Cacao prices went up sharply a couple-few years ago, but have gone back down the last year or two.

It’s part of why Dubai Chocolate everything was a trend. Use a fraction of the chocolate but charge a premium? Nearly every chocolate producer was all over that.

That’s fair. There are some available in other markets but they’re definitely fewer and further between.

Some phones do have built in radio receivers. If that’s genuinely a feature you want, they’re available.

Some algal species can be used as biodiesel sources due to their high oil content, so you could probably just diversify the kinds of algae.

There may not be proof that LLMs aren’t sentient, but there is some evidence and reason to believe that consciousness is an emergent property of quantum effects, whereas turing machines are relegated to classical mechanics. The same evidence would indicate it is unlikely that a turing machine could replicate the human brain since it uses fundamentally different layers of reality to calculate/think.

Combined with it having been demonstrated in other animals, I sorta wonder if it is ingrained somewhere close to a DNA level. All known life on earth has the same handedness to their DNA (left) even though it is physically/chemically possible to have DNA strands that are righthanded. I wonder if the handedness of the DNA strands have any impact on results in emergent properties that impact the natural trend around macro-scale drifting while moving.

Nah, it had the purpose of doing a genocide on Palestine. It desensitizing people to Venezuela is just a highly hoped for bonus, per those pushing it.

If you pick the right currency, Musk is already the first multi-trillionaire!

It was probably their own fault they got smooshed by The Hand, anyway. Obviously, they did heinous things no one knows about or The Hand wouldn’t have chosen them for smooshing.

I think they meant the overwhelming majority of people who have/use them, not of people in general.

TBF, they’ve left that mercury tomb in China sort of alone.