My favourite great hunger joke:

How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman?

None.

I’d much prefer these bikes are on the main bridge platform rather than on the pedestrian part. The article makes it sound like they should have stayed off the road.

I think requiring licences would be sensible at this point. For bikes AND ebokes that are using the roads. Sydney is becoming more bike friendly with cycle lanes, but there are lots of awful cyclists who whizz through pedestrian only areas and ignore bike signage and lights.

Part of the problem is that it’s still car centric. Anywhere there is an intersection, cars are given right of way instead of bikes. That’s starting to change with bike turns across traffic being indicated with a box placing them in front of car cross traffic. So, I you are turning left, from a bike lane.on the right, you wait in a box further right. When the lights change, you cross before the cars do. Seems sensible.

Unfortunately, there are lots of parts where a car turning across traffic or bike lanes is prioritized before bikes going straight.

They’ve tried, but nobody speaks their language. Unfortunately even Google translate and ai have difficulty with new stuff as they haven’t been able to incorporate it into their models as yet.

The big fear, from a technical standpoint is that by the time that is done, they will no longer be teenagers and will be able to speak the common tongue. By then, well all be dead from cycle accidents on social media.

I’m still a Linux newbie. How long does it usually take before this is on rolling releases? Do they test while it’s unreleased and then release soon after or start testing now? Days, weeks, month? Varies by what’s changed, I’m sure, but I mean a typical non-milestone kernel release.

There are “no weapons” signs at libraries?

Yes, and we should continue to do so. However, lets not pretend that immoral actions by America and Europe don’t undermined their position.

It’s also to say they have principles. It’s hard for the USA or Europe to criticize their human rights abuses while continuing to support Israel. It’s a way to highlight western hypocrisy while avoiding risk. Remember they still invest into other high risk countries. High risk can lead to high reward.

Surely the increase in visitor spending could fund some public toilets, which is clearly lacking for that volume of people.

Every forced update is 5 minutes of hassle for each login. If you work from multiple PCs, it’s a nightmare.

A seal walks into a club.

Being pushed there or going there naturally, it’s still moving that direction.

If ai allows the improvements hoped for, it’s likely to increase productivity for humanity just like all other major advances did.

It’s politics and laws that decide who benefits from it. Under our current systems, wealthy people and corporations benefit, but likey we’ll see increasing taxes on ai output and increases in ubi type schemes for people.

AI is a bubble currently but it is an advancement in tech that provides benefit. Just nowhere near the benefit to be actual intelligence.

Human jobs get eliminated by new tech all the time. This just has and will be rapid, which leads to upheaval. Unfortunately, it’s precisely at a time when the world is already moving towards war and authoritarianism, so it’s particularly bad timing.

Or even any foss projects with social parts that are kid safe.

I’d love to let my kid play daily Scrabble with his grandma overseas with chat. However, .ost games seem to be open to all or closes to chat completely. There is no middle ground.

The Irish version is already happening. However not everyone will get it.

Yes, but if we start with jobs that don’t always pay well and benefit us all, that’s a good start. We can add more over time. Then we can stop calling them jobs.

Are you talking about individuals or states at this point? Or varies for each and I agree, outside their borders, for states, it is riskier. However, they are shuffling their hokdings to manage that risk. As are people, which was my point.

I don’t think they messed up by trusting the US. It was safe and stable for a prolonged period. They fucked up by not recognizing the risk once trump term 1 started.

Yes, but some have transferred the bullion to holdings in the uk and Germany. And those countries have too.

A lot is in the USA, but not all. Holding an asset, even in a failed country (which is highly unlikely, by the way) is still a viable asset.

The fact that you think the USA could claim privately held assets as government property is precisely why some people want to hold gold rather than cash in an account which can be seized digitally.

No, but with the dollar there is the dual risk of dumping and printing. Gold is not ties to any nation or political ideology. If your gold is located in a particular country, it is subject to the risk on the ground, of course, but it can be moved or exchanged relatively easily. Some gold has been doing just that as people shuffle their wealth around.

Of the us dollar loses value, the government can " print " more to make their payments. That makes it worth less as it devalues and can lead to hyper inflation. All the while, others may dump dollars devaluing it more.

With gold, of it’s price drops, you can just create more out of thin air. There is a set amount. Gold has inherent value as a rare metal, however most of its value currently is due to it’s scarcity making it a good store of value.

Gosh, someone should tell the Microsoft teams team that Microsoft teams for business and Microsoft teams for personal and Microsoft teams for students are also using the same names and make communication difficult. They should get a copilot team on it