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US aid is usually a loan anyway. The US doesn't give military stuff away to other countries without putting them in debt.

It's not only Trump.

It's also Trump voters and voters who stay at home and let him back into office.

I'll be pleasantly surprised if a majority of American voters turn out against him.

Last time it was about 1 in 3 voted for him, 1 in 3 voted against him, and 1 in 3 didn't show up.

Insulation doesn't just keep heat in for the winter.

It keeps heat out for the Summer.

A lack of ventilation can cause buildings to overheat but anyone who seals up a building without adding a proper HVAC is a cowboy.

You can add insulation without reducing ventilation. Do it.

Gas boilers can by 95% efficient turning gas directly into heat energy.

Electricity generation is about 55% efficient at turning gas into electric energy.

So in a situation where you get 2 times or more heat out per kW you put in then you're lowering your carbon footprint even when electricity is created using gas.

2 to 4 times is not too difficult so

There's also the pretty big issue that the more methane is transported, the more leaks we have. As methane is 40× more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas every property we take off the gas network is a step towards reducing the need for that infrastructure.

Personally I can't fit an air source heat pump in my flat. It would be incredibly noisy and would probably require radiators to be refitted and taken up more space.

When my gas boiler goes I'll look at the cost of the standing price of a gas connection, annual servicing, and kW cost of gas. Then look at what a standard electric boiler costs.

It won't have the 2 to 4 times saving on kW cost a heat pump would have but it probably will come out similarly on cost. It will have a lower install cost. And it will reduce methane emissions.

If we haven't moved far enough to renewable energy by then my carbon footprint might actually go up. But the methane reduction will more than make up for that.

Hitler wasn't a caricature either.

https://youtu.be/WE6mnPmztoQ

The idea that evil has to appear a certain way is from stories we tell to children. Evil people will generally appear pretty normal day to day.

If you are generally morbidly curious about odds.

And assuming speculation is right that it's bowel cancer

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/king-charles-brave-words-kind-32054314

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/bowel-cancer/survival

Depends on what stage, but odds are given the level of care Royals get they've probably caught it at stage 1.

That's a 55% chance he's got 9 or 10 years for something else to get there first.

His father lived to 99 and he's currently 75.

A very old friend at 89 told me they had cancer a week before his 90th. They then laughed and said it was too late to the party.

They were right in the end, it was his heart a few years later. Thankfully he was still pretty active and living life until the last couple of weeks. Great guy, genuinely kind and wise. The phrase he gave for his memorial was "It's only sad to die if you haven't lived. I've lived."

"The Joker" is a generic description of a character. Going back to medieval courts.

If the result is a copyrighted version of that character that's not the promoters fault.

That's the fault of the ones who compile the training data.

They really don't care. It can take a lot of time to put a solid case together and you're better off having a solid case than a quick trial.

The statute of limitations is much longer than a year. It's usually around 5.

They can wait, see who's made the money, then target them for a payout.

The rights holder first considers the size of the payout vs. the cost of legal fees.

Just because they haven't been sued directly for this doesn't make it infringement.

So you're saying if it's easy to accidentally get copyright images out of this AI by prompting ordinary worlds. Then the AI designers have some questions to answer.

If your country is a signatory to the international copyright treaties with most of the Anglosphere (Like the EU, US, AUS, NZ). Then that is not correct.

You cannot draw anything.

It's just never worth suing you over.

A crime so small it's irrelevant is almost a legal act. But it's not actually a legal act.

It's clear from the output that it breaks copyright.

We don't have to look inside the black box to demand to see the input which caused that output.

To be clear a machine is not responsible for itself. This machine was trained to break copyright.

If you try to bread with an autonomous knife and the knife kills you by stabbing you in the head. Is it solely your fault?

Definitely a hoarder too, but too much is on for them to not be using any of it.

If every time what already exists gets used there's a risk of a massive fine or court case they'll throw it away.

The game now is to delay the legal process long enough until they've built the replacement.

Then they can afford to throw the, essentially faulty, model away.

My point is that corporations often see a fine as a cost of business because the fines are issued by a regulatory system that has no teeth.

If you're in a lawsuit against another corporation they are going after damages in civil court and it's likely to be a high enough fine to stop the behaviour.

Typically they aren't fighting other corporations.

A lot of radio equipment.

BBC News on the monitor.

Maps of Iran on the wall.

I'd bet on amateur/independent journalist picking up as much radio traffic as possible.

I never said they were good. Just that products are filling that gap in the market.