Pound of flesh?

If you think you can cope with never being 100% sure if it’s real or not, be my guest.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116408554531050811

That reminds me about Vladimir_Komarov on Soyuz_1.

He went up there knowing he was likely going to die because of the build problems with the early Soyuz capsules.

The module crashed into the ground at terminal velocity, killing Komarov, at 6.24 a.m. … Soyuz 1 engineers reported 203 design faults to party leaders, but their concerns “were overruled by political pressures for a series of space feats to mark the anniversary of Lenin’s birthday”.

This was because they had rockets that fired precipitously close to the ground which cushioned the landing to something like 20 mph IIRC. If those rockets failed for any reason there would be a very big splat.

At an altitude of eight meters, the “Posadka” (landing) signal lights up on the cosmonauts’ console and at an altitude between 1.1 and 0.8 meters from Earth, the Kaktus altimeter issues a command for the firing of the braking solid motors, DMP. The spectacular firing takes place around 0.7 meters above the surface, reducing the descent speed of the capsule to between 0 and 3 meters per second. A speed of 2 or 1.5 meters per second is considered average at the touchdown point. The structural loads on the capsule at the moment of DMP firing was quoted as 0.1 kilograms. These loads were reported to be the main reason for ruling out the reuse of the Descent Module.

In case of landing under a spare parachute, the descent speed could reach as high as 9.5 or even 10.5 meters per second, but it is still considered to be survivable by the crew.

Some additional cushioning at touchdown is provided by individual crew seats, known as Kazbek (Kazbek-UM on Soyuz TMA) equipped with custom-fitted liners for each crew member. As a last resort, the bottom of the capsule also designed to absorb the shock of a particularly bad impact. https://russianspaceweb.com/soyuz-landing.html

You’re telling me an AI is going to run Windows 11?

I think you’ve got a very weak argument for it. It seems sensible to me that elective procedures should have clear benefits to outweigh the corresponding risks of performing it; there are always risks with performing medical procedures.

And w.r.t. you comment on no chopping — it’s a piece of skin that is attached to a human body, it doesn’t just fall off by itself. You do have to cut it. Choppy choppy.

It has no discernible impact either of our lives,

Then why would you chop it off?

Can’t tank the global economy if I tank it first.

What is more western food than bread with cheese?

An infinite box of nude pictures.

Did Israel forget to educate its citizens properly about the Nazis?

Take off the blinkers.

Explain how, exactly, the response was irrelevant to your point. After all, your ideology is strong and infallible.

What ideology?

It’s irrelevant because it doesn’t attack the point I made. Both things can be true at the same time.

You’re looking too hard for an argument where there never needed to be one.

Great, but ittelevant to any point I was making. I must have stepped.into the ideologically frail part of Lemmy.

Is this how they keep the shelves full?

In the USSR they always said they had lots of money but they couldn’t buy anything with it because the shelves were empty.

Corporations have a tax bracket?

LLMs agents should be treated like incorporated individuals. Each agent should be forced to earn income, file accounts and tax returns, and have human directors who are legally liable for its actions (and be disqualified to be future directors if the LLM does something reprehensible).

At that point we can tax them properly, fight the monopolies that want to own and control everything, and insert some less centralised human control.

This has nothing to do with your comment, but it made me think it up.