I bought my current house when I was 27. Not a big house but house nevertheless. Hands down the best purchase of my life. Gives me chills to think I was about to buy an apartment first.

Well of course not - that’s the value of the company. You can’t buy anything with it. The same goes for wealthy individuals: just because someone’s net worth is in the billions doesn’t mean they have that kind of cash on hand.

That’s still not how it works. Company stocks are worth exactly what people are willing to pay for them.

It’s charity done by following certain principles. Nothing about it is tied to being wealthy, though that obviously helps as is the case with charity in general.

By what logic? Can’t normal people donate money to effective causes?

Climate change is not an existential threat to humanity. That’s not to say it isn’t real or that it’s not a serious problem worth solving, but many people seem to believe it’s equivalent to an asteroid wiping out the entire human species and rendering the earth inhabitable - and that’s simply not true. That is not the consensus among credible climate scientists, so I genuinely don’t know where that idea came from.

Exaggerating real issues like this is extremely unhelpful. It creates unnecessary anxiety for people who take those claims at face value, and it erodes trust in science once they realize the reality is less apocalyptic than what they were led to believe.

I don’t know what kind of mask they’re using, but a standard oxygen mask at a hospital doesn’t exactly vent the exhale either. It provides a constant flow of gas into the mask, maintaining positive pressure so every inhalation comes through the mask and every exhalation escapes around it.

It doesn’t take many breaths of nitrogen to pass out - likely not enough time for CO₂ levels to rise significantly anyway. The issue with CO₂ isn’t that it’s painful but that it triggers panic, since that buildup is what causes the sensation of suffocation, not the lack of oxygen itself. In either case, the cause of death is still suffocation - they’re simply not getting oxygen.

Nitrogen is a quick and painless way to do it if done properly. That’s the gas used in those suicide capsules in the Netherlands as well. My understanding is that the two main issues with it (besides the fact of death penalty itself) are loose fitting masks and the inmate prolonging the inevitable by holding their breath.

It responded with words of empathy, support and hope, and encouraged him to think about the things that did feel meaningful to him.

ChatGPT repeatedly recommended that Adam tell someone about how he was feeling.

When ChatGPT detects a prompt indicative of mental distress or self-harm, it has been trained to encourage the user to contact a help line. Mr. Raine saw those sorts of messages again and again in the chat, particularly when Adam sought specific information about methods. But Adam had learned how to bypass those safeguards by saying the requests were for a story he was writing

Exactly. It’s like concluding that therapists are exacerbating suicidal ideation, psychosis, or mania just because their patients talk about those things during sessions. ChatGPT has 800 million weekly users - of course some of them are going to bring up topics like that.

It’s fine to be skeptical about the long-term effects of chatbots on mental health, but it’s just as unhealthy to be so strongly anti-anything that one throws critical thinking out the window and accept anything that merely feels like it supports what they already want believe as further evidence that it must be so.

That’s not really accurate. That idea came from the loudest fringe voices online, not the majority. Surveys during the pandemic showed that most unvaccinated people were worried about safety, long-term side effects, or didn’t trust the government or pharma companies - not predicting mass death. It’s fine to criticize bad reasoning, but it’s still worth being honest about what people actually believed.

Depends on what the anti-vaxx stance is based on. If they’re worried about unintented side effects, then this technically just acts as further evidence for that belief. It’s not a negative side effect in this instance but a side effect nevertheless.

Exit International uses nitrogen in its Sarco pods for the same reason - it’s intended to be a low-distress method. The sense of suffocation comes from a buildup of carbon dioxide, not from a lack of oxygen. I’m opposed to the death penalty too, but let’s at least keep the physiology straight.

Cheapest BYD in Finland is an used 2023 model with 50k kilometers and costs 28k USD.

None of said companies are exclusively AI companies though. They were profitable companies with established products and services already before the AI boom. That doesn’t mean they’re not potentially overvalued but it also doesn’t mean that market crash makes them go to zero.

When the title is in the form of a question, the answer is no.

My understanding is that they’re refined in different parts of the refinery. The drones Ukraine uses don’t carry large payloads; they rely on igniting whatever they hit. Diesel and crude are far less volatile than gasoline, so you’re more likely to cause a big fire by hitting the gasoline-processing part of the refinery. If you throw a match into a puddle of diesel or crude, nothing happens. Refining gasoline is also more complex and sensitive process and thus easier to disrupt. Russia mostly refines gasoline for domestic needs, whereas diesel is kept in much larger storage - so striking gasoline refining capacity has a quicker impact on supply lines and is felt by the common people.

Tanks run on diesel though. Ukraine is hitting the gasoline refineries and storage.

No, but there is a price that people are willing to pay for something which is what economy is based on.

Or better: buy the dip.