That's 1700 billion all in!
fortune.com/longform/lockheed-martin-f-35-fighter-jet/
From the first:
This is the first documented case of Klingsor syndrome related to psilocybin, in which a psychologically disturbed person self-inflicts harm on their genitals. Plus the dude was already messed up and an alcoholic.
The second guy was on ADHD meds and hypertension meds:
Although some might be tempted to draw broad conclusions from this single case, it is important to understand the nature and role of case reports in medicine. Case reports are detailed descriptions of unusual or novel clinical events involving one patient. They do not establish cause and effect or generalize to larger populations.
It's pretty common advice not to mix drugs unless you know what you're doing, which is something that happened in both cases.
But the point is your "warning" is the same as telling someone about to drive or fly about the worst accident on their mode of transportation. It's just a paranoid thought (and a dick move), not a reflection of reality.
Yeah. Young adults are going to have sex.
They can have sex in the safe home where they live. Or they can have sex in less safe places like parties, frat houses, in cars where they can collect a public indecency charge, etc...
That's the choice you get to make as a parent.
It's not as hard as you think to start, but it takes forever. I used to wait until stuff broke and needed replacing. I'd open it up and "try to fix it" knowing that I was going to break it worse and that I was buying a new one anyways. Looked up a lot of videos on YouTube.
Little by little I leaned to take things apart and put them back together without breaking them worse (mostly). Then I started to buy cheap Amazon spare parts to try to fix things without taking a big risk. Again I figured if I could buy a few more months of use it would be worth the risk.
After about 20 years I have a lot more confidence and have a pretty good success rate for household repairs and probably 30% for broken appliances. Sometimes shit is irreparably fucked, sometimes it's still beyond my skill. When I fix something I usually get a couple of extra years out of it. It's a nice hobby, save a few bucks sometimes. Better than spending an afternoon on the Internet.
I had a dryer like that. Ancient thing. Simple as fuck too, unlike modern dryers with 1000 features. I replaced just about every part on that thing, sometimes multiple times. Finally the control board broke and it started turning on the heating elements without running the fan. Damn dryer tried to burn my house down. Can't get the boards anymore.
I almost shed a tear putting that dryer to the curb.
Yet another example of valid criticism of conservative ideological bullshit being silenced by the courts.
https://lemmy.ca/post/46524991
Apparently if someone is in some way attacking natives and native identity you're not allowed to fight back or criticize them.
Recognising the "AI voice" isn't just the voice. It's also the clearly "written by AI" circuitous script that keeps talking without saying anything and non-stop clickbait "but wait until you find out what the answer is" crap.
The other type of AI voice is people just stealing Reddit stories and putting them to AI. Also lame. I want my stories narrated with human emotion. The point of stories isn't to transfer knowledge, it's an art form, I don't need shitty robot emotions thank you very much.
So no, the use case for AI voice is very narrow. Some of my favorite YouTubers use text narration. Maybe they don't like their voice, or speak a different language, I don't know, I've literally never heard them. It doesn't stop them in the least from showing me amazing things. They don't need to resort to polluting their video with the lowest garbage idea humans have created so far.
I'd like to see a video that is improved by the use of any AI.
If nobody bothered to make it why should anybody bother to watch it?
How can opinion and critique be defamation? This is insane. We can't criticize racist bigots anymore apparently.
Sorry, I had to come back to this. The truth isn't an absolute defense against defamation??? That's the most insane thing I've ever heard. Sometimes it's hard being Canadian.
Absolutely. I don't think anyone is trying to tell Spotify users what to do and what to listen to.
This is just Spotify trying to get the advantages of being the new digital radio without the responsibilities that come with being a radio provider.
Spotify is just trying to get out of playing Canadian content to Canadians. When we listen to a Spotify "radio" we're expecting random but themed music, like we get from a radio station. What we don't get is Canadian content. The Canadian content requirements exist because we're attached to a very big exporter of culture and music. It's important to keep our music scene alive in the face of pressure from American artists and American media networks.
If Canadians don't listen to Canadian music who will?
I saw a convoy of about 30 cars on the highway back in October. I looked it up and found nothing. Then I see a Reddit post in /r/vexillollogy with the same flag and no useful answers.
It's so weird that people bought like 100 of these flags and there is no info on them at all!
I flipped the picture to make the flag the right way.
The laughable Bank of Canada report even includes the line
Why did this increase in markups not contribute significantly to inflation? We show that markup growth reached its highest level because of a contraction in firms’ costs [...] during the pandemic-related public health interventions
So when their costs go down they keep the prices the same and pocket the difference, BoC report verdict "profit growth without inflation". So what happens when costs go back up?
We observe a mild contribution of markup growth to inflation in 2021, partially explained by demand rebounding faster than costs. However, the fact that markup growth fell to zero the following year indicates that firms were likely smoothing out their price increases [...] rather than leveraging increases in market power.
So when the costs go back up, they pass 100% of the cost to the consumer and keep their new higher profit margins (no change in markup). BoC verdict "the inflation has nothing to do with profit growth". Amazing!
If industry follows this "price ratchet" mechanism profit margins can go to infinity "without causing inflation" according to BoC. Absolutely galaxy brain levels of economic genius.
They really think we're idiots.
The engineers only make the designed safe speed. Government officials make the listed limit. It used to be EXTREMELY popular for government official to knock 20-25% off the design limit of the road, ironically so they can tell everyone how safe they were.