Adopt? What part of the world do you live in where that is still possible in 2026? Even adopting from 3rd world nations is difficult now.
Non-family adoptions in Australia are down to 26 in 2024. I know one person who managed to adopt years ago, because he had the same medical condition as the baby. You don't apply for that - they find you. ... Googling I see "private adoption" is possible in the Land of the Free if you have enough money. Everything is for sale, eh?

You can try to foster a child, but you'll likely get an older and very broken one. And a mother claiming them back when they get off the drugs, or on the meds. I see the US is possibly different.

That's what you think AI is? You are very right to feel threatened by AI, but downplaying it like that comes across as immature. Like saying the invading army can't shoot straight, it won't help you.
  Words are mapped to semantic space in the embedding and de-embedding, but thats a very small part of the process.

Spot on with the IP analysis. Copyright, patents and trade secrets do not apply here. So the question raised is if new forms of IP law are needed or desirable in the age of AI. Right now, it would be hard to argue that the model distillation being done by Deepseek etc is causing harm, such as discouraging investment in AI research.
    The justification for copyright law is that it is needed to provide adequate funding to content creators. Will the day come when some new protection is needed for the creators of AI models? maybe. But right now, so much money is flowing, and the industry is changing so fast, it is hard to see how rushed new laws could do more good than harm.

No, EUV lithography has to be impossible. That's what most people said, but some very persistent scientists eventually showed otherwise. It is the most amazing, most expensive non-military machine ever sold. It shoots each droplet 3 times, and 50,000 of them per second. Lithography needs a point source of light.
Here is a quote on the Zeiss mirrors it uses:

Veritasium did a great video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Telnet, like we used to use in between fighting sabre-tooth tigers and coding in COBOL?
When we sent symmetric passwords in plaintext?

That is a zombie protocol risen from the OxDEAD ! Just kill it.

If itooks, talks, and quacks like a hypocrite ...

Lister: "Look, Rimmer, death isn't the handicap it used to be in the olden days. It doesn't screw your career up like it used to."
Rimmer: "That's what they say, Lister. But if you had two people coming for a job, and one of them was dead, which one would you pick?"

The United Appeal for the Dead will be interested in this.

We need 3 ark space-ships. One for the MAGAs, one for the wokes, and the rest of us will be along shortly.

NASA still has lots of "firsts" . Unfortunately they all relate to DEI now.

That is logically equivalent to the original statement.

"You have 2 US coins in your pocket that equal thirty cents - one coin is not a nickel - what coins are in your pocket?"

The economic progress allowing ordinary Indians or Filipinos to buy motor scooters, and the limited carrying capacity has been a big driver of lower fertility rates.
Its really hard to fit six people on a 100cc Honda.

  A new trend I've noticed in Australia is seeing a family of four on an e-bike. They'd never do it on a motorcycle, but somehow a cargo e-bike is OK.

We will have to wait and see whether or not vision-only will beat systems using Lidar etc in the real world of self-driving,
but given the precedent of humans, the GP is clearly a moron to say "no way".

Your hatred is making you really stupid, DO. A more developed person can see Musks's faults without being blinded by rage to reality.

Separate things. IIRC , you only pay for the live data connection, such as traffic. Training data is uploaded over wifi, and you can opt out.

Tesla want you using their navigation service so as to get better training data for self-driving. The $10 for internet connection is not crazy.

Yes, FSD is mostly software, so subscription is more acceptable than for hardware. But taking away the option of a one-time purchase price for FSD does feel like the beginning of enshitification.

Who cares. The only people who spell it that way are still using Imperial measurements. We've moved on to arguing over how to pronounce GIF. (It's 'jiff' BTW)