If Trump thinks AI is so "super intelligent", why doesn't he ask his favorite LLM for a plan to lower gas prices?

The problem with a flat tax scheme is that it's based on consumption rather than how well the whole capitalism thing is working out for you. I usually like to mention how many iPhones Elon Musk would have to buy in order for him to have paid the same the same percentage of his income towards sales tax as someone making the average median income (it's somewhere around 10.4 million iPhones), but a more down-to-Earth example would be if you happen to know anyone who is of limited means and spends a ton of money in gas because their vehicle is a bit of a gas guzzler. That person is paying more of their income towards road taxes to travel the same distance as someone who conceivably is paying nothing in road taxes, because the person paying nothing was able to afford an EV (assuming they're in one of the states that hasn't implemented a separate EV tax).

Of course, I wouldn't fault you for assuming that the reason the road taxes in my example aren't implemented fairly is because we don't just make everyone pay by the mile. That seems all well and good until you realize that some people are using the roads to commute to their minimum wage job flipping burgers, and others are using the roads to pull down a nice high 6 figure income. Shouldn't the folks who are getting more benefit from the upkeep of the roads have a greater obligation to pay some of that forward (since they're deriving more benefit from the infrastructure and also have more to lose if it isn't properly maintained)?

Lately, that means dumping money into more films for a franchise where the horse hasn't entirely been beaten into an unrecognizable bloody pulp yet.

At least it's just entertainment *shrug*. I'm fine with just re-watching from the back catalog if they don't produce anything good, and if they raise prices on content that actually is otherwise decently entertaining - I'll raise the Jolly Roger. Really, when it comes to companies getting all late stagey with the capitalism, movie studios aren't what you need to worry about.

I'm on Kubuntu now and have nothing bad to say about it.

When did this happen? Citation, please.

You are aware that Joe Biden, while seemingly a nice enough guy, was wildly unpopular as a leader, including among the left? It was the Democrats, after all, who convinced him not to run for a second term.

What's being alleged here is closer to price fixing, which is also an antitrust violation. Hypothetically, let's say four major automakers got together and said, "We all know we have access to the latest in brake technology, but we collectively agree not to deploy it until two years from now," presumably for business reasons. That kind of collusion is illegal.

Everybody seems to be complaining ... although that's nothing new. Some people hate Gnome, others hate KDE.

So I ask you (everybody): Is anything good? Cuz we ain't gonna have the Year of the Linux Desktop without a UI. Do we all switch to Enlightenment?

I mean they're probably all on high-performance diets that taste awful like protein powder milkshakes. And comfort food is what you ate as a treat when you were little. So I can see McD's being a treat.

Or that it's not getting better fast enough might be a better analogy. It's such a strange thing to feel entitled to, I can't think of anything that's getting better.

I stand corrected. I always imagined those were Big Macs he was wolfing down for some reason.

Of all the crazy things I've read in this thread, Trump eating a fish sandwich strains credulity the most.

Not for nVidia. They are the guys selling shovels to the gold rush miners.

The worst part is, we knew this and still somehow collectively thought it was a good idea to send this man back to The White House for a second fucking time.

Where I live, we've got these Muscovy ducks near the entrance to my neighborhood that have a tendency to sleep in the road at night. It's not for want of a grassy area to roost in - there's plenty of that. Nope, these ducks just decide that the best place to plop their fat feathery asses down for a snooze, during the time when they're the hardest for passing motorists to see, is right in the middle of the street. As you might imagine, they regularly do get accidentally run over. You'd assume that might send a message to the remaining ducks that their chosen place to sleep is less than ideal, but they're entirely unfazed as to why their comrades sometimes wake up dead in a mess of duck guts and feathers the next morning.

America's voters are like those ducks.

This sort of drama was fairly prevalent in the iOS jailbreaking scene even before AI. The issue was mostly that whatever exploit you found, it would get patched right away anyway, so it ultimately ended up being less about producing something neat that the average user could play with and more about bragging rights between the folks finding and implementing the exploits.