about the fact that you did earn the degree, not that you have some debt issue with your college. Such a move would just be adding another checkbox to your credit report, which potential employers sometimes check as it is.

I fairly recently (and reluctantly) switched from Pixel to a Galaxy Flip. All I wanted was a phone that fit in my shirt pocket and wasn't an iPhone. Since I've switched, I realized all the little features that I loved that were Pixel only. Please, oh please! Stop turning phones into tablets!

It's been a few years, but when I last checked, OneDrive was the only service that was HIPAA certified. Now that I think about it, that was 5 years ago. Surely the other services have caught up since then.

Brightline is a privately owned company. I think they actually intend for this to be a profitable venture- and hence a profitable investment- based on their experience in Florida. So 'We' who might use that money elsewhere is whoever they find as investors or lenders in this project, not any government.
One would have to do some research to be sure whether or not public funding is involved, but I haven't seen any in the linked article.

Lost revenue can indeed be loss. They don't pay cash for those buildings. If the revenue is reduced, they still need to pay the bank their monthly notes. To simplify, if you buy a car and have a $100 monthly note, but you drive for Uber and make $200 month, your revenue covers your costs. If you stop driving for Uber, that $100 becomes a loss.

Most don't use headphones at all with their cellphones.

Make sure you're actually fixing things. A 'single use' plastic bag is 5 or 6 grams of plastic and is incredibly easy to make. Reusable bags take dozens or hundreds the amount of resources to produce, and must be periodically washed, increasing the environment footprint even further.

Not necessarily a deal killer for me, but it's one of the reasons I stuck with Pixel 5. It's right where I put my finger holding the phone, anyway. A bigger deal killer for me is size. Am I the only person who doesn't want to carry a backpack for my phone? The 5 just barely fits in my pocket. When do we get a Pixel Mini? I'm seriously looking at the flip phones or (gag) the iphone mini.

Doesn't everyone just have a collection of apps you need and stick to those? I can't even remember when I bought an App. Even free apps only get downloaded when absolutely needed.