It’s a disagree button. That’s how it’s used in practice, and we’re better off just accepting that.

Attempting to hold up contradictions will do that to you. Can’t deport migrant labor without destroying the base of cheap farm labor. The people hiring them are often Trump supporters themselves, and they’ll lose money with crops rotting in the fields if MAGA got everything they wanted. At the other end of the spectrum, the tech billionaires love hiring H1-B visa holders to keep tech salaries down, and they’re the ones buying $1M/plate dinners with Trump.

Arguably, you may have already lost that bet, or close to it. Depends on how you measure the results. Trump’s approval rating this week is 41%, which is 1.6 points down from last week. 5% of 41% is about 2 points.

This is one of those issues where people won’t come back when they leave.

Stay cracked. It may take years to work out, though.

No, cults do not have permanent control over peoples minds. People do leave. When there’s big events like this that expose problems in the group, lots of people towards the edges will take off. Those who remain are the really devoted ones. It may take decades or even centuries to truly disappear (there’s still a few Shakers out there), but MAGA doesn’t have to shrink that much before it’s no longer a meaningful political force.

He does need them, though he may not think so. Support isn’t just for voting. His narcissism needs people to like him, and his entire personality can collapse without it (possibly to suicidal levels). They support him in more tangible ways, as well, such as counter protest actions.

Just in general, fascism needs to maintain the illusion of widespread, inevitable “populist” support. That’s one reason why big public protests are important even if they don’t have tangible results right away.

It was in the same weight range as what Ferrari was putting out at the time. Those stainless steel panels are very thin sheets over fiberglass. They don’t add as much weight as you’d think.

Most of the other issues were fixed by VIN 3000, but their reputation was set by then. Getting framed by the FBI in a drug sting didn’t help, either. It has a lot of very thoughtful features, like a gull wing door design that only comes out 11" and won’t hit the car parked next to you.

It got caught up in a bunch of regulatory changes that were happening the late 70s/early 80s. Just a bad time to start a new car company, or to make a sports car at all. There aren’t many memorable cars from the time period for anything other than looks.

Last time I checked, if you had bought an Edsel new, its value would have kept up with inflation. Some of the higher end trims do a little better than inflation. Which isn’t a particularly good investment either way, especially one that needs to be maintained with more money and effort. Tossing it in t-bonds would do just as well or better with almost zero effort.

Do you mean the Edsel? Studebaker was a successful car manufacturer for decades, and is still beloved by many.

It’s worth noting that some data reporting issues mean OS X and macOS are sometimes split, even though macOS is the newer branding for OS X. When combined, Apple’s desktop presence is around 24%

I think mfed112@discuss.tchncs.de has it right in another subthread. Star Trek: TNG doesn’t quite reach the level of competence porn. Scotty does, though. Guy who is delighted to be sent to his room so he can catch up on his technical journals? Yeah, he’s hyper competent.

Grand Admiral Thrawn of Star Wars is full out competence porn. Most of Timothy Zahn’s novels are.

If there’s higher redundancy, then they are already giving up on density.

We’ve pretty much covered the likely ways to calculate parity.

Not necessarily.

The trouble with spinning platters this big is that if a drive fails, it will take a long time to rebuild the array after shoving a new one in there. Sysadmins will be nervous about another failure taking out the whole array until that process is complete, and that can take days. There was some debate a while back on if the industry even wanted spinning platters >20TB. Some are willing to give up density if it means less worry.

I guess Seagate decided to go ahead, anyway, but the industry may be reluctant to buy this.

If burning oil and coal can be considered weather modification and geoengineering, then yes.

You mean Samson? Autocorrect is a bitch.

Probably sooner than that. The “Pope” as we know it is an office that evolved later, though the Catholic church claims the line goes back to the Apostle Peter.

The stories in the gospels are a collection of stories that had been circulating orally among the first century Christians, and got written down mostly in the late second half of that century. Mary likely never claimed a virgin birth at all; that was invented by the oral tradition. Pretty much everything about Jesus childhood is made up to push certain religious narratives.

Which itself is sometimes interesting to follow. The whole census story behind Jesus birth, for instance, is almost certainly made up. Why would Rome require everyone to go back to their birth city to register? That’s hugely disruptive to everyday life if people have to travel days or weeks just to fill out some paperwork. But why did they stick that in there? One good answer is that the particular group who wrote that section of the gospels–it doesn’t appear in all of them–really wanted to connect Jesus to King David and Bethlehem, but everyone knows Jesus is from Nazareth. So they stick this convoluted census story in there to have a reason for Jesus to be born in Bethlehem instead of Nazareth.

Let’s clear some terms. Intelligence and consciousness are separate things that our language tends to conflate. Consciousness is the interpretation of sensory input. Hallucinations are what happen when your consciousness is misinterpreting that data.

You actually hallucinate to a minor degree all the time. For instance, pareidolia often takes the form of seeing human faces in rocks and clouds. Our consciousness is really tuned to patterns that look like human faces, and it sometimes gets it wrong.

We can actually do this to image recognition models. A model was tuned to finding dogs in movies. It could then modify the movie to show what it thought was there. It was then deliberately overtrained, and it output a movie with dogs all over the place.

The models definitely have some level of consciousness. Maybe not a lot, but some.

This is what I like about AI research. We learn about our own minds while studying it. But capitalism isn’t using it in ways that are net helpful to humanity.

Thanks. There’s way too many people who don’t see the problems with rooftop residential solar. Commercial/industrial rooftop can work out, but fields are the cheapest electricity you can get.

They fight amongst themselves, too.

They’re all sociopaths. You can use that fact to predict how they function.

Yes, that’s probably correct. It’ll be late in the race, because both of them are pig headed and want the other one to do it. That will only drag down whomever does end up staying in. It’ll be a glorious game of political chicken. I’m ordering all the popcorn now.