He acted so mad that I still think it's a reaction of somebody deeply betrayed. He too was an anonymous source for that reporter! They foster anonymous outlets so they can leak shit about enemies to harm them thru a trusted reporter. Idiot Hegseth thought the reporter was HIS personal leaker who was loyal to him and wouldn't do anything to harm him simply because their job's ethics keeps sources secret - he is too simple to realize it's just reporter's job and a good one isn't about personal loyalty or whatever Hegseth values. Mr. Weak Brain is insecure and probably FEARS the reporter will reveal his past leaks and is way is to puff up and look tough to scare the reporter into maintaining their professionalism; as well as make an example to future reporters he deals with. That is why he went so over the top into revenge... petty to the extreme like a wimp. over compensating. probably also a tiny "man" as well.

This is not unusual and is commonplace among Trumpists, he had the most leaky staff 1st term maybe worst ever. The management style as many described it, mirrors that of successful mobsters-- He gets everybody infighting to prove their loyalty to him; he encourages it by telling people what others said to him about them! This is fairly well documented from his company thru his 1st term. It works for organized crime well because then they are too busy playing game-of-thrones to try to replace the boss -- who also appears to be the only person everybody is loyal to. It works for a narcissist extremely well who will copy the tactic for completely non strategic reasons.

Why can't we just offer free penile enlargement? It would fix many of the bullies... also legalizing prostitution would help as well; remove some of the shame of that and you've fixed so many problems. Sure many of those women are mental cases; but some are not. It's not like we do anything to help with mental illness in the 1st place. Sure you'd THINK being married would help them-- but the damage was done and not cured later; so it continues. They need therapy; but you can't force that.

Ireland especially has little to export and tourism is a big part of their economy. They export culture which pays back and drives tourism and the positive kind of immigration. Other countries do similar.

The Arts is broad. It's what reflects and defines culture. People DIE for their way of life and tribalism so it's actually important stuff. Without it, everybody / everyplace is the same but different language.

That's life... engineers solve all our real-world problems, MBAs enshitify everything, marketing placates us, and orange men rape us (metaphorically in most cases.)

It doesn't know what it is doing. It's an evolved spam filter. It knows the odds of what you want but how to connect those is also stats... but no context for those decisions other than more stats from training data... and the further you move down the decision/connection tree the more the predictions get off context... the more you specify in a way that helps the search the closer it gets in navigating that path. Eventually, since knowledge is finite, you'll have paths that lack much data to predict and the choices become more like random guessing. it can end up down a rut... or localized minima, which is part of the hallucination problem. all search results are presented as confident answers. but even a certainty level is going to be tricky to calculate but they won't want to indicate that honestly since it's got to be lower than our expectations.

YES! However, a personal phone book which is something people also had and still do. This meta data connects a list of people to you and shows your network of contacts. Perhaps > 3 people in your list were arrested for opposing Trumpism so now you are flagged as a risk. Perhaps you never vote again having to be stuck proving citizenship and voting provisionally (placated ballot nobody counts.) Oh but your friends only use OpenAI so none of this info is going to harm you.... until the CEO decides to sell or hand that info over.

OpenAI has no business model. they need more money than anybody has ever made in 10 years just to meet expectations. Facebook tries to be AOL 2.0 and replace the internet and it almost succeeded by being a social network and by exploiting your contacts. Seems logical for their goal of having their AI in the middle of everything people do online and a way to make that much money. AOL 3.0. Besides, Facebook is trying to leverage it's power to use AI to stay relevant and become essential to more people... plus they have to grow large over anything else regardless of the harm.

Durable starters must be used; a conventional old one would die out quickly and be a huge problem. my brother is a mechanic. the new ones are better lasting. As far as hard-- no; not really. the engine is still hot - it doesn't need the effort or gas that cord start requires. The battery is quite strong for short loads like this as long as it gets enough charge back.

I find it funny that people think fewer explosions and revolutions would wear it out faster.

I started noticing cars at intersections and around me were dying and then starting up again and figured somebody got smart until I noticed how fast and common it became. The reason I noticed is because I had a cheap EV and could hear everything around me while my old ICE car either dampened the outside sound or drowned it out from it's engine.

If you plan to accelerate quickly as possible then the feature is going to bother you. If you pause and make sure nothing is going wrong (like somebody going thru red...or senile) then it is not an issue. I wish the EVs could get software updates to limit the normal takeoff acceleration by law-- so then companies are not competing for a "fun takeoff". My aunt's gutless ford crapbox is geared to accelerate quickly for the 1st gear and then is an economy car after 10mph. Just enough to increase accident risk; plus I'm sure the tire makers love it! Tire companies love EV because people wear out tires faster in them.

Fact is the USA industry was being killed long ago; they lobbied and won tariffs on foreign TRUCKS. This is why they migrated to trucks; and this new thing called SUV which were classified as trucks but really are cars and minivans which would break if they actually drove them off road. They made more money on these so they protected and promoted that market. Today's luxury trucks weren't a thing, now most the trucks are with some being more like a sports car for even more insecure men... the SUV marketed fear to women and got them to join their insecure men away from those foreign minivans. I know some men who actually need a truck; some have commercial vans instead.

INSTEAD of using bribed time to catch up and compete; they doubled down on stupid. So now they are way behind the world and desperately needed that 100% tariff Biden gave them to save their ass. for a just little longer.

You are paying $$$ over time. I bet you think your smartphone was free from the cell company...

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
Galbraith; 1963

China has already been making deals with Mexico. The USA has self isolated.

Selfish Americans... bitching that everything new has to be better in every way. Wait an hour every 200 miles is a small price to pay for a better future for the planet. No, they don't care even if it impacts them a bit even in 10 years. Many can't grasp the idea of paying upfront for a solar roof that takes under 15 years to payback; even if it's then free for the rest of their life. I'm beginning to think that stuff about apes not being able to plan long term being one of the few evolved human traits might be overstated...

The imbeciles will even use 1 or 2 trips per year to rationalize an excuse... hours of wasted time on a rare trip ... a trip likely to result in many many more hours of wasted time! Like those who speed home everyday putting everybody else at risk with their risky driving just to save 8 minutes of time which they waste in TV commercials in the 1st half hour show. Not to mention the added gas and wear on the car used to speed; which is not trivial. Those minutes of life don't actually matter that much; otherwise, life would be lived in a completely different way...

Money wise, an EV makes sense for almost everybody for decades... rent something if you need long trips, use mass transit, you have the savings to pay for it. Morally, it is/was a no brainer that surprisingly the major religions who make us masters/stewards of earth, fail to teach anything about... god gave us this creation to shit all over and god will clean up the cage for us (but never even has proven to do so...where does it say he will??)

The holocaust holds them back from doing what they really would like to do; it is heavily exploited by them as a rhetorical weapon that also imposes constraint. When they win enough of the war on reason, hypocrisy will become the virtue it already has for the GOP of America.

Aside from being clearly illegal internet gambling and an affront to the law; this is a good place to lure the corrupt into a trap. You just have to actually remove the corrupt people for it do any good.
"Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good."
-Franklin

Autocompletes are counted as it writing it!
It completes 1 letter of the word, it gets counted as typing that word for you.

Think how high your stats would be on your phone for how much the phone's autocomplete and word suggestion "wrote for you."

If you use AI coding and everything you type gets replaced search suggestions and your corrections are also completed then it can be 100% even if you actually wrote most of it; it's how you count it and they are counting this stuff at extremes.