have a monthly subscription for a PC and all the apps that run on it. Consumers are stupid enough to go for this.

Anyone who has had a coworker that has done this can relate.

This whole thing is clickbait, "russian components" implies that russia made it. There are still electronic components that are source from russia, components from russia means nothing.

Yes. Is it in the amount that were in these junk science studies and reported widely in the media NO. I'm willing to bet that we're getting a little bit of microplastic contamination and then the human body but we're not getting a full teaspoon of plastic in the human brain like some of these studies have just suggested.

Yeah, did you ever check the sources on since if those studies, like did you ever open up the study and look at the pdf? I did and I thought they were shady, not all of them were, but most were. If you haven't opened up a report then you have no business even discussing this, you are relying on reports.

I would think the guardian is a reputable source with listening to. Also what about big environmental that is trying to eliminate all plastic.

If they say, "Yeah we will work on it" then they will be less competitive for exactly the reasons you list, no company is willing to be less competitive

No one has done a quantification of energy costs. A human body/brain takes ~200W to run, and 200Wh for one hour. An AI image generation can take 500Wh. https://www.nature.com/article... Granted AI can do this a lot faster than a human, but what is more economical?

Google says the typical gemini search takes 0.24Wh

Then what is the point? The companies can do whatever they want with our data? Location data is pretty darn sensitive, and then we have what? No option to communicate without companies selling you out?

If this falls through it will be a significant loss, and a sure bet that corporations have too much power.

I don't need more window space if I can't use the product. Not only is this happening with OS's but it's happening with browsers and webpages with scroll bars. I'd rather be able to find the scroll bar than save 4-12 pixels worth of screen space, which is usually 1/2 to 1/4 the size of a font in the app. Is it worth it? No. The problem is OS's are mature and the UI people still need a job, so what do they do? Keep changing things that don't need to be changed.

They are spending money at the rate of multiple GDPs of countries on something that's risky and without application. They are pricing in replacing significant factions of the workforce with AI. The problem is there is no technological pathway to obtain that goal. The AI companies are spending cash to compete with each other to get to this goal without knowing how to get there, but the plan is 1) throw more hardware at it and scale up 2) throw more personnel at the problem.

If they don't obtain their goal we will have a global recession, so you can bet that some of us are interested in saying 'you might want to think twice about this'

These guys are stupid enough to run companies, technologies and economies into the ground. Think about the robotic/urban farm movement a few years ago. The technocrats threw 100s of millions, and today? Nothing to show for it.

Big techs lawyers will be all over this

To keep investors interested, with new ideas so zuck can prove he's working on 'something'. The metaverse failed, the VR will keep people interested for a few more years and keep their dollars there. The sheer amount of dollars wasted at metal is staggering.

No, but I am seeing winters getting vastly warmer where I'm at, like spooky warm. They are nothing like they were years ago. And its due to this:
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What is attractive about a pizza chain? It's not that Americans don't like pizza, but the pizza is terrible from chains. Little ceasers cardboard pizzas make me sick. Dominos is ok, I haven't sat down at a pizza hut for years. But all serve up not healty pizza. And I've never had delivered pizza.

If you are a foodie and want good pizza stick to artisan or thin crust with fresh ingredients. Or go to Italy. Or make your own pizza with 00 pizza flour with durum wheat.

If you want to funnel carbs into your body stick with the chain pizzas.