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I live in Punta del Este, we just bought a Geely and a BYD (both) coming from a VW ID.3.

For BYD, a Dolphin 2027 for 21K + VAT. Insane value, by extreme far the best price-perf vehicle in the country’s history. Has every single little thing you might want. For that size and price, at least.

Notably, Tesla is attempting to destabilize the local market, coming in at 30K+VAT for the Premium Model Y which is cheaper than the US, Europe and pretty much anywhere.

I still prefer BYD by far, and not supporting the “controversial fellow”.

At a 20x electricity to gas price ratio (depending on factors, but yes), EVs are key here.

You could have dared to check. But no, it's $2399 for those specs.

I let Claude do my job pretty much (with company approval) managing the entire stack of an app.

8hs of “prompt engineering” daily for a year or so.

I find Fable immensely better than 5.5 in their capabilities and results. Opus makes mistakes, a lot and big. Both on High Effort.

I just run Fable for literally everything including daily random use. Never run out of tokens on the 100 plan.

I read about this happening a lot here and elsewhere, and I don't get it. I buy many iDevices from Amazon, for example Apple Watch Ultra (1, 2, 3), and AirPods Pro (1, 2, 3). Most with AppleCare 2 years plan, some without. Also some accessories.

If the item is counterfeit, not only is sometimes the packaging/actual product identifiable by anyone that is actually a tech person, but lets assume that it's identical or whatever.

Unboxing?

When you open the AirPods box for the first time does the iPhone do that animation and say "Set up AirPods..." etc?

When you use it, does it sound at least kinda like the quality you expect from a 200 USD Apple headphone? Does Dolby Atmos work, the stems on both sides, the wireless charge on the box, the Find My features, live translation, transparency, noise cancellation? All of those features are present and working?

Going to settings -> AppleCare and Warranty should show the time of manufacture, of purchase, and the end time for the warranty (or if AppleCare, for AppleCare).

I guess I see a counterfeit passing my step 1: hardware, or maybe step 2: software (really shouldn't tbh? Apple should cover for this).

But the data on AppleCare and Warranty come from Apple's server. Even if they spoofed the serial number that would mean guessing a correct serial number for that same product type and spoofing the date of sale etc on AppleCare&Warranty.

I honestly don't see how this can happen. If the counterfeit is honestly so identical at that point it's just the same product, but even so.

I buy clothes, other tech stuff there. Is it really necessary to instill on me and hundreds of other OCDs the constant existential fear that everything we buy is actually an exactly identical and unverifiable impostor of the real item, but not actually real?

Edit: Just to clarify, I've indeed used warranty/AC+ on most of these items and all were real. For now.

At risk of getting defenestrated (or worse, expelled...) getting a permanent 25% increase sounds good over a 50% temporal increase. Imagine if this was your wage you were talking about, wouldn't you rather the 25% perm?

I use only Fable High as well. 8 hour workday, it does my job, straight up. I only supervise. Mostly frontend and in particular, mobile, where Fable (Claude in general) is quite better than the competition, in my opinion of course.

I also use it for managing a company's website separate from my job, and my own website. And for daily studying of an unrelated university career + daily personal use. For all the ones in the current paragraph I use Opus 5 xhigh.

I don't think I've ever gotten even to 50% of the (currently augmented) levels. A 25% permanent increase is good in my books.

I mean, what? I just got the memo that we're in operation Complain and Destroy. This is horrible! I will now go buy my Torch&Pitchfork two-pack for 17% off.

Hm I guess that makes sense, if there is a CSAM "fill rate" in the clearweb of X images per unit time, and also assuming a "remove rate" that is approximately X then there will always be a "rolling buffer" of around X images constantly (which would change in its content every unit time, but always be there in terms of quantity) and that's probably what the algorithm picked up.

A question I haven't seen asked here (and maybe I am ignorant) but, dooesn't this kind of content exist exclusively in the dark/deep web? I thought CSAM in the clearweb was finally 1000% eliminated.

This is quite the proposition. You think that the average person commits a legal offense at least every 2 days?

What examples are you proposing? If you count speeding, sure I guess.

Police should just execute the plan they already had prepared and planned (I think it was a US federal agency) of releasing massive amounts of CGI CP to the dark web, absolutely flooding the market to such an extent that consumers can’t realize which is which. Which, at the same tine, makes it pointless for someone to pay for it when the “fake” one is equal and legal, and more in quantity. Also even if your fetish is so grotesquely immense that it has affected you to the extent that you need the REAL REAL one, the seller will probably just resell you one of the police fake ones for 0 risk and profit off of you being a dumbass.

There’d be 0 reason to produce or share real one anymore or even sell it.

Important thing, you can generate CGI or AI images without them being trained specifically by the thing you want.

Like you need banana cake just train them with bananas and also cakes. The equivalence of what “bananas” and “cakes” are for this argument, are left to the reader of this comment, who I assume intelligent, as I think it’s gross and unnecessary to make it explicit.

For the same reason as has already been cited on this thread, that is the same argument as videogames violence etc.

Do you not have any kinks?

I have a fair amount and the ones I like in porn, I don’t like in real life. The ones I like in real life I don’t really like in porn.

So, specifically concerning your first sentence, which in my opinion is intended as an argument, even though it’s just a question and doesn’t offer any backing, the answer is no.

I agree and know this, it's more about how they are making promises they cannot keep. If Democrats ever get a majority in Congress again, and don't do it, however...

But espionage is a Federal charge, which is currently under a execution stay, as has been for the past 2 non-trump decades.

Will Biden ever follow through on his promise of abolishing the penalty? Possible campaign topic again.

I have one too. It is useless considering the range is less than the maximum possible distance in a mid sized house.

When she escapes I open Find My and I generally visually find the cat with my eyes before the phone even picks the signal up. It keeps the "Get closer..." and only actually shows the arrow when I'm like 5 meters from it.

I have iPad iPhone Mac Apple TV Airpods, more stuff and a bunch of Apple services. Honestly my most disappointing Apple purchase.

In case it matters, phone is 13 Pro.

Another commenter linked a video which I’ll re-link[0]. Essentially the conclusion of the HSCA was, as you say, literally entirely based on that recording. If the recording hadn’t been there, the HSCA actually was on the verge of concluding the same as Warren. (In other words, if the recording evidence wasn’t there they would’ve concluded Oswald lone).

The recording was, indeed, later found to not even be from the time of the shots but from an entirely different point in time, after police already noticed Kennedy shot. In that very recording, police officers say things in reaction to the shooting. After those voices, the “shots” from which the conclusion was drawn appear. Painfully obviously, that doesn’t make any sense.

Also the recording was in an entirely different point in space too, as it wasn’t even from a bike in the motorcade, as the HSCA thought but it from a different 3-wheeled-motorcycle stationed where Kennedy would’ve been arriving.

Drawing conclusions from that recording about the Kennedy shooting is probably less reliable than drawing them from the Live Aid concert version recording of Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.

In summary, after adjusting for that lone error in HSCA, Warren and HSCA concluded the same.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC8tO16xdrY

Sad to see author abandoned it. Last iOS update 8 years ago. Not working in current iOS.

Just a tiny nitpick to avoid confusion, but a PICU is already a thing and it means Pediatric ICU, not psychiatric.

Surprised no comment in this thread mentioned speed actually, apart from cargo space of course.

In my area traffic is completely quiet. In a car you can go 120km/h in the highways fine, and even almost that in some specific non highway streets.

I always want to get one until I remember:

1. I WFH and “university FH”. Both are >100km from my house for when I rarely need to go.

2. My gym is 15km away and I barely get there in time in my car at the aforementioned speeds. There are no closer ones.

3. My non-e-bike is just my weekend workout (which I love) but if using for workout, e-bike doesn’t make much sense.

4. The only other use case for my car is getting groceries for my entire family or other cargo heavy things.

I did indeed, no lies here haha.

However (and at risk of sounding hostile), can I ask what other cultures have you experienced?

All cultures have good and bad things, it’s not xenophobic or racist (I hope) that the Chinese have statistically better school conduct and order, while the Russians are impressively tough, the Spanish are very chill and relaxed, and many more examples.

As with all previous examples, Americans have many such qualities, but I wouldn’t have thought to say polite as one of them. Maybe for the Japanese. Hope it doesn’t offend anyone. At least around here Americans have more a fame of being loud-ish and sometimes a bit lacking in reading the room. It’s absolutely terrible but, have you watched Emily in Paris? Kind of like that.

I however understand you considering Americans polite if your other comparison is, for example, Egypt.

Just so it doesn’t offend anyone, here’s some qualities I associate with Americans. Creative, resourceful, fighters for freedom and their own personal rights (litigious too), despite the current political climate.

I get the admittedly similar comparison, but do you think it’s truly accurate?

You’re comparing a country and seat of a world religion to a theme park.

And, even so (even if it was in Italy, that is), is it not an italian restaurant just because it’s touristic and not “for locals”?

That just sounds like a No True Scotsman.

My only contact with tipping in the US as a foreigner, was my only trip to the US. Florida theme parks back when I was a child, a decade ago. In particular, I remember going to Hollywood Planet, inside the Disneyworld Downtown.

The waiter kept making us eat “fast” by asking “dessert now?” unasked as we were still eating entrees.

When we paid he stayed there completely still, and my father asked “…so?”. And he said the tip was too little. Dad said “I tip what I want and your service was horrible anyway”.

He threw a literal tantrum and furiously ran into the kitchen, to never be seen again. We walked out after that.

It left a mark on me as the symbol of US tipping culture, due to the impact actually being on a situation causes vs reading about it.

Never has any of the sort happened anywhere else in my life.

The one I agree with the least in the entire list is also the one I’m affected personally. So it’s a toss up?

Stop trying to make latinx a thing. Any latino or latin american would be horrified by that term.

Agreed, I actually found this one the most interesting of the list. What is the reasoning for this one? What is avoided by this change?

I was surprised by the fact I actually agreed with much more of the list than I thought I would. Maybe a bit over half.

The worst of the list (as in, the one I agree the most and which irks me the most) is OCD.

Probably because I have slight OCD but it’s still the extremely specific medical term why use it for when you like pink post-its?

Careful there you got the conclusion other way around.

You said WoB contributes to myopia.

Your own source says WoB inhibits myopia.

>Genetic loci shared between major depression and intelligence with mixed directions of effect[0]

>Although intelligence conferred no consistent independent effects on depression, it did increase the risk for depression across samples once neuroticism was adjusted for.[1]

>Those with high IQ had higher risk for psychological disorders (RR 1.20 - 223.08). High IQ was associated with higher risk for physiological diseases (RR 1.84 - 4.33).[2]

[0]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-01031-2

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5486156/

[2]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016028961...!

[3]https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-news-for-the-...

That’s correct, and scheduled C-Sections are also the reason Christmas is the rarest birthday.

Thanks. I’m just starting on a long road of self improvement which began this month, after a metaphorical train of realizations (in the shape of sudden depression/anxiety) regarding my life hit me once my girlfriend left me and explained why she did.

Those 3 points about those disciplines are really interesting, I’m going to have to read more about them.

>I believe that pain doesn’t leave the body until it’s done teaching you.

I’ve slowly been coming to the same conclusion over the last month, indeed.

At 21 I’ve only recently started asking myself those questions, after having been “pushed” into a coding career due to some strange life circumstances, when I was actually interested in finance and medicine before. When I got promoted to Sr, colleagues going “wow, only 21”, it felt good, and I never even stopped to ask myself if I really wanted it.

In a lot of senses, introspection and thinking hurts; growing hurts, regrets hurt, dreams unfulfilled hurt, guilt hurts, what could’ve been hurt, and the future that awaits you, unless you change something, hurts.

And distraction numbs the pain. Numbs the thoughts. I’ll take an uneducated guess that a big chunk of cases of anxiety and depression are not caused by chemical imbalances, and are simply people’s brains telling them “you’re doing something wrong, correct course! Correct course! Correct course!”. Kind of like the aircraft TCAS/GPWS “Terrain. Pull. Up. Pull. Up. Terrain. Terrain. Terrain”

I guess that most people, both around me and online, never ask themselves those questions, and simply go through life as it happens. For some, that doesn’t go so bad.

Almost never does a successful, happy, fulfilled, healthy life come from a lack of introspection and suffering. “I carry the wounds from the battles I avoided”.