Well, my source was a few years ago, but there was a real problem transporting them anywhere for processing. Still, that sounds like something that could readily be solved (it just hadn't been), and ISTR that I did read something about plans to grind them up...though not for the later steps you mention.

Moronic and damaging.
I don't really mind the moronic part. Lots of people, even fairly brilliant people, sometimes do something stupid. As long as they only injure themselves, I think that's their privilege.

The bird rubric is also a red herring.

This about protecting the all-important petrochemical industry, just as removal of EV emphasis and the 100% Chinese EV tax and ban protects Texas votes.

Those votes tip the balance of power in DC fundamentally and directly.

Actually, I believe that there *is* a problem with the life-span and recyclabilty of wind turbine blades. It's something that needs work. But every source of energy, and nearly every product, has something that needs work.

Dude it's a bot. America is in the middle of its election cycle and this midterm is a huge deal because it could potentially slightly reign Trump in and slow down project 2025.

Sad thing is if we had spent all the money the billionaires are going to spend on this election on jobs we wouldn't have lost 23,000 of them last month

Because the weird Astro turfers show up on this dying forum. Normally nobody's going to pay it somebody to post to this dead old technology forum but when we're going into an election season yeah there's unlimited money. It's really bizarre. As if anyone cares about what anyone around here says or does.

But when 90% of your news media is billionaire owned and they have literally trillions of dollars because we gave it to them I suppose it doesn't matter how much money gets spent on propaganda and Big brother bullshit like this.

It is weird seeing the levels of TDS. We lost 23,000 jobs last year I see people crying and pleading for the Donald to save them. I don't understand why people can't put two and two together and get past their crippling addiction to Trump but I guess that's what happens when a third of your population joins a cult

Yeah, quite niche. But it might be a VERY large niche. I see it as handling, among other things, reflexes for robots. Or recognizing voices. We've got several "special purpose" AIs native in our brains. One of them processes sounds. Some are simpler than others. Some are more reprogramable. like the reflexes used in playing a piano or driving.

To shut down their wind farm. Big oil-funded Trump and it paid off big time. The same goes for pooty poot.

When you run a government like a business it's not there for you it's there for the owners. And if you're reading this you are not an owner.

The question even becomes "what is life".

It's believed life started because two molecules got closer together and then bonded. Those two molecules being proto-DNA then developed the capability to reproduce itself. But we're far from cellular life as we would consider it - just a primordial soup of stuff and two proto-DNA molecules coming together and then being to reproduce a copy of itself.

Yep, pay attention to what Andreessen, Thiel, Elmo, Ellison (he and his sprog), Kurzwei, etc. and their fellow travelers are saying. They want the world to put a data center in every backyard and some (most?) insist we are not using enough energy. Their idea is that we're destined for the "stars" and that they are sooooo (*^(&*% intelligent that they deserve to have their brain patterns (what the hell are those, precisely?) transplanted to silicon so they can survive the coming ecological disaster they are intent on creating. They cannot get their heads around that you cannot get to the stars from here. And even were they to send their bot selves there, the bots would suffer hardware breakdown long before they crashed into a destination star.

The movie "Elysium" seems appropriate here. The rich go and live on a space station with green lawns and huge gardens, while everyone else suffers on Earth. Minus the happy ending where their health care robots come down to earth to provide medical care.

The summary said it cleans itself, so I guess you don't need to wash it.

Clothes that need special handling aren't new. I had a suit, once, that required dry cleaning.

It *is* understandable. It's also a bar to understanding. (IIUC, the original computer bug was a moth.)
But viruses are VERY different from bacteria. They're called bugs because they're all small and at a quick glance you don't even see them. (And entomologists don't even call beetles bugs. Bugs are hemiptera.)

COVID was a virus, not a bacteria. (Viruses are easier.)

Sorry, the Andromeda Strain was too implausible in too many ways. That's NOT going to happen.

It's not that this isn't something to worry about, it's that your type-example is just silly.

Social media does have a place when it's actually social media which means it's meant to bring like-minded people together to socialize.

So it can be a good thing when it helps you find a friend group or a bunch of guys to play Warhammer with or whatever.

The problem is that as soon as profit motive kicks it the goal is going to be to get as much engagement so you can do as many advertisements and steal as much data as possible. What's worse is that these platforms make money either by selling your data or advertising. The date is selling is obviously bad advertising by itself should be relatively harmless but online advertising just doesn't work. It's barely functional for branding exercises at best and completely useless for direct sales.

It is however very good at finding suckers and marks and people to victimize through advertising so virtually everything on social media being advertised is a scam. It's actually a great way to find out if something is a garbage product look and see if you can find ads for it online when you're in private browsing or using a VPN and if you can odds are good that product is trash.