You are expecting too much from Trump. His pattern is to proclaim some new policy with shaky justification and no prior analysis. At best, his thought pattern is, “20% sounds like a good number.” Then he let’s the rest of his administration try to define something of substance around his public statements, hoping that he doesn’t contradict their attempts in the coming days.

Technically, they are if sending emails to Americans, but I’m not sure how much enforcement this law gets.

I used to not refrigerate my syrup. However, that changed when I found a scoby growing in it one day. And some people refrigerate natural peanut butter so that the oil doesn’t separate.

Hence the scare quotes in their comment.

Personally, I think education is more important and people should free to make their own decisions.

That’s precisely what he, and the tobacco industry that was supprting him, was working against. He wasn’t just taking a libertarian stance against regulation. He was arguing against the evidence that smoking tobacco, and second-hand exposure to tobacco smoke, were bad for your health. And the quoted portion of the article also indicates that he pushed to keep tobacco education out of the broader drug education in schools.

Don’t forget that he’s been in Congress for decades, and many of the things that he had been fighting against as a senator are responsible for the general awareness of the dangers of smoking and the record low number of smokers.

The central figure in Islam is Muhammad. Hence, not Christian. The central figure in Mormonism is Jesus Christ. Hence, Christian.

That is also something that would allow a competitor to come in to outseat their dominance. In fact, charging 5% instead of 30% would make it much more difficult for competition to develop because it would be next to impossible for somebody to penetrate into the market by offering a lower rate that’s only viable with huge volumes of sales. Usually, offering unsustainable prices is a way that a dominant player achieves a monopoly. If they have big cash reserves, they can run at a loss until their competition dies out.

Yeah, I grew up in Wisconsin closer to the Minnesota border, so I used both as well. When I moved to Eastern Wisconsin, I solidified on “drinking fountain” because people here call it a “bubbler” and tease you more about “water fountain.”

Oh yeah, and I remember getting blank stares in college when mentioning that we had a lot of hot dish growing up. I didn’t realize how regional that phrase was.

Yeah, this is a clip of what he said.

https://www.c-span.org/clip/white-house-event/user-clip-trump-suggests-injecting-bleach-to-kill-covid-virus/5162133

Right. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that. So, that, you’re going to have to use medical doctors with. But it sounds - it sounds interesting to me. So we’ll see. But the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute, that’s - that’s pretty powerful.

Yeah, we dissected frogs, worms, and fish in eighth grade. In high school, if you took anatomy and physiology, I know they also dissected fetal pigs.

Also, in a similar vein, there are reports about wealthy people going to Bosnia in the '90s during the war on safaris to kill people. So the concept of allowing random civilians to participate is not without precedent either.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3epygq5272o

The lack of justice seems to be a given, so I’ll be fine with a rotting corpse that got away with it sooner rather than later.

My city has been making fertilizer from the sewage sludge for a century now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milorganite

Ukraine desperately wants the United States to continue supporting them, and currently, the US is run by a group that has been mixed in their support. Trump in particular has been rather unsupportive of Ukraine. Trump is also a figure that is very easily swayed by flattery, so if Zelensky can show himself as among the few that is saying good things about the US’s actions in Iran, that may help them secure more solid continuing support in their struggles against Russia.

So it’s not just that they have little cause for sympathy with Iran, but also that they have good reason to speak out in favor of the US.

And also, my gaydar still pings louder for lefty vs righty.

They’re talking more about Expert Systems or Inference Engines, which were some of the earlier forms of applications used in AI research. In terms of software development, they are closer to databases than traditional software. That is, the system is built up by defining a repository of base facts and logical relationships, and the engine can use that to return answers to questions based on formal logic.

So they are bringing this up as a good use-case for AI because it has been quite successful. The thing is that it is generally best implemented for specific domains to make it easier for experts to access information that they can properly assess. The “one tool for everything in the hands of everybody” is naturally going to be a poor path forward, but that’s what modern LLMs are trying to be (at least, as far as investors are concerned).

There is also something to be said about the framing of these two photographs as that distinction would be an intentional choice by the photographers and the publications which use their photographs.

Yeah, I like to think of out more as a spotlight than a mask. You’re choosing which aspects of yourself to draw attention to rather than hiding yourself behind a persona.

That is, unless we’re talking about the masking that neurodivergent people talk about wherein they put conscious effort into hiding their essential nature in order to fit in.

To be more clear about what they mean, “immaculate conception” refers to Mary being born without original sin and continuing to be free from sin throughout life. This allowed her to be a worthy mother to bring God’s child into the world. This is generally only a tenet of Catholic teaching, and most other denominations reject the notion.

The term for a woman becoming pregnant without sex is “spontaneous conception,” and it does rarely occur in some animals when they are isolated from males of their species. Though in those situations, the offspring are exclusively female as the female only has X chromosomes to pass on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immaculate_Conception

In the court document, it lays out how OpenAI developed the latest model to prioritize engagement. In this case, they had a system that was consistently flagging his conversations as high risk for harm, but it didn’t have any safeguards to actually end the conversation like it does when requested to generate copyrighted material.

The complaint is ultimately saying that OpenAI should have implemented safeguards to stop the conversation when the system determined that it was high risk rather than allowing it to continue to give responses from the large language model.