This would be similar to a Math Olympiads giving participants questions of multiplying 20-digits numbers. Or weight lifting in the Olympics where one contestant wore a powered exoskeleton to help lift the weight.

It's no wonder in those cases a machine can do it better than humans, and it only demonstrated the poor level of organizers, that they were unable to come up with good worthy questions for the participants, rather than anything about such events itself.

Maybe the real question is why bother having children, to bring them into the world where they are really unwanted by the entire society?

It doesn't matter how big a reactor is or isn't, it's a target.

Flying shaped charges are cheap and feasible.

Or trackers.

I once came home to our shared house (post student years) to find the hallway about six inches deep in feathers and a dead bird - I'm not sure the bird appreciated the gesture.

I seem to recall reading somewhere they think we're kittens and are trying to teach us - or more likely an automatic behaviour encoded into genes building brains by evolution led to increased survival of kittens and relative increase in prevalence of those genes.

I would call the cops.

Yes, the punctuation police.

These objections would still apply and still be irrelevant. If the servers are shut down, the money should magically appear back in the customers' accounts.

So another thing that MAGA gets butt-hurt over has been disappeared. Is anybody surprised? What Was the excuse? Purging satanic anti Trump commie moose-lamb science?

This is yet another predictable side effect of people misunderstanding the stimulus and response reflex of capitalism: Apply dollars, make things happen more.

I have played a handful of FTP games and put a not insignificant amount of time into them... but never any money. If I don't get to own the thing, defined by being able to use it (not even "as I see fit", just at all — but on my schedule) then I won't pay more for the thing than it's worth to me right now, like going to see a movie. If I don't get the server, or if there's DRM which requires activation, that severely reduces what I'll pay.

LLMs invent invalid moves. It is somewhat miraculous that they can sometimes generate valid ones, but the real miracle is that people think there is intelligence there. It's a miracle for the people selling "AI" anyway.

It's very common for mechanics to be required to provide their own tools.

It's California law that you cannot require an employee to provide their own tools, unless you are paying them at least twice the minimum wage. This is true in general, not just for auto shops. I worked in an RV shop. I had to provide my tools. I got in a wage dispute over it. I received a settlement.

Only the low-end guys in the shop don't typically have to provide tools.

Surely driving like a dick ("Look I'm smart enough to make a donut shape with my poison-spewing penis substitute") is the largest contributor to airborne tyre particulate.

Breaking news: Frump to invade Norway to confiscate Teslas / Bring Democracy.