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That design also enables a low-cost approach to manufacturing that has caught the eye of major investors, reportedly including Jeff Bezos. It's been engineered and will be manufactured in America, but is this extreme simplification too much for American consumers?

I'm more worried about the cheapness and corner cutting.

Thanks I spat out my coffee

Hegseth is starting to see elusive leakers in his nightmares.

Best news I've heard all week. I hope this guy also dreams his teeth are falling out.

I'm extremely surprised that so many comments like FC5. What makes it the favorite over FC3? I know everyone loves to compare the villains of the franchise, and I think Vaas is far more compelling than the FC5 villain.

After Uvalde, I never want to hear about Texas grit ever again. Yellowbelly state full of chickenshit cops.

only a dozen huh

Man I was gonna add a whole part about Cletus the trailer trash calling ICE to deport an American citizen, thinking he'll somehow be able to seize OP's home and squat in it, without understanding how civil forfeiture works. But I left it out because I felt like I had gone on long enough. But yeah, what you described is basically exactly what I expect to happen in 4-6 months.

One of the articles sourced by Snopes is this NYT article, which I think highlights one of the major problems with teaching:

Across all school subjects, teachers receive a pale imitation of the preparation, support and tools they need. ... the overall picture is of a profession struggling to make the best of an impossible hand.

And across all subjects, the neglect shows in students’ work. In addition to misunderstanding math, American students also, on average, write weakly, read poorly, think unscientifically and grasp history only superficially.

Teachers almost universally bear the brunt of a toxic society from all sides. Children with poor behavior, Parents who promote it, Administrators who ignore it, and almost everyone incentivized by shit laws like No Child Left Behind to keep skating those kids through every step of the way - find any excuse to pass the problem child on to the next year, conjure any reason to get Brad that sports scholarship even though he can't multiply fractions.

Our entire society has venerated ignorance for half a century, and we've become exceedingly efficient at it. Few places are as protective and proud of their bad reputation as the USA.

I know what you mean. I don't remember always feeling so defensive on the internet lol. I think that feeling it's a function of societal divisions.

100% agreed with you there, hope I didn't come across as argumentative.

I think Dan Olson said he saw people "praying" to ChatGPT, and I can't think of a better analogy for it.

He is when it suits them, he isn't when it doesn't. $4 for eggs was too expensive under Biden, so Trump brought the price down to $11. We can't catch them with cognitive dissonance, they have none.

The only things that really impress me are the things I have zero ability in at all: drawing character sketches of my roleplaying characters, composing music...

Do you suppose that is the result of Gell-Mann Amneisa?

You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues... and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

You know how to program, so you know the AI sucks at programming. You know it sucks at poetry, synthesis research, etc etc. You don't know how to draw, but do you suppose the AI is good at drawing?