Insurance is a primary reason why people put their money in banks.

It feels gross to say that USD is more meaningful than BTC because it's backed by the US Government, but BTC is backed up by hopes and dreams (of apes.)

If the point is nostalgia, maybe they do want all of those things.

I bet Sony will sell their retro headphones that were slashvertised here the other day, not despite but because of their use of retro drivers.

Mini-NES sells because of carpal controllers. (TBF they were/are pretty good for precision.)

I personally want what you say they want, because I was too young to catch the original release of the original film. In fact, I only saw RotJ that way. As such I do in fact want the unreinvented version, which I've previously seen on LD. But these days you can get that from the seas.

What do you mean by use? For code generation, or code analysis? Or do you mean for other maintenance tasks? All three?

Using AI for code generation is problematic for many reasons, some of which are a fundamental threat. Using it for the other things is problematic for fewer reasons, but more defensible.

Clicking the coward box doesn't hide your identity when you write all of your posts the same way.

Most modern vehicles could take substantial damage from a good-sized rabbit. The plastic bumper covers are fragile and in some cases there's not much preventing it from coming through the lower vent area and damaging your radiator. So in general you should be braking for a rabbit on the highway, though maybe you have a pickup with a winch bumper or something?

Correct. He wants other people not to have the same medical care he had. And you don't want them to have it either. Both of you are fully transparent.

What you were doing was making a statement you didn't need to make, because it's being made left and right by people who want people to be denied care which is medically necessary. In doing so, you made it look like you stand with those people, whether that was your intent or not.

No, they don't. They destroy functional societies, including destroying the media so you don't know the trains don't run on time, and also making it illegal for anyone to tell you that the trains don't actually run on time. Then decades later, absolute fuckwits with a taste for boot leather and zero ability to think critically think the trains ran on time.

Because you clearly can't figure this out for yourself, you're that fuckwit.

I just spoke to a woman who was denied approval for a PET scan to verify her cancer hadn't returned. They didn't schedule that, but they did schedule her a panel of STD tests even though she doesn't have multiple partners etc and no history of injectables. The only question is whether a piece of shit human or some piece of shit software made the decisions.

You seem to be using the old definition of "inflation", which is properly called monetary inflation or currency inflation. But the current accepted definition of inflation is a broad-based increase in the price of goods and services, the cause doesn't matter. This explains your confusion, and how you aren't on the same page as anyone else in this discussion. It is annoying that the meanings of words can change, but that's what happens when they aren't sufficiently specific to begin with. That's why making up new words based on roots, prefixes, and suffixes with actual meanings of their own is preferable to borrowing other words which already have meanings. Inflation comes from Latin inflationem (nominative inflatio) "a puffing up, a blowing into; flatulence" and makes no mention of currency or prices.

Shame on you for criticizing "Slashdot" for using words incorrectly when that's not happening.

Yeah, because they need more real money to pay for things whose prices have increased.

Anyone else having flashbacks to They Live here?

We can see through your fake skin, bot.

Remember when the Facebook app grabbed everyone's contacts and then deleted them? I remember. But the world has forgotten so they allow Zuckerfuck to run code on their phones.

Dumb fucks.

The zipline thing seems neato, although it does have its down side, wind. Drones are great in wind, especially copters.

I'll just leave this here also since it's convenient:

"Residents have compared the sound to everything from a massive beehive to a full-on air raid."

Heh heh "air raid" people are nuts. Maybe one will burn up on top of a propane tank, though, and then it will be closer.

This was only counting Slashdot.

But we ship out our electronics to be landfilled in other countries.