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[quote]Microsoft (MSFT) last ex-dividend date was on May 16, 2023. Microsoft distributed $0.68 per share that represents a 0.9% dividend yield.[/quote] [quote]According to Microsoft's latest financial reports and stock price the company's current number of shares outstanding is 7,441,000,000.[/qu...

[quote]What good deeds would you perform if you were to win the lottery?[/quote] Buy apartment buildings and make them "rent to own". After a couple of years of payments, I'd transfer the title to the tenants. Place grocery stores in neighborhoods that are under sourced. Buy farmland and ...

[quote]If AI had been created in the 1950's and then starved of new art from that point on, it would now be at an improved state, but based solely on those styles. As Warhol, Frazetta, Basquiat, and Neiman became the popular artists of the day, those are the styles that AI would want to create to se...

[quote]It's theft. Pure and simple.[/quote] The origin work still exists in the space it was placed. The work wasn't duplicated and sold. It's not pure or simple as a one to one comparison. [quote]It's not just another "next step" in technology. It relies on the appropriation of the work of ot...

[quote]she discovered that one of the AI developers used her art without permission or compensation to feed it into their software.[/quote] Viewing an art piece and then creating your own piece with stylistic elements of the original is not theft. It's how creativity naturally occurs. Of course, ...

[quote]FWIW former Covid Bro Bass, I accept your apology. I hope we can move forward as a country. And the only way to do so is to forgive.[/quote] He should resign his position and be barred from practicing medicine and science. [quote]I was wrong...And it cost lives.[/quote] Maleficence....

[quote]I’ve never seen anything like it, in America no less, and the people blindly putting their trust in an all powerful government, in America no less[/quote] Dude, we had concentration camps in WWII...I'm sorry, "internment" camps. ...

[quote]This new balloon streamed encrypted data back to their homeland while using extremely high resolution cameras - thermal, optical and other - as well as, other sensor data.[/quote] There is literally no evidence that any of this is true. ...

[quote]This was ChatGPT's response to the given hypothetical scenario: [/quote] In that scenario, the usage of the word is Love Speech, as you're trying to save several million people without harming anyone. WTF, Silicon Valley?...

[quote]Responsible for more deaths than any other drug Breaks up more families than any other drug Have seen more people’s life spiral out of control more than any other drug Only drug that can cause death stopping cold turkey for addicts. Most of these stats are due to the fact that it’...