Comment Well ... (Score 1) 102
... we now literally have "fake news", lol
"I'm going to pretend that I'm interviewing somebody, but I'm really interviewing some AI avatar
Comment Re:Dictatorships always have grandiose projects (Score 0, Troll) 160
Hitler's was Germania. Trump's is a nuclear moon base.
And of course, on top of that, the orange utan needs all the distractions he can throw at his idiot MAGA base to make them forget the Epstein file.
Are you
Comment lol (Score 2) 160
Geek enthusiasm struggles against Trump hate, like a 60's sci fi robot caught in a contradiction
Comment Re:"modified them to make free calls" (Score 1) 55
But it's not generally true that providing anything for free will bring harm to a person.
But
Comment Hmm (Score 1) 51
The world is in a "plastics crisis," it concluded, which is causing disease and death from infancy to old age
Yes, I hate how many times I died as a toddler and in my twenties. Was very inconvenient!
Comment Good (Score 1, Troll) 43
We need more nuclear everywhere.
Comment Why ... (Score 2) 40
... would you ask large language models for weather advisories?
Comment Re:So, about 1 grocery banana display (Score 2, Funny) 75
If the wasp nest is about 10x10cm, that would be 100,000 disintegrations/minute = 45 nanocuries, or about the same as 100 bananas (~0.5 nanocuries/banana). Which is about what was on the shelf at my grocery store when I bought bananas yesterday.
But
Comment Er ... (Score 1) 82
... why would I need an iPhone for any of that? You do know about the existence of other smartphones, right?
Comment it might be helpful ... (Score 1, Insightful) 159
... to stop using "science" as a totem and political club. That doesn't exactly build trust.
Comment It *is* social media ... (Score 3, Insightful) 125
... or at any rate, a platform for such.
Trying to ban it or whatever seems pretty useless, but it's silly to deny that it functions as social media.
I mean it's literally in the name, "You" post videos, others watch them, comment on them, react to them, share them, etc.
No, you don't have to use it that way, but you can, and it's built into every corner of the service.
Comment Re:I'd love an engine ... (Score 1) 24
I have, which is why I would enjoy seeing them dramatized.
Comment I'd love an engine ... (Score 3, Interesting) 24
... that could whip up a miniseries based on some public domain books.
Comment Re:Um, what? (Score 1) 81
"because it 'cannot be governed globally in a fair, inclusive, and effective manner.'"
"inclusive"? Would the clouds somehow let different amounts of sun in for different races?
You know that word means more than your chosen narrow interpretation - right?
Right
(And you know, there is treatment available for humor impairment now. Seek it
Comment Um, what? (Score -1, Troll) 81
"because it 'cannot be governed globally in a fair, inclusive, and effective manner.'"
"inclusive"? Would the clouds somehow let different amounts of sun in for different races?
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