I'm not sure where people get the idea that union jobs are easy. I think all labor should be organized, but a lot of so-called progressives wonder if the highway could be finished in one summer rather than 3 if IDOT wasn't required to hire union workers.
The last union job I had as a bus mechanic for the city was 8-5, hour lunch and 2 15 minute breaks. You could sit all you wanted to as long as your head was inside or under a bus and your hands were pulling wrenches. I got written up for being 1 minute late 2 times. The clock ticked every 2 minutes, so you could clock in 30 seconds late and it looked like you were clocking in at 8:02. I have a friend now in a film/tv workers union. They're doing 10-12 hour days, 5-6 days a week. I get that the TV shows are on a schedule but geez. When do they get a rest? I don't even think it's paying that well. But all workers should be organized for their own protection from the non-workers.

Coral Hart is her real name?? No way. The Harlequin paperbacks give you sooo much to choose from!
https://www.harlequin.com/shop...
"Truth or Dare with the Viscount"
"From Rogue to Viscount"
"Beauty and the Brooding Viscount"
These are all different Viscounts, not the same one. As far as I can tell from the pictures anyhow.

and don't forget:
"Forbidden to the Banished Laird"
"The Duke's Meddlesome Matchmaker"
The real question is: why hasn't every single one of these been made into a feature-length film??
I gotta read one of these.

What I can appreciate here is that Harlequin hasn't given in to AI generating the ENTIRE cover, maybe just the backgrounds. The humans in outfits that look period correct if you were making a porno still look like real human models. Don't you ever stop using real live humans for models on book covers. Models gotta buy groceries and pay rent too.

Romance is but a small 20% sliver of book sales. If you want to sell a LOTTA books, like thousands, write have Claude write you some self-help books.
I don't know what people get out of reading those self help books, but romance novels provide a steady rhythm of dopamine hits, mainly to women. It's kind of like the same thing people get from flirting - you take a risk to say something that could be "too much", and when you give or get a positive response you get a massive dopamine hit. That's why they sell so well. People get addicted to romance.

true this. There are people who will work around the clock, because they feel like the have to prove they're better than everyone else. I had one job in my 20's where we worked for 16 hours on some days, but the office was nice enough to hang out in. Mostly what we were doing was compiling and playing video games to make sure the latest build didn't have any bugs. It didn't take a lot of brain work. Another job after that was way worse. Sometimes I'd get exhausted after 10 hours and just start the hour drive home. My boss would call my cell phone and make me come back to keep coding. I said nope, can't live on sugar like you do, fatty. I rage quit that job eventually. Not soon enough though.

I read it as the CIA killed off the Facebook. Woulda made my f-king day.

Wobbly polar orbit in the lower Van Allen belt. That puts the solar panels right in the middle of the day/night line, with the panels facing the sun all the time. There's a lot of shit in LOE going around the poles, so the further out the better, except for all the radiation from the Van Allen belts. It will be hard to maintain, so they'll probably be built with short service lifespans and de-orbited frequently. Hey if you got the capital, might as well burn it building a cathedral nobody wants!

How do you plumb coolant to 110 square miles of solar panels? And pump it fast enough and into big enough radiators to cool both the panels and the chips? If these are in sun-synchronous orbit they won't have any time to cool like the little starlinks do. Micrometeorites are not going to help with reliability much. The engineering problems are many, but if solved it will probably happen sooner rather than later. I'd rather see this ridiculously expensive AI project burn capital to improve orbital engineering than have it fund a temporary scale up of gas turbine manufacturers.
Space debris, radiation, heat and the cost of boosting into a sun-synchronous orbit are pretty big problems.

Can you watch the Olympics with the commentators turned off? That would be pretty cool.

Who cares? Samsung and LG and the US government and your phone are spying on you already. Everything they can see or hear gets fed into a massive machine learning and categorization system so they know whether you're more likely to buy boxers or briefs or thongs.

Nobody wants to play? I disagree. There will be surgical implants, modifications, hormone and different kinds of genetic therapies, and don't forget the cyborg enhancements! Generally improving the quality of life, including mental and physical health will not/should not be illegal.

I was also confused by the headline. They want us to smoke Twinkies after sex?

With all this incredible valuation going on there's got to be a way I can ride the wave of wealth generation. Oh wait, no I'm labor, not capital class. I get nothing and my money is worth less now than when I earned it. When the new rings of data centers around Earth are visible in the night (and day?) sky, I'll think to myself, I had little or nothing to do with that.

Yet another reason Vlad The Impaler had to not love the Turks so much.

I don't pay a lot of attention to focus group stuff the designers and product folks do, but I do see the outcome. There are a lot of features that power users are like "DON'T BREAK THAT" or don't move it, don't change the way it works, don't "improve" it. Even if their workflow is completely stupid and roundabout, that's how they do it and they don't want to relearn something even if it's an improvement. People are animals.

They have to fire a bunch of executives to do that. They're running out of tech gods to believe in.

They probably focus-group every design decision the way a lot of product/design people do. Instead of actually having good designs they rely on process and feedback instead of creativity/experience/knowledge/common sense. The metric for quality is the reactions of the same group of people who keep coming in for Starbucks vouchers for spending an hour answering softball questions about this horrible OS.