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Well, it used to be in halls of residence, owned by the uni, for free until they all got sold off.

Literally not how it works at all. Generations are defined on the year you were born, not who you were born to.

Mick Jagger was born in 1943, making him part of the Silent Generation. When his wife had their latest kid, in 2016, Jagger was 73. That child is not a baby boomer.

You can read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation#List_of_named_generations

To be Gen Alpha you must be the child of Gen Z who had to be the child of Millennials.

This is not true. I'm a millennial (1989) but my parents are boomers (1950s), not Gen X, as are the vast majority of my friends. Not everyone has kids in their early 20s, infact the average age to have your first kid in the UK is 29.

Well he is a proud boy.

(not my joke, is from the tweeter).

It could be done as a series of vignettes, for example, as 6 episode series, with each series centred around each crisis. That would give you 4-5 hours - or 2.5 Mrs Doubtfires - to do what Asimov does in around 60 pages (depending on crisis).

I don't understand the argument that this is impossible to do, pretty much every film you will have ever seen will have had a shorter runtime than 5 hours, and handled all aspects of character introduction, motivation, conflict, growth, and resolution, within than time too.

I am not saying it has to be identical or a word for word adaptation - I have no issues what so ever with gender swapping Hardin - but as another poster points out, having Seldon live on (other than as recordings getting increasingly divorced from reality) directly rejects the core premise of the book, which is a refutation of the great man hypothesis.

The Cleons is literally the only reason I continue to watch the show.

I'd say Foundation, but the show has been so far away from the books since literally episode 1 that the name might as well be a coincidence.

Oh my god don't even get me started on this game.

Get this, you know how over time you get fatigue points and can only get rid of them by eating food items you've previously gathered? Well, when doing this one day last week my character nearly fucking died because of some race condition glitch where mid-swallow they tried to breathe for some unknown reason and because the devs, in their infinite fucking wisdom, decided that while there are two completely separate and incompatible systems for food and air, they must accessed via the same hole, but clearly not at the same time!

The mind boggles, I hope someone was fired for that blunder.

I don't recall the last time a human was able to create something that could not be expressed in previously existing words at all.

It's called outsider art.

Even if AI only trained on non-copyrighted art, this would still be true. It might set the AI companies back a year or two

If this is true then they have no excuse to continue to consume copywritten content. Given the extreme pushback from the companies involved, I think is clear that this isn't true.

Since all people mix together ideas they've learned from their own input to create new things, just like AI does, then all people-produced content should also be inherently uncopyrightable, unless produced by a person who has never been exposed to copyrighted content.

While copyright and IP law at present is massively broken, this is a very poor interpretation of the core argument at play.

Let me break it down:

• Yes, all human created art takes significant influence - purposefully, and accidently - from work which has come before it
• To have been influenced by that piece, legally, the human will have had to pay the copyright holder to; go to the cinema, buy the bluray, see the performance, go to the gallery, etc. Works out of copyright obviously don't apply here.
• To be trained in a discipline, the human likely pays for teaching by others, and those others have also paid copyright holders to view the media that influenced them aswell
• Even thought the vast majority of art is influenced by all other art, humans are capable of novel invention- ie things which have not come before - but GenAI fundamentally isn't.

Separately, but related, see the arguments the Pirate Parties used to make about personal piracy being OK, which were fundamentally down to an argument of scale:

• A teenager pirating some films to watch cos they are interested in cinema, and being inspired to go to film school is very limited in scope. Even if they pirate hundreds of films, it can't be argued that it's 100 lost sales because the person may have never bought them anyway.
• A GenAI company consuming literally all artistic output of humanity, with no payment to the artists what so ever, "learning" to create "new" art, without paying for teaching, and spitting out whatever is asked of it, is massive copyright infringement on the consumption side, and an existential threat to the arts on the generation side

That's the reason people are complaining, cos they aren't being paid today, and they won't be paid tomorrow.

Cats are asleep, not giving a shit.

One of them did sneak outside last night just before a very big one went off - so big I jumped too - and he hid under a hedge for 10 mins until I found him.

They do in the UK - where are you?

As is covered in the article, explaining the environmental impact of SUVs to SUV owners does not change their mind or encourage them to get a different car; it is effectively ignored.

So that is where ideas like the deflators come in, you make it more inconvenient, maybe that will work where polite discussion did not.

That's not an argument, that is a false statement.

other than whatever legal requirement there is to record and secure government communications.

So you do see the problem.

I can't believe I actually have to say this.

You are not a government official, working in a professional capacity having conversations with your collegues about the job you're doing.

Your personal discord, etc, is completely irrelevant.

Offsetting aside, the claimed carbon emissions of 7-12kg CO2e feels super low for a smart watch.

For comparison, this recipe of Tomatoes and Chickpeas on toast, when eaten in season from local produce, claims to reduce the carbon emission of the single meal by ~2.5kg, and this article would suggest that a single serloin steak is 5-10kg of CO2e.

I know eating beef is high impact, but basically the same as a smart watch which requires mining of precious metals and numerous transcontinental shipments? Not a chance.

Just imagine all the ads you can watch, while looking out at the sea with a morning coffee! Bliss!

but after seeing them blocking ambulances

JSO in the UK have a very clear blue-light policy - ie get out of the way and let them pass - so this does not happen.

Beyond that, the point of protest is that it's disruptive.

Yet another example of the incredibly stupid decisions George Osborne took when equalising VED/Road tax in year 2 onwards.

It used to be that the higher emissions you made the more you paid every year, and while it was never enough, having a single rate of 180 quid for all petrol / diesel cars regardless of size/efficiency was clearly the wrong policy at the time, and this just shows it.