It's relevant because while tariffs will probably make the problem worse they did not cause the problem seeing as it existed before the tariffs.

I'm all for tariff-bashing but the police investigation took place between 2022 and 2024 ...

We are watching approximately 3% of the sky with telescopes, if my memory serves me right. And if they have some kind of FTL engine that just 'drops' them around the planet's atmosphere we wouldn't even know what to look for before they're here.

But also yes, the possibility of their variant of going for a joyride or roadtrip shouldn't be dismissed.

A smart manager would say, "That's it, you're on leave for a week until you've cooled off. See you next Tuesday." Disciplinary leave without pay to make sure it won't happen again, still manage to get in a common acronym.

Trump is making sure there's plenty of job openings for former programmers at Apple to go pick apples. A job for a job, you know. Not like there's any difference in what kind of job you're doing, surely they all pay the same and are equally engaging.

Another reason to have employees (and for larger companies, having a few more employees than you need right now today before noon) is to be able to quickly scale up for an unexpected order, and to have people around who actually know how YOUR systems work. If you have a contractor that switches between jobs every week then he'll be spending that week just figuring out which systems you use for customer management, ordering, etc.

Shattering the Republican party into potentially five or six different factions might do wonders for the American political landscape.

All that matters is whether it distracts people from Trump's name being all over the still un-released Epstein files.

The thing is that an AI is the perfect liar. It has no tells. There's no tug at the corner of its mouth, no raised eyebrow, no expectant look in its eyes. Its lies look entirely the same as its truths because it doesn't know the difference. Without showing sources (eg. getting the number from a random Reddit post that lived for an hour before being deleted) you can't tell whether the number it tells you will connect to where you're told it'll connect.

Just wait until AI payroll hallucinates that it paid the employees but instead it siphoned all the money to a Nigerian prince with a really trustworthy investment proposal.

You have a door in your cubicle?!

Can you imagine the horrible buzz of a thousand people talking all the damned time to interface with their machines? Not to mention just trying to browse around to stuff in the comfort of your own home without involving your family in every site you choose to visit?

What is the fascination with getting rid of text altogether? Are we going back to the age of oral tradition?

You guys? I'm sorry, which group did I somehow join without noticing what I signed?

Considering I'm not American, then no. I did not religiously keep up with American politics. It's unavoidable now when even one of my country's largest TV stations keeps a daily blog called, "Overview of what Trump said during the night".

And even if he did, he had the quiet and slightly confused version rather than the lashing out version. Plus he surrounded himself with skilled and knowledgable people who could take over if he was making really bad mistakes in his decisions - can you really say the same for the current president?