Funny how almost all the vile fascist pigs on this site are anonymous cowards. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.

I like you "parts car" metaphor, but I prefer this one: When a whale dies it sinks to the ocean floor and creates a massive feeding opportunity, called a "whale fall." The collapse of the Soviet Union created the biggest whale-fall in the 20th Century. Putin and treasonous American oligarchs, along with the Republicans, are trying to repeat it with the USA.

LHS 1140b has 5x the mass, but only about 2.4x the surface gravity (since the surface is further away from the center of the planet's mass). Which is still enough to make life difficult for large animals, of course.

But even if the gravity was 5g, you could get a lot bigger than bacteria. Regular mice from Earth can survive in 7G environments for months at a time. Bacteria apparently can survive hundreds of thousands of Gs.

"Whomever wrote?" You don't speak English very well. Google it. LOLOLOLLLL

Fair point, I should have specified "the professors and the administrators" need to do their jobs, not just the professors.

I also get it that colleges "need customers", but... two of the universities mentioned in TFA are Brown and Princeton. Both Ivy League, both top-10 in the US, both with applicant acceptance rates of 5% or less. These universities are NOT going to run out of potential students if they start cracking down and enforcing standards. In fact, if they start cracking down and if they're very public about the crackdown, this will help their reputation immensely, and will make them more attractive to prospective students (at least the ones who don't plan to cheat).

Long before LLMs, students would find ways to cheat on assignments-- either by hiring someone to write their papers for them, or by simple plagiarism. The penalty, if you were caught, was that you flunked the course with no appeal. The penalty for repeat offenders was that you got expelled.

The only difference here is that these students aren't getting appropriately penalized. These professors need to grow a pair and do their jobs, instead of rambling on thoughtfully about "best practices".

It did become "dated" faster than any of us would have expected, reading it back in the 1980s. But "dated" doesn't mean that it's bad or that it has aged poorly. It's still one of the greatest opening lines of any novel. The reason you can tell that it's a great opening line is that you were able to recall it word for word. You probably didn't even need to look it up to remember the exact quote.

I can't believe I used all of my moderation points before I could upvote this.

Pretty sure data centers producing 99% porn (etc) AI slop bullshit for dummies affect the real world. Glad you're able to be productive with it, though.

Literally all of them. Technology is always a double-edged sword. If you want a specific example: the exploitation of fossil fuels. Does amazing things! Pollutes the ocean! Pollutes the air! Pollutes groundwater! Helps despots! Mutates the climate! (Even if you claim not to believe the last one, you can't argue the rest.)

I've always wanted the "pitch meeting" guy to do one on this topic. "So, you have a constitution for me?" "Yes sir, I do!"

Information wants to be free...and wrong!

Also, $70K is the median *household* income. The median individual income in Omaha is $41.6K. As gtall said, factor in taxes, healthcare, rent etc... then factor an extra $500-$1000 to register and title your new car, another $1000 annually for vehicle maintenance (except it'll be more than that because for $20K you're buying a used car), and factor in whatever you're spending on gas...

incel says what?

At huge cost. https://www.chooseenergy.com/n...