What about moderate deflation? Not “nobody is spending money” but “everybody is spending 5% less”, to go in accord to your groceries example.

I think no rolling releases has gotten their act right. All eventually break with an update, and if you skipped several, the likelihood of reinstalling is high.

At least they teach you good backup practices.

The answer is always money. Someone benefited financially from starting it.

They didn’t say it returned to the same individual. Some people get the ocasional win and stop, others keep gambling the winnings until they lose it all.

ExCUsE mE! Gambling platforms are called “prediction markets” nowadays.

Seeing that the second paragraph is about marketing the person and not discussing the injustice at hand, I find it very upsetting and hard to support. What is a neuroqueer anyway? Are we still inventing new genders in 2026?

My goal is finding a challenging hobby to keep myself intellectually active. Being old and lonely might be unavoidable, but being bored isn’t.

The Spanish names barely count because those were originally Mexican and had been named before USA was born.

My bum, shoulders, and legs hurt in a perfectly real sense after having driven about 14 hours between yesterday and today. Dreams only hurt if you focus on it, and it’s never that detailed or deep.

Take philosophy thought exercises out of imagination and into practical situations, and many cease to look profound.

8. The enemy is both weak and strong. “[…] the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

Umberto Eco, The 14 Points of Fascism.

So they’re at last accepting that climate change is real?

To anyone who interacts with it? Would you deny that a program automate mental labor in the same way that a sawmill automates manual labor? Isn’t that some degree of intelligence?

Now, we have very imperfect LLMs who nevertheless can be instructed not with program code, but actual natural language, and they react accordingly. Isn’t that also intelligence? Computers that understood natural language was the realm of science fiction just five years ago.

I get it that people hate LLMs, both because how idiots use them, and how corporations push them everywhere; but not recognizing the intelligence in those programs is naive at best.

It is evident that it has intelligence, it outputs intelligent responses usually adequate to its input, even if it’s badly phrased. What it doesn’t have is sentience, conscience, and a learning loop.

Crazy how USA seems unable to keep up, and it appears its best chance of maintaining hegemony is bringing China down, not improving itself. Never expected to see this shift in my lifetime.

They do, and I experimented with both, but wasn’t able to get better performance from Jellyfin compared to Plex. Always running on the same hardware. Still run both though, just in case.

Especially on non-GPU systems, Jellyfin is slower at transcoding than Plex. I don’t know the intervals, but I have both running in the sam machine, and Plex is always noticeably more responsive. Not by a huge margin, but still it is.

XBMBC (later Kodi) gang present!

“¡Dije abrazos, no balazos!” - Sheinbaum

The main official strategy against organized crime has been “let them be”, and unofficially “let’s pimp them”.

As a Mexican, I’m very worried with the brazenness of the Cheeto, but OTOH I’m happy he’s forcing the government to change his ruinous strategy. For us common citizens the situation has become intolerable. We didn’t use to live like this.

I don’t know, 60%? 80%? 91.645%? What a random question, what is your point?

Taxes in USA are progressive, meaning the higher your income, the higher your taxes. The 1%, controlling 30% of USA’s wealth, should pay much more than 40%, the 99% shouldn’t pay 60% of taxes because their income is much lower on average.