"Why do they trust me? Because they're stupid f*cks." I think Meta's founder's quote serves here nicely.

And I'm also old enough to feel like talking out loud to my phone to ask it something looks mildly stupid. If it's not bakelite attached to the kitchen wall with a stretching twisty cord that tangles when you pull on it, it's not a real phone.

The slightly dog-faced one with floppy dog ears from the original movie Dizzy Dishes, not the "cute kawaii-looking" Jazz Age flapper one most people would recognize. Also, the name "Betty Boop" is still under copyright.

Well then, I believe the correct response is ... F*ck a duck. LOL. I'll see myself out.

Nixon said in 1970 that in 50 years you would not recognize the Republican Party. Pretty darn prescient.

Correct. I love to hear illiterate religious fantasists exclaiming that your nation is Christian when the founding fathers themselves wholly disagreed with that sentiment. Washington was a deist (not a Christian), Franklin mocked religious fervour in his writings, Adams wrote precisely in November 1796 that "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion", and Jefferson's famous 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association was clear as well ... "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between a man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between church and State." But fools gonna be fooled.

The DA of LA already stated a few years back that if it was up to him he has more than enough evidence and believes 100%he would charge the late George Hodel in the Elizabeth Short case for her murder. Hodel went overseas (the Phillipines) when the police really started to suspect him only returning to the US much later in life. His son, a retired LA police homicide investigator, has photos of a woman matching Elizabeth Short in his father's old picture collections. Hodel lived only blocks away from where she was found, and in his basement had the same brand of cement bag that was found under Short's gruesomely tortured body. Plus, contemporary photos of Hodel are a dead ringer for the police suspect drawings of Short's murderer. He was just too influential and well known medical professional at the time to be a investigated thoroughly.

Exactly what I was coming to say. This is an "understanding" not a legal agreement. And that dumb-ass in Alberta seems t to forget that there's a whole province in the way of her precious pipeline to the Pacific that's saying no. Even if the province was forced, the lands under the jurisdiction of the BC tribes would also have to give their blessing, which is also a no since they were never consulted on this plan. And someone previous was right, Carney (and the Libs) give lips service to the environment until it costs them money or the friendships with their wealthy CEO pals, then all bets off. That whole "infinite growth on finite resources" crowd and "screw the externalities" capitalism at all costs mindset at work again.

I predicted this would happen less than 36 hours ago on these very forums. *fistpump* (Old guys take whatever wins they can.)

You should be downloading every single track you create **immediately** after creating it. WAV and stems. If you didn't see the RIAA and music industry coming for Udio (and SUNO next, what do you bet?) and forcing them to close down or partner with industry, you're really being naive.

There are physiological elements to gender that affect brain and body chemistry, so it's some mix of both.

Gender is a spectrum so technically there are infinite genders. Which would be hard to count, yes. Sex is what you meant. There are 11 chromosonally unique human sexes. Two are very very very common thus most people thinking is binary (male or female in common parlance), but 9 others exist -- even if JKRowling and her TERF friends don't think so -- they weren't paying attention in biology class for sure.

The man lacks any real common sense, and he's further much to enamoured of his own ideas. All of his type of tech bros speak of "AI" like it's actually intelligent, as we (generally) understand intelligence, and it's not anything like that or anywhere near that. The machine learning algorithms that make all this run simply can't separate fact from fiction/opinions, lack any empathy/caring, are biased, etc. AI is basically garbage at the moment and if he doesn't recognize why more people aren't impressed he needs to get out of the boardroom and his own rarified thinking and actually look at all this from the average person's point of view. But he's above that now. He hasn't felt "average" or understands "average" for decades.

You mean those long ago days when you could afford an actual home on one salary? When CEOs made only 20x what the average worker made and not, oh, say 300x? When you got paid for improving a companies productivity instead of increasing it 400% over the past few decades with no increased pay? When you made enough money to cover the costs of inflation instead of .. wait for it .. not making any more money versus the rate of inflation since 1970? Those long ago days? The only people who have better wages since the 1970s have been CEOs. If the average wage had increased for workers at the same rate as CEOs the average US worker would be earning $160,000/year. But then again, those folks have been busting unions since the 70s. Coincidence? Yeah, sure. Try again. With facts this time.

Unless he twists his back golfing. That does hurt. Thankfully he has a caddy to place his ball nicely for him in case of a shot into a sand trap or rough.