For one thing, being used for paying taxes in the USA?

I have not forgotten and do have an enameled cast iron bathtub. It is fantastic.

Perhaps the lesser of the two evils, considering Google’s dominance. But yes, far from ideal.

Maybe at some point we can all stop watching and hence supporting YouTube, that’d be nice.

Elegant!

Could you show us the frequency response for the Bose vs the LCD-5s and tell us why you prefer the Bose?

I look at the length of my shadow, if it’s not taller than I am I use an umbrella.

If the government owns every company, maybe you have communism, but most likely what you have is autocracy. If the government owns a 10% stake of one company, that’s some nationalisation. There are good reasons for it in capitalism, such as for regulating natural monopolies. I’m not sure Intel falls into "good reasons,’ since it appears to me to be some kind of corruption.

The vast majority of the content on there is a conservative echo chamber.

TIL. It’s always rather amusing as someone outside of America that posts containing factual information get downvotes purely based on the perceived alignment of the subject on the zero-nuance American Political Spectrum. I block ads, so I wouldn’t know.

Really curious about what this leads to. We also know that plants can signal each other via the mycelium, they have awareness of their surroundings and events, just not in the same way we do.

What about Rumble? GN is on there and directly supportable.

I find that remarkable considering the fact that astronauts would eat high protein foods to minimize their bowel movements because the human body will efficiently absorb highly bioavailable proteins and fat (e.g. from animal sources) it consumes. Considering human feces are 75% water and the remaining 25% are primarily bacterial biomass and plant matter, my guess is the carnivores you know have just started the diet and have upset their stomachs with the sudden change.

Can’t wait for the year of the vibe coded OS.

Isotopic testing shows that early humans primarily subsisted on herbivores and small game, including fish. Please refer to this study for Europe.

Early modern humans also appear to have regularly hunted large herbivores (55–57), but there is also evidence for the use of small game, including fish at some of these sites (15, 16).

Or this study, also from Nature, again studying the first modern humans and late Neandertals in Europe:

based on stable isotopes, the mammoth seems to contribute the major part of the dietary protein of humans in a time range between 50,000 and 30,000 years ago and across wide areas spanning from SW France11 to the Crimean Peninsula53 (Fig. 6, Supplementary Fig. 5–8).

It is inaccurate to state that humans did not eat much meat prior to modern times.

Next time I meet up with my mouse friends I’ll be sure to let them know.

Still up on Rumble: https://rumble.com/v6xro9o--the-nvidia-ai-gpu-black-market-smuggling-corruption-and-global-scandal-.html

Word of mouth existed long before advertising, and as for algorithmic discoverability retailers do a fine job of that already.

“It’s my ccomputer” has already been mentioned, but it’s my bandwidth and my home network too. Ads can stay off it.

Fundamentally, the concept that your computer can actually look at your screen and is context aware is going to become an important modality for us going forward.”

Since I don’t feel the need for ambience nor multi-modal experiences in my OS, considering the implementation of that “modality” I’m afraid that even as a long-time Windows user I’m going to have to switch to another OS that closer aligns to my needs.

If there’s a game that ever needed stringent anticheat, it’s Battlefield.