What happened with China bad, US good? Can we now both agree that both countries suck?

I guess the next four years will be “interesting” and divisive. This world is going from bad to worse.

Yes, these trifold phones look amazing. I am upgrading my phone every 4-5 years, and usually try not to overspend on it, so most likely I will skip buying trifold the next upgrade cycle so I guess 2030 the technology would be mature enough and more affordable.

First of all, we are not talking here about ash but the cigarette filters, 4.5 trillions of it are littered every year, that contain all the toxins, are made of plastic fibers and it is not bio degradable.

https://truthinitiative.org/research-resources/harmful-effects-tobacco/5-ways-cigarette-litter-impacts-environment#:~:text=Is cigarette waste toxic%3F,animals who eat cigarette butts.

On the other hand, I think cigarette butts are also quite polluting the environment too. So I am not sure what’s worse.

Isn’t this an uplifting news?

Exactly how I am feeling. AI took the fun part away of cracking a problem and the satisfaction of solving it is now gone.

Uglier than the Cybertruck? I don’t think so.

You know not everyone needs to accelerate to 100km/h in less than 5 seconds. The car for its asking price is fine. It is a nice car for someone who is living in a small city and needs it for occasional errands.

You know not everyone can afford and/or need 40-50K cars.

I am sorry to disappoint you, but they just went bankrupt https://neuters.de/business/autos-transportation/ev-startup-fisker-files-bankruptcy-2024-06-18/

I am actually using Gemini sometimes. And it is actually decent. Especially in certain tasks, especially at video reasoning.

I am all for a crackdown on social media, but please apply the same level of scrutiny of all social media, including Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, X, Reddit, etc.

You remember the first time Musk talked about robotaxis? He never delivered. This robotaxi is another vaporware

Programming was like a challenge, you have a problem and you need to solve it. You look into the internet, stack overflow, test different chunks of codes, reading documentation, etc. nowadays is simply splitting one problem into pieces, and then copy pasting.

To be honest ChatGPT pretty much killed the fun of programming.

Why don’t they start with OpenAI and other LLM vendors, because they are the biggest copyright infringement abusers of all time?

But there is a very interesting titbit in Wikipedia. He wanted to go to Jordan to study, but his visa application was declined by the Israeli authorities and only then he turned into terrorism.

The most successful way to fight terrorism is to provide those people some future, some prosperity, some hope. People turn to terrorism when they are struggling, when they don’t see any light at the end of the tunnel.

I have never said that. What Israel is doing geopolitically is a grave mistake and would ultimately give birth to a lot more terrorists that they will kill ultimately and won’t lead to any long lasting peaceful solution in the region. And all this is happening with the silent endorsement of the West, which is even more disturbing.

Agree, but the explosive inside is very low, so the damage is mostly going to be inflicted on the person who this pager belonged to. From the initial reports all the casualties were linked to Hezbollah and even the girl was a daughter of a member of Hezbollah.

Me personally, I don’t defend the actions of Israel, but still think it is a lot more targeted than dropping 2000lbs. bombs over densely populated areas. Another question is of course if this will achieve anything other than strengthening the resolve of those people.

Unfortunately, nowadays to win a war, you simply need to be the richer and more advanced nation, and Israel has the upper hand here.

Most likely most of them were though. I mean I don’t think many people outside Hezbollah were using pagers, not to mention that most likely they tampered one or two batches of them only.

I am just wondering what the official government of Lebanon is thinking about this incident because in my opinion that’s a huge blow into the sovereignty of a foreign country. Imagine something similar happens in Israel or the US, do you think those countries would sit on the diplomatic table and negotiate?