For me the big question is self-driving vehicles. No one seems to worry about job losses anymore, but that was one of my big takeaways from when that was hot. I seem to recall them giving 3million as the number of people who drive for a living in the us. Imagine 3 million people suddenly out of work, jobs gone. Where else could that many people go? Driving doesn’t require college, so I have to imagine that few of these people do, so where else can they even get hired?

This is why we can’t have good things

• https://www.roofingcontractor.com/articles/100892-the-battle-over-cool-roofs-heats-up-following-tennessee-rollbacks

Hah, I do sort of the opposite. My management has drunk the koolaid on ai - now I use it to translate my specs into something obviously ai generated for more acceptance

I’m having this argument with one of my junior guys who wants to just go with the generated code. We finally got his code functional, months late, and now need to get it maintainable

AI is a useful tool that can help speed up some of the tasks of coding but it’s not magical. It’s never a final result

AI could really help me get more done if we could weed out people following it blindly

Finally I get to be a superhero …. By the power of long showers I help make it impractical to introduce enough poisons into our water supply

I suppose there’s staging a “terrorist” attack as an excuse to invade/nuke some other country

My city facilitated that a decade or two ago by building new indoor reservoirs specifically for water treatment. Now we have a small handful of facilities set upon for massive chemical insertion and holding about half a day’s worth.

That being said, you’d still need the cooperation of people at each site, security at each site, truckers and suppliers. But that’s only one city: multiply that by the thousands of cities plus now you’d need huge amounts of chemicals that someone would surely question. That’s a lot of moving parts.

Top floor Studio apartment in a major city in an old building.

• The units didn’t have individual thermostats so we were stuck with what the building set, but heat rises.
• it was sweltering in the winter but when I opened the window, everything got coated in sticky black tar from the oil burning furnace
• it was sweltering in the summer but electrical was inadequate for even the smallest window air conditioner
• maintenance arbitrarily entered my apartment and smoked, leaving cigarette butts in the toilet.
• when my lease was ending, sales would just walk right in with new prospective tenants with no notice and not even knocking, regardless of the law

Yes, I get that Trump and most of his owners are old, but even if you ignore climate change, ignore the health impact of petroleum, ignore the instability that petrowealth has created, etc, we’re left with a short term solution. We’re ignoring development of new industry, new jobs, new technologies that could benefit us indefinitely, for short term profit, someone finite and non-renewable. Even if they wanted to milk the petro-profit as long as possible, why destroy the possibility of competing in the future technology?

How are they so short-sighted?

It’s unfortunate - I like the concept of people talking about bundles of sticks, or slang for cigarettes. But the negative usage so dwarfs those cases that they’re really no longer legitimate

I’ll also take your definition. It sounds good and if there’s not a known origin, it could be true

Mango Mussolini has decades of breaking contracts, refusing to honor deals, and you thought he’d be good for business?

I always wondered about that but I don’t eat frequently enough to notice when it changed

IF you turn off searching the internet and fetching ads, file search can still be fast. However Microsoft keeps resetting that so I just gave up - winfdows search is not worth ising

Not enough info. Why have they never used it? If they don’t feel like enforcing consumer protections, they should be replaced. But if price gouging isn’t happening or the law is poorly defined, I have more sympathy for repealing a law that isn’t being g used

I’ve been meaning to try this - I’ve found it in stores a couple times now, but it just sits on my shelf. I imagine there’s an expiration and it’s long past

It may have. Certainly one of the many problems with hersheys s how old it can be. It seems to be treated as something that can sit on the shelf forever

Reese’s is one of my favorites too, but objectively it’s horrible, down there with hersheys chocolate. They successfully made it addictive, rather than taste like peanut butter or chocolate. Try something like a Trader Joe’s peanut butter cup and it’s a world of difference.

It won’t keep me from my Reese’s but at least I’m aware of it

Hersheys used to be our only choice. However now that we have better choices, many of us are waking up to chocolate as a good thing (other than the sugar rush). It can be hard to get over the price and quantity difference though.

Canada will be stretched just keeping fighting out of its borders.

Canada just needs to send one guy over to say “you should be our eleventh province” and most of New England will say “yes please, I’m sick of whatever shit the regressives are doing now”