Truth Social I'm sure. As hard as it is to believe, there are still people who think Trump is a genius, and still want to "own the Libs".

I've heard that some of these AI phone chatbots can cost up to $0.30 USD/minute. That's $18/hr, which is probably more than it costs employ most call center workers...

Plus, call center workers don't get stuck in hilarious loops when you claim to have trouble understanding them, and need them to say "Albuquerque, New Mexico" any time they say a word that starts with the letter A or ends with the letter O in order to proceed... :D

Thats cute. Now put it in front of the public without the person on the other end following your demo script...

All of the sudden its shit.

My company has done this as well, and it works great for the guy who made it, who talks to it with knowledge of its capabilities and nuances... but then as soon as anyone with a slightly different choice of words comes along ... its fucked.

Wouldn't it be weird if we sent an astronaut to mars, and we discovered the whole planet was a low polygon sphere with poor quality textures.

"Uh oh, god hasn't set up the LOD settings propery."

You really think a market where you can perform an infinite amount of research before making a prediction is more gambling than buying a package that has a completely random chance of containing something of value??

Yeah that is quite different from sites where the majority of betting is on sporting, which no amount of research will turn it from a bet into an investment. Like, if its not primarily that sort of thing, then sure.

Btw I'm refering to Kalshi which has sports betting as 80% of its "volume". Polymarket is around 40%

I'm sure someone will create a "prediction market" where what you say is true, however this lawsuit isn't about these , its about Kalshi which is primarily (based on useage) a sports betting site, and Polymarket where sports betting is around half its useage.

It's part of the answer. The people destroying the cameras are helping to bring it into the mainstream media, so refusing to convict them means that more people will do it, and it will get more attention. Plus cities may decide it's not worth it to pay for cameras that only last two days, then pay to prosecute people that are impossible to convict.

Plus, a widespread campaign of jury nullification that's successful for this will send a message that we won't let them get away with stuff like this.

Biasing towards premium economy/business/first class might work out:
- The higher classes already subsidize lower cost economy seats, so having fewer of them might not actually raise prices on premium classes. If anything it might steal high-profit pax from other routes.
- This direct flight provides a time-saving, less-likely-to-miss-connection, less-likely-to-lose-baggage option for those willing to pay for a higher class
- The premium passengers would tend to gravitate towards this route, while economy might tend to gravitate towards shorter legs so they're not stuck in a middle seat so long

Because the judge is there to arbitrate the law, not their own personal suspicion of truth. The job of judging truth belongs to the Jury, not the judge.

And its a terrible arangement, because the truth is not democratic, and judges rarely like it, but its not a system they designed.

I've seen a judge in tears as she dismissed a rapist we all knew was guilty, but the prosecution hinged the case on the testimony on a 12 year old girl, Ricky Lee, who suicided mid trial rendering her testimony legally inelligible. She simply had no choice. The law was the law. (About 3 months later the case went back to trial, this time with DNA evidence, and the creep got a very long sentence with aggravated circumstances because his stepdaughter had died of his actions). Fucking tragic man, but the judge had no say in the matter.

Its a thankless job.I hated working those cases.

I will not write it, Sam-I-Am,
I will not offer colored ham!

How are these people not in prison?

Yeah. I worked in the courts for 3-4 years around '99-'03 and it was eye-opening how.... random... jury convictions really are. The judge I worked under estimated that around a third of those found guilty where probably innocent and a third found innocent probably did it, and that matched my gut feeling. You kind of get a feel for who gets convicted vs who is actually guilty. But none of that really stands up to scientific scrutiny, cos gut feelings..... What did seem clear is that what makes a difference is how well you scrub up in front of a jury and how expensive your lawyer is. Juries just have no experience or instinct for it.

You couldn't possibly want THAT to be the system that decides life and death, especially when the topic is something as emotionally charged as murder. Its enough to give one chills the thought that you end up on the wrong side of a vindictive cop or prosecutor, and that cop or prosecutor decides your going to die and fudges the evidence to put a rope around your neck, because thats probably a story thats as old as humans putting ropes around each others necks.

I dont think *anybody* should feel safe living in a world where your government is allowed to kill you. Its the literal opposite of free.

Though, to be fair - this really isn't an important announcement - its just an improvement developers will appreciate - and a few guys that truly understand hypervisors. The rest of us, at best will say ... 'cool ...'

While not entirely true in desktop land yet - increasingly, more and more things are containerized, then run inside virtualization ... this does matter to everyone, even if its not immediately apparent.

The thing is, in MOST well run countries, you can pressure the government all you like, it doesn't make one knob of goatshit difference to the courts who do NOT answer to the government. Even if the EU heads of states wanted to give trump what he wants, the EU courts are neither obliged, or even allowed, to take that into consideration.

Trump has no power over the matter, because the people he's trying to bully have no power over the situation either.

America was *never* classless. Its always been a heirachy of the powerful few controlling the powerless many.

And it will remain that way until people realise that actually they aren't powerless at all, when acting together.

As the old Anarchist saying goes, "Suppose they gave a War and nobody came?"