I sacrifice a houseplant to baphomet as an alternative

Is it a side effect of spiking ram prices and trying to meet their momentary price point?

It is a hard limit of using a phone SOC, it has what it has.

the A18 has a hard limit of 8GB of addressable memory, iirc

How about that few want one artist’s particular style reproduced, instead they want what they are vaguely seeing in their head produced from a cacophony of styles

It’s not meaningless; it’s a way for them to immediately prove that the person speaking has been intimidated enough by them to acquiesce to this absurdity. If they don’t, they can be punished just for refusing. If they do, they’re already back on their heels proving their willingness to cave on anything else.

Speaking of earlier concepts of The Matrix, there's an old 1973 German movie/mini series World on a Wire that's really good.

Other way around - the machines were using human brains as a substrate for computing.

If they can get Doom to run on a pregnancy test surely they could get it running on human brain cells?

Wasn't the matrix using humans as some sort of power source/batteries? I may be misremembering though, as that seems pretty silly in retrospect ..

Yes, but as I’ve read it that was to simplify it at studio demand for 1999 audiences. The original conception was to use human minds as coprocessors

That sure would have made a lot more sense, unfortunate that they went with the battery story in the end.

No, the major healthcare employers are trying to adjust their staff sizes immediately to avoid later crisis caused by this draconian hack and slash approach to federal funding.

The elevation of the individual as supreme to the communal is inherently anti-child rearing, the most communal of acts

Then the community is creepy and it can do one.

If that's how you perceive child-rearing property of communities that's a shame. It takes a village to raise a child. As the african proverb goes the child that doesn't feel warmth will burn a village down to feel it.

The creepy thing is that warm community turns into individuality bad which turns into obedience.

Why is obedience bad?

They are there awaiting you to act

AI writing = nobody will read it. The lure of easy perfection is death to meaningful interaction.

Yes but right now it’s doing this war. It can’t be anywhere else, so the costs are for this deployment specifically.

I think when people are asking about the cost of a war, they are asking about excess costs. How much extra money would be saved if the war didn't happen.

Yes, it's quite humorous to try and factor in opportunity costs for aircraft carriers, "but we could be bombing someone else!"

Doing actual bombing is more costing than just patrolling relatively peaceful seas, no?

Yes, but not at the cost of the construction of an Aircraft Carrier. This is why the military uses "operational costs" (fuel, munitions, activated duty pay, equipment losses, etc) to factor the cost, not the total amount of every dollar ever spent to build+sustain a military force.