Or we could take the simpler option, repeal the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution, and more heavily regulate gun sales and ownership. Then we don't need maximum alert, just standard situational awareness.

Oh wait, no, "mah guns". Sorry.

it truly is an elegant display, the retard mating ritual.

nature is beautiful.

We're the proverbial jack of all trades, master of none, and for any task there's someone more specialized who can do it better.

Because the poor gentleman wanted to feel smarter than he was and superior to "them experts".

But not because they were better. Things were more exciting 30 years ago because we had time to get excited over every new thing (well, not me, I wasn't born yet, but in general in that "30 years go to 20 years ago" timeframe). Nowadays it's NEW THING! NEW THING! NEWER THING! with such a rapidity that not even we attention-deficit hyperactive millennials can keep up with it well enough to be suitably excited. So to extrapolate backwards, I guess things probably were more exciting then, you lucky old farts.

they're "vaguely related" in the sense that Bing sorta looks like a web search, at least cosmetically.

Debt restructuring bankruptcy isn't enough punishment to ClearChannel for the atrocities they've committed against radio. Radio used to be fun, interesting, and varied only ten years ago. These monsters have gobbled it all up, homogenized it, and destroyed the possibility of being exposed to anything other than the blandest corporate pop whargarbl.

In the words of Hajj the Begger: May their taxes increase!

It's not even that. It's

6) We had a winter that's a bit colder than last winter but still significantly warmer than the historical trends of winters in our area, so go back to 1.

Climate change deniers are almost as dumb as communists when it comes to twisting their minds to ignore facts.

You don't even need AI to destroy jobs.

My code is 100% dumb and thoughtless and I've confirmed that it's destroyed 12 jobs and stopped the creation of about 200 more this year alone, and that's with only one company using it for a small portion of their workload.

Tech kills jobs. It's been doing it since the 1980s. This will either be a a Very Bad Thing, or a Very Good Thing, or more probably just A Thing with life post Thing seeming very different than life pre Thing--more like the social shift following the invention of agriculture than any subsequent development.

AI is just a small part of the broader technological obsolescence of human labor.

This. Bright was fun. It doesn't matter if it was good or bad. It was fun, and so we watch it.

It's okay to like bad things.

I'm going to have to go out on a limb and say that the first mars colonies will be nonexistent. It will be the dream of man until man stops dreaming.

that sounds far more accurate

Reading.
Watching TV.
Playing Golf.
Football.
American Football.
Board Games.
Hobbyist Mathematics.

Pretty much anything that takes your time away from "productive" (for someone else, most likely) labor.
Because the only sane position is to spend your life in the endless pursuit of wealth. Any other value assignment is madness!

Only if by "Trump" you mean "a russian backed coalition of Syrian Government Forces, International Mercenaries, and Hezbollah Terrorists with little to no US involvement".

I doubt that we'll get one between two private companies, but here's hoping that Boeing and SpaceX are both serious about mars, and that we may all benefit from their competition. Because optimism, eh?