Most people want things to just work, and then they delude themselves into thinking they do even when they do not.

If I had a dollar for every person who I've seen join a 3d printing group and ask how they can print more than the models shipped on the machine, I could buy another printer. It's a desktop-sized industrial robot, not a games console.

"more like in the "they didn't had a good or coherent artstyle" kind of way."

So like a normal, napkin script movie?

Getting a coherent style good or bad from AI requires training, which is a lot harder than just prompting. Since AI isn't actually working from pictures, just statistical analyses of them, it has a really hard time giving consistency. A real art department making a real film has a body of concept art, samples, and other resources to draw from and compare to, and brains to do it with.

What good is emergency speed capping when the tower loses power? When we had our last earthquake the local cell site went down after a few hours and they never bothered to bring in a generator, I had no phone for almost three days.

Yes, they do, in fact typically every FD has their own for example and then there's one for each county as well, but what's the relevance of that to this?

Spoken like a city dweller with no health issues. Maybe when you get older you'll realize that your situation isn't the same as everyone else's.

Apparently you live in a big city, and not in the country (which describes most of California, despite persistent misconceptions) because in my area, POTS service is absolutely necessary for a large percentage of the population, and in particular a big share of those on fixed incomes who don't have the money to change because COLAs don't keep up with the actual cost of living.

I think you eat crayons while doing paperwork. For someone who's lived in California for so long, you sure don't know shit about it.

Dumping POTS absolutely will reduce power consumption, because they won't have to push analog signals through copper over long distances. It's just not sufficient justification for doing it, because that functionality is irreplaceable. We should be keeping some POTS service around for customers out of wireless range, and for alarm systems. A lot of those have gone cellular, and in some case that might be fine, but it's inferior and cellular should be used in addition and not as a replacement. (It can be text only, so the cost can be very low.)

I take absolutely nothing Cheeto Benito says at face value. He is absolutely never trustworthy. You can learn things by listening to him, but not by assuming anything he says is accurate or honest.

Our current systems are overwhelmingly unsustainable. Maintaining the status quo means ensuring our collective demise.

YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO DEEP THROAT THE BOOT.

Go look at PGE's dividends and then tell me again they don't have the money.

We may need to tinker with individual laws -- but the bigger picture is as in my sig: "The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity."

The results from whatever the laws will likely remain problematical as long as we have a political mythology built around scarcity while we also have super-powerful computers which could be used for universal surveillance or all sorts of other problematical -- or beneficial -- things.

We need collectively to change the spirit behind the culture towards one recognizing and emphasizing abundance in all we do and legislate.

Related from: https://egreenway.com/taoism/t...
"When the Tao is forgotten, there is righteousness.
When righteousness is forgotten, there is morality.
When morality is forgotten, there is the law.
The law is the husk of faith,
and trust is the beginning of chaos."

So, we need to emphasize the "tao" (way, spirit) of abundance -- as otherwise instead of using technology to create egalitarian abundance for all, we may just digitize an inegalitarian status quo or worse.

His father, and his father before him, handed money down to their new generations of their crime family in order to keep the whole thing going. In order to feel like he measures up to his father, he has to do the same thing.

I'm reasonably certain that was sarcasm, but... mostly because it actually literally kills people, like PGE skipping maintenance for 99 years and burning down Paradise[, CA] or ATT taking away the POTS so people in the hills can't call 9-1-1 since the cellular network doesn't reach them. This is an active issue in my town, which is in Humboldt county CA. I live about a block from the CO, which is absolutely tiny, because so is the town. (It's technically a city but it does not act like one in any regard. We don't even have a fucking disaster plan despite needing to cross a bridge or drive a road with "slide" in the name to get in and out of here. Yet Cal Fire is going to put a new HQ here, it's insane.

It's all your fault we fucked the economy so you can't afford salads, peons

How would you benefit if the economic powerhouse of the USA were destroyed? Vlad, is that you?