I have to think that there were a few other steps between #1 seller of robotic vacuums and chapter 11. Maybe even 10 chapters :-)

Guh. How long until my 'bot is a brick.

I look forwards to the posts where because Apple is not an absolute monopoly they are somehow immune to any accusations of anti-trust.

No one would ever sign up to such insane terms if Apple wasn't in such a powerful position that they could dictate such terms. In other words, their position and size in the market is such that they can enforce things that no one would be able to do without that kind of size, regardless of product quality.

Them demanding this is 100% confirmation that anti trust action is entirely warranted.

Women seem to be perfectly able to be elected Governor.

Well not al the country is ragingly sexist.

America will absolutely vote for a female president.

There is no evidence this is true.

empty-headed,

Are you telling me that someone with a functioning, full head would ramble the following in a speech about crime?

But you want to have, when they come, the leaders come to our country to sign documents that the war is over or whatever, or for other reasons, they come for trade and you want them to come through so beautifully, you ride down those roads, everything should be perfect. You shouldn't have medians falling down into the roadway, median, the metal things that are always⦠Somebody had a great lobbyist because I've never seen them look good. I've been looking at those things with the little rut, they're always broken bad, but here they're really bad. We're going to either put new or fix it and it's not expensive, it's not really expensive or we're going to fix our roads a little bit. We're going to clean up our sidewalks.

So it seems like empty headedness is only important of you're a female candidate.

NPC

Ah yes, NPCs have famously bad AI like when they coded it wrong and got the US president to salute an enemy general. Oh right NPCness only matters if you're female, got it.

whose politics are whatever is popular this week.

Ah remember when that candidate railed against Mamdani as a " a 100% Communist Lunatic", then threatened arrest and insinuated he'd have his citizenship stripped? But then immediately flipped into a complete love-in when Mamdani won referring to him as a "really great mayor"? Oh no wait that was Trump, so apparently wild flip-flopping on politics only matters if you're a female presidential candidate.

As soon as one runs who isn't a completely unlikable opportunist,

Are you telling me Trump is likeable and not an opportunist? Turns out being one only matters if you're female.

It isn't sexism that has kept women from the White House

Absolutely it is. 100%.

BuT hEr EmAiLs!!111one. Lock her up!!! Remember that? Where's the rage against Trump for not imprisoning Hegseth? Oh yeah, turns out no one actually cared about the emails. So why did they claim to?

IOW you're a massive hypocrite. Literally everything you accuse Clinton and Harris of, Trump has done 100x worse.

Turns out dementia only mattered for Biden. When the choice was between Trump with dementia and Harris who had the gall to be female and not white, a "funny laugh" is way more important than dementia.

It's almost like the MAGAts were making up excuses for voting for Trump (even they know they need excuses funnily enough).

E.g. Microwaves have become more common

I've been winging it myself. I've not really found anywhere that makes more than surprisingly basic use of a microwave, so I've been experimenting on my own.

I hate recipe sites.

You do realise what they said applies to basically every category of site? Google want to feed you their own rehashed version of other people's works so you will stay with google, seeing google's ads and google gets to keep everything.

No one is going to produce anything to anonymously feed google's bottom line. If they keep this up it will destroy the best of the internet.

Now they should sleep in it.

Spite isn't a good reason to destroy. Is the person making this complaint one of the ones you have a beef with specifically? Because if not, the attitude of "some recipe writer pissed me off therefore they're all scumbags and we should let google destroy everything" doesn't really make sense to me.

Thing is they are not wrong, regardless of whether you personally like them.

People write stuff for all sorts of reasons. For clout. For fun. For money (ads). For the community. What literally no one does is write to anonymously feed google's bottom line with no recognition or remuneration. The internet is amazing because of the sheer breadth of stuff on it. And AI companies will happily kill the goose that laid the golden eggs, so they can feed you ads and get profit before people notice that there's nothing new in the slop.

Shooting the messenger because a different messenger wearing similar clothes annoyed you is just a terrible idea IMO.

Indeed. Avoid Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and a number of others. Regard them as malicious and uncaring if you cannot avoid them and prepare accordingly.

Same for Microsoft or Google. If you need to depend on their accounts, chances are you will get shafted at some time. Hence do not let that need arise. Yes, that is difficult. But they can throw you out for basically any reason and you can do nothing.

In a similar fashion, lots of YouTube-dependent creators have gotten stabbed by Meta recently. The whole thing is broken and there needs to be legal recourse and penalties for platforms that get this large.

Just theoretical for me.

Generally the legal system has been subject to people fucking around for a thousand years and can deal with it. Any cool hacks you can think of almost certainly won't work.

According to the terms of the GPL, they lose ALL rights to the software that they've violated the license of.

Now, they could find a workaround but they've been pretty profligate with their violations, so they'd need to either do a lot of legwork or come to terms with a lot of GPL code owners. Including the FSF who I'm sure will be very forgiving.

They are actors, not supermodels. They can always scan other willing individuals and then make a composite of the features they want to make a new "actor". The appearance of an individual is just about the least important part if they want to replace you with AI. That said, I understand it and would vote the same way.

At this point, I'm a bit confused why they don't generate a large amount of motion capture data to create segments, actions, reactions, etc. before stringing them together into what they want and then use the result to puppeteer a digital avatar. The stringing together part can be made easier by using unsophisticated motion capture by novice actors and feeding it into an AI to select a small pool of relevant motion capture data which you can select the most fitting part from using descriptive labels. I have no interest in putting actors out of work but it just feels like the people that are trying to put actors out of work are doing a shitty job of it.

Right, right!

Just as ridiculous as having judges with no training in some science "feel" that their opinion is a better judge than pure science and adjudicate for dumping more poison into a stream.

Oh wait, that's the opposite of what you want.

*You* want some politicians to overrule (probably due to bribes) what sober professionals in the field have assessed is the best path forward.

How can it be independent if the president can fire them for any reason at any time?

Couldn't he just get the people he wants in there? How "independent" is *that*?

Unfortunately, given how the laws are written, the president can fire and replace people he doesn't like, until the whole of the civil service does exactly what the president wants. He may not be a King as in able to declare Laws that Congress is supposed to (although he does, through EO, now) but he can have policies that in his own way enact the laws of Congress. Or just ignore them and hope Congress ignores your transgessions.

Takes too many votes to impeach, anyway. Any the boots on the ground, in every way, are doing what he wants, regardless of laws and congress.

President may not be a king but is surely acting like one.