I would wager it comes from a history of being a trade powerhouse. I’m no expert, though.

Kinda. A lot of them had this very strong opinion that they were basically an economic powerhouse and were actually better off without the trades that were lopsided against them. They’re learning how trade power actually works.

Yeah, my guess is that it’s the lack of a front grill that makes them look goofy to people. You’ll get used to it.

I’m somewhat surprised to hear it’d be as high as 50%. Pleased, but surprised.

Sounds like they’re taking efforts to fix this like 5-10 years too late.

Huh. I would not have expected the time of year to be part of the input prompts.

Carbon neutral means you try to “offset” your carbon. It’s half scam, half helpful. The idea is if your company produces an unavoidable amount of carbon, you offset this by supporting Carbon-free solutions elsewhere making your net production “neutral”. It’s a scam because sometimes the offset is stuff that was never going to produce carbon, and also because using other areas to claim “neutral” causes a weird double count. Carbon neutral is less good of a solution than carbon free, but it’s a step in the right direction.

However, target year of 2050?? Fucking what? That’s not something to brag about, that’s painfully and embarrassingly slow. That’s embarrassingly slow to be carbon free, much less carbon neutral.

There’s also a large number of Linux users that act like it’s infinitely easy and complication free.

I mean, I interpreted it the way they seem to have as well. Not being a pedant, I literally just read it different.

The wording seems pretty clear, they locked it at 170 replies.

It messes with a ton of my common actions and doesn’t make them better. Things being hidden behind weird actions now. Some of it will just require me to get used to it, but some of it seems genuinely more cumbersome to perform.

You’re not obligated to pay them if you don’t want to.

Honestly, we need tech business news vs technology in general, but technology also probably should be split between hardware and software. Or maybe computer vs the rest.

I would wager most of us haven’t.

I mean, yes, but a lot of them also think it’s a conspiracy where world leaders are trying to vaccinate everyone because ??? Those types will start avoiding ultrasound to not get tricked into getting vaccinated.

I just want more car options and less truck/SUV options

It feels like almost a certainty. The real fun part will be the Americans acting like the schism hasn’t happened while the rest of the world will be distinctly aware of the split.

I’m guessing Microsoft fits in basically having seen an opportunity and swept in. I doubt they have any “angle” in this other than “oh shit big name tech guy just lost his job and he’s skilled in stuff we want to be skilled in? grab him now”

Right? Like, I, too, predict the next word in my sentence to properly respond to inputs with desired output. Sure I have personality (usually) and interests, but that’s an emergent behavior of my intelligence, not a prerequisite.

It might not formulate thoughts the way we do, but it absolutely emulates some level of intelligence, artificially.

Like, you legit can’t remember? It’s “oops all berries” Captain crunch