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Well, you'd be baffled then. When the seat in front is reclined, I can't open the lid fully or even well enough. I've tried.

This only works if you are okay with developing neck issues

It's only correct if "your right" is used as in "his right", "her right", "their right". Usually what they mean is "you are right", ergo "you're right", and they are just not educated enough to know how it's spelt.

It's only dead space if you are not using it. I like to open my laptop and place it on the tray. When the person in front reclines, I am forced to sit still for the duration of the flight. I usually fly from Europe to Asia, so 10-12 hours.

Good point

> I had a connecting flight through India

I make additional effort to never experience that again. Connecting flight through Mumbai. An absolutely awful experience.

Since we are voicing seat related complaints, I want seats that don't recline. I don't want that asshole in front of me ruining my flight again.

> Sure, these plans may be temporary, but none of us really know how temporary they are.

Anthropic emailed me today:

  Fable 5 moved to usage credits on July 20. It is still available to you, but it requires pay-as-you-go usage credits and is not included in your subscription rate limits.

The part about gifts he received from the father in person is particularly vile.

Photonic computing?

As an ESL, it hurts me to see the atrophy of written English. "Your right!" is just painful.

> one needs to give the US Govt their photo and fingerprints ("biometric data") anyway.

Standard practice everywhere in Asia.

> Most of us on some level felt confident that AI would completely revolutionise our society.

I don't want to sound like a jerk, so please let me know if I do - I don't understand why you claim that "most of us" felt that way. I ignored "AI" until mid 2024. Then I tried it and was very unimpressed. I tried again in 2026. Seemed useful, then very quickly I realized that it's something that looks great until you look closer.

I was never impressed by a text generator. A talking computer might be the most boring thing I could imagine. I never understood why people got so obsessed by it and I certainly don't understand why it would "change society". Society is composed of people. What would change society is something that would allow people to think less, feel more clearly, express themselves more freely, and suffer less. Of course, things that accomplish these results exist, but they require a lot of effort. I cannot fathom how a technology that doesn't lead to these results could revolutionize anything. In fact, every technology, that I witnessed arising since late 90s has made things worse precisely because it has not done anything to address the human condition, instead praying on it.

Hi, experienced pelican here. No.

> Why is it funny to buy Oreo and lube?

It implies SEX but without saying it out loud, haha, so funny, am I rite my fellow 16 year olds?

> Why would someone buying kale and an enema make someone else laugh out loud?

You don't get it, it's about the ASS. So funny!

Some people just remain adolescents.

> You call strawman on someone else and show up with anecdata

Anecdotal is just that - sample size of one. Straw man is a dishonest manipulation technique to bring someone down.

> In all honesty one of the biggest problems in all these discussion is that there is no Europe healthcare / trains /...

Yes!

> Public healthcare in Belgium (personal experience, doctors / 1000 people etc) is amongst the best in the world while I guess based on your comment the one in poland is not that good ?

Healthcare in Poland is very poor and has been that way for a while. In fact, it's currently in the spotlight as it's on the verge of collapse and controversies are brought up to light to assign a convenient scapegoat.

> Art isn't just the screenplay, or a prompt; it's the clash between reality and the intent

Okay, clanker

Wow, I hate all of it

3 years ago I was traveling from northern Poland to southern Poland by train - the only option unless you have a car. It so happened that my family was flying from Toronto to Warsaw at the exact same time. They arrived before I did and were much more comfortable than I was, too. Not to mention the safety aspect.

Of course if we're talking about cities that are 20-30 minutes away by car, then flying would not be reasonable.

> This is competition between two super powers for the most important technology in human history.

Photonic computing?

> I never got the logic of "I don't like this thing, so why does it exist?"

Nice straw man. I never said trains should not exist. I was merely talking about the fixation on trains, which is palpable in Europe.

I will never understand this fixation on trains. I will take a plane over a train any time. Not only is it faster and more convenient, it's also much safer.

As for healthcare, it depends on the country. I am European and I haven't used public healthcare in my entire adult life because 1) It f***g sucks 2) the waiting lists are so long you might die before you get treated 3) the bedside manner is so awful I'd rather be roasted by a stand up comedian

I bet it's doing really well against Llama 3 :)

> The ultra wealthy will out compete you for the resources you need if we don’t start taxing them has been a discussion from the left for quite some time.

Europe has done this and look how advanced it is! While Americans talk to computers, we have flying cars, colonies on Mars, and even a cure for cancer. We just had the courage to go forward with that one socialist trick and look how it all worked out so wonderfully!

It isn't.

Depends what is being taxed. Staples could be excluded, while luxury items taxed more heavily.

By that logic, every poor person becomes so by giving to others. Neither statement is true. They equated being rich with being evil, which is plain stupid and I don't understand why you are defending it.

I agree. I think it has nothing to do with how much a person has and everything with who they choose to be.

Unfortunately, stupid communist ideas are very popular on this website. Say "eat the rich" and they will clap.

What he spends his money on is none of your business.

I hope you are writing this from a really poor place, like a Brazilian favela. People there must be really good. Why would you not live with them? I am certain you are not some hypocrite, who lives in an affluent, evil place. That would really disappoint me, because I really want to believe you are not full of BS.