In psychology, this is not hallucination. The proper term for making stuff up like this is "confabulation."

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This isnâ(TM)t new, itâ(TM)s in the sales material and on the dash warnings. The average daily commute is 42 miles (66 for me). I have never needed to drive gas because the temp dropped for my daily commute, ever.

Sure, you might need to take occasional road trips of over 200 miles and want gas, but then you make the rent vs buy decision based on your situation.

We went 2 years working from home, did the same work, hit the same deadlines, delivered the same products. If they're measuring a decline in productivity WFH vs. WFW, they're clearly making a mistake.

No, it really doesn't. I cancelled a few weeks ago.

if they want to charge more and make better content, or expand their library, and offer their current release movies, I'll think about it. But right now it's shit at any price.

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One gets the feeling that Seattle is taking away tax benefits to companies that aren't dragging enough employees into the city.

No mention of private wealth and private equity markets being able to pump significantly more money into private companies and reduce their need to go public, as well as being able to manipulate public markets to ensure that no strong competitors can emerge.

If it goes that far I only need to one gun and one bullet.

A fair chuck of the crypto space is "pie in the sky bullshit" with a few rare exceptions where the coin itself has been established as a critical consumable for some other service which delivers real value. But the rest? Memecoins are basically a casino with the added twist of being able to bluff other idiots into doubling down on your bet to your own benefit.

Trump Coin, on the other hand, is not a meme coin. It looks like a meme coin and you're supposed to think of it as a meme coin but it's the first kind: a coin which enables some other service that delivers real value. That value is bribing government officials.

Large purchases of Trump Coin necessarily drive the price of the coin up, allowing Trump or his chosen acolytes to sell their horded coins at a tidy profit. Everyone who holds the coins has a commonly held interest. Everyone who buys them to inflate the price and enrich the holders expects to get something for their trouble and then becomes part of the cabal of holders.

Trump Coin is basically an anti-dollar: it is backed, not by the full faith and credit of the United States but by the political corruption and dominance of the MAGA movement.

We're busy all the time, and a lot of that time is with things that make us really fucking angry or stressed: work, traffic, the infinite social obligations that are probably bullshit but we feel we need to do to survive (business networking, our fucking gym memberships, that friend who always wants to do something stupid), and for those not single, don't even get me started on all the things we're pressured to do for our kids.

We get home and we're angry and have 10 minutes before it's time to go to bed and repeat it all, and we choose not to take out our frustrations on our partner and ditract ourselves with scrolling or tv or something. Is it really a surprise that we don't fuck as much? It's not that we don't want to, it's just that in the time-slot dedicated to sexy time, we're probably not feeling like sexy time.

I don't think our society is worth saving enough to figure out how to unwind all of this, although the obvious solution is so obvious.

Windows wants into this club, soonest, just install that TPM and windows 11, i bet macos and windows lock down the same day.

A torrent app will put government will to the test. I have no doubt citizens will want this, but governments are bought and paid for by many corporate interests, and those interests dislike torrent apps, whether they're used for things that aren't yet owned, but especially for things that are.

This is slashdot, there's no room for nuance on AI. Obviuosly the AI did what it was supposed to do, the person in question had made up his mind. End of sad story.

A kid around the corner did this just last week, I'm told that he'd been telling actual humans he was going to do it for a while, and they didn't believe him. But he did, and we're not able to sue Texas government for its abuse of trans-kids, even though arguably they're more deliberately motivating suicides than AI.

Mom and dad should be more focused on helping get mental health access for teens than worrying about Scam Altman.

It's wild to imagine Echostar/Dish being worth anything close to that amount of money. From my own experience working inside the company everything always seemed like it was held together with bailing wire and bubble-gum.

I assume there was a highly competitive bidding process for this because there's no way Dish's board of directors would have had the stones to set the price at "three times the company's market cap" on their own.