Over my cold, dead body.

Because, at that point, I won't care. I'll be dead.

1976 and I can picture it like I'm there today. I enter and ahead to the left is an IBM 1403 line printer, to the left of that is the card reader (forget the model), turn left and you're at the console of the IBM 1130. Turn right and there are two IBM 029 card punch machines. It changed my life.

How so?

Seriously asking what you are seeing that I don't...

Obesity in the poor is not necessarily due to "poor life choices". Ther are other factors contributing to it.

1) Being in a food desert. If there are no grocery stores nearby, you are stuck with a long trip that you can ill afford or buying from the local convenience store, which doesn't have healthy foods (and is more expensive to boot!).

2) Lack of energy/time. At the end of a long day, you don't have the energy to cook up a meal from scratch, so microwave/easy cook meals are the goto. These quick meals tend to not be healthy.

3) Eating healthy is expensive in both time and money. Cheaper foods tend to be less healthy.

4) Lack of free time to exercise.

5) Lack access to medical care.

AI?

I got nuthin'...

Does that include U-Hauls and shipping containers?

Hell, this probably futile, but I'll say it anyway...

For those mentally healthy people that aren't plugged into the right-wing grievance machine, the parent post references two of the latest complaints:

1) President Biden intentionally "cheapened" Easter by also making a proclamation about Transgender Day of Visibility. The reason he marked TDV on Easter was because for the first time since it started in 2009 it fell on Easter. Biden has been marking TDV since he came into office in 2021. So no, he was not somehow "diminishing Easter".

As for the eggroll... God, are we really to the point in the national discourse that we are debating the nuances of a freaking eggroll??? Anyway, since sometime in the 50s you haven't been able to submit posters or decorated eggs with religious themes... Personally, considering the holiday I think that might be a bit odd, but I can see the argument for it. This rule was also in place during the four years of the Trump administration. So, if it is so bad then why didn't anyone complain when Trump ran the eggroll? Don't bother to answer, it's a rhetorical question...

Perhaps you are correct, but having one did prove convenient a few years ago. I worked at a Wal-Mart, and net connections were spotty inside the store. The store did provide a wireless network, but they blocked some political websites I liked to visit. A VPN let me go to them.

Necessary or lifesaving? No. Convenient, yes. ::shrug::

Oh yeah, it also helped me access some Japanese porn sites that didn't allow logins from the US.

That's what I'm looking forward to.

They want to shut down Chinese data collection in order to force China to buy data on US citizens directly from Meta (or X, etc...).
(I'm only half kidding).

Still no concern on the part of congress about federal investigative agencies (as well as local law enforcement) that get information on US citizens by buying it from social media companies. This lets them get reams of data on people without bothering to get a search warrant.

Do they have any without LED headlights? I'd like to buy one but I don't want to be an asshole.

Oh, there definitely is value... It lets him appear smart and savvy so he can sell books and seminars to the rubes.

He really lost me when he mocked the US dollar for being a fiat currency, which is true. Then he sings the praises of crypto currency... which is also a fiat currency.

Hell, at least you could still plant the tulip bulbs when that craze went bust.

LLM "chatbots" are not search tools. Generative models like GPT are not search tools. They might have success using embedding models like text-embedding-ada-002, or all-mpnet-base-v2, or even plain old BERT.

But hookers and blow aren't? Can we at least play blackjack?

Constructing more housing is -not- the solution. In the US, there are already more houses than homeless people. https://checkyourfact.com/2019... Reading elsewhere, it seems that the issue is that the empty houses are not in the places people want/need to live... I know I don't want to live in the outlying areas of east Austin, but that's where the sweetish spot of affordability/distance to the factory I work at is. No telecommute for me! Not sure what the ultimate solution would be. A nationwide plan to move families to empty houses across the country and get them jobs? That's not even taking into consideration of those homeless by choice. I don't know how high that number is, but that demographic exists.