I don't know... I've been wanting to try lab grown meat; it's not like it would be cannibalism, he's not human.

His choice. His right to change his mind for like a billion $$$. What nerve; you are entitled to his work? Did he PROMISE or just openly express a passing feeling? Sign a contract? Make a conditional deal with supporters? Falsely advertise? Maybe, I don't know.

It's just a stupid game. It's not like you built infrastructure around him and made that decision on his word that he'd open source it later.

Paper trails! You audit later and nail people afterwards; when you put up protective BS then people bitch about red tape etc. In emergencies, you get lax but keep receipts. Even when well run, this is how it's done.

Unlike many other states, MN has an ELECTED state auditor!
Here in MN, we investigated fraud and found plenty of exploiters. The top one in the recent scandal being a white lady...already jailed. Other states quite likely had just as much fraud but they weren't taking receipts or auditing and once something was found they probably didn't expand and look broadly over other areas. We have an independent auditor office. The funny part is that a non-citizen can just ask ICE to be deported and completely skip the jail sentence! Already has happened! No jail time back home; hell, do it fast enough and no trial at all! Also, a lot of propaganda and hate is being thrown at MN by MAGA - and fraud is especially ironic coming from the most corrupt federal government in history. Who purposely waged a war on us for the last month and fraudulently misrepresented just about everything they said! Even with clear video evidence worldwide. WTF would you believe anything they say again? 9 billion my ass!

As far as warnings of loopholes ripe for abuse, those were warned about in advance; but often those warnings are non-stop and never realistically addressable (sometimes these non-profit policing orgs are fronts for serious corruption.) The auditor's office uncovers and warns about many issues all the time; not many listen without force -- but the big part of their job is to find fraud and waste or at least create EVIDENCE TRAILS so all the crooks get caught (and they are!) If there is a scandal of fraud and waste, the system is working. If you are not hearing anything you should worry because evil fucks are constantly trying to rob the government.

I've been in the weeds on some past problems in MN, and the "cure" was a costly erection of BS adding even more opportunity for waste than the problem it was solving. Furthermore some big losses are like 20% while a fully private alternative comes with a 30% profit margin that is viewed as a good thing; 30% would send many involved to jail if inside government. Most the big problems are 3rd party "partnerships" and almost never are these thefts fully government run programs. The more contractors, the more risk and even when honestly done, the profit margins are a lot of overhead cost above internal cost. They will also operate at a good price for some years and then jack up prices and cut corners later ending up with the contract cost exceeding the net savings. A business scam can run over 10 year spans and politicians think short term. At least with government problems people get jailed, caught or throw out of office. With contractors, many get away and even when contracts are ended, they can re-incorporate or just bribe their way back in after a while. Their profits can throw a % back towards increasing or maintaining corruption! This public/private partnership BS is a con job for fools.

Trump's magnet idiocy; I finally figured it out: He's just had a moronic attention span when somebody explained the geopolitical magnet problem to him. Rare earth magnets are chemically "ruined" by water in their chemistry which is extremely costly to crack and refine into the chemistry needed for working magnets. If you can describe the process of expensive refining of difficult minerals using sex (even better, with children) THEN Trump would have payed better attention. He describes it confidently like an MBA because he does get the general idea but the details completely wrong - which don't matter and he doesn't need to understand to make a policy decision.

Have you "helped" management make the right decision before? It can backfire when they go off track because they lack understanding they don't think they need and you sound like a contradiction when you try to correct their ignorant conclusions based upon misunderstanding you were involved in creating.

China has a monopoly and they leveraged that to beat Trump's "deal making" every time so he views it as "national security" since it's his blocking his bullying ("deal making.") Not being smart, if his people figure out the magnet monopoly problem; which is far more about refinement than mining minerals - he may not realize this but greenland has cheap heat/power and a barren land ripe for toxic waste with few people who are also not-white, without the magnet "trump card" (pun intended) China will just pick another simple issue to beat back Trump. Brilliant negotiation tacticians, China will find a simple pressure point again to put Trump on his face again. They also don't have this western Christian mentality of turning the other cheek; they hit back, neither does the orange antichrist, but the EU struggles to deal with him because they do.

Since they seem to be planning a 2027 invasion of Taiwan (+massive young male unemployment,) controlling the computer manufacturing industry would do far more than magnets⦠Now, if we were actual allies of Ukraine, we'd be mastering their skills and helping Taiwan copy them (who should be much better at the tech side of it.)

Poor speech writers have nothing serious to do since he mangles most their work they may as well write more fiction...
The guy can't read a speech unless forced which is obvious since he reads the prompter like a moron.

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