An aging Congress, out of touch with the AI revolution, could find itself out of its depth.
I’ll point out that term limits for Congress would mitigate this issue. And, term limits are better than simple age limits, because a young person voted into office could still have decades to become entrenched and corrupt. Whereas term limits keeps up the churn.
I don’t know, it just helps me focus, somehow.
“All in favor?” <chirp, chirp>
“All against?” “NAY! NEIGH, NA-HEY!”
The ‘nays’ have it.
I haven’t logged into my Amazon account in ten years, and this won’t make me do it.
Learn the difference between need and want. Stop buying crap you don’t need. And, never knowingly buy anything off Amazon.
Fuck Amazon, and Jeff Bezos. All excuses people make to willingly buy off that fucking site are bullshit.
For what we pay, every store could be this way, but the billionaires keep demanding more and more of the profits.
They’d only “need” to raise prices to keep their personal profit up. Fuck every single billionaire with a running chainsaw hard in the ass.
I’ve used delivery on a few items when it was free, and felt a little guilty about it. Once, I added some coffee to my online order that was only available to ship, just to get it over the $35 free delivery, because it’s something I buy every week, anyway. They fucking delivered just the coffee, free or not, such a waste. But, I won’t pay a premium for it. I’m not rich.
Downvote for slop.
Better a shitty sketch.
Comic artist Ernest Ng noticed something funny about the poster - how is Godzilla able to stand in an ocean that’s over 12.000 feet deep? “This problem was pointed out by my friend Dan Khoo so I tried to figure [it out],” wrote the artist. “Maybe the real problem is that I think too much.” Ernest then created a series of illustrations explaining the problem.
More crappy subscriptionware. No, thanks.
You’re a dying breed.
It’s not as scary as it seems, and quite a bit of fun.
Don’t be afraid to try.
Source: Am dad. But, it’s been a long time since I held a baby. Not that I think anything has changed about it in the intervening years.
There’s always tarot cards and astrology, the old standbys.
This one crosses generational and political lines much more so than anti-vaxxers and the nanobots-in-the-masks crowd.
One way to fight it might be to politicize it, ironically enough, with Trump’s approval under 30% on many issues, if we can label AI support as MAGA, that might slow the advance.
In my town, MAGA supports data centers “because jobs.” Fucking idiots don’t know how few people it takes to babysit computers. The jobs are low-paying security, and a few IT staff, with the bulk of the work done off-site from other states.
Whether they “look bad” depends on how you feel about flushing grandma.
I have a small, 3" urn of my mom’s ashes, and ten years later when I was offered the same for my dad, I declined. It doesn’t mean anything to me, and at the time, I had actually misplaced mom’s urn.
Slava Ukraini!
“Terrible” is overstating it.
Maybe if you let grandma soak and she gets all clumpy it would have a bit of trouble. Nothing a plunger to the face won’t fix.
Also, the last time I went to a cashier, because it was the one time I saw a long line at the self-check lane, I stood in the short line, I was third, while the cashier chatted up the customers, left the line to help another cashier with something and was generally very slow. I suspect they’re not required to be efficient anymore, and perhaps even encouraged not to be. I watched as the guy I would have been behind in the self-check line left the store while I was still second in line at the cashier.
I’m sure they were shown a staged demo of how the camera and “AI” catches people putting items in the bag without scanning and that convinced them the tech was good enough.
But, the scan camera check only catches people who aren’t trying to fool it. There are easy ways around it.
The Dorothy Hamill cut. It was huge after the '76 Olympics:
I had a crush on Susan, the new girl in the 4th grade, a redhead with that cut. I threw up on her shoes, once. She never talked to me.