It must not be ready for deployment, otherwise they would be using it in the Iranian theater now.

Although, I admit it's totally possible these numbnuts simply forgot to bring it. Like they apparently forgot to bring troops during the weekslong move of the carrier groups to Iran, and are now scrambling to get them there after the fact.

Never fear, you can still declare victory and withdraw. No one will even remember you're a pedophile. Mission accomplished!

A nice thought, but the labor force participation rate hasn't reversed its downward trend across multiple bubbles and crashes.

You might get a halfway-return to the degraded "normal" of 2022, but that will get wiped out in the resumption of the long-term trend.

I'm driving an 02 Ranger. It's been kept up, new cylinder heads, new transmission, etc, but closing in on 200,000 miles now. I'd like to get something that requires a bit less maintenance. Enter EV...

Barring any massive quality issues or overshooting the price point, I expect to end up with a Slate. Hoping it gets released before the next big repair on the Ranger.

It's telling that you compare Altman's actions with acting. That is often what he's doing, but when you don't tell someone it's an act, we have another word for that: deception. And if an actor regularly acts, that is indeed his regular behavior.

If you want an honest, dispassionate analysis of someone, friends are exactly the ones not to consult.

Unreal doesn't give us tournaments anymore, only engines.

Slate is releasing a vehicle without a screen soon. If the price doesn't balloon, I expect it to be a massive success.

Millions of people are sitting on the sidelines of the US auto market, unattracted to the overweight offerings that have crowded out all else. Manufacturers just can't figure out why units aren't moving.

"Manufacturers aren't building it" doesn't necessarily mean "people don't want it". I get the feeling that the simple people wanting a simple car, aren't particularly loud about it. They're not enthusiasts, they're not posting about it on The Socials. That's why you and the manufacturers don't think they exist. They are waiting, quietly, for a product that fits their unmet needs.

If you buy one and carry it around with you and type everything into it, it most definitely is key. Probably the easiest and most accurate way to get the most amount of your data, instead of scanning each account and service separately.

If you're looking at "the things I described" as what I'm scared about, you failed to comprehend the post. The things I described are specifically the things they don't have to do, which you seem to have in your mind they do.

Modern-day electronic systems and monitoring don't cost them any money. It makes money. What's the price tag on that phone? How's Meta's balance sheet looking?

You're stuck in the last century.

It shows they don't need to be in the same room with someone to analyze their actions.

North Korea had some kind of Red Star Linux, from what I remember. But what interests me now is the digital sovereignty movement in Europe. Hopefully the regime in the US can push them to abandon Microsoft, where the technical problems apparently couldn't.

It could spur development and marketshare for Linux, but it could also spur a terrorism designation from the US government.

I'm reminded of the people who used to formulate search queries as a question.

Instead of bringing those individuals up to a level of understanding the tool, they've brought the tool down, and made things difficult for competent people.

Although to be fair, Google search was ruined way before ChatGPT.

I almost believed it until I saw the FIFA footage with the ball disappearing and re-appearing and smearing all over the place. It's clearly not aware of wireframes and in-game objects.

When a lizard-brained psychopath who is physically incapable of empathy uses the word, you know it's some type of lie or manipulation.

This idea that the government needs to be interested in you, personally, for surveillance to matter, is rooted in an outdated understanding of surveillance.

They no longer need to send someone to your house to tap a phone line. They no longer need to allocate man-hours and a vehicle to have someone follow you. It's no longer a manual process for someone to listen to your recorded conversations, summarize them, and transport that information to someone who can make a decision negatively impacting you. Even that "someone making a decision negatively impacting you" at the end of the chain is gone - it can be entirely automated.

The tools available to them now mean they don't have to take a personal interest in you.

The risk I'm concerned about is something like the Chinese social credit system.

They seem to be terrible at picking which products they want to use to fill a role. Even on the branding side. Everyone knows how inconsistent their messaging stuff is - Teams, Outlook, Skype.

It was only a matter of time before they had to mess with Notepad.