It would be so immensely amusing if one of those companies got fined by the EU for something – with the fine calculated from their revenues. That should lead to some interesting fireworks.
Depends on your definition of "win the fight". Do we fight to the death or until someone retreats? Does it count as a win if I die after the fight? If not, does any nonlethal level of injury constitute a loss? There's room for interpretation here.
(Also, I have no real idea of how much damage a determined eagle could do to me and I'm in no hurry to find out.)
Communism works great at small scales. Within friend groups and up to the village level, informal communism is a tried and true social mechanism. I suppose that's also part of the appeal: We know it works on small scales, we just don't know how to scale it up in a robust way.
Unfortunately, there's a limit to how many people we can have actual meaningful connections to and as the number of people we don't care about grows, the emotional resistance to screwing over everyone shrinks. It also doesn't help that fair and equitable resource allocation for millions of people is a difficult problem. At the state level it becomes pretty hard to uphold a truly communist system.
Also, of course, sooner or later sociopaths will come along and subvert the whole damn thing, which works even better if you're in the (intended to be) transitional phase where the state owns everything. To be fair, sociopaths will try to subvert any system and are usually successful; authoritarian socialism just happens to offer a relatively convenient way to do so.
And the polar opposite of unrestrained capitalism is also terrible, just at a slightly slower pace. If wealth is power and wealth tends to consolidate without outside influence, any naive capitalist system will ultimately collapse to virtually the same degenerate state as naive communism, just with a slightly different flavor of sociopath at the helm and people screwing each other over for slightly different reasons.
As usual, the best approach is probably a boring compromise that nobody gets truly excited about. See what other societies are doing, try to adapt what works, avoid what doesn't, and continually rebalance your system to handle changing conditions. Also, plan ahead and live with the fact that your policies will never be ideal now because they're trying to prevent bad outcomes later. But that's the political equivalent of beige; you're not getting people to form a fervent pragmatic compromise movement.
Graphics experts are currently working on colorsv6, which will allow a 128-bit color space. This will allow for over one undecillion colors, theoretically allowing each object in the known universe to have its own unique color.
Common colors will be represented as follows:
000000:000000:000000:000000:00000000 - black (fully transparent)
000000:000000:000000:000000:ffffffff - black
ffffff:000000:000000:000000:ffffffff - red
000000:ffffff:000000:000000:ffffffff - green
000000:000000:ffffff:000000:ffffffff - blue
000000:000000:000000:ffffff:ffffffff - bleen
ffffff:ffffff:ffffff:ffffff:ffffffff - white
Each color channel gets a full 24 bits of accuracy, except for the alpha channel, which gets 32 bits to better facilitate hiding almost imperceptible text in images to troll AI models.
colorsv6 will also include stateless color autodiscovery and ColorSec for secure coloration.
Several manufacturers of image editing software have already announced that due to color space exhaustion they will exclusively support colorsv6 going forward. However, so-called "dual stack coloration" may be offered, which will map colorsv6 to traditional colors in a way where most people won't notice the difference but which will regularly infuriate actual artists and graphic designers.
Humans, animals, who cares? In fact, let's just go full phylum-agnostic!
5,000 deaths from nuclear power. (humans)
140,000 deaths from renewable energy. (wildlife)
70 million deaths from a single dose of mouthwash. (~100 miillion bacteria per ml of saliva, assuming vaguely 0.7 ml of saliva in the mouth)
Seriously, though, renewables are technically more lethal than nuclear but that's mainly because NPPs are usually designed for extreme bulk production and (AFAIK) most renewable deaths are due to construction accidents. Just look at that rooftop solar number. All in all, both renewables and nuclear are pretty safe as far as pure mortality goes. Beyond mortality we of course run into the nuclear waste issue but that's another story.
Coal is comically bad on so many levels it's amazing how insistent some people are on maintaining it. It even manages to lose to nuclear on the metric of radioactive pollution. That's... impressive, I suppose. I'd prefer it if it could be impressive in a history book.
Problem is, if your slang is too new it looks like gibberish. Of course you could try something else that stands out. Like badly translated idioms.
But it's probably jacket like pants. Even if you tear your ass open to make your writing look less 08/15 that doesn't mean everything's in butter. It's probably only a matter of time until LLMs will copper off that style as well and your clever plan turns into a zero number. And that's where the hare lies in the pepper: Your clarity goes over the Jordan and it ain't itching the LLMs' bean. It'll get trained on your stuff anyway and the cat bites its own tail.
Maybe bad translations aren't the solution either.
The same happens to people who write a lot and pay attention to their style, such as this gentleman. The way LLMs generate text is strongly influenced by what used to be considered a high-effort eloquent style. Varied sentence lengths, triplets, typographically correct punctuation, yada yada yada. Until recently, that stuff used to be the hallmark of professional writers (and Kenyans, apparently).
What were LLMs trained on? Professional writing, first and foremost. Books, scientific papers, op-eds, blog posts. So by default they take a polite, professional tone with all the flourishes and best practices that previously used to be de rigueur for authors and the like. So now what happens when someone used to "proper" writing writes something?
Everyone thinks it's AI slop because that's how LLMs talk. High effort now looks like low effort. And because tech bros immediately went on to develop "humanizing" tech, any other style will soon also look like low effort. And the same is true for art: Being able to produce highly detailed pictures with spectacular colors and shadows went from something impressive to evidence that you're just a random jackass with a ChatGPT subscription.
You can't really win anymore. Anything short of a live performance or a feature-length movie could feasibly have been generated by a fully automated content mill. That really sucks if you want to engage in creative expression of any kind and doubly so if you once thought you could make a living off of that.
Naja, am Ende kann aber ein klares "ich werde einer Aufweichung nicht zustimmen". Es ist also nicht völliges Herumgewiesel.
It does to me. mm-dd is not used at all in my native language and would be considered grammatically incorrect. Since English doesn't prescribe it I have no reason to fully accept it.
Note that I still prefer to write ISO 8601 dates but my spoken dates are big-endian.
Middle-endian dates like "June 15th 2046" are just bad, of course.
Yeah, the novelty is basically that it's Pokemon with the rose-tinted glasses off. But I'd argue that's not really what carries it and neither is gameplay that works surprisingly well for something they glued together from Pokemon, Breath of the Wild, and any survival action game.
What carries it is that Pocketpair have kept improving the game despite legal interference and without succumbing to the temptation of charging more money.
There's no pre-launch DLC. There's no out-of-early-access price hike. The 1.0 release had so much new stuff in it that it could've been sold as an expansion pack in the pre-DLC days and they just pushed it as a free update because they felt the game wasn't done yet. Even the crossover content is free.
This is a game where the developer actually seems to care about delivering a good product. And I think you can feel it in the quality of the game.
Also, caffeine addiction is relatively easy to overcome. Nicotine addiction isn't and tobacco, its main source, contains tons of other crap, which is why governments have been running anti-smoking campaigns for decades but keep their actions against caffeine to "don't give energy drinks to minors" and "please don't sell premixed alcoholic caffeinated beverages".
Because your company makes you use Azure Virtual Desktop to connect to a VM and AVD's clipboard handling is as unreliable as anything else from Microsoft?