Like have you subtly make nitroglycerin through a combination of some of the intermediate steps. And I assure you if you make a honey cornbread recipe with nitroglycerin, it'll have quite a kick. Probably kick itself right out of the oven. Don't worry, if you blow up your hands the AI companies won't be held accountable.

I can do quite a bit with just LibreOffice. Maybe some people need more than that, a lot of people don't.

But in Microsoft's defense, businesses pay for CRMs, wikis, etc already. Half of my writing I do on Confluence because it is easy to share and organize between multiple teams. That costs money too.

Some of us are learning. Others are kicking and screaming while being dragged into the future.

No "expert" has said that. Dark matter is the description of the phenomenon that is confirmed through different types of observations. It's a real phenomenon and not a measurement error. If anyone claims to know for certain what dark matter is and also claims to be an expert, isn't an expert.

It's a bit like we knew lightning exists, people observed it for thousands of years, but it wasn't until we started exploring electricity that we figured out what it is. Our lack of understanding doesn't alter if something exists or not in the physical world.

The BTU specs are right next to the mJ. Except most of the time products don't include the Joules rating.

The demise of MySpace began soon after initiatives designed to bring revenue led to a mountain of ads. Often these ads were misleading or scammy. Or were just your annoying predatory credit card offers. On top of this, MySpace failed to build communities on their site, or support them in any meaningful way. This led to creators leaving the platform and the rest of the traffic followed.

The same fate is inevitable for YouTube. It simply isn't possible for it to be an enduring platform. The most fatal flaw in all of this is how one company dominates in their niche online media platform. And how fragile that market is to see sudden, catastrophic shifts in users. If instead the market leaders culminated competition and lead the expansion of many players in social media, there would be significantly less chance of these huge swings in user base. And some possibility for a company to recover from a slip. But the way it stands right now, if YouTube ever slips, they'll be wiped out.

Most people are dumb, and their stupidity affects us all. The government regulation of allowable business practices is one way we can steer society down a better path.

I use my credit card for nearly every transaction, and I pay it off at the end of the month. It's a convenient way to manage my budget. And avoid getting stung with ATM fees or go to one of the locations for my rather stupid bank to get cash.

Most people don't use credit cards like you or I. If they did, I don't think credit card companies would be so profitable, and they probably would be charging us a monthly fee on top of what they charge merchants.

in some range of temperatures you can find the necessary humidity, temperature, an soil moisture to grow a crop. If we keep moving where that is, then we're constantly searching for new farm land because our old farm land is no longer suitable.

Corn grows on the equator. It's something we'll be growing a great deal of when we face higher global temperatures. But corn fields might have to move to a higher elevation to grow it with some milder temperatures and better rainfall. So you lose a lot of farmland in the plains or North America, especially if desertification were to start occurring.

Everything both of us have gone over sounds terribly expensive. We should probably not do the global warming thing if we can avoid it.

Crazy would be a scenario that leads to hyperinflation. We'd need a few (or several) orders of magnitude for that to happen. And that's only theoretical because no country has ever been in a similar situation. For a vast majority of parameters, what you say is exactly right.

I'm fine with my democratic capitalist system being a little inefficient if it is equitable and fair. I think anarcho-capitalists are obsessed with efficiency in markets and government that they're happy to discard a system that is evenly spread. The problem with going for maximum business freedom, unregulated capitalism, and zero overhead for your government is it falls apart and you end up with something that is neither fair nor a free market.

If a government is working correctly, it is elected by the people and represents the people's shared interests. Having regulators working for me and my neighbors seems better than having an oligarchy that works only for who has the biggest bank account. But what do I know, I voted for the other gal.

National debt, at long as it isn't too crazy, is fine. The ability to create that debt offers some useful flexibility for a national economy. If you keep your debt well below your GDP, it's just spare change lost in your couch.

Of course, any monetary or fiscal tool can be mishandled by leaving idiots in charge to ruin your economy. What most people don't get is we could ruin the economy by paying off our debt too quickly as easily as we could by having too much debt.

They're always getting high on their own supply. It makes the grift all that much funnier to me.

We could do it like Escape from L.A.
Just fence off a city and put all the criminals inside.

You can keep X applications alive when the link goes down, although, obviously you can't see what they are doing. I think that the tradeoff is better than losing access to all of your desktop when the network goes down. I tend to move my state local, meaning that I have what I need locally if something goes awry. I can usually get meaningful stuff done without any network access at all. However, if what you want is to have an always ready desktop that you can connect to from anywhere then RDP is the solution. I have to use Windows every once in a while, and everything about using it is uncomfortable to me, but RDP is very nice. I actually get why you might set up your work flow in that manner.

RDP is actually a reaction to VNC, and it fixes many of VNC's problems. For emergency graphical remote control of a computer VNC is adequate, but it is definitely not a replacement for RDP.

According to a new study, we're boned!

Q.E.D

It's a rate of change problem. Changing the average annual temperature quickly is difficult for our economy to adapt to. Mostly our agriculture economy.