Exactly. No idea why people confuse this.

Not really. They all demand certain hooks that will give up your identity. For if they allowed truly anonymous behaviour I could visit twitter without an account. Try visiting and seeing content on Facebook or Twitter without an account. Reddit will allow it for the most part, but Instagram nags you. The others just say log in to see this content.

DUDE you nailed it! If social media really cared they would have done this already. But they realize it will lead to less clicks, less addictions.

How less addictions? Because kids will have to find other means to amuse themselves. You know like maybe going outside? Doing sports? Having a hobby? There have been quite a few studies that have indicated social media at such a young age is not good for the development of the mind. Once you are older it is less problematic.

No this is not a government issued license to allow you to speak. Children can continue to speak. They can continue to interact on the Internet. However... people drive at either 16 or 18. People are considered adults at 18. People can legally drink from 16 to 21 depending on the country. The list goes on there are plenty of restrictions and they make sense. Free speech is not absolute. Otherwise if you really believe it you would not be a paranoid anonymous coward. You would put your money where your mouth is.

Why are you classified as a troll? You asked the right question. When I read the headline;

"Adjusting for this bias revealed that the summer of 2023 was about 2.3 C above pre-industrial temperatures from this period. "

I read BS. Let me explain it this way. Imagine you do statistical sampling. It relies on the fact that data follows a Gaussian curve. The problem is that if your data is incomplete, LIKE SAID IN THE ARTICLE, then you can't do statistical adjustment. Of course it has not stopped the statisticians making things up, but it still does not make it right.

What makes this bias adjustment worse is that we are considered to have a completely out of whack value. Since we are not following the gaussian curve since we are out of whack it means the data is useless.

UNLESS and here is where it bugs me to no end, we want to make the assertion that climate change is out of control and a statistical outlier. Guess which one folks are following. Yeah... This is why I am skeptical, and why it surprises me that you are marked as a troll.

But here is the problem even as a first pass it is bad as a first pass. Let's do a first pass and I get somebody who has rigged the paper to pass through the system. If we see a B or even an A and assume the system assignment is correct then we have a false negative. Thus if this happens often enough what then? How can you trust a system that has that? You have to read each and every one of the papers, which puts us right back in square one.

It is very much a monopoly issue. Think of it as follows. You have a company that controls the platform. Then they create a media platform where Apple is a preferred media player. After all trying to get Apple TV working well on non Apple devices is a non-starter. It is kinda there, but it is really is just there for show. Now with one of these shows they create is something that could be considered as comedy journalism.

Thus comes the question are they allowed to use their platform which dominates as a censor? The natural answer seems to be yes they can do what they want. HOWEVER they have a monopoly and thus the rules change. Thus the question from the government is, what were the conditions of this cancellation? Maybe it is abusive power, maybe not, but you don't know until you ask questions.

I am asking this seriously, where can retail get batteries this cheap? I want to build an electrical boat and need a lead on this. Thank-you

This is not a break through whatsoever and sounds more like propaganda than helpful information. The problem with Teslas is that they are not repairable and hence written off sooner than other cars. Meaning the insurance costs will be higher. In other words Tesla cheaps out so that the client can shoulder the costs.

https://www.caranddriver.com/n...

As somebody who has done AI for a very long time this is scary and not being paranoid. Let me explain, and I will use a programming example.

Imagine I am writing code, and there is some AI that follows me. I write a loop, and some conditions, and the AI learns about those loops and conditions. Then the AI in some other context creates a loop and a condition, but entirely different, is it copying me?

The simplistic argument is no it is not. I argue yes it is because of a major difference in how we and AI learn. Even though that new loop and condition can be written by myself I don't actually copy, even if it is similar or copy and pasted. I learned how to program using the basic steps of the programming language. Meaning I learned what loops are, I learned what conditions are. I learned how to apply each of them. The AI on the other hand only learned my end result. Meaning if I was to tell the AI that a loop is a condition and vice versa then the AI would follow that, even though I would not be fooled.

And therein lies the problem, the AI is not learning, it is a grand scheme copying machine hidden in supposedly learning abilities. And yes that is wrong and infringes on copyright.

In the context of the artist it is extremely scary because the end result is the only thing the AI learns. It does not understand how to apply strokes, it just sees a stroke and copies it. Meaning if somebody did X technique of doing a stroke, then the AI will copy it and use it for something else.

So who was surprised by this? Apple is in the Ballmer years where innovation and design don't matter. Cook is a number cruncher and has zero vision ability. Not saying it is a bad thing. It is a bad thing when you are CEO of the company. Cook needs to take a hands off attitude and begin to take a risk. Steve Jobs was quite ruthless in that if the design cannibalized the existing products and is a better design so be it. Cook is not able to do that and that is why Apple is not getting anywhere anymore.

This is where I like to call BS. Right now there is less wear and tear. Just like when the Model T came out there was not much wear and tear as well. However, as time progresses there will be more wear and tear because of the way that we will be using the vehicle. And there will be more wear and tear on the vehicle because more efficient and cheaper parts will be used. That is only natural.

Today cars are nearly indestructible, if they build it to be... Otherwise it is there to make money.

https://topgear.fandom.com/wik...

Are you fracken kidding me?

This is simple to understand... It is why people like chips, sundaes and things that are bad for us. We like it because it rubs us the right way. There is no deep meaning, or some bigger than life understanding. It is simple enjoyment in its simplest form. Critics don't like that because it would mean that they can't dissect the plot, or give some in depth meaning to things. Not surprising.

No idea why you are rated down, or zero. IMO your comment while snarky is very insightful. I would agree with you entirely.