You win the pun award today.

I mean -- this isn't a bad thing. Good old know-how is using the best tool for the job. If you already have a broom -- it works as a great "invisible flame" detector.

I guess you could toss out a cloud of particles to detect flames everywhere -- but that also has a downside of putting more flammable items that could grow the fire.

Other than infrared sensors -- which is a device that need maintenance and can fail. What better thing could they use?

Priest; "that Umbrella song is a visitation from HELL!"

Me; "So you've never been forced to listen to boring 2 hour sermons yet?"

When a mommy and a daddy journalist like each other a lot and one of them drinks heavily.

>How can we expect them to pay journalists if we also force them to give their content for free?

Nope.

But then, who will do investigative reporting? Fools! That's who.

"We won't be caught doing this exactly this way again."

>at least until the storm of negative press died down."

Aah, you can just smell the integrity.

I can understand skipping some of the filler articles but -- incorrect data for a tech publisher?

No -- in the case of code, it's not "distilling a style" -- it's grabbing whole routines of code that someone wrote with certain attribution and copy restrictions that I think GPT and some "code AI" are breaking.

There's no point in breaking up an entire function -- so it is probably more like automated cut and paste.

I'm sure the gag is to attract amorous Bucks to pursue the ladies when they venture out of the store. It's all fun and games until the paternity test.

Lighten up a little. And don't hate me just because I might be the solution to most problems.

None of them involving paperwork or using a map of course.

It's just what I might think to do in that situation. I will leave panic to other people who might be experts in that.

They see 30 people swimming like mad towards them, I think the consensus would be amazingly quick.

Like I said, the people aren't going to be putting up a fight in about ten minutes.

>I think somewhere in the mix was the need of the collective to get far away from the horror of backsliding out of relative safety.

You could just say they were scared and wanted to survive. I know it sounds a lot like running away to save themselves. Would we be more noble in their situation?

I don't think it's necessarily the case that the people in the boats would have been overloaded. A boat could move in close and get some people who could swim to them and move away. Other boats could do the same.

Probably within about a few minutes, most of the people wouldn't be able to move and at no time, could swim faster than the boats could be paddled. So really it was a matter of dragging half-aware people into a boat and throwing a blanket on them.

The upper class was a bit too risk averse and didn't feel an obligation to help is how I see it.

I don't think that's as big an issue if you consider that the people in the boat can paddle faster than people in sub freezing water can swim. They could have picked up some stragglers without too much risk I imagine.

If Dante were still alive, he’d have added another circle of Hell for news reporters delivering fake news.

These people seem to be having a great time earning a paycheck but they do more damage to society than a serial killer.

AI art tools will only make this low effort type of graphic higher quality. For God’s sake give the cow some dignity and at least have a harness and a gas canister with a cyberpunk flair to it!

Someone spent at least five minutes putting a bed sheet on a cow which probably took two minutes to fall off — so it HAD TO BE REAL!

Agreed. Also, ammonia has a lower boiling point so good for using spent fuel rods to produce nuclear energy.

Not that we couldn’t be harnessing zero point energy or fusion power if we did it at the nano scale. But, my first billion in seed money will be the hardest.

Well, it sounds like that’s far less efficient than storing in an iron oxide battery or lithium. But I suppose if you want fuel, that’s better than nothing. It has to be stored though.

This still doesn’t mean a hydrogen economy is yet viable. It’s just a tiny piece of a larger puzzle. Mass transit and battery cars are still better.

It’s a shame because hydrogen is fairly dense as an energy source after you freeze it — which would take a lot more energy at the moment — and that also is a shame.

I just heard about it recently. Are these people similar to the Q in the USA or are they some unique manifestation only India could produce?

I have a feeling this is part of a social media manipulation and that it’s a world wide push to organize all the angry paranoid people.

>Don't get me wrong, I thought the same thing, but musk just doesn't have the influence to play King Maker anymore.

Well, it is a roll of the dice. It's not that he isn't TRYING to play king maker and I do hope he fails. However, these people at the top have a tendency to fail upwards. Rupert Murdoch was in the red with Fox News for over a decade -- they paid more for each audience member than they got (paying to get their channel in venues and more than giving it away). Now it makes a profit -- but, it really makes its value by the reality it creates in people's heads. It promotes fascism and props up candidates who work against the working class.

So, who is to say that in two years, Musk doesn't look like a genius with new contracts? Because sometimes, it's not about the money -- it's about convincing people to put the chain around their own necks. That's necessary until the vote can be rigged and they can get the pesky democracy part out of the way.

Yes.

There are Q-Trumpists in India. In India! WTF do they get out of some used car dealer who may not even be able to find them on a map?

I am still about 90% sure that Musk bought Twitter so that he could use it to manipulate who gets elected. Once he puts people in office, and they know his finger on the scales of "freedom and truth" helps them get into office. He hopes to make his money back on super lucrative government contracts.

"What is this man's genius and reason for a comeback?" Everyone will say in shock and hushed tones. He's a piece of shit who will help other pieces of shit get in power and they will help him in return. Getting contracts and financing is his one and perhaps only genius talent.

You know, because that's what humanity needs; one more pig at the trough making sure that they get fed. It's so transparent. The future is as stupid as it is predictable and annoying.

The solution of course, is someone needs to put LSD in his smoothie one day, so that he can experience true wonder and stop being a selfish prick.

Oh, so you think Chat GPT and Google Search are less clear than you who tracks thoughts on your weekly calendar a month in advance?

"Tuesday the 5th,... Today I had a thought, which I shall let gestate for a day or so, until it has mellowed."