Pathetic. What at embarrassment. Go paint something gold, fuckwits.

Its also extracting resources, water and power and land, and sending the value to some multinational who isn’t going to return it to the local economy.

I think a bunch of people may have naively assumed it was a new local industry like a power station or factory.

Yep. Personally my first choice is the t490. Theres so many in great condition.

I like to imagine the IT debt in some office building buying and hording t490s just to be sure they don’t lose their budget next year.

Paradoxically, the paradox of tolerance is most often cited in the course of branding someone as “intolerant” and thereby excusing your intolerance of them.

Its a problem of semantics. Who really is sufficiently intolerant to be intolerable?

I don’t think you really understand my point ?

If you created some feature for libreoffice why would microsoft want to steal your code for office? They could just write their own code which would obviously be a better fit for their code base.

You’re conflating the theft of code used to train models with the theft of a business brand.

Yes, of course they’re using your code to train their models. That use is in their terms and their licensing.

No, of course they don’t steal businesses. However, they do acquire them or destroy them or undermine them, as is long standing tradition.

I don’t understand your point though? As in, how can anyone feel secure using their platform.

Code isn’t sacred cleverness that contains the value of a business. Being able to read the code doesn’t allow one to steal the value of that business. The value is in the brand, the domain, and the userbase.

That’s not really Microsoft’s business.

They sell picks and shovels. If they just stole someone’s mine everyone would stop buying their picks and shovels.

Because YouTube doesn’t engage in anything like that ofc.

only useful in the hands of someone already competent in a given field

Agreed. The problem being, how does someone become competent if they rely on LLMs to do things.

Somehow the word “socialist” has really bad branding.

LOL. Electring Trump has corrected loads of flaws. Sure.

LOL.

Its hard to imagine the feels could be worse than republicans.

It seems like every other day one of them is detained on sexual assault charges.

Classic Republican campaign: get the left to fight amongst themselves.

What facts is he referring to here?

Do you really actually believe that republicans really actually have a sinister plan to breed more slaves ?

It just seems kind of absurd to me. I’m sure there’s a few nutters that do want to breed slaves but not as a generally held premise.

I also think there are already sufficient slaves for whatever nefarious plan one might have.

In a bleak dystopian future where you have some kind of over-class that lives in fancy domes and the rest of us toil away in the wasteland, how many slaves or under-class do you need? Fewer than currently exist I imagine.

Lorena Biassotti, who campaigned as a member of the MAGA-aligned Moms for Liberty, sported an anti-trans shirt from an athletic wear brand that’s entire marketing strategy is transphobia, with fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines as their spokesperson.

I love that “fifth place swimmer” has become Gaines tag line.

It’s so shit.

I’ve spent most of my life wishing for a Labor government with a strong mandate. That finally arrives with the opportunity for real progressive social policy and suddenly they decide they want to be centrist.

Fuckwits. This is not what I voted for and it’s unlikely I will vote Labor again.

Not really, the case was finalised last year. This is the predictable appeal, which can almost be seen as a final step where you don’t review the evidence necessarily, but rather review the process followed in the case to ensure everything was fair.

This debate is completely lost on me.

Someone was trying to explain that the reason she sends her kids to a private school is because she doesn’t want them to learn about sex when they’re too young.

I don’t get it.

I genuinely don’t see the problem with kids knowing everything their curious minds want to know about reproduction.

She said they’re too young to process it. I think she means they’re too young to process the weird moral overlay she wants them to adopt.