Also, nuclear plant produces power, AI datacenter consumes it. Nuke plants won't make their power cheaper, but they also won't make it unavailable .

Yeah this. I use teams all the time and I'm not happy about it but it mostly works and it has a lot of features. Meanwhile zoom is highly likely to not work. Last time I tried to use it, both video and audio tested good, then NEITHER worked and I could only chat during the "call".

People who lived in a big county could have to pay fees to call people in the same county! They were called "local toll" calls. Telcos have always been parasites.

Tesla shuts off before crashes
https://electrek.co/2025/03/17...

Tesla can't detect things even the most primitive AEB systems will stop for
https://www.theswansonlawgroup...

Idiots who Elon wouldn't piss on if they were on fire suck billionaire dick
https://slashdot.org/comments....

But Xi still wants some samples of the American products to know where the Chinese products are in relative terms. The better to set higher targets.

Still wondering what sort of trap he'll spring on the YOB. The tricky part is that Xi can't pull too hard on the buffoon's strings or everyone will notice. Has to let the YOB think it's really his latest brilliant idea. Even though Xi has been rehearsing with the YOB's GAIvatar for weeks already...

Rather disappointing this juicy story didn't get any Funny.

Closest to the joke I was looking for?

But maybe they will now use LinkedIn to find much better opportunities? Unless they prefer to spend more time with their families?

I think it's mostly the winners'-side bias of lucky rich people for "righteous indignation". Also common affliction among religious fanatics. But they aren't morally right. Just lucky or fanatical or both.

Sandel's position is somewhat different. Been a while since I've read the book, but as recall it he said that admissions should involve two phases. The screening stage would eliminate the least qualified candidates, basically the people who are not going to be able to do classwork. I don't think he gave any numbers but he estimated that the percentage wasn't that large. Most of the applications are based in reality and therefore most of the applicants have a pretty good idea about their own capabilities. The lottery would start with the pool of qualified applicants.

It got more complicated when he started dealing with other aspects of admissions policy, especially the degree to which a university wants future graduates to have different demographic characteristics than previous graduates. I remember one idea was to give some categories extra tickets in the lottery to tilt the odds in favor of desired changes. Not to deny admissions to any specific person, but to sometimes give more chances to other kinds of people.

(He covered some of the same material in a later book. Which reminds me that it's probably time for me to check what else he's written lately. I've read a number of his books and found all of them interesting.)

Notice the triple of moderation abuse? Me neither, but someone should?

Oh look, you're morally bankrupt and stupid. Already knew that, though.

Oh, THAT is the specific kind of creeper dipshit you are. I wondered. I do not want or need Jesus to save me from what Jesus is going to do to me (send me to hell) if I don't love him. Your god is the most pathetic abusive substitute for an abusive spouse ever imagined by sad little men.

Not pulling people over for safety violations costs lives.

It's his sister's fault she didn't preserve the key.

It's Mickeysoft's fault they locked the computer for no reason. Locking a normal user's desktop computer (i.e. not one with additional security-related group policy) just because they weren't using it is both user-hostile and pathetic. It gives off strong "Notice me senpai" energy.

There are no heroes in this story, but that goes triple for Microsoft's user-hostile defaults.

Insurance doesn't cover not getting to work. It might help pay for a rental car, but my insurance rental car amount won't completely cover even an econobox, even though I have an employee discount for car rental (my employer has a deal with one of the rental companies.) And even then I still have to wait for a rental car to show up.

Anyone transporting a bunch of important data should a) have another copy and b) encrypt it. Does that excuse stealing it? No, but someone not actually trying to steal your data should only be responsible for stealing your HDDs, as intent matters. The value of the data should be irrelevant unless someone intentionally broke in and deleted your only copy. If not having your data leaked is important, you should be encrypting that data.