Macs have a good reputation for lasting. The old recommendation for durability and repairability used to be thinkpads. Framework is a new manufacturer that have modularity and repairability as one of their key ethos’s, check ifix-it for reapairability scores, I think some of HPs stuff scores well.

I feel like based on that experience and the comments from others about pretty big ones and three stage ones, the answer is probably not.

It is a slight annoyance to me that more stuff isn't high-power electric and corded, for the right application it's great and saves the inconvenience of charging batteries and you can draw more power.

If you don't want to think about it, why not an electric one? Less maintenance definitely.

There are corded ones, but none two-stage, ego make a cordless two-stage but then at least you have to think about charging the batteries.

> I bought a gag gift that literally and unintentionally made almost everyone at the table gag

Tell them to tuck their thumb into their fist and squeeze it, it helps.

This is appropriate legislation that largely should be the case. It allows people who are targeting and essentially harassing people with these images to be charged with additional offences.

“You may not take photos, everything you see here is top secret…. including that.”

Pessimistic about the future, kinda optimistic about how AI might contribute. But that’s based on incremental small level progression like we kinda see now. If it’s a hard takeoff, 🤷🏻‍♂️.

Yeah, I was thinking that. I’ve got a nylon belt that has lasted me about 20 years, very much not daily use though. Leather is a bad material to make a belt from.

It's one banana, what could it cost, $10?

Nope, the standard charge, which is £165 annually. Only the first year's payment is based on CO2 for new vehicles, article says that'd be £10.

Well https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/us/politics/domestic-terror-white-supremacists.html I might be https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/06/15/fact-sheet-national-strategy-for-countering-domestic-terrorism/ but I’m not https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/27/us-far-right-violence-terrorist-threat-analysis generally http://newamerica.org/international-security/reports/terrorism-in-america/

And the right go out and actually commit terrorism and kill people.

This is silly. There’s an apparent tendency for the right to skew far more towards authoritarianism and also towards threatening behaviour towards certain demographics across the last century.

That’s kinda an over-simplification of political alignment into a two one-dimensional spectrum, while really you get left/right and authoritarian/liberal spectrums as two different things. Hence the political compass tests being two-dimensional.

Edit: two > one

Taxation funds them, which is not a capitalist funding model.

Space, time, privacy, silence, exclusivity.

AGI will come out of advanced research labs first. They’re not motivated by capitalism. It’s the next stage of the technological curve that starts to be motivated by capitalism.

You’d rather die in a food shortage riot, or anti-AI-controlling class riot, than live a normal life?

Billionaires are very immoral people, and the resources available to them are limited by the presence of the rest of us. You can see that in their behaviour now, buying all the neighbouring properties in an area to have more space, exclusive use of things that require space and time.

Capitalism has also created more inequality and more environmental damage than any other economic system in history. It’s really shit.

Yeah but they’re both subsidising with VC money, just Uber less so now. It’s not a fair market comparison yet.

Your alternative would be a taxi then.

Which is going to be expensive yes, so is a self-driving car, and not everyone is going to be able to use a self-driving car either.

Oo boy, let me introduce you to “the bus”!

There seems to be a small trend of this, but you have checked that the filter in your air purifier is present and not wrapped in a plastic bag yeah? Some people have been discovering their filters are still packaged. Because a HEPA filter should help, if it’s making no difference I feel like there might be another issue including possibly you needing to clean more.

Well how would you tell the difference between this and a real AI?