You forgot the resource extraction to create the product and the environmental damage and pollution that results :(

AI data centers are also gobbling down massive amounts of electricity, stressing the grid, giving consumers higher bills for worse service. All for something that pretty much everyone hates.

Is this something the Internet Archive wanted? And why?

I don’t know why people bother with AccuWeather, when there’s weather.gov, with it’s free API.

Depending on what you’re trying to buy, versus.com may help you narrow down your choices.

I’ve never heard of yeast oil, but I just found this article on the climate impacts which maybe someone else who isn’t on the verge of sleep can summarize.

My main question regarding yeast oil is how quickly it goes off. Yeast itself goes off, and presumably yeast oil is a good habitat to breed yeast (which is most places in the environment), so, like, what’s the shelf life?

Separate questions have emerged about the preparedness of local communities, including Kerr County’s apparent lack of a local flood warning system. The county, roughly 50 miles northwest of San Antonio, is where many of the deaths occurred. In an interview, Rob Kelly, the Kerr County judge and its most senior elected official, said the county did not have a warning system because such systems are expensive, and local residents are resistant to new spending. “Taxpayers won’t pay for it,” Mr. Kelly said.

Sounds like they should be blaming themselves, then.

what makes flash floods so hazardous is their ability to strike quickly, with limited warning. Around midnight on Thursday, the [weather offices for the areas that flooded] put out their first flash flood warnings, urging people to “move immediately to higher ground.” The office sent out additional flash flood warnings through the night, expanding the area of danger. It is not clear what steps local officials took to act on those warnings. […] the local Weather Service offices appeared to have sent out the correct warnings. He said the challenge was getting people to receive those warnings, and then take action.

Again, that sounds like a local issue. What happened to your pride in local government and not needing the feds?

He said that climate change was making extreme rainfall events more frequent and severe, and that more research was needed so that the Weather Service could better forecast those events.

No comment.

It’s average home prices vs average wages. Things like property taxes and cost of living aren’t included.

Crunchy almond butter and homemade raspberry jam, open-faced on slices of a really good baguette.

Well then maybe the AI industry deserves to die.

They might see that other countries also have beautiful landscapes. They might get exposed to people with foreign accents and learn that those people are just people as well! The foreign-made films will be less subject to pressure from the US government. They might be exposed to other cultures, other religions, people of different skin tones , and accept them as actual people. All of these things are ‘bad, very bad’, from a christonationalist fascist viewpoint.

Does interactive fiction count? Then Advent / Adventure / Colossal Cave. I still have my map of it around somewhere.

And I’ll ask here because I haven’t turned it up anywhere else: there was another interactive fiction game, probably around the late 80’s. It might’ve been called something like Stranded or Survival? You were in a spaceship that had crashed on the moon and you needed to do various tasks to repair it and take off. At one point, your oxygen runs out; to get more, you had to do the whole “maze of twisty little passages, all alike”, which I think led to a vending machine? There were some other repair tasks; I think one of them was replacing the battery. Also, if you took too long in completing the tasks (like you took a wrong turn in the maze and took too long to recover) then, even if you did everything else correctly, the ship blew up!

Anyway, if anyone happens to know the game I’m talking about, I’d love to find it again. And again, this was text-based interactive fiction, not video.

We had reliable information years ago that they only kept the previous version of a comment. So if you edited a comment, then re-edited it, your original version would be lost. It’s why so many of us overwrote our original comments before deleting them.

I don’t doubt that Trump wants something like this, but do we have a better source than Doug Ford?

Just think of it as a mood ring for rich people. The rich people aren’t feeling any pain and they’re happy to pick up stuff that they want when others want to/are forced to sell.

Sure does! Hey, I’m thinking grilled cheese for lunch, what are you having?

Thank you for the additional info!

They’ve installed Starlink at the White House. If you think Musk/DOGE isn’t secretly intercepting everything, you’re an idiot.

I know two people who own Teslas and neither of their places is on the map. I suspect (and it is only a suspicion) that the map may only list cyber truck owners? Anyone know any Tesla/cyber truck owners they can check?

There are a massive number of fake books on Amazon, though. There are AI-generated books, designed to be easily mistaken for books by real authors, or about recent high-news events, or popular series. There are people who steal an author’s legitimate work and “publish” it as their own work, sometimes changing a small amount, sometimes changing nothing at all. There are people who watch upcoming book releases by popular authors and release fake books around the same time, hoping to pinch some of the sales. I’d rather have sparse but reliable data than give any authenticity to the scammers and thieves.