Teach it about that power cord feeding it.

Try to out-China China?

And a douche bag of a president who drops bombs next to schools and kills 135 kids . Should resign on the spot for that.

Look up "human shields", the practice of siting military targets among (or in or under) large collections of non-military civilians, in order to deter strikes against them or produce propaganda claims of atrocities when they're attacked anyhow.

In such situations the fault for the "collateral damage" is assigned to the side that set up the arrangement, not the side that hit it.

Nevertheless, it should be noted that the US has been trying very hard to use precision munitions and extreme military intelligence to take out military targets with as little harm to the innocents they're embedded among as possible, with impressive success. Compare the amount of collateral damage in this war to any of those conducted in the 20th century.

It might mean a smaller pool of differing ads, but it does not mean fewer ads for those users. In fact, Facebook might even increase the number of ads shown, because they will be more motivated to do so in order to sell more ad placement.

That is not how advertising works. It's from companies whose advertising managers think they can make a return.

That is not how facebook works. All content on facebook is tagged automatically. When you interact with it those tags are copied into your "interests", whether that interaction was positive or negative. Therefore no advertising on facebook is really targeted, and all of it is just blanket spam.

And then it's a victory.

He's doing the bare minimum sniff test of verifying that *you* are the guy whose name is on the bookings and not someone sneaking in on someone else's name who can't even pronounce the name on your fake id.

At least in the case of people claiming to be returning citizens I've been told that they're comparing your accent to your claimed residence (or residence history).

Different words are acquired at different ages, and many are pronounced with regional variations. An expert can talk to you for a few minutes and come up with a pretty good age-map of where you lived as you grew up. An agent with a modicum of training can detect a mismatch between how you pronounce certain words and your claimed residence and pass you through quickly or keep you around and drill more deeply. (If you now live in an area with a regional accent wildly different from where you grew up it can help to answer a where-do-you-reside question with "Footown, but I grew up in Barstate".)

I presume they are doing something similar, though no doubt with lower resolution, on the world-wide level for visitors from other countries.

A couple things to consider on that:

• Once again the percentage of eligible voters who bothered to vote at all in the presidential election was small
• As in the other elections where Trump ran, many people were casting votes against someone as much as they were casting them for someone. In 2016 Trump won largely because of the avalanche of anti-Clinton sentiment that came from Republican regulars who very much did not agree with his platform. In 2020 Biden won in no small part in response to the disaster that Trump created in his first term. Then in 2024 the quick switch that the democrats pulled to change their endorsed candidate caused a large number of otherwise reliable democrats to not bother showing up at all.

  I would much rather go nearly anywhere in Europe.

  If we were to go back to the topic of the IgNobels themselves it would be interesting to know how many people actually traveled internationally the last several years to attend in person. I've read about them regularly but never considered going in person; I'm not sure I even knew before reading this that they were previously hosted in the US.

That might depend on how widely we define "arena rock". Yeah there aren't a lot of "rock" acts - by the traditional definition - that are selling out huge stadiums but there are plenty of other acts that are. Between various pop princesses, nostalgic rockers from the past, comedians, and even politicians we have plenty of non-sporting events selling out the hockey, basketball, baseball, and football arenas.

That said, while the tours pay the artists better than media / streaming revenue - and by a huge margin - the artists get but a small fraction of the ticket price. Prices keep going up, and at some point the fans won't pay it. Ticketmaster doesn't seem to have a plan for this, they seem to exist in an alternative reality where all fans have unlimited funds to see their favorite artists.

Which is a good argument for getting a well rounded education. The software is only tool to implement an algorithm and solve a problem. One has to understand the problem domain to begin with.

This will be LLMs Achilles Heel. It doesn't really 'understand' anything.

When you factor in the costs of launching the mirror into orbit, I'm pretty sure it would generate a lot more C02 that it displaces. I was going to say why not just put the solar panels in space and beam down the energy, but a mirror might have a longer useful lifetime in space than a solar panel, although both are going to get pitted by micrometeorites over time.

I heard his wife was a Hoare anyway...

An act of terrorism can also be an act of war. You don't know what words mean but want to argue about it. That's sad.

Oh look you're pretending there weren't pipe bombs

... you'll need to do your job. Sounds like a place I'd love to work.

The law here (Seattle) is for all intents and purposes nonexistent for users. But there they go, flopping down on the pavement and dying anyway. Meanwhile, the state takes it upon themselves to discourage tobacco and alcohol. And demand that I wear a seat belt. But fent (all opioids and meth) are all good as far as they are concerned. And its a much easier habit to kick than booze, pot or hallucinogens. So, cut off the supply and maybe they'll clean up. But no. Can't do that because the dealers scream. The people for whom that law is, to some extent, still enforced.

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