or international skeptic forum. Argued to death with quite a few bigfoot believer ( all of them pretending they had proof that the filmed creature had a gait which could not be reproduced by human). That should be the nail in the coffin, but as we saw even with the Shroud, believer will continue to make all sort of excuses to continue believing.

Even Texas has something like a 85% Urban population, and commute is in average commute nationwide is 27m (but there are wild variation depending on state (stealing from reddit :https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/191n6gq/oc_average_commute_time_to_work_across_the_usa/). The only really valid issue is resale value, battery price, and the difficulty to stop EV fire. That said I , like you I think, would rather buy an EV and see the advantage in the EV camp.

No frankly, I keep saying people this is not a solution , citing a (IMO minor) negative effect. I am sorry, then what IS your solution ? Mass starvation ? Another modest proposal of eating the children ? If job are being replaced on a massive scale, then the government, responsible for the well being of those citizen OVER the well being of corps, will have to implement *something*. What do you suggest ? Ask people to dig hole in one shift and then the next alternating shift can fill it in, and vice versa ? If the government cannot implement UBI then *something* has to give in : either people mass dying, or another alternative to keep people alive. And if people don't have job because everybody replaceable by any type of AI and robot has been replaced, *who* has the money to buy anything whatsoever ?

In case AI and robot replace massively many job, UBI might not be the best solution, but so far I haven't seen anybody whatsoever propose a viable or morally acceptable alternative solution.

https://archive.is/uyPhk

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Anthropic is prepared to loosen its current terms of use, but wants to ensure its tools aren't used to spy on Americans en masse, or to develop weapons that fire with no human involvement.

The Pentagon claims that's unduly restrictive, and that there are all sorts of gray areas that would make it unworkable to operate on such terms. Pentagon officials are insisting in negotiations with Anthropic and three other big AI labs â" OpenAI, Google and xAI â" that the military be able to use their tools for "all lawful purposes."

https://livingwage.mit.edu/met...

Typical annual salary, according to MIT's Living Wage Calculator for the NYC Metro, is $84,860.

Poverty wage is $7.52/hr (no kids) and minimum wage is $15.50 which, according to the calculator, should cover 1 adult with 3 kids.

The Brearley School, regarded as the best private school for girls in the nation and charging around $70K, is a non-profit.

What shareholders?

What AI for picture is a very complicated warping/stitching, but not inspiration. Inspiration you can get something nobody ever did before. See all the painting types for example, surrealism, cubism, etc... If you take all realistic/romantic painting of all the years until 1800 and feed an AI, you can let it run until the heat death of the universe , you will never get any cubist painting. It cannot make new stuff, it can only do a very complicated copy paste.

But that is not the case. The governments, in many countries, has for decades manipulated and planned society in a way that WE the person in the mirror can do nothing against. For example the over reliance on car infrastructure in the US. Many of us are simply hostage of the system and have no ways except maybe once every 4 years vote for somebody which will anyway not change that policy, as none of the party want to change it.

The real culprit are not in the mirror. They are linked the one warping the policies, the fossil fuel industry, and the politician which *all* let that happily happens.

I typoed on highway speed in Texas

https://www.reddit.com/r/texas...
Texas is about the same size of France maybe about 30% more due to geometry. It does not takes multiple days to drive through France if you drive through the express ways, unless you use exclusively the very small roads. Texas in width and height is roughly 800 miles, Highway in Texas are 95 mph , so if you manage to only use highway Texas traveling is not DAYS, but rather half a day.

Just never , ever pay attention to the brand. it is easy. Concentrate on the ingredients list, and for similar acceptable list, take the cheapest. If the quality is not good enough, try the middle brand. If it is still not good enough, try another shop or something altogether different. I never buy expansive brand, and yes I have tons of adblocker. Beside the *one* I can't skip (a few big ass paper ads in the street) I haven't seen any advertising whatsoever in 25 years.

I read 128 books last years (so says kindle statistics). I never considered that a virtue , but more like *MY* vice.

For Aldi, which uses Instacart, I assumed it was because there is no 'fee' for pickup, but they have to pay someone to shop for you. I consider the difference a convenience fee.

That said, by not shopping in store, I end up getting only what is on my list and end up paying FAR LESS than I would if I was wandering around.

I found GP2.5 to be great at academic-style research and writing; it was absolutely awful at writing code. So; I would tell it to plan some thing for me and write it in a way that could be used by another agent (Claude Code) to build the code to do the thing. In this way, it has been great! I haven't yet attempted it with 3.

That said, I found GP3.0's page to be hilarious:

It demonstrates PhD-level reasoning with top scores on Humanityâ(TM)s Last Exam (37.5% without the usage of any tools) and GPQA Diamond (91.9%). It also sets a new standard for frontier models in mathematics, achieving a new state-of-the-art of 23.4% on MathArena Apex.

It then proceeds to show, lower down on the page, an example of what it can do, by showing off 'Our Family Recipes". If there's anything that touts PhD-level reasoning and writing, it's a recipe book.

It is quite clear to everybody it is a bubble and a lot of the AI stuff is sand-castle based or vapor based... At least those of us understanding what the current crop of AI does, and see the amounts of money being exchanged.

The issue is not seeing the bubble, the issue is that most of us (having zero investment and not much savings) have zero idea how to avoid the big crash. I see no way to avoid the crash. Best we can hope is cross finder whether we will lose our job or not.