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Comment There are definitely Federally owned companies (Score 1) 153

And this is a minority stake, in a company that is not exactly performing well, at least by market standards. Things were much more severe for several other very large US auto manufacturers in 2008, which the Federal Government actually owned virtually outright.

Of course, the amusing irony is that of conservatives using a state owned company as a strategy.

Comment Meh (Score 2) 153

Clearly the company wanted to be clever, ironic, or get free publicity by hiring Chris Martinâ(TM)s ex wife. Regardless, I donâ(TM)t even understand the point. There is no connection between a cheating CEO and a happily divorced woman. They must have thrown a large amount of money at Gwyneth for her to do this ad, but it fails to be clever in any humorous way. The media sure likes it, though. Why? Probably because they were paid to.

Comment As someone who shopped here as a teenager (Score 2) 46

American Science and Surplus was actually a good source of novelty items, optics, gears and surplus commercial devices in a time before the internet.

They had virtually everything in mass quantity, along with humorous descriptions to accompany their wares.

Iâ(TM)m actually surprised that they didnâ(TM)t shutter their doors in the early 2000â(TM)s, after ebay and other direct to consumer web sites made it much easier to find surplus items.

I donâ(TM)t know why they talk about temu or anything like that. ASS is/was more of a combination of harbor freight, edmund optics, and govplanet. There was very little there that would have been in competition with direct to consumer chinese sites.

Comment False premise (Score 1) 90

The statement: âoe To elicit the blackmailing behavior from Claude Opus 4, Anthropic designed the scenario to make blackmail the last resortâ is a false premise.

The researchers clearly made blackmail an option, if not the first choice altogether. An AI does exactly what it is programmed to do.

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