Autumn is mating season for spiders, it’s when a lot of them come out of hiding in search of some sexy times.

I’d love a 2nd quieter & apologetic horn in my car. When driving electric behind pedestrians it often takes them some time to realize that there is a car driving behind them, and I don’t want to use my regular horn to ask them to let me pass.

Mountain ranges with names that are harder to remember and pronounce than “Rocky” are also likely candidates for renaming. Appalachian Mountains, Sierra Nevada, …

Relevant “The Dictator” clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYJ2w82WifU

Their own graph illustrates how bullshit their own argument is:

In the text they are comparing taxes without interest at “less than $200,000” (aka as $197.000 or “almost $200.000” if the author weren’t a ghoul) with benefits without interest at $730.000, without mentioning interest/inflation adjustment at all. Since taxes were paid decades before the benefits will be received, their accumulated interest is going to be much higher, which is illustrated well by the graph.

If the graph can be trusted, then with interest the break even point of contributions/benefits happens at 82 or 83 years of age. The usa life expectancy is 79 years. So according to their own data, the average boomer will have contributed more than they will receive. And that is with the current regressive taxation scheme, where high earners contribute less.

A bout of hyperinflation is all that’s needed to make this prediction come true.

To me it looks like a tree fork. A cross section somewhere above the B and below the AW in the picture below. And I think the darker area in the middle is the heartwood of the main trunk.

The plan is to build 3 theme parks with Saudi investment, with at least one park based on a popular manga. It’s going to be “inspired by Dragonball Z” according to the bbc. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8r6xy3ryndo

Andromeda is also visible at 2.5 million light years away.

I found an English article on it. It has the original photo and the painting, there was little point in trying to deny that it was copied :) https://hyperallergic.com/luc-tuymans-convicted-of-plagiarism-for-painting-photo-of-politician/

A copy is a copy, it shouldn’t matter what tools were used for it to be considered a copy. That tech Bros want to claim that their black box of tools absolves them of responsibility is absurd in my eyes.

The painter copying a photograph is an example from my country, where a painter was convicted for plagiarism after copying a photographer’s work.

Ignoring the fact that that would be so unlikely as to be nearly impossible, art that is almost identical to other art is a clear case of plagiarism. The method that was used to create the copy should not matter. A painter copying a photographer’s art without proper attribution or renumeration, is still plagiazing. They might have used different tools, but it’s still a copy.

My takeaway from that is that every ai model should have a disclosure as to what it was trained on. If it can create art with significant resemblance to work that was not included in the disclosure, that would be proof of a failure to disclose, which should come with repercussions.

Imo plagiarism machines should face the same repercussions as humans that do plagiarism. Obfuscation by a black box shouldn’t protect the plagiarist from liability.

Honey lost 40% of their users and has 4.6 stars on the Chrome webstore, which tells us a lot about the trustworthyness of the star ratings in the various Google stores.

I think they are referring to the Powell Memo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell_Jr.#Powell_Memorandum_(1971)

This video connects some more of the dots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgYkde3o2Xw

“NU.nl noted that, under the Match Act, American companies would still be allowed to sell their most advanced chip etching machines to Chinese customers. China has discovered that, using these etching techniques and DUV machines, they could produce chips that typically require an EUV machine.”

Rules for thee, but not for me. Nobody likes a bully, decoupling from the USA becomes ever more inevitable.

It’s generally not attractive for leaders of the countries because it means giving up some of their powers + getting extra external oversight would curtail their remaining powers. People have a really hard time giving up power and/or control, and for the big egos that become head of state, it’s especially hard.

That unwillingness to give up power is why every EU member state has veto rights and EU decision making can be paralyzed by a single rogue member. EU oversight against corruption is also limited to corruption with EU funds, national politicians their grifts are not directly hindered by the EU.

The way that the EU gets most improvements done, is by creating a directive (which could be blocked beforehand by a single member) and then members have x years to implement the directive into their own laws/governance in their own way. Failing to do so will result in fines for that member. It’s a slow process, but it’s been very good for gradual improvement. Crises however can only be tackled by the members having a meeting and searching a consensus amongst their selfish interests.

This slow hands-off approach also means that there is a lot less political whiplash as one party loses and another comes into power, which makes the EU directives easier to digest for the varied members and their diverse circumstances. With a fully federal Europe, it would rip itself apart sooner or later by politicians who put their nation’s short term self interest above the collective (see Serbia in Yugoslavia for an example). I’m personally in favor of a more federalist Europe (in particular for foreign policy + external borders + military, and less veto power), but it should still leave most powers with the member states, directives good, dictates bad.

I had that last week on my pc and I found some Firefox ublock origin filters on reddit. This is probably only a temporary solution, reddit is likely to block it as well eventually.

Go to Ublockorigin > Settings icon > My Filters

Copy and paste:

! Reddit login/signup modal
www.reddit.com##div#desktop-dynamic-upsell-dialog
www.reddit.com##[id=“desktop-dynamic-upsell-dialog”]

! Restore scrolling after hiding Reddit login modal
www.reddit.com##html:style(overflow: auto !important;)
www.reddit.com##body:style(overflow: auto !important;)

www.reddit.com###left-sidebar-container

And click apply changes

EDIT: Mobile formatting is weird. Should be fixed now.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1v8ctd4/comment/p08voub/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRVkB2daFjM It’s promising to be cozy, we’ll all be snuggled up again.

The following site has a similar setup: earth at different times with modern borders marked at their approximate locations. https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#400