You know the only thing more ridiculous than buying a toilet with a built in camera?

In October Kohler launched Dekota, a $600 (plus monthly subscription) device that attaches to the rim of your toilet and collects images and data from inside

Buying a camera to attach to an existing toilet, that has a monthly device fee that costs more than a fucking toilet does.

You’re acting like that’s a common scenario…

There’s a few small slices of area in a minority of states where you might be legally allowed to pick, but that is not a guarantee there’s more than one option.

To my knowledge most of them are artificial monopolies anyways.

Like, in Perfectville your choice between any available provider is legally protected. However company A and company B made a handshake deal to draw a line down the area and not provide service on one side of the line.

https://competitiveenergy.org/consumer-tools/state-by-state-links/

Very few of those green states are for electricity

And if you just meant:

Non profit = good

Then I’m going to have to explain an entirely different thing…

And I’m not optimistic about our chances to be honest

Bullshit.

You really think companies in America with monoplies would lower prices just because their costs went down?

I wish I lived in an America like that…

People thought they’d hang onto CDs and DVDs too…

Good luck…

Even when the bubble bursts, they’re going to have an insane amount of computing power just sitting there, it will get sold off in bankruptcy proceedings, and some company will gobble it up and operate at a loss while continuing to secure future supply contracts.

There’s a very real chance that we’re witnessing the slow death of home computing.

The way things shake out it might end up being prohibitively expensive compared to cloud computing, and once that’s the norm they price gouge like Walmart did to destroy small businesses.

Instead of dropping a couple grand for a PC every couple years, we’ll have steady contracts paying for month at a time indefinitely.

This is a good thing…

Not for people buying Steam machines, but developers now have an incentive to optimize instead telling people to upgrade their PC. “Steam machine verified” is going to equate to more sales.

Thanks.

Lasted about two hours, batteries were frying them so they took out the batteries trying to shut them off, but they just kept working due to ambient current on the lines.

It also brought up how much more random it is, it’s not like a hand grenade that expands equally. It’s more like someone threw a bunch of loose bottle rockets in a camp fire. They’re all going to go off, but the chances of hitting one specific spot is low. Obviously we’re all spinning and hurtling thru space too, so it truly is just random fucking chance.

Still not a “big” one…

I think it was late 1800s America got hit by one that allowed unpowered telegrams to be sent nationwide for like, a while. If we got one that strong in the modern era, it would blow every single electric transformer on that entire hemisphere. Not just hit the safety and cut out, like actually explode and be permanently destroyed.

Those things are already difficult to produce for multiple reasons, and losing them on that scale would take over a decade to recover. And it would obviously happen in the wealthiest places first, and global demand would mean other places can’t afford to replace any from normal breakage, along with driving up the price of a lot of materials used for other electronics.

We won’t see it coming either. Like, the article says we’re predicting more the next few days, but that’s because these are always happening, and when there’s one big one, there’s likely to be other big ones.

It’s one of those things you can’t unlearn once you realize we’re at a constant risk of something that would basically ruin society. At least it’s a coin flip if it hits anywhere specific when it happens. Because eventually it will happen

“We are birthing superintelligence. We are creating the mind of God, infinite, destined to solve every problem we’ve ever faced and usher in an age without death.”

What brain rotted CEO grifter is that quote even from?

Prebuilts have become about the only way to get a deal for a while now.

It’s a big club, anyone that’s not fascist is in it by default…

I can assure you the body fails between 35 and 65…

Like, this is just about the brain. Middle age does not last until 65 unless you’re dividing a lifetime into three separate chunks and saying a 2 year old and a 33 year old are in the same group.

Which is fucking ridiculous, but boomers didn’t want to ever admit they were aging, so were left with entirely stupid concepts like “middle age” lasting until you retire.

That’s not based on anything scientific, just Boomer’s feelings.

Then, from 66 to age of 83, the brain tends toward “modularity,” where the neural network is divided into highly connected subnetworks with less central integration. At age 83, connectivity declines further.

Gee…

Maybe we shouldn’t keep letting geriatric people run our fucking country?

Why do you make a handful of accounts a day to spam posts?

Why not just use the same account for more than an hour?

As a result there’s a capacity crunch on memory production, shooting the prices for RAM sky high, over 100 percent in the last few months alone

They said “market price”… What market are you shopping at?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KXrQYWbbIs

In a logical world it would be. But criminally I don’t think anywhere differentiates type of weapon other than “firearm” and “deadly”.

They need to fully separate it from date rape too. Back in my younger days I knew 3 different dudes who got dosed out at bars. I highly doubt they were intended rape victims, but a lot of robberies start out with someone slipping something into your drink, then getting you in the parking lot.

Drugging anyone for anyone reason should qualify as attempted manslaughter. Which, counter intuitively is a real charge.

It makes it easier to charge rapists too because you don’t have to prove rape, and can even charge them before a rape happens. If you can prove rape, throw it on top as additional charges.

I mean, they literally are weapons…

Potentially deadly

Sessions at the summit, which Nature attended, covered a wide range of health-related topics, including psychedelics, brain implants and anti-ageing therapies. Academic researchers or clinicians were not among the speakers at the sessions, which were peppered by comments critical of the medical establishment.

I don’t know if that was an intentional joke, but fucking hilarious to add that.

The molehill is your focus on the word believe

If I walked up and took a sandwich out of you hand and ate, would you say:

I believe that’s my sandwich

And expect me to give it back? Or anyone to help you?

Or do you think:

You just stole my sandwich

Would be more effective?

You’re acting like this is one isolated incident with zero consequences…

And I readily admit, I over estimate people’s critical thinking abilities, but it seems very clear with how Israel and Russia treat borders, and how chummy with them trump is, that this could very likely be the start of the same behavior.

But like I said, I often think shit is ridiculously obvious just to find out other people just can’t connect the dots.

I’ll never understand why people get so belligerent instead of just asking questions till they understand.

Can you at least tell me why you didn’t want to ask questions when you ran into something you didn’t understand?

It’s a widespread issue, and I legitimately want some insight into your choices here.

You think a hostile nation’s military headed by a demented narcissist showing up on another country’s sovereign soil and placing signs that it belongs to a different country…

Is a molehill?

Buddy, if you don’t understand why something is serious, I’d highly advise you to ask questions instead of loudly proclaim it’s not a big deal