It really is a classic!

https://theouterlimits.fandom.com/wiki/Think_Like_a_Dinosaur

I have a modest proposal to deal with the homeless problem.

We shouldn’t allow men to serve elected office. They’re just too emotional to serve as proper leaders. Men belong in the home, where they won’t start random pointless fights with other males. Leadership requires a steady hand and emotional intelligence, skills men fundamentals lack.

Put away the pillory. You’re obsessed.

They’re misremembering. What they’re trying to remember is the fact that no Democrat has ever been appointed to run the FBI. Democratic presidents appoint Republicans to run the FBI.

OP is misremembering. The real key is that no Democrat has ever been appointed to run the FBI. Democrats always appoint Republicans to run the FBI.

Seriously. It’s criminal to not include a summary in a case like that.

AI companies all do have a rapist mentality, so it shouldn’t be surprising that they’re lead by actual rapists as well. AI companies really have a problem with consent.

Yeah, I think we’ll be able to figure out fusion. I just don’t think there’s a snowball’s chance in hell of it being cheaper than a bunch of solar panels and batteries. Hell, a big solar farm connected to a big hydrogen generator and hydrogen tank will probably be a much cheaper way of generating power than by using fusion reactors. The big fusion reactor in the sky is just going to end up being much cheaper.

I mean, how else are you going to try and march across the damn Soviet Union? That place was fucking ginormous.

The truth is that the strength of a democracy has little relation to the birth rate. If you live in the US, for example, you only live in a democracy if your income is in the top 10%. This has actually been studied. The opinions of the poorest 90% of the population have absolutely zero bearing on what government policy is implemented.

The US and China actually have similar levels of democracy. China forms all its policies from the CCP, an organization of about 100 million people. The share of the population in China that has any impact on policy is actually quite similar to the share that does the same in the US.

In the US, we just call our social credit scores credit scores.

This would actually work, though of course you would never get more energy out of it than it took to set it all up. But conservation of energy doesn’t actually apply when expanding space time is involved. The universe doesn’t actually conserve energy in all cases. Or hell, in most cases.

These people are all damned to Hell.

We have one. A small one that came with this little countertop ceramic honey pot we found at a pottery shop. We actually tried using it, but the ants got to the literal honey pot very quickly.

The sex part they’re a bit young for, but perhaps the Chinese Communist Party talking points have some merit. :D

It’s also the death of even the pretense of the American dream. Think about it. All pricing goes algorithmic, for all goods and services. Every company figures out the absolute maximum you can pay and charges accordingly.

What does this do in aggregate? It means that every raise you will ever get during your career is now immediately consumed by rising prices. This produces an economy where there is literally no point at all to advancing your career, gaining new skills, or bettering yourself. Why go to college or trade school, if the extra money you earn is just going to be consumed by companies charging your more for the same products? Why should anyone do anything but simply find the most tolerable minimum wage job they can, and simply work it until they die of old age? If all pricing is algorithmic, anything you do to improve your personal financial situation will be immediately hoovered up by the big conglomerates.

I really wonder about what people thought of that then. Did people really think it was a medical thing, or was this just a socialy respectable way for a man who couldn’t get his wife off to pass the task on to someone who could perform the task with an air of medical respectability?

Or Hell, maybe it was a 19th century kink or swinger thing. People have always been freaky. At times in history they just had to hide it better.

When these get deployed, they’ll finally implement eyeball tracking into the ads. Some smart TVs have in built cameras, and this could easily be one the norm. The companies so far have been too afraid to use it, but the tech has existed for years at this point. Technically, there’s nothing stopping YouTube from just requiring users to have an iris tracking camera enabled. And this would defeat a smart glasses AI ad filter. I suppose you could maybe have a screen on the front that projected fake eyeballs towards the camera, but maybe they could then defeat that.

Or, more likely, they’ll just lobby Congress to ban ad blockers and and blocking devices.