Comment So much for SpaceX Autopilot Mode ... (Score 4, Funny) 40
SpaceX Rocket Crash Into the Moon
Incident Report: "Mr. Musk remarked: That Moon came out of nowhere."
Comment Re:"EA Ruins Things"... (Score 4, Insightful) 39
Now complete with garbage misogyny, antisemitic genocidal nutbaggery, and the rest of the horrible baggage of the Saudi Terrorist Crime Family.
Ya, but then the Trump family connection
Comment Torn between two thoughts (Score 1) 195
(a) There's a sucker born every minute.
(b) A fool and his money are soon parted.
To be fair, I've thought this about all Trump schemes and fund raising. Perhaps some new laws will result from his tenure to prevent future president from the kinds of self-dealing he's done while in office, and SCOTUS will uphold them, though I'm dubious they'll actually be needed (as much) going forward.
Comment Damn dyslexia (Score 4, Funny) 53
Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For
I was half way through re-reading The Two Tower - (*sigh*)
Comment uh-huh (Score 1) 37
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took time to tout a dashboard he personally created using AI from a Morgan Stanley analyst's PDF research report, which suggested a rosy payback for the so-called MAG7's ('Magnificent 7' companies) massive capital expenditures on AI (to which Nadella later added a "not financial advice" disclaimer).
He wouldn't have touted or even created this dashboard if the report hadn't suggest a rosy payback. The jury is still out on that prediction.
Comment Re:I'm surprised it had any trails at all (Score 1) 129
I'm not surprised it had the trail, but I am surprised it wasn't sending a bunch of cars down it.
I think that's more of an Apple Maps thing.
Comment Walking isn't hiking (Score 1) 129
Walking and hiking are usually two very different things, and 18 miles in 5 hours requires an average of 3.6 mph, which isn't a stroll.
Comment Re:This already exists (Score 2) 58
I think the IRS certainly qualifies as BDSM...
Paradoxically, and/or ironically, my safe word is "audit" -- though I'm thinking of changing it to Fluggaenkoecchicebolsen.
Comment Re:You're assuming that's not the point. (Score 3, Informative) 58
At this point, I've stopped giving politicians the benefit of the doubt. If they support regulations that look like they have the potential to drag the United States into becoming an authoritarian hellhole, I assume that they're actually trying to do just that. It makes it a lot easier to convince myself to vote for another candidate in every election afterwards, even if that candidate isn't as good in other areas, because at least the other candidate isn't trying to destroy our basic freedoms.
Look up the sponsors of the bill, and vote against them from now on, whether it's a primary or a general election. Repeat until ousted.
Currently, all the cosponsors are Republicans - 26 on the House bill and 4 on the Senate bill.
(Links to bills noted here.)
Comment I'll take Republicans for $100 Alex. (Score 2, Informative) 58
As of this posting, the SCREEN Act bills are cosponsored solely by how many of this political party.
What is 26 Republicans in the House and 4 Republicans in the Senate?
Comment Pretentious backronym (Score 4, Funny) 58
From the actual House/Senate bills:
This Act may be cited as the “Shielding Children's Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net Act” or the “SCREEN Act”.
[rolls eyes, *sigh*]
Comment Kyla Scanlon discussed this ... (Score 1) 41
Kyla Scanlon had a pretty good explaination of this on Instagram...
Comment This already exists (Score 4, Informative) 58
Under the SCREEN Act, the "bouncer" will be a digital age-verification service that captures your personal information and saves it to a database for an unspecified amount of time.
Some sites already require the use of ID.me -- like the IRS, SSA and Medicare, the latter two also allow Login.gov. Here are 77 Companies that use ID.me in United States
Not trying to give them ideas, just sayin'
Comment Re:People are worried about oil crisis (Score 1) 141
Trump explicitly promised not to do this. So yes, I do get to complain about it, because this wasn't on the menu.
Comment People are worried about oil crisis (Score 1) 141
Increase of EV sales is the result of people justifiably worried about the oil crisis. Due to war with Iran global oil supply is down by 20 to 25%, if not for major countries, including China, using reserves we would already have shortages. More so, Ukraine is attacking Russian oil production and Trump started trade war with Canada, so replacement for this lost production capacity is diminished.
So ya, with all that even *I* considered buying a used EV. I don't want one, but I don't want to be unable to drive if I can't buy gasoline even more.
So ya, with all that even *I* considered buying a used EV. I don't want one, but I don't want to be unable to drive if I can't buy gasoline even more.
