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My apologies, I don't have a waffling permit. Yourself and all your friends are pleased with everything that happened during that time period? My mistake. I can only take you at your word, that's what I mean by lived experience.

If you're happy, I'm happy. The Australians I met stuck abroad at the time were... not. You might also look upthread. Maybe their opinions don't count or something.

NPR is state-funded and is far-far left.

If you consider PBS and BBC to somehow be conservative I guess that's why things are entirely unclear to you. What on earth would you like me to cite?

  plurality /ploo͝-răl′ĭ-tē/
  noun

  A large number or amount; a multitude.

> there are indeed numerous liberal-leaning media outlets

Ahem..

Indeed. Alt-right/left/whatever. Very potent tactics as you can tell even from reading this thread.

You would think people who come to these bitter realizations would know better but many inevitably land on "the ends justifies the means" or the less sophisticated "only our scum enemies lie!" and round and round we go.

If you reread what you wrote carefully an amazing irony falls out.

You might consider your consent has simply been manufactured in another direction. Lots of Chomsky acolytes never quite reach that epiphany.

They simply follow in his footsteps of being oh so traumatized by the sudden realization that governments lie and propaganda is a thing that you could get them to opt in to an even deeper set of absurdities and half truths quite easily. To the great delight of the enemies of the US.

This is how you get college students to chant "Death to America".

Don't drool, it is unbecoming ;)

> Am I an outlier, yes

Nope, normcore to the max. You've been greenwashed.

Your EV won't run on Solar. The cost of electricity is not trending towards zero.

> I am always trying to find ways to swap out my lifestyle with something more efficient.

The best thing you could personally do is squeeze out a few hundreds thousands miles out of a third hand Honda Civic. Not that your personal lifestyle matters one iota.

What should be done? Enjoy life and if you want to promote anything at all promote engineering degrees for young people. And nuclear power.

A plurality of Western media is far-far-left leaning.

I recall speeches by British celebs in the late 90s when this sort of thing first became fashionable. Some lady told a huge crowd that they need to unplug their kettles. You are not serious people.

But I'm sure it feels great to sit around at conferences and discuss "pushing people to take the bus". Heck, it is a whole industry unto itself, isn't it?

P.S. - I do think climate change is a serious issue. Figured I'd mention that before the usual responses that shun and excommunicate me as a "denier".

This will simply not have "political solutions". Realistically the greens are counter productive to the max and always have been. It is simply the self-flagellation remnant bits of defunct religions. Devoid of rationality.

See also: Germany and nuclear power. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Bump helmets.

He would call them a bunch of tasteless bozos.

Majorly cult-y.

It isn't difficult to predict at this point: It will be added as a minor gimmick to every app and mostly rolled back next version as the hype dies down and the embarrassing half assed implementations are mocked.

I wouldn't even be surprised if they add it to the calculator app at first. Next version they'll keep the vaguely plausible integrations that people actually use. Which will be very few.

Some of this will be justified internally as experimentation and data collection. This used to be called taste.

In actuality it is because they don't want to be perceived by the markets as "falling behind". We gotta do something, this is a thing, and therefore.. arm flail

All the incentives at play point squarely at enshitification.

There's no shortage of whacko treatments in mainstream medicine nowadays. Very unfortunate and dangerous.

One thing you plausibly could do is attempt medical tourism, if nothing else, your perspective will improve.

https://archive.is/GeGwm

  THE CHATGPT EFFECT

  When ChatGPT launched in late 2022, everything changed. Federighi, the software chief, became a convert that Christmas break after he began playing around with the Microsoft-owned GitHub AI coding tool called Copilot, which is powered by OpenAI’s technology, said people familiar with his experience.

  After that moment, across Federighi’s software-engineering organization, employees were tasked with coming up with new ways of incorporating generative AI into products and given resources to pursue these projects, said former executives and engineers. At internal meetings, Federighi said that he had come to appreciate generative AI technology and that it would be incorporated into all aspects of Apple’s software.

Craig played with CoPilot => "AI all the things!". Same as Google, just throw spaghetti at the wall. I dread the upcoming iOS updates it will be a clippy-everywhere nightmare.

Alright. Fair.

I just went back and flagged this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40565668

  I mean histrionic is a pretty accurate description of Musk's own persona. You get what you give.

“Elon bad therefore my tantrum is justified” - I’ve seen that countless times and never a peep from you.

I wrongly assumed you saw it. You are right it wasn’t flagged. This happens every single Musk thread. Very hard to miss.

I’ll once again diligently report and not take bait. I take you at your word.

I’m not an Elon defender at all but these tactics don’t belong on the site and it has to stop already. Enough.

Can you please for once make these remarks during an Elon thread when they consistently make awful comments and constantly break the rules?

Enforce things equally please.

Just do better.

> The headline is pretty editorialized and presents a pretty misleading picture.

Could never have predicted this given the domain name.

Why not? The hardware is better than a Thinkpad or anything else I can think of. Only thing keeping me from running Asahi full time is battery/sleep. Hopefully they figure that out this year.

From the article:

  My view has long been that the essential skill of a hedge fund manager is not picking the right stocks, but rather continuing to run a hedge fund: Picking the right stocks is a good way to keep running a hedge fund, but it is not the only one, and locking up capital permanently is in some ways even better. But that is even more true for outside investors: They are looking to own a company for the long term, and they can’t be sure that you will always pick the right stocks. But if they’re sure that your capital can’t leave, that helps.

  This predictability — of assets and fees — is not the only thing to Pershing Square’s pitch. There’s also the cost structure.

You do better.

We must not allow a hype gap.

It slowed down sufficiently and hovered for a moment before splashing down. That was the point of the test.

In the future they'll try catching it.

Heat tiles and or ice falling off

V4 demonstrating steady confident progress.

The hard bit coming up in 25 minutes. Going forward getting to this point in the flight plan is now basically table stakes. What a marked difference from V1. Love to see it.

Go and read those threads.

Follow your own rules when it comes to subjects that trigger you and all will be well.

If it is not clear, I find the histrionics a form of performative trolling.

LOL

The Middle East including KSA are some of the top consumers of porn per capita, especially gay porn.

And Dubai is sin city.

They happily invest in all manner of unislamic things, it is good to be the king. How are you so naive.

Every Musk thread smacks of desperation since the histrionics on here the day he took over and fired all those indispensables.

The site will go down imminently! Traffic is cratering! Everyone I know have switched to mylittlepony tooting on mastodon!

I get it, you don’t like him, by all means. But stop manifesting reality.

Edit: awww you guys, sorry if I hurt your feelings. Twitter is down, tooting ftw! musk bad, I conform with all your pet issues and hatreds, please don’t shun me!

I would push it for $1.