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?
I mainly tip for social pressure, and custom.
That being said, I’m sticking with the traditional amounts, even if I need to fumble with buttons. And I’m not tipping in all these new places that never had that expectation. And I really don’t care about the social pressure anymore.
A couple places made it difficult to enter a traditional tip to the point where I decided 0% was easier.
This is why we can’t have good things
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
I’ll second this. While I’ve certainly never been in this situation, it’s a common strategy with friends. Actually I pushed this strategy when I started earning more, started loosening up and splurging more, and didn’t want to burden my friends
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.
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
No, it would be blue states (not just California) setting aside in escrow money owed to the federal government, while pursuing a legal suit for the federal government to follow through on its commitments. This is a legit approach for an individual with a complaint against a business like a landlord, so it seems like you could pursue similar logic
The law does allow you to withhold payments to someone who owes you. For example, it’s legitimate to withhold rent from your landlord as long as you are setting it aside and have a legitimate habitability case ongoing.
This should follow the same logic
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
I can see the recessed shape being a nice safety improvement, although I’m used to what I’ve lived with and haven’t killed myself that way yet, so I’d still probably err on the side of convenience, less bulk.
An interesting consequence of the flat faced outlet is so many shapes and sizes of plugs around the same standard prongs, and now I do nt want to do without them
Their motivation is always ads. The ai response is longer and takes time to read so more time looking at their ads. If the answer is sufficient, you might not even click away to the search result.
AI is a potential huge bonanza to search sites, letting them suck up the ad revenue that used to goto the search results