From instance names alone I also gather that both of you live on differnt continents. The situation may be very different in Canada and much more densely populated Germany.

Maybe the BonziAI has been in control of google for years.

Is it the same with stellarators?

Well, as I said: not ALL pricing is entirely made up. In particular, in a production chain it makes sense that the price increases with further processing. Why would I sell a gear for less than I paid for the metal I made it from? Why would a bicycle manufacturer sell the bike for less than they paid for the sum of its parts? You can reduce the profit to nothingness, but you still need to assure a living wage for all the people involved (as long as you have morals). That means that there at least is some rules that need to be followed in pricing. And complicated things tend to be expensive. A computer chip must always be more expensive than a gram of sand and that’s not arbitrary.

There are other incentives for why people labor than just getting paid.

I’m pretty sure that many unpleasant jobs like mining do require monetary recompensation if the task is not pleasant by itself. I can’t imagine how else one would incentivize this kind of labor.

Not all things are expensive on a whim. Some things just use massive amounts of material, energy and work hours to be produced. I cannot just stop paying miners their already too low wages. I also cannot take energy for free. It is not like we have all minerals and energy in abundance and have automated the crap out of every production chain.

Moisturize me!

Very cool! Is that a smaller crater inside Prokofiev?

Sounds like one of those people who prefer standing in a 20 minute traffic jam instead of giving a chance to public transit. If you actually use the german trains from time to time, you will notice how well used they are. They are admittedly often late though.

I felt like the trailer didn’t look too bad, but in the very best case, the live action show can only be nearly as good as the cartoon show, so I didn’t give it a try.

I’m looking forward to LLMs copying the gibberish german communities like to use. It is very common there to translate things word for word without any regard for correct german grammar or understandibility.

We are well past the “what is easier to do” point and need to grasp for every straw there is though.