It's spelled "maroon" - just ask Bugs.

Why would you expect a massive spike of cancer deaths in 2020? You think the study claims people will die instantly the moment they start sitting down more?

Do you similarly rebut the link between cigarettes and death by saying "that's why so many 14-year-olds suddenly keel over... wait, what?"

This is what I do too, and it's mainly because I simply find it more comfortable to stand for a while a few times during the day.

It's not a lie. The unemployment rate is crap. Both parties like to use it to lie about how good things are when they are in charge, which is why most of them don't want to kill that goose.

It's destroying the planet. Sustainability is job #1. SMH here.

No, it literally is not an ad hominem in absolutely any sense whatsoever, period. If you think otherwise, you may or may not be stupid, but you're definitely ignorant. I could have phrased it some other way, if I were trying to be dishonest, but that is not what I do. I'm not here to be nice about shit ideas which ennoble or enrich shit people, nor to coddle their enablers.

Ad hominem means insult from a person. It is an argument that an argument is false because a certain person made it. It literally does not matter whether an insult is involved, although it can be. The fact that you're issued moderation points for a site like Slashdot when you're so eager to be so fundamentally wrong about what something means is utterly pathetic. This is exactly why moderation should be public, so people can know whether it means anything, or it was executed by someone who has no fucking idea what they're on about. This is also why moderation is and always has been fundamentally broken on Slashdot. Posting and moderating in the same discussion isn't allowed, but the people who are most qualified to moderate are also the people who are most qualified to comment.

I also note that you failed to understand the part about comments whose sole purpose is to insult and enrage, with your comical focus on insult when that is not even the core of what ad hominem even is. It's especially amusing that you quoted that section in light of your inability to understand either thing.

Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time.

lolololol etc ad infinitum.

Basically Vance is just trying to make ultra-sure that everyone knows he's in lockstep with the president in all ways... including in corruption.

I'd argue they both are focused on funneling money into their own pockets...

AI slap generators create code with dubious copyright protections. Open source software relies entirely on copyright to enforce its license agreements so once you start polluting your code it's all downhill from there...

These are people who lost their jobs, spent months sometimes years looking for another one, could not find one, and gave up.

We have 720,000 people who are completely unemployable. Nobody will hire them to do anything except maybe pay them sub minimum wage and abuse them until their bodies break or they run out of money to steal.

That number is going to keep growing on top of the number of full-time working homeless.

In a country with more guns than people sooner or later that's going to be a problem. As automation continues to devour jobs we will eventually hit a tipping point where we can't pay for the services we need to have a even vaguely functional civilization. Police and fire will go first and you'll dial 911 but nobody will come.

A bunch of libertarian numb skulls think this is cool because they think they can just go around shooting people and for a time they are right.

The problem is the horde. Your dipshit libertarian uncle shoots somebody dead because they wandered into their house looking for food. Okay fine whatever. But another guy comes and this one has a baseball bat. So your uncle shoots that guy. The next guy has a machete and the next guy has a gun. He gets a few rounds off but your uncle is a crack shot so again down he goes. Sooner or later two or three of them show up and they have guns and your uncle kills one of them but the other gets a shot off that hits your uncle square in the arm and now he can't hold his rifle.. but damn your uncle is like John wick or some shit he finishes the other guys off. And in comes the next batch of them and this time your uncle has one good arm can't move fast enough and his leg gets taken out. But again your uncle is fucking Superman right so he kills them all. So now with a bum leg and a bum arm the final batch of guys shoots your uncle dead.

That's why you can't let civilization collapse and be okay. Once that happens there's a limitless supply of people who are coming to kill you and you have to kill every single one of them but they only have to kill you once.

But if rationality worked with these numbskulls then they wouldn't be libertarians would they?

Functional unemployment combines people who are underemployed and people who do not make enough money to be functional adults. People in this category who are getting by are either working homeless (we have half a million full-time working homeless) or they are receiving support from friends and family to keep a roof over their heads.

It's become so obvious that the books are cooked I don't think anyone can ignore it anymore and I have seen economists come up with all sorts of fun euphemisms to describe the actual situation.

None of this is sustainable. Here is where all the libertarian twats worried about toaster licenses show up to tell us why it's a good thing that Civilization is collapsing because nobody's going to tell them what to do right?

The average american, about 60%, read as a 6th grade level or the level of a 12-year-old. When you are 12 you get this burning desire to not be told what to do. Some people grow out of it and some people become libertarians or Republicans or some combination thereof.

Like the old joke, There are two novels that can change a bookish kid's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs

Even that admits that one the hand hand there is a lot less shit.

The radiators on the ISS are able to dump somewhere between 300 and 700 watts of heat per m^2. That's a square meter of surface for a single GPU, and a single CPU.

Any sufficiently large data center worth operating for "AI" would probably be visible to the naked eye from the ground because of all the surface area that would be required with current methods of heat dissipation in vacuum.

The whole idea is stupid, and it's just a justification for Elmo to continue building rockets - he's trying to create markets for several of his companies based on this foolish, stupid idea that will never work better than just building it on the ground where service, scaling, expansion, and cooling are cheap.

You mean besides burning thousands of tons of methane on a concept that physics and easily observed reality says is very stupid?

That seems like a pretty good reason.