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I think the sizes shown are probably biggest specimen. Black bears can get pretty big, but I’ve never encountered one that was taller than me.

Exactly. This just leads back into the avacado toast and Starbucks (who are also killing Christmas) rant.

Definitely a cracked screen. Also, only takes a charge if the cable is at a specific angle.

You should just get a new phone.

Sincerely, every uncle this Thanksgiving.

One of the best computer game series of all time. I know some people prefer EV Nova, but Override and the Frozen Heart story-plugin will always be my favorite.

• Civ V
• Breath of the Wild
• EV Override
• Master of Orion
• Mario Kart: Double Dash

No particular order, but these are the games I always come back to

The real reason isn’t that they can’t turn a profit, it’s that they don’t have to.

They don’t have to be profitable because they aren’t fueling growth with profits, they’re fueling it with debt and investment. Like many have noted, they cannot do that forever and will eventually pass that cost to consumers. A significant portion of their existing cost is driven by research, which they can scale back by lobbying for legislation, so that peers getting a leg up is more difficult and small players catching up is almost impossible.

Also, both Anthropic and OpenAI have planned IPOs, where they will inevitably raise a ton of cash. It’s a game of chicken though. How long can they fuel growth without being publicly accountable to balance sheets and shareholders? Whether we like it or not, they will almost certainly transition to being profitable businesses, but only when it is advantageous for them to do so. Right now, it’s not a priority; the priority is growth to the point of diminishing returns.

The cheapest PCs are ones that didn’t make the cut for Windows 11, so I’d look for 6th or 7th Gen. RAM is cheaper as well. Then you can build something cheap, and iterate from there.

For a beginner, check out Unraid. It’ll do 99% of what you want without being a hassle.

Any smartphone is the obvious one.

But, the first black hole was confirmed in 1971. The fact that we’ve taken a picture of one would be incredible, not to mention directly imaging planets in other solar systems.

I think this is a lot of people’s experience with Elon, and least until be went full crazy. If you didn’t know anything about the subject he was talking about, he sounded smart. If you did know something about it, you figured out how dumb he was really fast.

It’s unfortunately sustainable because people buy things they like before things they need.

For all of us, for everyone 1 person we know who has a decent job and loves to play games they buy with disposable income, we probably know 5 who shouldn’t buy the game they’re buying because they’re already behind on their sewer bill.

Sometimes. Sometimes it’s a 40 minute exegesis on the verse “Jesus wept.”

Varies church to church and pastor to pastor.