Yeah that’s the problem with people in leadership roles. They should know better than to think complex problems have easy solutions.

Unfortunately, a lot of the voting public gravitate towards the leaders that assure them there are easy answers. The average person doesn’t want to hear a nuanced answer to a complex issue.

If you remember the time, Trump was pushing for any narrative that could let him say COVID wasn’t a big deal and would just disappear. He was looking for easy answers.

Jesus Christ, 659,041 kids had heart attacks in 2019!?! Or are you citing statistics that aren’t relevant to what’s being discussed in this thread?

There are very few good use cases for AI, but sales people continue to peddle it for fucking everything.

Yesterday I was driving and my Android Auto asked if I wanted to enable AI to summarize my text messages. In what world is that a good idea? Text messages are already short. Why would I need a computer trying to make it shorter and potentially fucking up all the context?

Wheel of Morality, turn turn turn. Tell us the lesson that we should learn.

“Finger Prince? I didn’t think so.”

It’s Alpha Centauri C that’s really fucking things up for generations of Trisolarans.

My wife lost her wedding ring in May. We eventually found it in November. We were pretty actively looking for it for the whole time. Checked all the vents. Moved the over, fridge, dishwasher, bed, washer and drier. You name it, we checked it. Eventually disassembled the sectional couch and found it under one of the sections. Which was weird because there were no gaps that it should have been able to fall through to get under there. Like, you couldn’t slide a penny under the couch.

…the worst impulses of Hitler and the Nazis could be “controlled” or “tamed” once they bore responsibility for leading the national government (rather than criticizing others’ administration of it).

I’m sure it’ll be different this time around /s

Keep in mind that’s Income Tax. Most rich people don’t actually have income, they have capital gains.

Related to what you said, but not necessarily this post: I was so damn frustrated with my neighborhood community the other day. We had a vote on whether or not to repurpose a huge grass field that takes up a ton of water and sees very little use. We’re wasting a ton of money (and water) watering this pristine empty field.

The main argument for keeping the field was “we waste water in other areas of the community as well. The common-area sprinklers were on when it rained the other day. We need to address all waste before making a decision about this empty field.”

There are a lot of people that don’t realize you can make incremental progress towards a goal.

Remember when gas was cheap because the entire country ground to a halt due to Trump mismanaging COVID? Those sure were the days…

On a somewhat related note, Crime Scene Cleaner is such an oddly relaxing, thought a bit gruesome, game.

I’m in the same boat. On the one hand, it’s the best car I’ve ever owned. On the other hand, Elon Musk.

That’s dope as fuck

How’d you pull that off? The question mark looks like filament, not like a neon tube.

Didn’t they actually have people in robot costumes previously though?

“Alright, let’s turn on the AI Mega-Thinker 3000 ^TM and see what it says about solving climate change.”

INVEST IN RENEWABLE ENERGY AND OVERTHROW THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS

“…well that can’t be right.”

I watched The Wire way too late in life. I watched it last year and my wife couldn’t get into it because of the old technology, but fuuuuuck was it good.

And then once you finish it, you can watch Breaking Bad again. Then El Camino. Then loop back around the Better Call Saul again. And once you’re done, you can watch Breaking Bad again…