I think you’re missing something.
If someone has (say) stomach cancer, and you make them live another decade rather than the six months they have, that’s a decade of cancer eating them from inside, of painful, expensive treatments to keep it at bay enough that they can function, a decade of misery. No one in their right mind would accept such a “gift.”
More reason that other countries developing smaller, regional cloud providers is a good thing. Part of the reason AWS thinks they can get away with this is that there are 2-3 other providers they compete with, and moving is onerous. If there were 200+ cloud providers, there would almost certainly be a standard set of tools and much better customer service.
Ironically, Apple has some of the best odds of coming out of this reasonably healthy. “Apple Intelligence” follows the trend of most Apple services products, in that it is really intended to lock people into their ecosystem and keep buying iPhones. I’m just waiting for someone in the big 7 or whatever they’re called to publicly bow out of AI. I suspect the first one to do it might benefit a lot.
Not sure if this counts because it’s on the same album but on The Mountain Goats album Transcendental Youth starts with “Amy (AKA Spent Gladiator)” and the second to last track is “Spent Gladiator 2.”
Also, their album Jenny From Thebes is a sequel to their album All Hail West Texas.
Also also, there are a number of songs early in the discography that are about the same couple, culminating in the album Tallahassee.
Does Voyager work with it?
Don’t just accept that. Loudly mock people for using ai to make art instead of learning how to do it. Flood the customer service lines of every company using ai to tell them you are not only going to stop using their stuff but convince everyone you know to stop using their stuff as well. Take away the ease ai seems to promise.
I’m wondering if the Frost family involved in this scam has any relation to the Frost family who started Frost Bank in Texas.
I just rewatched Evangelion, and the dubbed dialogue actually made more sense idiomatically than the subtitles. I know there are cases where the translation is not great and the voice actors are doing 5th grade class play level overacting, but that’s not universal.
First Facebook and now TikTok. Social media companies love hiring former IDF people
Also one of the investors in Slate is Bezos so…
If friends aren’t willing to avoid the bar for the time being, it may be best to take a break from them. Ask your friends if they can join you at a place that has less of a booze-focused vibe, like a restaurant or cafe.
If you pick someone you know will be in a specific place and time, you can make their cause of death “spontaneous fission explosion” and get an AoE on a lot of other people.