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Mine has stretched a lot in the abdominal area and the dense, protective covering on the top is thinning and gray. Probably not worth trading in at this point so I'll run it into the ground.

Ceramic or metal?

I think a better way to look at this is Republicans are obviously doing everything they can to make elections seem untrustworthy or irrelevant.

Among supporters, this means they won't oppose antidemocratic measures like making sure the majority of your county don't have a convenient polling place (I, of course, don't know this is the case, it's an example).

Among detractors, it encourages a sense of hopelessness in areas that are red or starting to turning red to purple.

This makes it easier to overturn or manipulate elections without popular opposition.

Every single time you supress a legitimate vote you weaken the idea that every vote counts.

You could explore RSS feeds as a way to consume content. It's more work for you up front but will be worth it. Feedly is very popular. I like feedbin but pay for it.

I was under the impression that they crawled web sources but it seems like lots of copyrighted work was used.

I hadn't heard of getting "illegal" data sets before so I looked into it and it sounds like they might have done that. Wow.

Link for the curious: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/9/23788741/sarah-silverman-openai-meta-chatgpt-llama-copyright-infringement-chatbots-artificial-intelligence-ai

I knew a guy in university who absolutely reeked. He was a really nice person and I befriended him in a casual way (like sit together in a lecture, chat in the hall). It was clearly a medical thing but people ostracized him and talked behind his back about how he must never shower. I felt really bad for him.

I didn't actually know that when I fired that off but not for profits do care about revenue and expenditure.

I have been saying for a while the compute cost and copyright lawsuits are going to be a real bubble burst.

Yes. I meant they want them using it as copilot.

They also launched copilot. Could be the actual reason...

Translation: disagreement over how to maximize revenue.

Why? Because the people who make money don't like dealing with the founders.

Purely made up example: board of directors decides they can make the mosy money by pivoting and rebranding as "the customer service company". They will throw away all the models built with copyright material, build simpler models based on customer service scripts and interactions from customer businesses, and save a ton on compute while making bank on licensing and professional services. No more free chat, etc.

A founder doesn't like this new direction that is antithetical to their vision for the business so they go around telling shareholders to get rid of the current board and for employees to quit or otherwise not help with this.

Board sees this messing with their genius money printing idea so they fire them.

Not to mention be sued by everyone whose copyrighted work was used.

I could be wrong but these days the longest you could go on having no idea is about a week. And that's if you are really not that engaged. Companies like this run on financial statements.

I forgot about the headlong charges at stairs.

Good point. Do not mess with the sleep schedule!

I always listened to different genres with my son (still do)!

Be prepared to be bored out of your damn mind, periodically delighted, and always realizing that yes they somehow found scissors while you looked away long enough to see what time it is. Note: 6 hours haven't passed, it just feels like it.

You can go to the park and come home 6 times. Each time will be an adventure.

They love water. You need to supervise but pouring liquid between vessels is fun. Same with sand. You'll probably need to change their clothes 3-4 times anyway so it doesn't matter if what they are doing messes up their outfit. DO NOT leave a kid like this unattended if they are not confined in a very, very safe place. Ask parents what they do when they need to use the washroom and do that.

Make sure you have a good line up of parent approved snacks and drinks.

You might be able to buy some time with a video but better is to get some raffi songs going and show them how to clap, have a dance party (well away from stuff they can hit their head on etc - you can do this seated).

Figure out the potty training situation but kids this old get upset when away from parents and can regress so could mean they have accidents. If this happens don't get angry. Just change them and back to playing.

Good luck.

If you have trusted friend or relative they can watch them while you use the washroom or google how to get you keys out of the toilet (do not give them your keys or phone - memorize that).

Capitalism 101:

• as productivity of individuals increases, increase the workload and hit fewer people
• if people are better at "life" and have more free time and money, charge more for discretionary experiences and goods

And so on.

I do think it will improve life for some but for others it will suck. Example: it much, much easier and cheaper to give each gig worker a micro-managing AI voice I their ear than it is to replace workers with robots (work in Amazon warehouse if you don't believe me). And job automation in white collar sectors will mean more people are taking gig economy jobs.

Maybe it will be cool. Show up at a construct site, sign in, and get told what to do to help frame a house with no real skills ("take a stack of studs to the location on your HUD"). You are now making money without needing other people to supervise that much (skilled framers still do most if it but you keep them more productive). And you could do that for two hours and hand off to the next person.

And if your biggest userbase is teenagers you are on shaky ground. Trends change quickly and as soon as they have to pay for it themselves it's goodbye luxury item for a lot of them.