What I don't get is why the Left isn't cheering wildly. The USA is the most racist warmongering genocide-in-Gaza-supporting country in the world. I mean, imagine sending C-17s full of machetes to the Hutu in Rwanda, the US sent bombs to Israel.

The US is ethnic cleansing with ICE.

"If we strike first and our victim dares to fight back, then weâ(TM)re the ones being attacked." The United States is a brutal and immoral actor in the world and has been longer than any of us have been alive. To wave the flag at a pro-immigrant rally would be to somehow suggest that the country the flag represents is worth celebrating, and it is not. Left-wing protestors donâ(TM)t carry American flags because carrying the American flag is a symbol of support for the United States of America, its government and its actions, of condoning its project in whole or in part, and left-wing people (like me) canâ(TM)t do that because the United States is a brutal and immoral actor in the world and has been longer than any of us have been alive. To wave the flag at a pro-immigrant rally would be to somehow suggest that the country the flag represents is worth celebrating, and it is not. Itâ(TM)s not for many reasons, the most direct and salient of which is that no country on earth has caused more wanton destruction, cruelty, and degradation of freedom and democracy Americans are the least educated and knowledgeable of foreign affairs, languages, and disparate cultures, societies, and social norms among all Westernized countries and the least exposed universally.

America is based on demonizing whole groups of people (migrants, Muslims, independent women, LGBTQP people).

This is the basis for all your horrible politics and terrible policies.

China always aspired to be the world's undisputed leader in science and technology, and Trump is giving them what they want.

If it's science, this government is against it.

The problem with immigrants is always getting them to integrate with the resident culture rather than just transplanting their own into the new place.

FWIW, Roman troops used that effect to make ice cream (well, really sherbets) in the Sahara. But that didn't cool down the days.

Additionally, the farther you move from the equator towards the poles, the less surface area there is.

Yes, having another company run the service is significantly better because they can't lock your hardware to them.

That is, if I buy an iPhone and connect it up to the Verizon, I know that if Verizon goes under, I can probably connect it to T-Mobile.

The problem is not unethical business (that exists everywhere), but instead scum trying to sell you a service when you want a product, so they tie them together.

Given that perspective, the hottest possible temperature is when the air molecules are moving at about the speed of light.

Of course, nothing would hang around in that case.

Oh, we can figure out a way easily enough. Figuring out a way to do it that doesn't quintuple food prices is the more difficult part.

A lot of people don't realize how valuable "environmental services" (like crop-friendly weather) are to the economy until suddenly they don't have them anymore, and have to start spending money to try to reproduce those same conditions artificially. Building air-conditioned indoor farms is going to be hell of a lot of capital-intensive than just essentially planting seeds in the ground and gathering the result food afterwards.

Hmm, sounds like you've caused an underflow on an unsigned value. I recommend restarting the simulation from the top and hoping it goes better on the next iteration.

They shut down the "Wemo Mini Smart Plug" which was still sold in November 2023. It came with a 3 year warranty.

That is screwed up.

And why you should NEVER buy hardware that comes with a service sold by the same company.

If you buy hardware it should be usable with OTHER people's services. If they want you to get a service, it should include the hardware for free/included in the monthly service fee.

After due consideration, I have decided to never purchase a Belkin product again.

OTOH, I've always avoided purchasing anything that required internet access to work. So perhaps I'm not part of their market. (I believe that the last Belkin product I bought was a cable.)

Actually a small fraction of the extremely rich do invest in or create things that a corporation wouldn't. But you can never tell which ones will do that, and they are often rather crazy in other ways.

I can't strike a good balance sheet on this thing. SpaceX required a wealthy backer to even get started. And probably Tesla speeded the development of electric cars by at least 5 years, more probably a decade. Those are really valuable contributions. They don't justify worshiping crazy ideas. But without the "extremely rich" class, they wouldn't have happened.

What made the decision so difficult was that they decided they had to give refunds to everyone whose devices no longer functioned properly, because their customers were no longer getting the functionality they had paid for.

Right?

You shouldn't believe the hype ... in either direction. The vendors will always claim their product is better than it is, and those who are threatened by it will always deny the competency.

Unless, however, AI development hits a wall, one should expect it to continue to improve.

OTOH, I suspect that training it on the unmoderated internet has gone quite a bit beyond the optimal stage. That was good for basic grammar, and picking up neologisms, but beyond that it doesn't seem to lead anywhere. What is needs is "validated correct information with a relatively low noise level". And it still needs to be prepared to doubt it.