Early evening in the western hemisphere, OP posted a large sum of perfectly native fluency English, so yeah, I’ll assume US or Canada. Can’t have a conversation without making reasonable assumptions. But please, feel free to add to the conversation, where do some of these exceptions exist? Don’t just “um, actually” the conversation, add to it!

You just can’t legally transmit without a license. You can own a ham radio and listen all you want.

ED209 from Robocop was my first thought

Best explanation of salt I’ve ever seen. Thanks!

I’ve already seen it done better than they could ever put on, although I’d love to watch the lard orange attempt to enter the arena in Auntie’s zipline throne.

Gee, I can’t see at all how this could be a bad idea /s

I want to go to there

I’ve struggled with this line of thinking, myself. Sure, you’re taking their money, which is a plus, but you’re also encouraging the things that make them so disagreeable to begin with. Do the ends justify the means?

"Authorities believe an osprey, a fish-eating bird of prey, was flying overhead when it dropped its catch midflight.

“The fish struck power lines, producing sparks that ignited dry grass below, triggering the fire.”

I mean, they seem to have that last part down.

I admit, it wasn’t on my 2025 bingo card, either.

One of the most astute comments I’ve ever read.

One thing that makes Western militaries so deadly is their usage of merit vs social position to gain leadership. Oops. I mean “was.”

Reminds me of this trailer I came across the other day.

From Dwight Eisenhower’s Cross of Iron speech:

…Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.

It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.

It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.

It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.

We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.

We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking.

This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron…

Computer chips, simplified, consume inputs of 1s and 0s. Given the correct series, it will add two values, or it will multiply two values, or some other basic function. This seemingly basic functionality, done in very specific order, creates your calculator, Minesweeper, Pac-Man, Linux, World of Warcraft, Excel, and every LLM. It is incredible the number of things you can get a computer to do with just simple inputs and outputs. The only difference between these examples, on a basic, physics level, is the order of 0s and 1s and what the resulting output of 0s and 1s should be. Why should I consider an LLM any more sentient than Windows95? They’re the same creature with different inputs, one of which is specifically designed to simulate human communication, just as Flight Simulator is designed to simulate flight.

deleted by creator

Well, that was a little terrifying

I read the headline and had one thought: let me guess, his job?

Am I the only one to suddenly hear the Star Trek theme song in their head just as I finished the post description?