There’s definitely a number of statistical anomalies that map too cleanly to be a coincidence.

It’s speculative to suggest that it’s a factor?

Meanwhile you’re talking as if there’s a single definitive cause and effect in a fundamentally complex system.

Free Luigi

No doubt it’s a factor due to people failing to absorb as many nutrients, leading to increased over-eating

The fungal zombies seem to operate at an instinctual level, so I’d argue that yes, they are able to stay hydrated. They also seem to have some sort of hive mind going on to a degree.

Don’t tell us, tell the oligarchs

Only about 2/3rds voted, so closer to 30% voted for him

Don’t trust AI to know what they’re doing for you. The only time they work reliably as a tool is when you already know what you’re doing enough to spot their errors/hallucinations.

AI is the wrong tool here. You need to do real internet research.

Hundreds? Pretty sure it’s thousands

… as long as the giant corpos paying through the nose for the data centers continue to vastly underprice their products in order to make us all dependent on them.

Just wait till everyone’s using it and the prices will skyrocket.

If you think people will pay for AI slop, you must be young or deeply cynical

The vast vast vast majority of artists create art with neither expectations of payment nor the ability to do it full time, yes.

The 4.1m was the budget for the front-end. The back-end changes were initially budgeted as 31m but tripled in cost as the project dragged on and contracts needed to be extended.

More likely mismanagement, miscommunication, rewrites, and incompetence than corruption.

All projects of sufficient complexity overrun their cost/time estimates. That’s not even accounting for designers and programmers trying to hit what is likely a moving target.

There was one other time, when he cursed a tree because he didn’t like its fruit, but yeah in general he disliked the nascent forms of capitalism and money people that he encountered.

Because Teslas have dogshit reliability and all have OTA updates, whereas other brands don’t suffer from these issues.

Close. RFK Jr.

Only 5.4 hours before you hit a UUID collision. That’s insane

I have the same preference, but companies keep giving me macbooks to use for work no matter how many times I ask for a cheaper (or better specced at the same price) Linux laptop.

They aren’t right wing, at the global level.

This story is a follow-up to reports that the “Gen-Z” rebellion in Mexico in particular seems to mostly consist of older people, like Gen X and Boomers.

So, it’s an astroturf movement by the right.