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How so? I'm not coughing or spitting on the desk.

Dead skin cells, sure, but that's not a biohazard.

That's how they always do it.

It's usually terrorism, sometimes treason. But there is always an unproven accusation of some heinous crime, which is why most people will just accept it, because "it only affects the criminals". And it is also how they motivate their henchmen to do the dirty work.

Communists and Jews in Nazi-Germany were accused of causing millions of Germans to die in WW1 and of causing poverty in the depression through exploitation. And this is why the Nazi henchmen worked diligently to get rid of the Jews, because they had lost family members in WW1 and lived through Depression poverty and they wanted to help their country become great again by getting rid of all the undesirables.

The gunk is just compacted dust from the desk surfaces.

Perhaps a bit gross, but it's mostly stuff you're breathing in daily, just now visible due to being compacted.

Super gross to me would imply something like bodily fluids or other biohazard.

Am I missing something?

Of course, I totally agree with that

You also need the Senate, not just the president.

But Republican senators have abdicated their duties and voters have not replaced them.

That's why we have this mess.

If that email needs to go to a client or stakeholder, then our culture won't accept just the prompt.

Where it really shines is translation, transcription and coding.

Programmers can easily double their productivity and increase the quality of their code, tests and documentation while reducing bugs.

Translation is basically perfect. Human translators aren't needed. At most they can review, but it's basically errorless, so they won't really change the outcome.

Transcribing meetings also works very well. No typos or grammar errors, only sometimes issues with acronyms and technical terms, but those are easy to spot and correct.

I believe it was an angry constituent who got evicted and decided it was his fault.

I don't think the guy even knew it was Passover or that Shapiro is Jewish.

But I am sure our beloved media will give us the straight story soon.

I am just sick and tired that every time someone Jewish hits their toe on a table, it's somehow worse than if it was a non-Jewish person because of scary antisemitism.

Like no, times are shitty, we are living in angry and violent times. That's bad enough, but let's not make everything about race.

Two people tried to assault Trump. A CEO got killed and nobody makes those things about race.

What is racial are the Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims and immigrants getting targeted and locked up without due process. Minorities being fired from their job.

I am not convinced it would, TBH.

If people don't want to buy the cars, then the production line will eventually have to stop, permanently. And you get zero compensation for lost revenue.

If a production line is hit and has to close, then insurance will compensate part of the damage and after a few days or weeks you can be up and running again.

It is definitely here to stay, but the hype of AGI being just around the corner is definitely not believable. And a lot of the billions being invested in AI will never return a profit.

AI is already a commodity. People will be paying $10/month at max for general AI. Whether Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Llama, ChatGPT, copilot or Deepseek. People will just have one cheap plan that covers anything an ordinary person would need. Most people might even limit themselves to free plans supported by advertisements.

These companies aren't going to be able to extract revenues in the $20-$100/month from the general population, which is what they need to recoup their investments.

Specialized implementations for law firms, medical field, etc will be able to charge more per seat, but their user base will be small. And even they will face stiff competition.

I do believe AI can mostly solve quite a few of the problems of an aging society, by making the smaller pool of workers significantly more productive. But it will not be able to fully replace humans any time soon.

It's kinda like email or the web. You can make money using these technologies, but by itself it's not a big money maker.

Agreed. Algorithms, bots and fake news work together to create and perpetuate harmful narratives.

I think the DMA has the right idea and it should be extended. Any platform with a large user base should be heavily regulated and controlled.

We can still have mostly unregulated and uncensored free speech on small platforms, since those aren't harmful for our democracy.

I'm talking about long-term non-US centric policy.

I don't mean to imply that this is a priority for the short term in the US.

A commenter on the site made the same comment, but I find it difficult to believe that insurance companies won't adapt more quickly to marked increases in vandalism.

If they don't immediately raise rates, then they will make less profit.

If their competitors do raise rates, then the Tesla owners will flock to the ones that didn't raise rates and those companies will end up with reduced profits due to having more Tesla's and thus more claims to cover.