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The best documents would be birth certificates for each generation, but there was a massive fire at the Dublin records office in 1922, which destroyed a lot of genological records from before then. If you have any information about where in Ireland your great grandparents were from, you may be able to find local records however. Things like parish registers and birth records for sone denominations were stored outside Dublin, so you may be able to find them, although it’ll probably mean going there, or hireing to go there, as most of those records haven’t been digitised.

Weirdly, staring at a bright light is one of the things that’s almost guaranteed to put me to sleep. A phone screen works pretty well for that.

9 out of 10 wolves recommend this meme!

I did notice your username, so I suspected this might not apply to you, but maybe it’ll be helpful to someone.

All I can really offer you is ‘good luck, hang in there and this too shall pass’, which is probably not a lot of comfort.

Not everyone will be able to move, it’s true, but a lot of countries have provisions for reclaiming citizenship if you can show that an ancestor (usually only in the last couple of generations, but not always) was a citizen.

For instance, Ireland: if one of your parents was an Irish citizen, born on the island of Ireland, you can claim citizenship and a passport with minimal paperwork. If your parents weren’t born there, but a grandparent was, there’s more paperwork involved, but you can still get citizenship and a passport.

Once you have a passport for an EU country, you have a lot more freedom to travel, and settle, anywhere in the EU.

Many other countries have similar systems, so, if you do want to leave, it can be worth studying your family tree to see if there are any recent immigrants.

Looking at a timeline of cases against various AI companies suggests that’s not quite the case. This page had a good overview, showing how cases are being resolved. Some of the recent notable outcomes involve the German courts finding OpenAI violated copyright laws, OpenAI being forced to reveal internal communications about trying to hide a massive dataset of pirated books, and a class action suceeding against Anthropic, but there’s a bunch more.

Whilst I see your point from the advertisers perspective, ie, misleading the consumer can be profitable, it also makes it all the more necessary for advertisers to be forced, ideally through legislative means, to disclose asset theft. That way they’re all on a level playing field, and are disuaded from lieing about it.

That fact that most “AI” output is garbage is not directly relevant, but the sourcing of the training data and lack of human oversight are.

Whilst slop is slop, and should be pilloried as such, cheap, lazy “AI” slop shoild be labeled to indicate that even less attention was paid than usual, and that it was created from stolen assets. This last part is probably the most important part.

Why do you think siblings would hate each other? Giving them the mental and emotional tools to interact kindly and calmly with others will also ensure their reltionship is positive.

There’s a lot of work to go around. The leopards take care of those who vote against their own interests, the tigers can deal with those who shoud be getting nothing more than a lump of coal for Christmas. In the case that both of these hold true, whichever gets to the perpetrator first eats them.

Could Sasha do the adults too, particularly the bad ones?

You can definitely run it on those sorts of machines. You’ll want plenty of storage, but apart from thst it’s not too demanding if you don’t load it up with very high res videos.

I know you mean this in jest, but I’m now envisioning hoards of driverless cars roaming around joylessly hunting down artificial ‘pokemon’ to add to their owner’s collection, whilst the owners sit at home listlessly doom scrolling, waiting for their cars to return, so they can see what ‘they’ caught.

I don’t like it.

Weirdly I can see your blasphemous comment about instant ‘coffee’ in your history, linked to this post, but it doesn’t show up in the comments here. I suspect it’s because it’s been voted down to -30.

In answer to the assertion you made about coffee being all the same, I say: you heathen! You Philistine! You non-appreciator of tasty coffee! If you like instant, that’s one thing, but many feel (as do I) that instant isn’t a patch on properly roasted, ground, and brewed coffee.

Neit, was not failure, was demonstration of missile extreme manouvering capability. Fligh ended in big bang, so was great success comrade!

It wouldn’t be quite so bad if the previous gold rush ended first, but they seem to just be stacking up.

This is so very important. Snapshots are very helpful tools, and most if the time they’re exactly what you need to recover. Unfortunately they don’t help when the drive fails, or the machine is destroyed by flooding, or myriad other failure modes (human error nit being the least of them). Remote backups are vital if you want your data to survive those events.

Remote copies of the snapshots are a start, but leave you at the mercy of and bugs in the snapshot system, and usually more critically, you have to transfer the whole snapshot or delta, and can’t exclude data without first rearanging your mountpoints.

Lical snapshots and remote file backups give you the best of both worlds, making it easy to recover your data from pretty much any event.

That reminds me of the old joke:

Customer: This coffee tastes like mud!

Waiter: I’m sorry sir, it was ground this morning.

You can’t use anything but maximum super strength, all the time.

It’s a bit more complicated than that. One way the shareholders support the company is that the company will hold sone percentage of its shares, which have a value as determined by the stock market. Amongst other things, the company can use those as colateral for loans which they may use to expand the company. The idea being that expansion will make the shares worth more, and increase income, so making the loans easier to pay off. Shareholders support the value of the shares by not selling them cheaply, This benefits the shareholders and the company, and if they think the company is doing well, they’ll tend to trade the shares at a higher price. If they think the company isn’t doing well, fir instance it’s not increasing its valuation, they’ll tend to trade at a lower price, further reducing the valuation, and making it harder for the company to raise funds through loans or share sales.

Basically the whole thing is held up by the common delusion that the share price is related to the performance of the company. It’s actually only related because everyone agrees it is.