When the economy collapses, support systems collapse, then my recommendation for anyone who hasn't been able to get their family regular meals for days or weeks: find anyone with a nice house, Tesla, etc and take what you need to survive from them.

That said, I see nothing like the Occupy movement of 2011. People either don't know they are being screwed over and stolen from, or think that it doesn't matter if they protest it or not. We have far further to slide before any "VERY ugly" scenario plays out, given the average person's lackluster response so far. We as a people have an even greater capacity to silently suffer indignities than you may realize.

Surveillance protects us all. It is a keystone in keeping our nation safe and free. Think about how you never have a package stolen off your porch anymore. And how our bicycles are totally safe in San Francisco, no need to double lock and remove the seat anymore. And let us not forget that mass surveillance prevents terrible crimes like summary executions out at sea. And even prevented a pedophile and adjudicated rapist from being elected President. GOD BLESS THE USA!

LLMs are really bad at playing Simon Says.

If at first you don't succeed*, try try again.

* at overthrowing the current constitutional Republic based around centuries of democratic principles, and replacing it first with a unitary executive then using that authority to transform it into an autocratic executive system.

It's like a package manager for AI models, in a way. In Hugging Face's case it is more like a (Python) library to help you download and run models in your applications. Ollama overlaps a bit in functionality and you can use both, but Ollama is more self-contained and conceptually like nodeJS, perl CPAN or apt. It lets you download, install, and run models on their own. Then you can point your own tools at the installed models. The the tools that comes Ollama come with aren't much fun for interactive, but totally fine if you want to make a shell script that runs a prompt, but there are tons of interactive tools that work with both Ollama and HF if that's your jam.

I know what the Playdate is and who Panic are, but one sentence of context in an article is not too much to ask.

Vote Prison 2026 and 2028.

It's a unicode emoji

But I often confuse it with a Facehugger from Alien. Sadly, no emoji for that.

Skyrocketing in the stock market over the last 10 years, they took their money and started investing or buying their own customer base. It's bit of an incestuous relationship and it makes it difficult to cleanly analyze their long-term value. It's no longer a simple formula of company A produces product or service X, and they get revenue because companies B-Z are buying those products. Now it's like A makes X, and B-Z buy X, and A owns some or part of each of B-Z. So how much is A paying themselves and how much is actual growth?

That $18B will be spent by the States on their favorite contractors. I do not see how the fine actually covers anything other than bribing government officials.

While I was reading your thoughtful comment, it occurred to me that people want perfection. Male or female, they want a 'partner' that fits their preconceived notions; however, this is the Real World and nobody will EVER fulfill your (or my) preconceived notions.

In short, 'everyone' thinks they want something; however, upon examination, what they think they want is not what they really want, so when they get what they think they want, they are frustrated because it does not satisfy. And children are expected to be created (and hopefully raised) from all of this. Oh my.

I went through every word of this sentence, trying to make sense of it. It just does not add up. I think it has something to do with the words "big and wide" in relation to Texas that is really working me over. Perhaps it is the location in relation to the equator that is throwing me. Can you restate the sentence in English so I can understand it please because it sounds like total nonsense to me.

No. No. they wouldn't. That is all manufactured. Most people want an equitable deal while some folks want everything. The percentage of folks who want everything is smaller than 30%.

If I were Canada, I would have walked out of the trade negotiations, shut all borders to the USA, and stopped all trade and communications with the USA. The disrespect can not be tolerated. It is rough for Canada that they can not do that. An invasion would be imminent. (I never thought I would say that about "my" own country. wtf happened here? When did we transition to "might makes right" fully?)

Why don't any nations call this out directly and publicly? The USA is not trustworthy right now. That should be called out and paraded around. If a nation can't keep its treaties (Russia), then they should be shunned entirely on the international stage. Period.