Correct. And while we are at it, there is no such thing as a "Donald trump and john f kenedy center for performing arts". As that institution can only be renamed by congress.

But it sure as fuck ainy stopping them from cosplaying it/

I doubt Karl Marx ever envisioned that come the revolution, the agents of revolutionary terror that upend the old order and drag the billionares to the wall would be Gamers infuriated that the tech bros AI fantasies deprived them of their new gaming consoles.

"Gamers of the world, you have nothing to lose except your potato pc and possibly your virginity".

Yeah thats my observation.

Give it a react web interface, or maybe a wordpress template, and it'll do fantastically. Its eaten every website on the planet, it knows what that looks like.

Ask it to optimize a lockless high throughput low latency kafka pipeline that needs to maintain an optimal memory pressure across all core counts, without race conditions or i/o contention, and its going to shit the bed and not know where to start. Actually, so will the first year uni graduate. But at least he can *learn*.

Just so we're clear, no matter how many times you guys try and twist the graphs, or come up with half baked theories about why physics wont work in the sky so theres nothing to worry about, physics will still refuse to comply with libertarian ideology.

We've known about global warming for 150 years now, the evidence continues to stack up. chanting political talismans at it wont change that.

Yeah this is fucked up. If some bot starts posting as one of my dead friends (you start accumulating them as you get older, alas) honestly, I'm gonna lose my shit.

Resrurect me as a bot, and I swear I'll come back as a ghost and start haunting shitty tech bros.

The thing with Word press plugins, is that if Posix taught us anything its that APIs can be copied;. It'd take a team of 2-3 guys to implement most of that API in drupal or whatever.

But lets do one better. I'd like to see this as an opportunity to finally rid the world of computers of fucking PHP.

Do some statistical analysis and figure out what are the plugins everyone uses, write a new *better* CMS in python or javascript, add those popular funcrtions in for free and let wordpress finally die.

But Covid has not run its course.

It might have , but a combination of unhygenic antivaxers and absolutely trash advice from politically motivated governments meant that a large number of people havent kept up their boosters and here we are.

so did blindly forcing people into taking untested drugs.

When?

The Covid vaccines where some of the most extensively tested drugs in medical history (30-40K stage 3 trials is almost unprecedented), hence why they turned out so safe.

Or are we refering to something else here?

Yeah I am super wary about this sort of thing. I still feel burnt after a decade ago going on a phone plan that offered free phone upgrades after a year. Instead they cancelled the plan a month before the year, and sent me a $500 bill to cover the rest of the phone. Not what I agreed to, and I took the telco to the small claims court and got a full refund of the plan instead. (The competition regulator (here in australia) ended up fining the telco over it, apparently they where doing this to everyone)

You assert: "EVs are heavier and generate a lot lot lot more tire particulate". If the cause of extra tyre wear, and therefore particulates, is the weight of the car, then excess tyre wear is unavoidable according to your theory.

The way I see it, a single case can disprove your theory. You're asserting that "all swans are white" equivalent scenario. Finding a single black swan disproves your theory.

So in that spirit, my EV has significantly less tyre wear than all of my previous ICE cars (performance cars, family cars, and everything in between). I drive on Michelin Pilot Sport 4, considered an Ultra-High Performance tyre. Generally considered to get around 20k miles. I replaced my first set of tyres at exactly 35k miles, and only because I got a bolt through one of them. My second set have about 50% wear on them at 27k miles. I drive my EV like I drove all my previous cars

Yes, my single anecdote disproves your theory. So I'm going to call you full of shit on this front, Anonymous Coward.

You're not wrong about walkable cities and public transportation, though.

Get to my age and tell me how that "500km brah, you need to lift more" nonsense attitude is working for you.

Entropy stops for no man.

The safer approach would simply be to say, "You want that coin back? We gonna fight about it in court. Unless you figure out how to make this go away". Because theres a good chance a judge would say "This guy didnt do a fraud, you gave him those coins all by yourself". He might also say you have to give it back. Lawyers hate that sort of uncertainty, so its highly likely a settlement would be on the table.

Yeah as an australian, none of my friends over there where on any sort of dodgy visa, all have legit visas, and all of them have been planning to return because they dont feel safe anymore.

These are whitebread high income postgrad dudes from about the most america-friendly country on the planet. God knows whats going on for folks that look like the kind of people ICE have been targetting.

This is going to bite hard for the US eventually. You dont just chase off a large section of your tax base and not expect some sort of problems down the track.

Nah, its ruining chess too. Sites like chess.com its getting harder and harder to find a decent game where your playing a similar ranked human and not getting your shit kicked in by some cheater using stockfish.

So it's exactly like the great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020. Ahh, good times.

As an advanced civilization, we sure suck at logistics...