Even if support for democrats is at a landslide level, there’s a whole lot of things that the Trump admin can do to avoid them getting a victory, starting with voter suppression and ending with lying about the results.

Get invaded by Canada, Cuba or Greeland (Denmark) and you’ll get first class healthcare (you’ll have to give up your guns though). Get invaded by Mexico or Venezuela and the situation is a bit complicated, but you at least get basic medical care for free.

Nice.

There’s one room in my place where there are no fixed switches (well there’s one, but it doesn’t seem to do anything). So, all the lights are on the lamps themselves. This is obviously the best user interface in terms of knowing what a switch does. It turns on the light that’s directly next to the switch. But, it’s the worst system for lighting up a dark room, because you have to make your way through the darkness to find the lamp, find its switch, and turn it on.

Lights in the wall are a compromise in terms of switch-to-light user interface obviousness in favour of being able to see the UI or to find it in the dark.

As for knowing what turns on what, if you live somewhere you learn within a week or so what light does what. Your first week after a move is normally dedicated to more important things like finding your clean underwear. So, by the time you could start labelling switches to know what they do, you often don’t need to do that anymore. The one place where labels would really help is hotels, Air BnB places, and maybe guest rooms.

Ok, now tell us what your magic 8 ball said.

They’re not going to patch the game with an update that removes the TOS, privacy policy and code of conduct now that the multiplayer elements are no longer relevant.

It makes it easier for your lawyer to organize the briefing document she prepares for you when she’s suggesting whether or not you agree to the terms of the contracts.

What, not everybody has their lawyer look over contracts they’re about to agree to? What, so they just act as their own lawyer and carefully review these legal documents without the benefit of a law degree? That sounds risky!

OP says it’s a single-player game, but it looks like that’s not the case. If it is multiplayer, a code of conduct is 100% necessary. The rest seems pretty standard for something online: privacy policy, EULA and TOS.

I wish EULAs would go away, or at least be heavily restricted in what they can force you to agree with, but they’re standard.

TOS is useful to define what you can expect out of their online service.

I also wish there were privacy laws, so the Privacy Policy didn’t force you to agree to absurd terms, but here we are.

Once again proving that while AI can’t do a programmer’s job, a tech writer’s job, an artist’s job, a composer’s job, a doctor’s job, or any other job involving thinking and understanding – it can easily do a CEO’s job and probably better than the CEO.

Yes, any journalist who uses that term should be relentlessly mocked. Along with terms like “Grok admitted” or “ChatGPT confessed” or especially any case where they’re “interviewing” the LLM.

These journalists are basically “interviewing” a magic 8-ball and pretending that it has thoughts.

No, they haven’t. They’re effectively prop masters. Someone wants a prop that looks a lot like a legal document, the LLM can generate something that is so convincing as a prop that it might even fool a real judge. Someone else wants a prop that looks like a computer program, it can generate something that might actually run, and one that will certainly look good on screen.

If the prop master requests a chat where it looks like the chatbot is gaining agency, it can fake that too. It has been trained on fiction like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Wargames. It can also generate a chat where it looks like a chatbot feels sorry for what it did. But, no matter what it’s doing, it’s basically saying “what would an answer to this look like in a way that might fool a human being”.

Pop: I have a crush on a boy. World broken? Sorry, um… I don’t follow the news.

Gangsta Rap: I’m the king of this 'hood, and don’t give a shit about anything happening outside of it.

Country: My truck is my whole world, and the world is broken.

Classical: I will describe the great forces at play that are breaking the world using music.

It sounds like they lost you in 3 months, not immediately.

Don’t accidentally get the bdsmgames package instead, that’s for a different kind of game.

It didn’t air in Canada. What happened was that the Canadian outlet that has the Canadian rights to redistribute 60 Minutes in Canada accidentally made the segment available in their app thinking that it was going to be broadcast. So, the same version of 60 Minutes that aired on CBS in the USA aired in Canada, but the app contained the CECOT segment.

And the subscribers are underpaying by such a huge amount that they’re losing even more money from them than they are from the unpaid users.

Just a little.

English has a rote greeting in “How are you doing?” But, you can respond with anything from “great!” to “oh, okay”. It would be a big faux pas to take that as an opportunity to launch into all your medical issues. Maybe in Chinese it’s ok to respond honestly, but just not to assume someone is actually asking you if you want to eat something.

I’m pretty sure your job title isn’t “Mathematician” though. You’re a “risk analyst” or “quantitative analyst” or something. You’re also not doing pure math, you’re using somewhat advanced applied mathematical processes to model financial information. Just like how a rocket engineer isn’t a physicist but may have a background in physics.

IMO, English Canadians don’t really have a food that they can call their own. Quebec has poutine, tourtieres, pea soup, and other things. English Canada eats many of those things, but also a lot of generic North American or European things: hamburgers, steaks, North-American style pizza, pasta, stew, etc.

Where I think Canada might be a bit different is that after decades of high levels of immigration, Canada has a lot of foods from other parts of the world. It’s common to find South Indian, Pakistani, Punjabi, Turkish, Persian, Carribean, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, Mexican, etc. restaurants in a city. Many of them cater to immigrants from those countries, so they’re authentic tasting.

A lot of that is made at home too. While a home-made stir fry probably wouldn’t taste authentically Chinese to someone from China, there are many meals from around the world that have been adapted for Canadian tastes. Very white people in Canada often cook adapted versions of Indian curries, Chinese stir fries, Mexican tacos, Thai curries, etc.