15 skeletons if you include yourself

During the Dust Bowl charlatans used to collect money from towns and farmers to take a plane up and drop dynamite out of it at height, with the logic that the explosion would somehow shock the water out of the air and make it rain. It had no real effect on rain frequency or intensity.

The more things change the more they stay the same.

The conspiracy is stupid as shit, and I would bet money it’s from some idiot who has either been brainwashed my Fox News into believing California is the cause of all America’s problems, or someone who benefits from selling that story.

You basically need to assume everyone in a car is an axe wielding maniac out to kill you if you’re on a motorcycle. I had a family member crash after a driver didn’t look left before pulling out of a driveway and put them out of commission for a few months, plus some new hardware. Stay safe!

Fake grass isn’t great either, but at least it’s a slower poison than… well, poison.

Sales metrics, I guess. Ikea always asks for it when you check out, and I remember having to ask people when I worked at a retail clothes store untold ages ago.

You still have REM as far as I know, you just don’t remember it.

Source: I also smoke a lot of weed, but have screaming in the middle of the night PTSD nightmares I don’t remember when I’m woken up from them.

This is doubly true for the card payment terminals. The on screen options are all in different places, orders, and with random questions thrown in. What’s your phone number? Do you want to round up to donate a car to starving kittens? What’s your zip code? Debit or credit?

Also, because this system is apparently developed by a maniac: where I live (might be national and not state level, not sure) EBT cards have to be used on some terminals by swiping, not the chip that comes on the card. But to swipe, first you have to use the chip and let that fail. So if you see someone using an EBT card that looks like they have no fucking clue how to use a card, it’s probably that they’re actually using it the only way they can.

Absolutely insane design choice, especially for people who may already be facing delays like separating items into two separate transactions for non-covered items, having to remove items that seem like they should be covered but aren’t, etc.

Part of the reason it’s as terrible for the environment as it is is because billions are being poured into keeping it running even though it’s not as profitable (or profitable at all) as they want you to believe it is. If the users actually had to pay the cost it takes to train and run these things, nobody (except maybe propaganda mills) would pay it because it would be a wildly expensive ripoff. The corporations and venture capitalists are hoping to get everyone addicted to it before they start squeezing.

If taxes pump the brakes on this shit even faster, all the better.

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No, it sounds like a mindless statistics machine because that’s what it is. Even stupid people have reasons for saying and doing things.

Steamy book reader, you say? 👀

Detectors aren’t 100%, blah blah, but this isn’t even pinging on any I used. Text doesn’t look AI. The image has a weird quality to it, but to me it looks more like a filter/bad camera/bad lighting than AI.

Only works if you pair it with a good open-handed slap across the face. They don’t want you to know that anymore, because of woke.

(don’t make me /s this)

Only if you use a — instead of --, if they know what they’re talking about anyway.

My phone autocorrects them to — so that’s fun, lol.

Same on the wanting more of it faster front! One look at the detail on each panel shows why it takes so long, but it’s absolutely something I could sit and devour in one sitting.

This isn’t just doomerism, this is ahistorical and unscientific. Changing course in 2005 or earlier would have us in a completely different world.

Feeling despair when the planet is burning is understandable and normal, but this is a prime example of a cognitive distortion. Every ton of greenhouse gases that doesn’t enter the atmosphere is harm reduced. 2.9 degrees C is better than 3.0, which is better than 3.1, and on and on.

Most importantly, the message being given out by actual climate scientists in this very article is that action is most important now, in the next decade, not that everything is already over. Insisting we’re already cooked is like laying down to die when you can see the end of the tunnel.

Racking up that large a phone bill with dialup internet is very impressive! Today if a 7 year old spends that kind of money it’s almost certainly because someone forgot to lock the app store/roblox account.

I think part of it is that they want to gaslight people into believing they have actually achieved AI (as in, intelligence that is equivalent to and operates like that of a human’s) and that these are signs of emergent intelligence, not their product flopping harder than a sack of mayonnaise on asphalt.

Somewhat concerned the wingspan of my balls is insufficient now…