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Comment Re:Incredible Foolishness (Score 1) 18

So they pump water out of the water table below the city, and it flows thru pipes under the city, which are broken, so the water returns to (ultimately) the water table...right?

Eventually. How long is the question. It could take a few years to hundred of years to reach the water table depending on the soil conditions.

Comment Re:Ideologically fueled insanity. (Score 5, Insightful) 287

According to the administration (in the article):

“The companies that bid for these offshore wind leases were basically sold a product in 2022 that was only viable when propped up by massive taxpayer subsidies,” [Interior Secretary] Mr. Burgum said in a statement.

I have not looked at the numbers to see if that's a true pretext, but anyway that is their pretext.

If that's the case, then why are oil and gas companies being propped up with massive taxpayer subsidies? Such as the current issue where taxpayer money is being used to cancel a project then being used to subsidize the new projects.

This doesn't even take into consideration all the massive subsidies handed out over the last 100 years to oil and gas companies. Burgum is just lying his ass off, just like the rest of the regime.

Comment Re:Why?? (Score 1, Troll) 74

Grok sux in spite of all his efforts so Elon will just buy something that doesn't.

The only reason it sucks is because Musk doesn't like the answers it gives. When Grok was asked who the largest purveyor of lies and misinformation on Twitter was, it responded with Musk. As soon as that happened Musk publicly stated he would fix that, meaning Grok.

When Grok responded to a question about violence in the U.S. and it came back with white-supremacists, Musk again stated he would correct that, meaning Grok.

Not defending the hallucinating clanker, but Grok does have its moments where it gives an unbiased answer, and Musk doesn't like that despite saying that's what he wants it to be.

Comment Re:not to disrespect the late Val Kilmer but fuck (Score 4, Insightful) 90

Many machines have replaced or greatly reduced the need for human labor. What makes acting deserving of special protection from automation?

Acting is not a one-way street like machines are. For example, a combine does one thing really well: cut down and process a crop. It does not make marinara sauce, does not swim in the ocean, does not make hamburgers, and a whole host of other things.

Whereas an actor/actress isn't just repeating lines. They are emoting so you and I believe they are who they are portraying. They are moving within the scene. They may jump, be suspended from wires, dive into water, or even look as if they are cooking for a role. They have a wide range of things they need to do as an actor/actress. And unlike a combine, they may portray a variety of characters. In the case of Kilmer, he's portray a jet pilot, a gunshooter, a criminal, a PhD candidate working on a laser, and a singer, to name a few. Each of those are distinct from one another and require the person to change how they act.

* It was nearly 8 at night and I hadn't eaten supper yet so my post does lean heavily on food refrences.

Comment Once again, books are better (Score 3, Interesting) 62

You'll never see a publisher say, "Your book is more than ten years old. You can't use it because we say so."

Nor do you have to worry about a book being in the "wrong" format, or only available in select formats.

When you're done with a book you can freely give it to anyone you want without any third party being involved.

Books are just better.

Comment Re:OpenWRT (Score 2) 70

You can also choose a GL.iNET router which runs OpenWRT natively, it's a proprietary distrib, but you can easily flash a full OpenWRT version thanks to the interface.
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Read that back, slowly. Then read it again and consider how many people you see on the street would have any idea what those letters mean.

Comment Re:And soon for sure we will be in (Score 3, Insightful) 52

However, it was Obama and Biden that laid the groundwork for the war against Ukraine

This site needs to filter out AI-generated nonsense. It's both hilarious and annoying to have these hallucinations posted.

It's especially annoying when the AI can't be bothered to do the slightest bit of research and read The Budapet Memorandum. We know AI can't understand what it means, but it could at least scan it into its database.

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