No one wanted to dismantle it; it was a very positive change in terms of government and citizen efficiency.

If no one wanted to dismantle it, why is it being dismantled?

Because Intuit wants to dismantle it.

They did. It was called DirectFile, and it was working great with overwhelmingly positive reviews.

> I can't go rent them from blockbuster

I can. :) But for those not so lucky, second hand stores have tons of DVDs usually for peanuts. Also your library might lend them out.

I'm still in the process of ripping our collection, but we can watch stuff on TV with Jellyfin.

But to your point, Louis Rossman suggests that when piracy provides the best experience, providers might want to rethink their strategy...

If you use the AI right for tutoring, then sure. A really great tutor will not tell you the answer.

We'll be lucky if the impact is negligible. It will probably reinforce the idea that vaccines case autism with those who believe it already.

Like those insane gear ratio videos on YouTube... You know the final gear is turning, logically, but the fact that the Sun will eat the Earth long before the gear completes a single turn lends a strange perspective.

I saw a neat one where they put the last gear in a block of cement while still spinning the first one quite fast.

Is the idea that it never moves, or that the cement will degrade by the time it does?

I think the artist put it as "and then the last gear turns so slowly it doesn't really matter, so I cast it in concrete."

Assuming we're talking about Arthur Gansons "Machine with concrete"[0] of course. I quite like how a lot of his work seems to have a punchline to it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-BH-tvxEg

It moves slowly enough that the wheel will approximately never turn enough to generate significant torque.

Google, usually.

This certainly matches my personal anecdata. :(

it's worse than that, I can feel it :-) I'll be old when I'll be old. Not before ! :-)

I've always wondered why rich people would donate to the debt for exactly this reason. What's their angle?