lol, I accept the correction!

Babies are everywhere. Even album covers!

Israel was the instigator of this crisis. It is a theocracy with a veneer of democracy, that has been unable to live peacefully with its neighbours for 3 generations, mostly due to a Chosen People complex as big as the Orthodox population. As an experiment in relocation after WWII, they have been showing the world what not to do.

Once the islamic regime in Iran falls

Right now the only thing that's certain is that the US Navy is scared of entering the Straight of Hormuz. HTH.

Also, Bill Gates is a friend of Epstein.

Firstly, they had infrasound in the 19th century. Think railways.

Also, carbon monoxide from badly adjusted gas lamps.

No. They found that they could not break glass with just a voice, nor did they know anyone who could. Did they test every single person on the planet?

It's not possible to prove a negative. Much of what Mythbusters claimed was that they had proved a negative.

It sounds like they're both sleazeballs. Do you have a point?

Expect hackers to install hidden background daemons who relay AI prompts from strangers over the Internet, at only half the per token price.

Just ask an AI to check the source for you.

(sorry, I'm kidding)

Well, Elon is a sleazeball because he can't be bothered to pay his share for the support of several children he fathered. That's a deadbeat right there.

Whereas Altman looks like some kid from That 70s show, minus the afro.... You just know he's up to something.

And whose motorcycle is this?

You're right in that up-front costs often drove the decision-making, but what they didn't take into account is that software that is a nightmare to use means the admins get less done in a day, and the users keep requiring tech support, which means the company has to hire additional employees, so in exchange for a "cheap" one-time software purchase they are now saddled with expensive additional staffing costs, in perpetuity.

"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
-- H.L. Mencken

It's much, much worse than that. Amazon books since 2023 are often AI generated slop. Garbage through and through, maskerading as anything interesting. The company simply don't even do the simplest checks about what they accept in their inventory.

I never buy books post 2022 any more. The only exception is if I know the author. New authors? Sorry, you can blame the tech bros.

I do however still buy a lot of older books. I've seen the near future, and the information pollution is going to get worse before it gets better.