I find this unlikely… IMO I think they are hedging in both directions.

Personally I like the idea of local AI. open source models that you an control, decide, and use smartly, sort your things etc… and not pay an absurd cost or link up.

Personally I think MS is actually betting on the opposite. IE they had a prototype windows that was basically just an AI prompt, no start menu etc… and applications just “streamed”.

IMO I think that’s more of the goal, use the data center buildout to drive up hardware prices, until people cannot afford a basic PC. Sell thin clients… then sell us “access” to compute in a form where we own nothing, but pay by the processes used etc…

It’s a tragedy that pop country music has become Republican radio.

Now it’s all jean-shorts, parting, and trucks. Bring back the alcoholism, divorce, and murder please.

I think bo burnum’s “pandering” song is dead on the money. In short I think that’s really it, Country music has a strong tie to a very uneducated population. As a result a very rich corporate machine realized they can mass produce it using the right key words to basically sell low effort music. The tiny handful that actually make it into the top by actually being talented and writing because of passion. Will inevitably trigger controversy by seeing humans as humans. Same thing happened with the Dixie Chicks a few years ago.

On the whole, while at the start of Covid 19 alchohol sales went up, it overall decreased (most likely due to the lack of social drinking, and bars), Plus marketing etc… “Hey we did our part to help out in this time of need, become a loyal customer”. Would take a lot more analysis to see if it actually made less money, or if they were making less money so it made sense to use their unneeded capacity to sell a normally less profitable item and possibly earn some long term good PR.

Agreed, though that might be the way to actually get people who aren’t already opposed to stupid warhawks saying stupid warhawk things to apply some critical thinking to what’s being proposed. Because I’d say almost everyone can tell at a glance how stupid this idea is, but a lot of trump supporters wouldn’t apply the slightest bit of critical thought to something that came from trumps Institute of Peace.

Which isn’t quite how capitalism usually works so 🤷‍♂️

It still is how capitalism works, lots of people want to buy a product, then companies will sell it. It’s not good will it’s just business sense.

Guessing something similar to the toilet paper aisles during covid.

Which I gotta say also is one that was funny when basically this was done in the US just before the 2020 election… where they showed the shelves of how the stores currently were, followed by a “this is Biden’s america”.

There’s lots, but just like everything, very few people actually can stick with and use them. Probably the thing that I think would be a logical feature in most chat programs, would be if say you put in your timezone into the client somewhere, then when you type a time you put some character before it like *3:30pm - the chat client could determine your timezone, put it in chat as UTC, and each recieving client could automatically convert it to their users timezone (and I suppose some kind of tag to make it so people know it is already translated to their timezone).

rooted in a well-documented pattern of unfair trade, subsidies, intellectual property theft and surveillance

I have faith in America, there’s no way we’re losing to china in patterns of unfair trade, subsidies, IP theft and surveillance.

It’s the scale rule… steal a $25 disk, jail… steal 2 billion dollars worth of media… bailout.

No no you win by having continuous construction projects that never finish and rack up “points” (IE taxpayer dollars) through your cronies.

From what I’ve seen, there’s definately a vocal group of little people, that consider it a slur. What percentage of actual people with the condition that think it I have no idea

Agreed that’s trying to preserve the workaround, without fixing the problem.

Problem is it doesn’t matter, the reality is, demand for jobs, and people who need to survive… isn’t a number guaranteed to match, and between automation, and wages falling so far behind inflation that many households need 2+ incomes just to keep the lights on, an unemployment problem is inevitable.

If AI actually can cut enough jobs, that the number of jobs available, is less than the number of people who WANT to work, then all we need to do is make it so people don’t HAVE to work.

Wasn’t even close to saying he shouldn’t be in jail, just saying the story puts so much emphasis on facts that literally have zero relevance to what actually happened. At bare minimum that should be manslaughter, assuming 100% of his story as true and the gun went off accidentally.

Honestly based on the heated arguements before, I’d be skeptical and lean towards murder.

The thing I find somewhat odd of the story, is if the facts are accurate, what’s even the point of the trump arguement. It feels like the article is flooded with basically details not directly related to the shooting. The “relapsed alchoholic that had 2 glasses of wine”, the topic of the arguements (and even the specific things said in them).

Actual relevant facts of the shooting.

Dad had an arguement with the daughter.

Several hours later they had an arguement on guns, Dad brought out gun to show her… then claims he accidentally shot her.

Point is the arguement doesn’t really hold relevance, Dad either horribly mishandled the firearm, in which case the situations up to it were irrelevant.

Or dad murdered his daughter in a fit of rage.

I don’t think so… I honestly think the direction anyone supporting the AI bubble wants, is going to be streaming games. You won’t run them on the PC… they will run out of a data center and your inputs will go back ot the data center, You’ll own nothing, you’ll adapt to paying a subscription price for single player games, hell instead of monthly you could pay by the hour or minute.

Because the whole idea is to discourage people from behavior that is likely to cause bad things to happen. Obviously when bad things happen we go “I wish someone had stopped the person before people died”.

A letter warning that they might consider supporting their primary opponent. Unless that primary opponent actually wants to consider even a baseline of progressive policies, or heaven for bid uses the word socialism in a non negative context.

Most likely it is going to be a whole lot of “arrest anyone with slightly foreign appearence, ignore their paperwork, let them out in 3 days after enough lawyers get involved and the person has overwhelming evidence they are legal citizens”.

Yeah I think that’s the question. in short it’s fishing for a way to make it profitable, whole concept is when we pour enough money, servers, research etc… into it, eventually it will start making money faster than we put into it, and so far, that’s not been proven. Que old image of guys digging for diamonds, one walking away just before hitting the diamond jackpot, the other blindly charging towards it.

and of course just like reality, there’s no actual way to know if there’s even any diamonds… just that we haven’t found them yet.

I mean, I’m totally fine with a physical device based authentication (but agree that a company should provide a phone or yubikey), bank same concept.