“Being profitable isn’t enough, there must always be doubling of growth” is the most toxic shit

It’s been thousands of years, if you haven’t read it by now, you have no excuse.

I used to work with many brilliant Russians on cool open source projects. Sad that an entire generation of potential is gone.

The cost of Chinese EVs is competitive. It’s only in the US that EVs are absurdly expensive.

Ah but have you considered that a minute of commercials lasts three times longer than a minute of Star Trek?

That’s the main problem with LLMs, they’re the embodiment of gullibility. If it’s written down, they assume it’s true.

To be fair, this is also a problem with certain demographics of humans…

What Microsoft does not seem to understand is that you don’t even have to make a GOOD product, you just have to make it better than eating broken glass.

Easy come, easy go

I don’t know if this is part of the cause, but I heard that Russia reallocated a lot of their air defense to Moscow, leaving holes in the rest of the country.

I mean, letting the constituency decide does sound an awful lot like a special election 😉

Not “grounds for”, it should be automatic. The system has lots of mechanisms to remove bad actors, but due to the inherent obstructionism in the system it’s impossible to actually trigger them.

Sick leave is fine, but the job has to get done regardless.

Yeah, or 40 degrees C. It gets crazy hot here.

Yeah it’s funny how many of these there are now that we’re able to look at smallish objects.

I think you’re thinking about it too hard! You don’t need to feel pressured to like things that other people like.

Probably both, popularity is often both a factor of “actually good” and “well-marketed”.

I mean, she’s not just a mascot, there’s a whole media franchise behind Hatsune Miku: video games, music, tv shows. Plus it mimics the whole idol culture that’s so popular in Asia. I find it hardly surprising that any franchise with that much content is popular.

Child basketball star faked paraplegia in order to dominate at the special olympics

Also I think people forget that even though a relationship ended, it (presumably) still brought happiness while it lasted.

You shouldn’t avoid doing good things just because they might end someday.

I think you completely misinterpreted my comment. We get to 40 C regularly in Texas.

It’s not about understanding anything. Yes, the voters are idiots here.

You would be correct. The grid is fine, even during cold snaps. The electric companies still do raise their prices during crises though, taking advantage of people when they are in danger.