The worst to me is everyone now including a shitty bag to put the product in. Like it MAYBE makes sense to include a case for travel headphones or something but no I do not need you to include something for me to put the external SSD drive in.

Not to mention, Russia has been waging asymetric warfare tactics against NATO powers for years. If anything, it’s that they haven’t woken up to the nature of the conflict.

Oh nice I’ve been waiting for this.

No that’s very true, I had it look up leather repair shops not too long ago and it listed six completely fictional shops with fully fleshed out trip-advisor style blurbs for each one. It was hilariously convincing and a complete waste of my time. But it does seem like that happens less and less lately.

I’m extremely wary and nervous about how disruptive LLMs can/will be but one relief is just getting an answer directly for things instead of wading through page after page of SEO optimized BS. Just really nice when you can get a quick answer and get back to the things you want to be doing.

I suppose the AI overlords will screw that up somehow too but IMO it’s at a brief moment of usefulness.

I thought the larger point was that they’re using plenty of sources that do not lie in the public domain. Like if I download a textbook to read for a class instead of buying it - I could be proscecuted for stealing. And they’ve downloaded and read millions of books without paying for them.

Thrawn would have been such a home-run no brainer

Well it sure looks fun and stylish but the reviews make it sound pretty unfinished

Do you ever get the feeling that all the right story beats are there, if only it were guided by a more masterful hand

Yeah you say that until you get a tusk in the crotch

I was thinking it’s funny that they’d write an event into Star Trek so close to the time the episode aired and then I realized it was 30 YEARS AGO

Yeah it’s hard to say what they really want at the debate. What is clear is that they know just how to use these opportunities to get under his skin

Apparently every major car brand has to go through its fascist phase

It’s what Google does, launch products -> cancel them, buy products -> cancel them. I have been burned enough times by them that I don’t use anything they make anymore out of the certainty that it’ll get canceled just as soon as I’ve grown to depend on it.

I’m American and also know the continents are called that and also don’t always want to be called American. But that’s the standard and what everyone uses to refer to us, until I meet some pedant who thinks they’re clever and trying to prove some kind of point as if I didn’t know or as if I chose that word myself.

Nobody will be confused if you tell them you’re American

And the student himself acting ethically despite thinking they’re only 36/100

I wonder how many songs they licensed are by artists that would actually need that kind of exposure.

Totally reminds me of the Sergei Ponomarenko time traveler mystery. It was a pretty convincing story until people tried to actually verify the sources and evidence. Joe Scott did a great video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH3lkiq4WqI

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