he’s describing conditions that exist for every area in the world that actually experiences winter!

Most places clear the driving surface instead of leaving a foot of snow.

Eventually. I live in Minnesota and it can take until noon or later after a big snow for all the small roads to get cleared.

More like the whole world is covered with snow and they clear enough for you to drive on.

Guess who we know you've never lived in a place where it snows.

true but AI replacing search has a much better chance of profitability than whatever value Nft’s were supposed to provide.

Google search won’t exist in the medium term. Why use a list of static links you have to look through manually if you can just ask AI what the answer is? Ai tools like chatgpt are what Google wanted search to be in the first place.

Because you cannot trust the answers AI gives. It presents hallucinated answers with the same confidence as true answers (e.g. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45322413 )

Aren't blogspam/link farms the equivalent in traditional search? It's not like Google gives 100% accurate links today.

exactly. AI is inherently more useful in its form.

for now

I have a Doro and it’s great.

Elliot Rodger was also given a copy of “The Present” by his parents in response to his emotional distress, so i think it’s fair to look at his home as a place of emotional neglect, possibly bullying.

edit: The Secret, not The Present

I dont know what you mean by "The present" here. They allowed him to homeschool and isolate himself, so they were enablers, I would agree with that. He does not report being bullied by them in his manifesto.

He socialized basically exclusively online before going to the college.

it doesn’t help, that’s for sure. it breeds violent power & revenge fantasies, at minimum.

violence happens in other places. i think it is typical child behaviour, just in a place where it’s not hard to find a gun.

There are plenty of countries where gun ownership is just as common as America.

No there isn't. America has 120 guns per 100 people.

The closest runner-up country, the Falkand Islands, is almost exactly half of that - at 62 guns per 100 people [1]. There's a sharp decline from there.

1 - https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-owner...

That said, I've long shared the belief that despite the absurd number of guns in the USA, and how they literally outweigh the population; the average person ought to re-calibrate have more faith in humanity and respect for their access to firearms, because the stats for gun violence are not nearly as high as you'd think if they're that accessible.

Guns per capita isn't a good measure because some people own a lot of guns. Gun owning households is a better way to test how many kids potentially have access to a gun - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent_of_households_with_gun... - America is still top at 42%, but the next country is at 37% and there are several above 20%.

What kind of guns though? Handguns? Autos? Hunting rifles?

the dark legacy of cashing out

Lol. Well someone at EA saw the writing on the wall. This is going to be a bad acquisition by these vultures.

What other businesses did they buy? What happened to them?

i mean the new owners are going to jettison everything that doesn’t make money sand hyper optimize the rest even more. It’s basically the end of EA, even such as it was.

a lot of people have friends but we only “interact” via a screen!