“perfectly happy to lie, cheat, steal, and fuck over your country to make money, obtain, and hold power.”

Also like the current configuration of the US Government

After 40 years of responding to other people’s problems, negligence, and outright stupidity, along with 20 years on call for Important High Availability, I’m done next month.
I gave a year and a half notice, just after my 65 birthday, that I’m retiring and they did not even check on contract / outsourcing until last month and decided that two people to my one at twice my total compensation with a 20% profit was way high to actually support on call. Now they might look at a new hire but haven’t asked me or my boss what the correct job description should be.
So no, done is done.

Can a State join NATO?
The United Nations?
I recall that California has trade agreements.
To what extent can a State step in where the Federal Government has withdrawn?

I learned to read as a child so by college I would read the vendor documentation, programmer notes, and application guides, the existence of made a significant purchase recommendation around the Win 2 & 3 migration from DOS: don’t buy something that doesn’t have a printed manual. Acrobat and PDF replaced printing, but it was always the content I used.

Now I deal with (mostly) managers who want to know what numbers add up to 2, what’s does “add up to” mean (because they overheard the question in a Teams meeting they weren’t involved in), and can it run on Linux by someone else such that they can continue do as close to nothing more as possible (really asking for telepathy so the response is returned effortlessly).

Asking for any such documentation of internal projects now leads to requests for time travel back to the last upgrade rushed into production because using a calendar the schedule projects in advance is not a manager job requirement.

The best thing I imagine an AI could say is to pull your head out of your ass. Across my 40 year career, there are several times I should have been told that and every one would have been better off.

Dang, now I’ll have to change the combination on my luggage!

DEC with Alpha?

So if I play an NPR radio station during the AM and a FOX station during the PM to an Echo, what kind of therapy ads would start to show up customized for me on the Washington Post site?

This is local to me and I don’t see how this is new:
https://www.calpine.com/
https://www.lakecountyca.gov/9...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

And has some not so green environmental issues:
https://www.lakecountyca.gov/6...

As well as early performance issues:
https://www.energy.ca.gov/powe...

Sometimes I can see the steam rising from the cooling towers from my back deck in Cobb though I’m not sure which site it is.

If your junk actually hangs out you can probably make more money on OnlyFans.

No, that’s not Douglas Rain but someone poorly imitating DECtalk probably inspired by War Games.
A version of DECtalk is what Stephen Hawking initially used to “speak”.

I’ll eat more beans for better AI.
Organic beans so it’s more natural.
Does that help?

Could Google-fication be repeated enshitification googol times?

Or Hedley Lamarr, because Blazing Saddles is about institutional racism obscured as a comedy that I suspect would offer some insight here.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0...

Is this a post from an AI bot about a poorly written AI post?
Is this AI masturbation?

I suppose the question really is: who made money on this?

DEC in the early to mid 1980s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...