I can’t find anything that states how much they have actually paid. It’s not quite the same if they spend 20 years fighting the amount in court.

No it wouldn’t. They would have killed it anyway.
Also, way to blame the victims for getting abused.
“If only mommy would stop making daddy mad, then he would stop hitting mommy.”

Ya, we haven’t even gotten close to that line for her. This is a staged attempt of her white washing her and the GOPs reputation. She can now point to this when people say she is racist and “look at how I called out racism”.
The ridiculous part is just how overt and gross the racism had to be for it to even be slightly plausible that she would be offended by it.

I don’t currently have a computer powerful enough to host a top tier LLM like chatgpt4. If I can’t even run it, I sure as shit could never continue to train it with new data. I often use chatgpt with my phone and the thought of doing either one is ridiculous.
There are ways to make money on open source outside of the open source item itself. Redhat has done just that with Linux.
An LLM is just software. No matter what algorithm, tool, or fairy magic was used to amalgamate the data it consumed, they all sucked in open source code and just like any other software that includes open source software, it should be subject to the licensing on the open source software, which pretty much means they should be open source themselves. Companies that want to make money off of AI trained on public data can make their money on the value they add, just like redhat.
The biggest issue I see right now is how to deal with AIs tendency to output data untransformed. Trademark and all those types of licenses are negated as long as the idea within is transformed, but it is really hard to argue transformation when the stupid thing is pooping out word for word quotes, but acting as if it is “new” and transformed.

Do you honestly think that they never had a way to avoid meat going bad until refrigerators? So, they would kill a 2000lb buffalo, carve off 100 lbs and just leave the rest to rot? Then what? Rinse and repeat the next day?

You don’t even have to be logged in, or even go to the same website. There are a number of companies that offer free analytics tools to websites. A completely innocent website that just wants to know how many people have visited their page might use a free people counting widget from Google, Facebook, or wherever. Now every time that webpage gets loaded by a browser so does that widget. The widget itself doesn’t even have to report back to the original creators. If it includes something hosted by the original creators, then they can track the destination IP and browser tags.

The real answer.
“Google it”… I wish… Kids these days have no idea how easy they have it.

The Germans can build motors that will go for a million miles, but they can’t connect 2 wires together without causing the entire vehicle to become a rolling dumpster fire. The more tech and the more options on your German vehicle, the more you are asking for pain.

The Nazis were definitely fascist .

The GOP wants the control and power that Russia had but, rather than the means of production being owned by the state, they want to keep it owned by the rich and powerful (aka oligarchs). So they want fascism but with all the totalitarianism that Russia had.
So basically they are the new version of the Reds that you remember.

This as much as anything else.
I work at a company that’s looking to integrate AI into their product. The VP who started us down the AI road has made it clear that he doesn’t see it being the reason that anyone would choose our product over a competitor’s, but we also don’t want to be seen as the only ones who don’t have it.

Wait… is it vegan?

Dr pepper creeping into your DMs…

The late 1990s. The only upside to the saggy pants fad was that for a while you could buy extra long T-shirts just about anywhere.
For work shirts (polo shirts) I find that places like tjmaxx/Marshalls often have stuff for golfers. Golf shirts tend to run long.

My school never offered a home economics class.

You are 100% correct. It is awful and tragic and nothing to laugh at.
But you also have to realize that there’s nothing that the majority of us here can do about it. Even as a country we are already doing everything we can do to deal with the war.
So, how are we as powerless humans supposed to deal with the knowledge of this unstoppable horror? How are we supposed to process this horror and the 20 other worse ones we will hear about before lunch time?
For many people, the only way to make it through a day and fight against the onslaught of never ending horror by summoning up another emotion. Sometimes it’s anger, but anger is bad if you have no purpose for it. If you can’t become constructive with it then it becomes destructive. So what else is there that isn’t destructive or paralyzing? For many of us, it is dark humor. We push aside the constant onslaught with laughter. That’s how we get through the day instead of lashing out or curling up in a ball.
So you are both right. It is awful and horrible and not humorous at all, but at the same time it’s deeply and darkly hilarious.

<exploding-head.gif>. Holy shit dude… A significant portion of my life just snapped into focus with an almost audible click. I got an actual head rush as my brain went into overload trying to re-sort pretty much it’s entire contents.
I know this is a throwaway comment for you, but this shit explains so much of my life.

I up voted a number of comments here, but this one is my favorite by far.

Doctors often do rounds at the hospital first thing in the morning. There could have been an issue at the hospital that kept them, or maybe there was an unexpected influx of patients getting hospitalized the night before. People tend to ask the people around them about their doctor when they are looking for a new doctor. So, if there was an accident at a factory, or even just food poisoning from a church gathering, it’s not surprising if a large number of the group have the same PCP or GP.
On the other hand, many doctors are just narcissistic shit heads with God complexes who don’t give a fuck about us mere mortals.
My pcp is often running late, but it is because he specializes in diseases that affect the elderly like diabetes and heart disease. So he often has to go to the hospital unexpectedly. On the other hand, anytime I’ve ended up in the hospital, he’s been there first thing in the morning making sure that they aren’t screwing up my medications, which they always are.

I’ve been there, in fact I lived there for a long time. Depression is soul crushing. The really suck part about it is, it not only makes everything feel worse than it is but it actively makes everything worse. I hope you can find your way out, like I did.