Me too. Twice. Same message, same picture, two different users.

Also, he’s completely insulated from consequences.

Yes, the right hates queer people, but he’s rich enough never to be bothered by it. He’s not sacrificing anything.

An irony curtain.

Exactly.

These protests are often enough extremely mild but get prosecuted like terrorist, while much more violent protests get a slap on the wrist at max.

Here in Germany, right wing farmers protested by illegally blocking entire cities with their tractors, much worse interruptions than the glued-to-the-street teenager, and they actually threatened violence. Yet, only a handful of them got any form of legal trouble, and that only for petty stuff.

Guess, which protesters threatened the status quo and which just wanted more money out of the system?

I myself enjoyed every single lecture I had

I didn’t like all lecturers

Haters might call that a contradiction.

I didn’t confirm your experience, therefore I must be lying.

No, you’re lying because you don’t confirm the almost universal constant that nothing of that magnitude can be all positive. Net positive, sure. Mostly positive, absolutely. But all positive? Bullshit. Especially, if you keep backtracking.

You’re lying to yourself, and you know it.

It is physically not possible to enjoy everything. You already backtracked, suddenly you were bored, but sitting through something boring is not bad for some reason?

And that is utter bullshit.

You can’t be that dense to seriously say you enjoyed every single lecture. That’s a lie, and you know it.

BTW, I’m from one of those “some countries”. And no, nobody, not a single person enjoyed everything. That’s not how reality works.

Who are you trying to impress here?

Sorry, but that’s just an absolutely snobbish way of looking at education.

Of course it’s an investment, you spent years of your life, took exams, wrote theses, sat in boring lectures because a person in their late teens and early 20s has nothing better to do than that? Yeah, sorry, that’s bullshit and you know it.

Follow up question: do you need to feed one blended billionaire to one unblended billionaire, or would it be sufficient to feed just a certain percentage?

And then what? Also, that won’t be legal in the EU.

I mean, you take billions of dollars to develop an AI to put into a product you already have, making it less competitive in the process to … develop a slightly better AI maybe?

Where exactly is the return on investment here?

That’s way too simplistic, as often.

For the shareholders, having an investment of several billions turn into an unwanted add-on for a few dollars is not a good thing. It’s the opposite, almost like a fire sale.

I really wonder what their long term plan is here.

Hardly anyone really wants copilot, it doesn’t add a lot of value, yet makes the product less competitive.

I totally get rent seeking, Office is so ingrained that it’s almost impossible to get away from it. But why force AI on everybody? Why not add it as a bonus?

Is this just a desperate attempt to soften the massive losses of the AI investment?

So, you fucked up and it’s postgres’ fault?

The scale needed is ridiculous. You’d probably need one of those plants for every 1000 people on the planet.

I’d much rather capture CO2 from waste incinerators or (bio) gas plants or any other “residual” CO2 emitter that’s not burning fossil fuels. At least it’s pretty simple to filter out of their exhausts.

And I’m 95% sure these plants will be used as an argument for running fossil fuel devices longer. It’s “not so bad” after all.

I don’t use mint, but the serenity of a reliable platform to work on by far outweighs the boringness of the system.

My computer is a tool, not a hobby (anymore).

In general, the US seems to be weirdly pro-violence.

Being beaten up is portrayed as perfectly normal in media and advocating for violence (like here) seems to be totally okay for many.

That’s fucked up.

What I find surprising is that so many people (i.e. you) still claim to fact check everything. You don’t. I guarantee it.

Most people don’t read news for a living. You can’t fact check everything you read online. That’s physically impossible. And if you’d be honest to yourself, 95% of headlines you read are just noise and you don’t read any further. Not because you’re too stupid, but because you’re not that interested in Trump’s latest shenanigans or Italy’s economic outlook.

All this gate keeping is bullshit, but I do have to agree that we are really bad at actually engineering.

So countering your argument with counterarguments why your example is flawed isn’t allowed, because you’d need to reconsider?

Tell me, do you really think the UAE are willing, not capable, willing to invest in safety and lawfulness as much as any even halfway free country?

And we all know that the UAE are the international beacon of safety, worker’s rights, rule of law and cost effectiveness.

That’s a really bad argument. That’s like saying the Soviet Union was really good at digging canals.