Half-life.

Pretty sure an organization like Pew knows how yes l to handle the most basic challenges with polling (self-selection bias of those who answer polls). There are validated, proven ways to address those issues with a large enough sample size and specific methods for how and who they poll.

As a photographer and the spouse of a writer, they are making massive profits off of a product that wouldn’t exist if they didn’t train it. By the very way the technology works, there’s a little bit of our work scattered in everything they do. If I included a sample of a piece of music in a song I recorded, or included a copyrighted painting in the background if a movie I was making, is would have to get a license. Why is this any different?

They should have done something more like a commodity license as it exists in music:

The composer of a song cannot prevent a new artist from recording a cover of their music if it has been previously released. The original composer is legally forced to grant them a license (hence “compulsory license”). But that license is at a pre-negotiated minimal rate. The new artist is free to try to negotiate a lower rate if the composer agrees. But the original composer can’t stop the new artist from recording a cover. And the new artist has to pay them for it.

Unfettered access is granted and the composer gets their share. Win-win.

That’s disappointing to say the least. I’m sure there will be a few more lawsuits as big publishers like Disney try to get their share of the pie.

Airplanes for sure. If solar gets crazy efficient, that will help. But with other fuels the plane gets lighter and more fuel-efficient as it flies. With batteries, the plane is just as heavy when it landed as when it took off.

There are some really interesting companies working on hydrogen for planes though, which might be the one sector that could really make that work and has good incentives to do so.

Great podcast episode about that here

https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/items/episode-8-transcript%3A-what-if-planes-only-emitted-water

For ships, they used to be wind powered (sails) and some are going back there again, at least for wind-assisted hybrid kind of models. Throw turbines on there and you can even “sail” into the wind while recharging a bit. It’s also less weight sensitive than airplanes for obvious reasons, so batteries aren’t immediate nonstarters.

The ‘pirating’ news from a couple of months ago was Meta, specifically. But I’m sure Anthropic did some too.

The issue I’ve always had wasn’t that they didn’t own a copy to read/reference. It’s that they’re effectively creating derivative works from that content, which they haven’t licensed for that use.

According to my understanding of copyright law (IANAL but I took a few IP law classes on in college) every author whose work was fed into that beast could have an argument that they share copyright in the derivative work that comes out of it.

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (2013 version) is beautiful and thoughtful. Completely unlike any other Ben Stiller movie that I know of.

“The Fountain” (2006) might qualify too, though it’s a lot heavier.

“Amélie” (2001)

“Hector and the Search for Happiness” (2014) is decent too, though I’m a Simon Pegg fan so it gets extra points for that

The guys who came along years later and were (more) openly about drugs and sex (instead of semi-covertly about it)

The Rolling Stones were always the spoiled rich kids pretending to be tough. The Beatles were poor kids pretending to be posh. There are whole books written about that dynamic.

I thought free software was when you were the product and non-free software actually supported developers.

Or do you mean non-OSS?

That would be hilarious. Wolf Hall but technically in the Star Trek universe. 10 normal episodes per season, but once it twice a time traveler randomly shows up.

The MAGA nuts are Christian nationalist protestants. They think the Pope is the antichrist (literally many of them do).

Resigning would do no good. It’s not like a parliamentary system where they need them or something. The Republicans can govern with a simple majority, which they have with a few seats to spare. That even meets quorum rules.

You lost me at “without bitterness and infighting” It’s been more than 100 years and some people are still fighting that war.

The color or the fruit?

The color or the fruit?

Let me introduce you to the world of professional sports. Especially hockey, but others too.

Not at the scale of Hollywood, for sure. But it’s been going on a very long time. There are 4th generation NHLers at this point.

ISO dates, 100%.

Time zones…I could see arguing to rework them, but abolish them? How would that even work?

Looking at you, Google Play Library.

That’s an argument against an executive branch of government, not an argument against a constitutional monarchy.

You could have (and many countries do) a parliamentary system like you describe without having a monarch figurehead.

The question I think OP is asking is: why have the monarch figurehead.