But, to meaningfully tax them, we need a government that they don’t own.

Fuck the insurance companies, they should all be nationalized, with zero compensation for the capitalists running them now.

But yeah, we really don’t have useful accident data on the individual level. Tracking behavior that makes crashes more likely (and especially severe crashes, which cause a lot of damage) is a much more reasonable way to determine rates.

No it’s more complex than that. In the final session, participants were swapped between the LLM and Brain groups, and the effects persisted to some extent.

So it’s worse than “using an LLM doesn’t engage your brain”, it’s more like “using an LLM actually makes you dumber.”

Well I think that the products currently being hyped as “AI” are significantly more dangerous and harmful than they will ever be useful, and I would like to burn them.

Muppet: “yesss, the old lady disguise worked again!”

Whatever is happening in Iran, we can be sure that be sure that trump/the USA getting involved will not make anything better.

It has leaked that ICE agents are terrified of blowback from this murder: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/immigration-agents-terrified-by-ice

Yeah of course they’re cowards. Keep the pressure on, don’t let them sleep at night.

I mean that would be a little bit more plausible, although the article claims the opposite—that the device is super mysterious and the Americans don’t even know how to use it.

It sounds like someone pulled off a sweet scam though, getting “eight figures” for what sounds like a backpack full of cobbled together radio hardware.

This isn’t even tinfoil hat level, it’s literally something they’ve done before (with crack).

No one has blown the whistle on it yet, but I will be 0% surprised if they do.

Havana syndrome is a joke.

The Steam Deck’s AMD Custom GPU 0405 also saw a sharp dip in this revision going from 21.41% now to 13.37%.

I would have thought the Linux share would be mostly made up of steam decks, but seems that’s not the case!

The people have to do it.

“I fucking hate gen AI art and it has made my life more difficult in many ways… suddenly it infests shit in a way it shouldn’t,” Bender told Kotaku in a recent interview. “It is now written into our contracts if we’re publishing the game, ‘no fucking AI assets.'” I assume that’s not a verbatim quote, but I’d love to be proven wrong.

I like this guy.

For real, you’re not going to fix this mess with voting.

Maduro’s leadership is a helluva lot more legitimate than the orange pedophile.

The only country who might be emboldened by this is the fucking US itself, to start yet another conflict, just like they always do.

Oh no the country that hasn’t even been involved in a conflict in 50 years might invade!1! Never mind the country that’s been invading, bombing, couping, and backing terrorists and war criminals non-stop for like, most of its existence.

I haven’t done such a deep dive, but I have noticed specialty coffee can get real expensive. There’s a local roaster who sells some really good beans, but it’s the sort of thing I only buy occasionally as a treat, as opposed to the tea I drink pretty much daily.

And yes, the cafe isn’t really a fair comparison, since you’re paying for the staff and the building and such, but for me, when I’m at work I have a choice between grabbing a drink from one of the cafes on the block, or putting on the kettle. It’s about the same amount of time and effort either way, so I think it makes sense to compare them.

I like to look at it like this:

How many cups will you brew with this?

And how much would it cost to buy that many (inferior) beverages from your nearest cheap cafe franchise thingie? (If we were both in Canada, I would say Tim Hortons, but I don’t know if those exist in Europe.)

This comparison likely makes your 90€ look like a sweet deal.

Edit: I did a quick math for example. If you use 2g per cup (from the total weight mentioned in another comment) that’s 271 cups. 271 cups of (shitty) tea from Tim Hortons would be $593.49 CAD, or about 367 €.

those in power cannot be imprisoned.

This just sounds like business as usual.

I can see a continued/exacerbated erosion of faith in various institutions, and a corresponding use of state violence to maintain the status quo, but without a serious (well organized, with mass support) alternative, the current ruling class will stay in power and nothing will change dramatically. We’ll just continue along the downward spiral, same as before.

So when the US “neutralized a Venezuelan tanker”, that wasn’t an escalation, but now when Maduro takes measures to prevent this happening again, now it’s a “significant escalation”??