Ryanair relishes their image as a cartoon villain cheap airline. Surely the EU should be stepping up to reign them in a little. Otherwise, what do we pay them for?

but there's prior art - dating to 1812 - for "automatic"

Some do, but that's a rampant oversimplification that elides such realities as the Netherlands abruptly changing its "free college if you finish" program into "very good loan terms for college financing"

When I lived in the Netherlands it was light out at 4:30AM and dark after 11PM in summer. With DST eliminated that would be light at 3:30AM and dark after 10PM. Do tell me more about the normal sleep pattern of someone who has to suffer light from 3:30AM.

The biannual ragebait story push about DST. I don't know a single person who likes endless dark in winter, but by God these comment sections always drag out a few who think that changing a number on a clock somehow causes your heart to explode.

ALL this shit coming from these AI grifters is narrative-shaping trying to pump up their valuation by advancing the narrative that the current and/or anticipated near-future models represent an inflection point exceeding a linear relationship with the number of GPUs thrown at them. Bad press the same as good press: anything from them that says AI could be a real risk is pushing the idea that there's a "there" there.

Don't get sucked in.

Book prices in Denmark are about to not change in the slightest, but publisher revenues will increase by 25%

hyperinflation has created more millionaires than any other economic scheme

I'm self-censoring every thought I have on this one so I don't end up on a(nother) list

Datacenters everywhere do this. Equinix AM3 heats the Science Park, and the bank datacenter I supervised in Switzerland heated the surrounding bank offices and some of the adjacent residential neighborhood. I guess these Italians just wanted some free PR.

You can send your kid to a university in Ireland or the UK and pay full foreign rate tuition and accommodation and it'll be a hell of a lot less than $250k in the end. Why don't you do that?

Sweet update, guys. How can I disable it?

"Mmmm I love the taste of boot, yum yum"

This is the sort of person who would just follow orders

ChatGPT is perfect to keep the irritating extraverts who need to constantly talk occupied while the introverts get some bloody work done

If you think that's bad, there's currently an Indian company called Pebble that makes smartwatches, wholly unrelated to the Pebbles we're thinking of.