10¢ a kWh is fucking cheap in a global context. 3x that is not uncommon.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/263492/electricity-prices-in-selected-countries/

Well, only a handful of users exist.

This is more about the “reasoning” aspect of the model where it outputs a bunch of “thinking” before the actual result. In a lot of cases it easily adds 2-3x onto the number of tokens needed to be generated. This isn’t really useful output. It the model getting into a state where it can better respond.

Educating the people is fundamental to a democratic society. Every time you see education under attack, it’s people trying to pacify the electorate.

English is 3 or 4 languages melded into one.

There’s the Germanic old English which gives most of the base language. This is mixed with Norse from the viking invasions. Then aristocratic French came in around 1,000 years ago. Underneath it all, some regions have Celtic influences.

Of course there aren’t consistent rules.

Mine is capitalising everything because of German.

Small EVs you say? Now there’s an idea.

Why do people have such trust that a national ID won’t be misused to further erode personal privacy? I have no idea why this policy is seen as at all positive.

(Any responses along the lines of “you’ve already lost your privacy” or “the government already has the data” won’t convince me. There wouldn’t be a push for a national ID if the scheme could be built out of the data the government already have)