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With that much stone they should install drainage grates in every room so you can just spray the place down instead of mopping/dusting/sweeping

I'm part of a coalition trying to prevent a private equity firm from buying out a local nonprofit hospital and using AI to "Improve efficiency" is one of their plans that we've had to study (done by people much more competent than I).

The main thing they plan to use AI for is filling out paperwork - nurses will record their introductory interviews with patients and the AI (basically, speech recognition + knowing what fields to fill out for certain information) will automatically fill out that patient's chart.

I'm sure they're planning on using AI for other purposes as well, but this is the most prevalent use - speech recognition and filling out charts automatically.

Yeah, they aren't biblical, basically just Christian fanfiction

Unrefined Uranium is unradioactive enough that just licking it probably wouldn't do lasting damage

Political affiliation is not a protected class, nor should it be.

The problem isn't gravity, it's friction. The train would functionally be in orbit. The reason why things can't be in orbit at ground level is not because of gravity but because of friction (incl. air resistance).

If you eliminated friction (vacuum tube, frictionless surface, etc.) you could indeed have the train moving without any additional energy after getting it up to speed (and if you get it up to orbital speeds, the frictionless surface isn't even necessary). However, this isn't really practical (obviously).

If there is a nugget of a good idea in here, it's a train that never needs to accelerate or decelerate, just maintain a constant speed. Much of the energy of a train is lost in the stop-and-start.

Instead of picketing the streets and striking their jobs, they should try picketing Musk and striking him in the head

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I really think you're onto something - just the headline (and, remember, the vast majority of people only read the headlines of articles - so the headline is where the company gets the information they want to convey to as many eyes as possible) calls the company:

• Dying
• Fraudulent
• Anti-Privacy
• Anti-American

Just to give a potential shareholder as many reasons as possible to decide "I no longer wish to support this company/I want to get out before this company fails".

Maybe TEMU is a bad company with a bad product, but it's worthless arguing about whether or not this is the case when the article itself cares very little about making concrete points and has an ulterior motive in publishing the article.

Crypto is not "technology", it's a grift and a scam

Unitary Representative Parliament.

Ultimately, Democracy is a means to an end, not an end in and of itself. And as we can see in the United States, people do not tend to vote wholly in their own collective interest but according to media (and even educational) influence and voter manipulation (making voting easier for certain people and harder or impossible for others).

Ultimately I believe in the inverse-heirarchical system: where people elect local representatives (for their town, or a neighborhood of a large city), who elect state representatives, who elect national representatives, who appoint a dual head of State and Government along with an executive committee to carry out the mandates of the national body.

I believe that parties whose purpose is counter to the public good should be banned. My main concern here is not for "anti-democratic" parties, however, but fascists and other right-wing groups.

Sub-National Monarchies are really common outside the Western world, especially in Africa. Many pre-colonial Kingdoms still exist, have borders and monarchs and subjects, they just aren't sovereign nations. The Sokoto Caliphate is a big example.