2024 election was second highest turnout in 20 years wasn’t it?

And IIRC FI for Forced Induction?

Just found out last year (at 38) that I likely have undiagnosed narcolepsy. Explains a lot.

I think it’s the time dilation and spaghetti. And they can be damn difficult to spot. Or it may just be pure irrationality.

Black holes fill me with a sense of doom.

Does Yuzu work on SteamOS or did you boot a different OS? Definitely want to get a steam deck someday.

What are the details? Base OS, or you install something else? Emulator I assume?

You can be flippant or you can respond earnestly. You don’t want to discuss then don’t comment in the first place.

You didn’t answer the question. You dumb.

Who is dumber? The one calling people dumb, or the one unable to answer their questions? Don’t use metaphors if you don’t understand them or can’t explain how they are valid.

Is the artist who writes with inspiration from previous works also stealing? Every story draws from other stories. Most art is always a representation of things that explicit consent was not always recorded to create.

This reminds me of Napster days. We can pontificate endlessly over the moral and philosophical arguments. Meanwhile, time is passing and the tools become more commonplace. I just skip to the end and change with the times. The other option is to die with old fashioned beliefs. Neither option is correct, it just is what it is. Which do you prefer?

… He’s not equipped? Your metaphor was nonsensical. Let’s say he did copy his exam answers. Who lost their answers as a result?

Hence copying is not stealing.

Additionally, who was harmed by the copying in your example, and how?

I kinda feel like all I hear is anti AI talk. Meanwhile I’m in the camp of don’t demonize tools, demonize what people do with the tools that’s damaging.

As for art, I don’t know how to ascribe value to art. The Mona Lisa exists. As do copies of it that are worthless. At what point will the original have no value by virtue of the quality of the copies? Will a molecularly identical copy made with a Star Trek replicator make the original worthless? Or will it always be valued as the original?

I switched during the API fiasco. Most of my browsing is from mobile and I refused to use the crappy official app. Content had been declining in quality anyway, so I didn’t feel that strongly about it.

We can’t even refine our own oil. We import sweet crude to our refineries and export sour crude to international refineries.

There’s someone out there for everyone. I wish you luck finding them.

I think the highest I’ve heard someone claim their share price based on actual profitablity was around $100 or so, which is still far lower than current.

Do you know what the value should be considering it’s PE and whatnot? And whatever that is, is going to take a dive once the sales impacts are fully felt in the coming quarters. International sales are going to evaporate. Domestic probably as well. Prices going to increase from tariffs and supply chain issues. And competitors are making them look amateur in terms of build quality. Oh and Cyber Truck.

Hmm, we’ve lost our philosophical heart. Interesting. I feel like I knew this in my gut but couldn’t quite put my finger on it. I like the way you phrased this, I’ll have to remember it.

Microsoft is an Eldritch hydra monstrosity. I think it has become its own civilization. I think it’s so large that it just exists as a self sustaining chaos phenomena. I don’t think the organization can make a decision. One department of thousands makes a decision. And they all jostle about breaking each other’s shit every other day.

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