Relevant xkcd.

Just so you know, your name’s visible in the “Gemini crashes” image.

Giving them the benefit of the doubt, maybe they meant BS like [transphobes complaining about] men in women’s sports?

I can back that up; the drives I ordered were packaged in an antistatic bag, surrounded by an air filled cushion thing, in a hard cardboard box. (Assuming what I got was the “air pockets” it’s a plastic sleeve made of many pressurized sections that completely encloses the drive; definitely adequate IMO. I can dig up a pic if you want).

They’re not indistinguishable, downloading a video results in the same amount of data being transferred much more quickly. But your ISP couldn’t care less either way.

On my phone the site is very stuttery when scrolling. Could be a problem on my end but maybe do some profiling to see if it’s using a lot of resources and test it on lower end devices?

George Orwell’s 1984 becomes more of a reality every day.

Lmao, did anyone expect something different? Never buy a product that becomes a brick when the company that made it goes under.

You can copy and paste the video URL into the Wayback Machine, if it’s decently popular there’s a good chance the title and maybe even the video itself is archived.

Can they buy Minnesota too? Or can Canada annex us? Anyone? Please?

Making Win 11 even harder to install is a bold move from Microsoft. Most average users are content with using the OS that comes with their PC and upgrading it when necessary. But if the option is to either buy a new PC or fiddle with registry settings in hope that Win 11 will work, I think a lot more people will start looking at Linux instead.

It’s not very interesting, just the Windows XP shutdown and startup sounds.

Do you really want a job at a company that uses AI to review their applicants?

Wouldn’t the immunity also work in reverse? A bacteria with opposite chirality wouldn’t be able to digest chiral nutrients from regular organisms (sugars, lipids, nearly all amino acids, and more). Seems like that would limit the damage it could cause to existing organisms.

I’m not a medical expert, but there are plenty of news articles of people declared brain dead by doctors recovering and waking up.

I wholeheartedly agree with you, which means this isn’t much of an unpopular opinion, so downvoted.

True, but you can’t always be sure someone is truly brain-dead.

I honestly don’t see a problem with that, as long as the woman gave her consent while she was of sound mind. Surrogate pregnancy is already a fairly common thing; this is just extending it to after one is brain-dead.

Obviously if it’s done nonconsensually that’s an entirely different matter, and is a horrifying idea (imagine miraculously waking up from an 8 month coma only to find you’re pregnant with someone else’s child).

Vaccination? Antibiotics? The Haber-Bosch process? Computing in general?

Nope, computers that are mediocre at pretending to be humans are clearly superior.

Guess we’re never getting AGI then, there’s no way they end up with that much profit before this whole AI bubble collapses and their value plummets.