On the other hand, if the US can seize Venezuelan vessels on the high seas, why can’t Europe stop Russia’s shadow fleet?

I’m afraid I still don’t quite get it. Do you pay less taxes now? Do members of this church pay more taxes?

It all sounds completely at odds with the concept of freedom of religion.

How does that work? How can you be made to pay? That does not sound legal to me. Can’t you just leave and ignore it?

There’s definitely a difference between faith, and organised religion. I think the worst thing that can happen to any religion is to become an official state religion. At that point it becomes a tool for politics and social control. It unavoidably gets corrupted in some way. People aren’t part of it because they believe, but because they have to.

Then what would you call the people who actually follow the teachings of Christ? What would you call the Christians in other countries? Why would appropriators of a word get to own it?

Everything is business, everything is entertainment, everything is about money.

There is still real Christianity in the US, but this isn’t it. I recently read about someone asking for help from various churches, mosques and temples, and everybody offered help, except the churches. The churches that did help were predominantly black.

Looks a lot like the BBC Micro. Cool design choice.

Yeah. Can we take Japan as an example perhaps? They’ve got excellent high speed rail too. Also better urban planning in general.

OpenAI’s mounting costs — set to hit $1.4 trillion

Sorry, but WTF!? $1.4 Trillion in costs? How are they going to make all of that back with just AI?

I think there’s only one way they can make this back: if AI gets so good they can really replace most employees.

I don’t think it will happen, but either way it’s going to be an economic disaster. Either the most valuable companies in the world, offering services that the next couple of hundred companies in the world depend on, are suddenly bankrupt. Or suddenly everybody is unemployed.

Just arrest them. If they’re involved in criminal activity, espionage or sabotage, that sounds to me like more than enough reason to seize these ships.

We know many of the ships. Grabbing them is not hard.

So why exactly is Russia’s shadow fleet still allowed to continue?

Are you kidding me? He was always my favourite A-Team character. This is really disappointing.

Is he saying that AI mentally crippled him? Because people have been figuring this out for millennia.

I believe it. I don’t work at Amazon, but I’ve seen proudly launched pieces of shiny crap support promotions at other companies.

I remember when they changed the backronym for Emacs from “Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping” to Eighty. Megabytes. Or when a Netscape developer was proud to overtake that memory use.

What’s the point of more RAM and faster processors if we just make applications that much less efficient?

I’m appalled that Europe isn’t busy liberating Ukraine the way the UK, US and Canada liberated us.

Blame Israel committing genocide for the view that people think Israel is committing genocide.

It’s not just young Americans; it’s also old Europeans and people from many other countries. It’s genocide experts, human rights experts, and basically everybody who opposes genocide, who are all horrified and disgusted by what’s been going on.

For most people, but especially for the rich, a liveable environment is far more important than a bit more money. Nobody who has saving money as their first priority is going to be living in New York anyway. But a liveable city that’s safe, fun to be in, and that you can move around in without fearing for your life, those are far more important to most people.

So I’m not surprised that Mamdani’s victory is drawing more people to NY.

Every action is a vote for something. It never hurts to consider the consequences.

By all means push forward a better candidate than Newsom. And I hope you succeed. But if you don’t, and it turns out that in the end it’s going to be either Newsom or Vance (or even Trump), then who would you rather have?