Heavens, they released a product with new features?

The author (in the summary) specifically claims "Anker no longer lists a display-less model in its 20,000mAh range." Anker doesn't seem to offer any 20 Ah powerbanks so I assume "20,000mAh range" means 20 Ah or more, making the claim untrue. It's also cherrypicking one company and one specification.

Some people obviously want LCDs on their powerbanks. One of the posters above wants a flashlight. Whatever. There are still lots of black boxes with batteries available for sane people.

"AI hardware" isn't "LLMs". It's a souped up vector unit. You can run LLMs with it, but I doubt very much that's what Dell or Microsoft want you to do. Especially Microsoft. That would spoil the business model.

They want your processor to have hardware support for image and video processing, voice recognition, text to speech and a bunch of other things that nobody has thought of yet.

Neural networks have more applications than LLMs.

LLMs are neural networks.

Spam filtering, translation, battery life indicators.

There's no such thing. Certs for code signing are issued by Apple and have a fixed validity period. Timestamping proves when the code was signed.

Actually, both the summary and Logitech's FAQ clearly say that Windows users are not affected.

Unless Logitech did something very weird, this is likely to be a *major* bug.

The whole reason for Apple requiring app signing to use a timestamping service is so that bulls**t like this doesn't happen. Unless revoked, an app's signature is supposed to remain valid forever, so long the certificate was valid when the app was signed, even if the certificate has since expired. If that isn't happening, then Apple needs to fix the regression in its code signature validation.

There were troops on the ground. They just left already. Presumably what Polymarket intended the word "invade" to mean is "occupy", i.e. invade the country and then continue to keep troops there long-term to stabilize the country. However, as a general matter of law, the word "invade" does not require occupation, but rather occurs when you have two factors: entry and enmity.

Entry: The presence of foreign troops on another country's soil. Clearly, U.S. troops were on Venezuelan soil, because they captured Maduro.

Enmity: This means the intent to act as an enemy of the the country in question. Clearly U.S. troops had hostile intent towards the government of Venezuela, because they arrested its leader. And as a general matter of international law, having hostile intent towards a nation's government is generally considered to be hostile intent towards the country (except if the actor is part of that country, e.g. in the case of a civil war). Therefore, this military action appears to involve enmity.

Now folks can certainly argue that the intent was to rescue Venezuela from that government, and argue that the troops did not intend to act as enemies of a country, but only of a specific individual, but as the head of state, this argument is problematic at best.

So the question is whether Polymarket provided a definition for "invade" ahead of time that is different from the traditionally held legal definition, in which case they might have ground to stand on, or failed to do so, in which case they will likely be forced to pay out.

The definition that they provided as their justification — “US military operations intended to establish control” — appears to still be problematic for them, as the clear intent of that military operation was to establish control. Our president literally said that the U.S. would run Venezuela until a new president could be elected. So the control over Venezuela being temporary doesn't change that the intent was to establish control. Additionally, he made it clear that part of the intent is to restore U.S. corporate control over Venezuela's oil fields, which is also a form of establishing control, and is likely *not* temporary. So whether you use the legal definition or their own, Polymarket's conclusion seems dubious at best, and potentially outright fraudulent, depending on whether they have skin in the game.

not new for most palces.

Maybe it's just a US thing?

I doubt very much this was, or is, normal in most places. Perhaps in the US, which is about 4% of the world by population and about 6% by land area. We certainly read the whole novel in the 80s and 90s. No individual chapters, ever.

The cost of tar sands oil is high and requires high demand to make it profitable; also a problem for a portion of the Venezuelan oil as well but they have more of the cheaper oil than Canada.

There are other minerals as well. Greenland is a great target not really for security (recall that Bush tried to close our military "base" up there because it was a waste and backed down because of other political deals.) but they have cheap energy, supposedly rare earth minerals, and a remote low population where one could complete with China on their magnet monopoly (price, pollution, they refine over 90% which is the real trick.) This is likely where The Moron's misunderstanding of how "water" ruins magnets in that the mineral refinement process produces oxygen/water and takes a crazy amount of heat to remove the oxygen.

China found it can use magnets to push around Trump's attempt to bully them so his tiny brain thinks fixing the magnet problem will take away their "card" not realizing they hold most the cards until he forces them to deal another one "nobody knew" just like "nobody knew" how necessary magnets are.

Weakness is going to foobar Taiwan in a couple years and so...build your PC now.

Also, about two weeks after I first got my Model X, it sprang a coolant leak because somebody didn't fasten something together properly in the back end of the car.

So I wouldn't call it maintenance-free. It is complicated enough that things absolutely can go wrong. They even used to recommend a coolant flush after a year of ownership, though at some point, they stopped doing that.

Until it isn't. One part of that coolant system (some sort of crossover valve or similar) failed on my Model X and damaged the front motor just a couple of weeks before its drivetrain warranty expired (so I only paid for the valve).

No, they don't. They have massively less brake wear than a traditional ICE car. But that's also true of a plug-in hybrid.

You're right about the fuel filter. It doesn't get changed often, but it does get changed.

But EVs have a massively more complex cooling system than ICE cars, because they have to have coolant flowing through multiple motors on opposite ends of the car and through the battery in addition to the HVAC, and you have a heat pump instead of just a simple radiative heat exchanger. And most people do not ever replace the coolant in their ICE cars.

I'll bite at a reasonable argument just for fun:

Trump promoted and continues to promote anti-vaccination BS along with the promotion of selfishness and an extreme role model for selfishness (along with the 7 deadly sins.) His cult's work influences people over the internet and propaganda networks like Fox all of which reach into Canada. Without him, the tiny minority of idiots would continue to shrink as they slowly remove themselves from the gene-pool and possibly get attention from the Darwin Awards but instead they've grown and continue to grow faster than they can reduce their own numbers.

Measles is extremely contagious so it takes very few people... Canada has decent education but are not immune from the defective humans at the bottom of the bell curve who can't learn to even take a free easy to access proven vaccination as much as this could be a fluke increase, it is likely higher as a result of Trump's biggest export: stupid.

How about that as a reasonable argument? certainly superior to fishermen, Trinidad workers in outboard motor boats being fentanyl runners... going 1600miles in open ocean...

Colloidal Silver is sold by many scammers. Having an ounce of truth makes it even easier to scam. I've seen stuff that was sold as specially prepared by devout Christians which was MORE effective that other brands; so much so they could greatly reduce the expensive silver used while maintaining superior effectiveness!