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Gotta be al that avocado toast.

This is a “Pokémon go to the polls,” vibe. Not a compliment.

What chapter in Revelation is this part of the end times?

Chinese government controls Chinese companies. American companies control American government.

I do think it says something about the American dream that if you want to make ends meet, selling your blood is one of the best options.

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Guys, I’ve cracked it.

“It’s a lot of young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”

Oh they understand. That’s why they’re so unhappy. But, this is exactly the take I expect from one of the most out-of-touch people on the planet.

System clock in the top right corner.

It’s worse than that. We’ve passed that point already.

Magnets are a really useful thing, particularly in compasses, which allow you to find your way to Epstien Island.

Not sure why we’re surprised. And even then, it took a while for the “good” OSes to get good. Windows 7 is remembered fondly because it ended well, not because it started well.

Windows 95: OK Windows 98: Bad Windows 98 SE: OK Windows ME/2000: Bad Windows XP: OK Windows Vista: Bad Windows 7: OK Windows 8: Bad Windows 10: OK Windows 11: Bad

In case you’re talking to a Christian, most believe that everything is a part of God’s plan, even the things they don’t like.

It’s honestly more interesting that this doesn’t match up with the “do you identify as a Christian” stats. It would imply that there are a significant percentage of Christians who think that Trump is outside of God’s plan. Maybe God didn’t have Trump in his bingo card?

I am sure most people are considering doing this have elementary aged children. A $20 tag feels like a better option than a $1000 phone. I’d prefer putting it on a backpack than in a shoe though.

All parents spy on their children. That doesn’t make you a shitty parent. What you do with that info and how you handle it does.

It’s totally fine, the ring is probably also made of lead.

The web has almost always been unusable without an adblocker. Ads today are less malicious, but more insidious. Clicking the wrong ad in 2003 would brick your computer. Clicking the wrong ad today means you’ll have to cancel a credit card after your personal data is compiled and sold on the black market.

Nothing new. Ads don’t fuel a free internet. They fuel a business model. The free internet is fueled by the time and donations of kind, dedicated people.

Grok is going to roast you mercilessly for not buying a Mercedes as it uses your Tesla to suicide bomb the nearest bagel shop.

As someone who’s had two kids since AI really vaulted onto the scene, I am enormously confused as to why people think AI isn’t or, particularly, can’t be sentient. I hate to be that guy who pretend to be the parenting expert online, but most of the people I know personally who take the non-sentient view on AI don’t have kids. The other side usually does.

When it writes an answer to a question, it literally just guesses which letter and word will come next in a sequence – based on the data it’s been trained on.

People love to tout this as some sort of smoking gun. That feels like a trap. Obviously, we can argue about the age children gain sentience, but my year and a half old daughter is building an LLM with pattern recognition, tests, feedback, hallucinations. My son is almost 5, and he was and is the same. He told me the other day that a petting zoo came to the school. He was adamant it happened that day. I know for a fact it happened the week before, but he insisted. He told me later that day his friend’s dad was in jail for threatening her mom. That was true, but looked to me like another hallucination or more likely a misunderstanding.

And as funny as it would be to argue that they’re both sapient, but not sentient, I don’t think that’s the case. I think you can make the case that without true volition, AI is sentient but not sapient. I’d love to talk to someone in the middle of the computer science and developmental psychology Venn diagram.

As much as I dislike Steve Jobs personally, Apple needs someone at the helm who is product and customer experience oriented like he was. Obviously, technical know-how is good, but someone exclusively technical would flounder. Tim Cook is a supply chain guy. His replacement would almost certainly be someone marketing oriented, since innovation no longer drives Apple. Sales do.

I mean, I know JK Rowling sucks, and it’s been a long time since the first Harry Potter movie came out, but it was definitely a component and precursor to Hagrid beating the shit out of that door.

He also said he received death threats for his views about what he called the “overt sexuality” he sees in Pride events and people who identify as LGBTQ+.

The Old State Saloon has hosted various events, including “Beers for Breeders” gatherings.

My how the turn tables.