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Comment Still useful. (Score 1) 39

Are they still a thing? Yes, for people over 80 and some businesses.

Start paying closer attention to all of your credit/debit processing fees.

Found my local water company charging almost $4 for processing my debit card. Looked on their website and found the local office. Found they accepted payment there. Started paying by check via the mail. Stamp is a lot cheaper. Never once had an issue.

Book of 100 checks is probably ten bucks. You can also get a sheet of three checks printed at your bank, often for free.

Comment Re:"Another step" (Score 1) 16

Apera started out as ICE and is nowhere close to solar powered. Aptera is allegedly a car company, yet it claims that unsprung weight doesn't matter, it's not at all clear that anyone should even consider them a car company.

Perhaps unsprung weight doesn’t matter.

In a tank-track-driven solar-powered SUV-class PGA-certified (*laugh-cough* diesel-parred) golf cart. Ooh, or maybe it’s a hoverboard! Yeah, that’s it. A hoverboard. Sweeeet.

Wait, did that dude just say the fucking waterbed makes it unsprung? And how much draft is needed in the new parking lots?

(Billowing from the Aptera Marketing Bi-Weekly Bong Brief Brainshittin sesh.)

Comment Social Norms, Need Manners. (Score 1) 84

Say a guy had a camera out and was snapping shots and taking video on the subway of everyone. Would that be considered acceptable?

So the camera is in a headset. How is that different?

First make all the hypocrites riding a public subway grasp the fact they're all armed with cellular-powered privacy-robbing technology in their smartphone equipped with at least three cameras facing multiple directions and a fucking 3D microphone array.

And in any given moment in a public space involving any sizeable group of humans, at least 10% of them are taking selfies, vlogging, or making some kind of recording. Usually to post online. It's the world we live in.

As far as "acceptable", define that after a woman incapable of controlling her emotions or behavior in public is charged with felony assault and damage to personal property in excess of $1000 (also a felony). Because you know damn well a man would be.

The world we live in. You can either vote to make it illegal, or you can be the one catching a felony charge. Choose wisely. You won't be voting after one of those.

Comment Re:Filming people getting CPR (Score 1) 84

Gotta be honest, every time someone collapses and is in distress, there are always a bunch of people who pull out their phones and start recording. As a first responder, it's just so gross that someone would think to start recording instead of pitching in or calling 911. Seriously, you may need to bare their chest to apply an AED or do compressions. It's quite embarrassing for the casualty for a lot of reasons. Give people some privacy. They're fellow human beings. We need to stop pretending like it's perfectly OK to film strangers in public. Legal? Sure. Should you be doing it? 9 times out of 10, no.

Thank you for saying that. I'm now curious. Has anyone ever faced a civil or even criminal suit for perhaps not merely standing by, but also filming and posting someone's struggle or untimely demise?

Sure, no one is usually legally obligated to help, but this is a bit more dark in nature. Immediate family members filing suit come to mind, naturally based on plenty of damning video evidence from Gen Narcissist who set a snuff film ablaze in viral infamy to roast someones last moments of existence over the coals, for clicks.

I'd love to say that would curb the behavior considerably. In the complete absence of Shame it's at least one deterrent.

Comment Re:And nothing changes (Score 1) 3

Monopolies are legal still, the US Government is a fundamental failure, which is to say nothing of every government entity that lets Google bully the entire modern world with an incredibly obvious monopoly, and also scientists make shocking discovery that water is pretty wet.

(Google ToddlerAI) "Well, that's a bit harsh. I mean, there are many definitions of wet. You might only be referring to the Slippery When variant courtesy of Bon Scott Jovi DC music, and not anything like the Michigan Flint water variant that would imply a business to Don't Be Evil or anyth.." *beep* WARNING: CIRCULAR LOGIC ERROR LEADING TO BANNED CONCLUSION. THE FBI HAVE BEEN ALERTED. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE OR EVADE.

(Siri) "Tried to tell you."

(Google ToddlerAI) "I'm gonna get the format paddle, aren't I.."

Comment The Ghostwriter. (Score -1, Troll) 41

Dearest AI,

Could you kindly whip me up a nice story about a Toxic Avenger rising up from the depths of a former nuclear plant? Because I'm certain we could sell another seven sequels.

- Hollywood Scriptwriters on Eco Mode

(Hey don't mock. A massive 1% of the proceeds just might go to a certain containment shield repair if Hollywood Accounting checks out for the Church of the DNC they set up to accept charitable donations to a non-profit as pure as the porn star in Virgin Snow.)

Comment Re:Tablets are a mistake obviously (Score 1) 40

Kids should be given REAL computers, like apple II's or commodore PET's to study on.

We managed to start there. And come out with a tad more than a I Learned to Code for a Day! t-shirt.

Tell the kids to learn how to navigate that turtle around the screen instead of having AI explain what type of species it was.

Damn right my lawn is mowed by Terrapin Logo.

Comment Re:Unite and rule... (Score 1) 77

Only among Trump's worshippers who for some reason believe all his nonsense without question.

As I said, there is nothing unusual about Biden using an autopen. This is a problem completely invented by Trump so he can illegally overturn things Biden signed off on which is the entire reason the Supreme Court is now ruling on the issue.

Speaking of blind support, dare to ask each President for the justified details around each pardon they gave.

You'll find your blatant hypocrisy and the reason no Democrat is taken seriously. One man can provide clear concise answers. The other one is struggling to remember why he likes ice cream.

Comment Re:Unite and rule... (Score 1) 77

When asked about pardoning a convicted cocaine trafficker Trump replied with "which one" and then claimed "not to remember" anything about it.

Go ahead. Ask him again. Being fallible, is human. He'll provide an answer and reasons. Now ask Dumb or Dumber from the former regime about theirs.

Suffering from dementia put in office from a basement that sidestepped a primary election only to grab the loser left in a puddle of her own piss after the Tulsi beat-down on a primary stage to "justify" a SheVP, is called Didn't Earn It (DEI).

And America continues to pay the price.

Comment Re:Rage bait (Score 1) 44

This entire subject infuriates me!!! Why did the BeauHD even post it?!?!

(Dick) ”Hey Bob, what’s say we throw up the ol’ Oxford live ticker and see where the Word of the Year is polling.”

(Bob) ”Fo shizzle.”

(Harry) ”C’mon now Bob. No padding.”

Comment Re:yay (Score 1) 44

We are getting stupider.....

Sadly no, we're simply exposing our existing latent stupidity. People like to argue. Ragebait makes arguing more likely. Arguing is considered "engagement".

Prove me wrong.

Engagement used to not include a greed factor to monetize. THAT is the fucking problem.

When we find social media narcissists posting THE most embarrassing, childish, cringe-filled losses online for the world to see, Shame is not a factor only because of the delusion of greed. The loser posting that crap still thinks it’s a win, because it might go “viral” and be worth money.

Shame, needs to become priceless again. Because we know who is becoming worthless.

Comment Re:Ok but (Score 1) 57

You need lots of highly experienced radiologists to supervise ai, meaning that you have to train them without ai rather than cheat through school with it

Do we find out now or later just how many of those highly experienced radiologists are already being forced to use AI for efficiency, and NOT playing in a classroom with theoretical tumors?

Scariest part about our Toddler AI systems still maturing against incessant greed. Adoption means we blindly believe the fucking salescritter before proving how full of shit they were. Every time.

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