Tropical smoothie is a perfect example here.

They use less fruit, don’t freeze the fruit. It’s mostly ice. Then they add sugar.

It’s wayyyy cheaper, but it’s just blended sugar ice with some fruit, not a real smoothie.

But then places that make real smoothies can’t make them as cheap Because they have to deal with frozen fruit Logistics and need more fruit

It’s way better, but they can’t compete with tropical smoothie

That is a really good idea. I’m not gonna lie. I would love it if I could put like five bucks in a wallet and then it just takes a cent or two when I go to some article rather than having to fight through some local news site trying to get me to pay $9.99 a month to read one piece of rage bait. I’ll pay a nickel or maybe even a dime for a good one.

I know they’re targeting AI agents, but it is only a matter of time. I say roll it out to consumers dude and I know that sounds fucked up, but like I would much rather just pay a nickel or a dime here and there than have ads making it impossible to even read the article. The people will compete on price and I bet it will stay really small for most stuff. It gets creators paid in a similar model to YouTube clicks or Spotify streams, but in a much more direct and equitable way. Google, AI has to pay for the content instead of just handing it over.

Dude, what is it with so many like researchers or scientist just automatically default assuming that we are the only species or family that has certain neurological things before any sort of study or basis?

Like they thought different creature didn’t feel pain and blah blah blah didn’t feel pain, and it’s like, come on. That’s a basic biological response.

Why wouldn’t we default assume that there’s some underlying pattern or similarity?

An old SMBC skit where a couple reluctantly hires a given plumber…who works as though he’s starring in a porno, and demands the occupants watch. They can’t really turn him down, since he’s the cheapest and most qualified in the area.

My sweet summer child, how could he possibly change the course of history any more? You think the legal system would do anything more?

Genuinely curious what you are talking about. The ACLU is already involved doing everything they can.

For real. Nintendo 64 was not a niche hobby, and the games were still 70 to 80 bucks. That’s like $160 in today dollars. It shows, too. We got all this technology, but the care, polish, attention just isn’t there.

Damn, I misread this and went looking for mine like crazy. I need some sleep

What the fuck is the point? Even if you were trying to be ruthless or just protect some rich asshole, it makes more sense to get the guy that’s the actual threat. You can’t look for the right guy if you’re too busy locking up the wrong guy.

Disability issue. Some people need special bottles. Money getting in the way of access, again.

That misses the point of the post. They have actual uses; just not what they are hyped for.

I, for example, have a mixed receptive-expressive language disorder.

LLMs have been life changing for me. I can write out rambling scrambled attempts at saying things, and ask it to reword and make it concise and clear. Or I can ask it to analyze something I wrote.

But I always write it first, then have the LLM do a pass, then I come behind and study/correct the output.

So not every use is dumb, just like lasers are useful in science.

Some ion trajectories involve constant low acceleration. It really adds up time. You accelerate halfway there, then decelerate the rest of the way.

The dawn spacecraft mission to ceres has 48,000+ hours of gentle acceleration under ion propulsion. That’s 5.5 years of firing. But it gets over 38,620 km/h of delta-v (acceleration).

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-dawn-spacecraft-fires-past-record-for-speed-change/

To me, it died when they allowed users to hide their post and comment history. Enables bots and bad faith behavior.

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They are great.

Learn how the government works if you’re gonna prescribe how it should act. The Democrats have no power to 25th him- only his hand picked cabinet can do that.

Now they DO need to be filing impeachment every time he does something wrong and just add it to the growing list and make them have to go through all of it every time. That’s all they can really do.