Drug rehab didn’t work when the drug was money.

most people are deluding themselves if they think their cooking is better than any restaurant that isn’t totally terrible.

Absolutely true.

It does not take very many tries to start cooking better than a restaurant.

Goddam it must be some lousy restaurants in your area.
My wife cooks really good food, and I love her food. But a proper restaurant with a proper chef, they are better than good, they are professionals and also professionals at picking fresh produce and good cuts to use.

But I agree, it’s pretty easy to learn to cook a decent meal.

And the best part is you can make sure that only your favorite ingredients get in there.

It also means the food will have less variation. To appreciate good cooking properly, you need variation.

Exactly spot on. 👍

I remember in the early 70’s as a young teen, I mentioned to a friends mother that I had heard that unpasteurized milk should be more healthy.
She went into an absolute hissy fit, about it being irresponsible and people used to get sick from that shit.

I guess that was when I truly realized that not everything you hear should be trusted. Not even when it’s from people who claim to have special knowledge on a subject.

The “alternative” scene truly is full of bullshit and falsehoods. Be very very careful before following any advice from that kind of people, and NEVER trust them over solid science.

Which is weird, since I’ve also seen claims that XAI services are not selling very well, because other services are superior.
As you write, it’s yet another scam by Musk.

I think worth less should be worthless, then comparing it to the IPO target isn’t really necessary.
Joke aside, it’s impressive if it’s actually worth half what the price target is set at. Considering the actually realistic value of Tesla is less than a tenth the stock value.

My guess is that SpaceX is also closer to a tenth.
And X is literally financially worthless, it worth to Musk and friends is just as a propaganda outlet for Nazis.

By more realistic values, Musk isn’t anywhere near the richest man in the world. It’s just that his assets are pumped up sky high based on lies and false promises.

4 in 10 Americans view changing one’s gender as morally acceptable

In some Islamic societies it’s considered immoral for women to show their hair.
Both viewpoints are equally moronic, and have nothing to do with morality.

2 completely different things from a market perspective, and something Google already did years earlier.

This guy deserves to be fired immediately without compensation.

Goddammit, they are 0.01 Gigawatt short of time travel. 😋

Remember how long Facebook worked on the Metaverse? And even changed their name to Meta because Zuckerberg was convinced he was on to something. Now many years and billions upon billions of dollars later the project is finally shelved as a total failure.

Also remember Tesla/Musk has kept promising true FSD next year for a decade, and they are barely closer today than they were a decade ago. Yet they keep investing loads of money on it, and promising that very soon now, it will be available for all Tesla cars.

Remember when Microsoft launched the Xbox, and stated they were ready to lose billions on it for 10 years if they had to. That one succeeded, but later when they tried the same with Smartphones and bought Nokia they didn’t.

You are clearly underestimating how many billions the trillion dollar companies are ready to lose on this. in the pursuit of coming out on top. That’s how it is with AI too, the companies that spend the most on AI are companies that have loads and loads of money. And they can easily continue this shit for a decade without running out of money, and they will because they are determined and can afford it.

The bubble may burst, but it will probably mostly affect all the small players, and maybe dent the stock prices of the big players a little. But don’t count on it to be over in just a couple of years.

Hopefully it will, but my guess is it won’t. My guess is that none of the biggest players will relent for at least 5 years. But when the bubble burst, it could be even bigger than when the .com bubble did.

We live in interesting times.

Not only cheapest, it’s the cheapest by far.

Oh boy, one of Apples products outsold other Apple products, what are the odds. 😱
Quick, clear the front page for this sensational news. 🤡
This is really hard core technology new for you right here! 🙄

Sorry for the sarcasm, I just don’t think one Apple laptop selling more than another Apple laptop is interesting in any way.
Especially considering how predictable it is, since it’s their cheapest laptop at almost half the price of the cheapest MacBook Air‌.

That’s exactly what you claimed with this line 3 of your posts up from the above:

bad things surely must be American propaganda? Even from a British paper?

This was the place the argument came from. So again I repeat because you apparently need it, the nationality of the paper has no bearing on whether it may be American propaganda.

No you are way off, the nationality of the outlet has very little bearing on whether it might be American propaganda or not.
Claiming that because it’s a British outlet it can’t be American propaganda is outright moronic.

Edit:
Why is this downvoted? He claimed exactly this, if you look 3 of his posts up he wrote:

bad things surely must be American propaganda? Even from a British paper?

No doubt the sanctions and theft of Iranian assets have radicalized the country, both the regime and following that the opposition too.
The international community that participated in this are all guilty of crimes against humanity.

WTF? This is in no way a conspiracy, this has been known for decades, USA instated the Shah to get control of the Iranian oil.
And your false equivalence is outright stupid.

Straw man argument.

The Iran regime sucks, it’s authoritarian and brutal.
Yet I can’t help but having a nagging feeling that the reason we are hearing these stories, is to help justify the next move of Israel/USA.

There is no doubt that USA is a huge part of the reason it is as bad as it is now in Iran, because half a century of sanctions against Iran has undermined their economy, and bad economy is a major factor of the internal problems of Iran. Life threatening poverty has a strong tendency to lead to violence.