The predictions of science led to every single thing about whatever device you're typing this drivel on. They led to the microwave you nuked your dinner in and likely to most of the food you put in there. They also led to whatever lifesaving treatments have kept you from dying from any of the numerous ailments that left most families with at least one dead child until very recently. They're why you don't have smallpox and never will.

Absent the predictions of science, you live in a hut farming the same land your great grandfather did for the same wealthy landowner. Just exactly how did the predictions of science "not live up to the hype"?

Pretty much universally, everyone hates Comcast. Their business model has for years been, "do everything possible to suppress competition, then raise prices and reduce the level of service". Everywhere they're being competed with, they have excellent service and low prices (and are fighting hard to get other players out of their market and lobbying against municipal broadband). Everywhere else, you pay them because they're the only option, and you get what you get.

Now they're starting to notice that when large swaths of their customers have *any* other choice, even if it's a worse one on paper, they'll leave. When you force people to be your friend, they're not your friend and they'll resent you forever. All this time they'd have done better to be loyal to their customers, if they wanted to see that loyalty back from them.

You want people to stick around? Don't merge your support and sales departments. Don't offer price guarantees then break them. Don't degrade traffic to website that haven't paid you a kickback. And, jesus christ, gigabit service should never, ever struggle to keep up with *netflix streaming*.

I recommend trying living in a city! You can make a very cozy and welcoming home in close proximity to others, and it also guarantees a neighborhood where you can walk to know your neighbors and most likely to get your groceries to. Having lived in an apartment in a city now Iâ(TM)d never trade it for a house. The friction to seeing other people and doing things is just too high. And man, not being required to drive everywhere is just so nice.

I wouldn't say so.

Something he morally detests, which he sees as being in the process of burning the world down, which has stolen his work, and which is operating in a field he cares about in a way that's at odds with everything he's set out to build --- this thing wants a human response from him for a message its creators couldn't be bothered to author themselves. It's creators want him to feel grateful because some pretty words were generated by absolutely no one, which don't represent anyone actually caring about him. They want to automate away the effort of giving people the sense that someone values them. They want us all to be alone, and for our only love to be the companies that wish to extract our value. And it is abhorrent.

Imagine feeling that your work had been used (even in small part) to construct an abomination, and then having that abomination thank you. How could you ever sleep at night again? The absolute gall, the complete lack of understanding of what it is to be human, of having your large language model send people messages pretending to be kind. I'm glad he voiced his anger. More people need to.

USPS does parcel delivery for half the cost of UPS and FedEx, and can go to more places. Why on earth would we get rid of such a good system?

Russia invaded parts of Ukraine that weren't part of those republics (including trying and failing to take Kiev itself). But also, no one (other than Russia) recognized those "republics" as sovereign, so no, on no account is the claim that Russia invaded Ukraine invalidated.

And given that, nothing else matters. Russia chose to start a war by invading which they could choose to end at any time by leaving. So everything that happens in the course of that war of choice is Russia's fault, no matter whose hands were on it. Either Ukraine did it in the course of defending themselves from Russia (Russia's fault) or Russia did it directly (also Russia's fault). And if Russia wants to stop being blamed for the results of the war, it can stop being at war at any time, by pulling its military out of Ukraine.

PS: Also, with regards to, "they may be true, but they are clearly Ukrainian propaganda": if something is true, it doesn't matter who said it. It's true. You don't just get to reject reality because it undermines your position. When that happens, you change your position.

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The wikipedia article for Thread suggests that Thread devices are ip addressable and have cloud access. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Their own website says the same. https://www.threadgroup.org/BU...

To wit:

Or, you can't afford a lawyer. If a large corporation sues you, you get exactly as much justice as you can afford to pay for -- and, given the scale of the costs involved, that probably means none.

They can't be recycled. And yes, they are one small device, but they are a very visible part of an ocean of small, non-recyclable, short-lifespan electronic devices that is flooding our lives. And it makes sense to very visibly take issue with them, as a proxy for that flood. There aren't many other good ways to push back, other than straight up making devices like the Samsung Ring illegal.

But they don't though. Because EVs are made either by brand new companies, or by established companies showing off their latest stuff. There are very few EVs that are just utilitarian road boxes with minimal features (pretty much just the Bolt and the LEAF).

If replacing them with high speed rail was easy, why hasn't it been done? You'd think someone would want to make lots and lots of money by outcompeting all the short haul flights.

I thought at least newer teslas could charge to 80% in 25 minutes, and could add 200 miles in 15 minutes. Twiddling for 30-60 sounds like what I do in my Chevy Bolt, with its annoying 50kW charging speed cap. Why would you need to sit at a charger for an hour? And why would stopping every 200 miles to stretch for 15 minutes be an issue?

Seems like they went out of their way to not call them ASS batteries.

They just banned all the moderators who are actually invested in their communities. Now they've got whoever was willing to sign up, for prestige or the chance to control people. Moderation is hard work, and if they want people to actually do it well then they need to either court back the people they fired or make it a paid position.

Do you live or work in San Francisco? Does this assessment come from personal experience? Because it sure doesn't match mine.

It's just weirdly empty compared to how it was before the pandemic. The Westfield mall which used to be bustling is in danger of closing. I'm not afraid of going to downtown and to the financial district, there's just less and less reason to go. Which is a shame.