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I can understand why the Western media calls something that has an official name of CPC (the Communist Party of China) as CCP (Chinese Communist Party? Not sure here). What puzzles…

I see zero difference between verbal asking, verbal request and verbal demand. Probably that’s because English is not my native language. Could you please provide a sample of each …

I do not sell tourism services. I sell software. If there is less foreign tourism in the US, nice places will be less crowded. So, what are my incentives to ask my government to ea…

That answer would mean that you’re are on drugs. And your being on drugs means that the cop can request your id. America is a free country. Everyone can ask you for everything. I c…

In my time it was “27/VII 1986” in Russia.

Could not gisagree more. Nobody can harm me much by knowing my ITIN. But government surely can torture me in prison by depriving me of my favorite ice cream brand. I have a right t…

> to silence her. That’s a lie. That’s not silencing. That’s taking back some money if she speaks. I know a guy who is sentenced to 15 years in jail for posting a YouTube video abo…

> there is absolutely no denying that Famous last words. https://t.me/kcpn2014/3890 The [Russian] Analytical Center of KCPN has conducted a large-scale study of the [Ukrainian] hid…

> Is there really SW that's limited to (Linux) ARM and not x86? MacOS? (hides)

Is it not enough to add to your prompt “use memory efficiently”?

Programmers and their managers need food. And other nice things.

If left alone I can argue with myself indefinitely.

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These days if something isn’t labeled as Russian propaganda it’s probably not true.

Grok makes a better, more coherent text when asked to explain the steps involved in money laundering based on this article.

It’s entirely possible that creating a brain capable of controlling itself is more costly (in an evolutionary sense, measured by the number of generations needed to achieve this go…

I would rather watch a black screen than a majority of YouTube ads. Because: - they are for a product that I just bought x 20 times; - they are for a product that I do not need x 2…

I see around 80% of videos on X (Twitter) to be from TikTok originally. Probably because TikTok allows you to save - and so to spread - videos you like but X doesn’t.

I simply clarified the current state of affairs without saying a single negative word about it. Still, you rushed to defend it. It appears (just my guess) that you recognize flaws …

> teachers are overworked to squeeze out performance for the 90%, and cases like hers are the ones that fall through the cracks. However, the opposite is true, at least in Californ…

I lived in a country where housing was provided for free (the Soviet Union), but monetization is so far superior—you wouldn’t believe the difference.

Oh, the shipping! Now, from the customer’s point of view. My youngest worked in a furniture chain over the summer. And they got sent a big, heavy furniture set from the central war…

> If you select the sane option ("other"), you get to explain to technically inept bean counters why you did so. Tell them it’s for preserving diversity in the field.

When we presented our pediatrician with our third child who could urinate in a sink on verbal command at just six months old, she remarked, "We should write an article for a medica…

> I already predicted that changing the number would prove to be either impossible, or have all sorts of cascading effects, ultimately terminating in official records no longer rec…