I'm sorry. I've seen no locusts locally yet. Please point them out as I'm going fishing tomorrow and locusts are better bait than worms. Cheaper as well.

Your comment reminds me of a thing Heinlein liked to point out (Arkansas, I think) tried to pass a law making pi equal to 3.0. Math was too difficult otherwise. Democrats if I recall correctly.

Of plague?

Everyone knows the best response to an epidemic is to move your family onto your yacht - no doubt the doctors will be prescribing this.

see subject.

Coding is to CS as math is to Physics.

Software engineering is building the supercolliders for physics.

Meanwhile we have LLM's declaring themselves Mechahitler.

Good job University of No Job Placement.

(yeah, some Universities have been giving CS degrees for HTML and MS Office)

Good one. :)

If we can't move the planet by then we've gone extinct too.

According to the Timcast review (spoilers) he never says either phrase in the movie.

Just some dope making posters, reportedly.

Apparently all the immigrant and Israel propaganda stuff is fake too.

Marketing Buzz achieved - don't believe anybody without verifying.

What is the current total Federal budget for science across all departments?

We have record homelessness, addiction, child trafficking, and a curiosity about the earliest moments after the Big Bang, if that even exists.

Oh and not enough electricity for humans and AI aspirations.

Given limited funding we need to prioritize.

Cutting the War Department funding in half would be another good move.

By all means if this can be philanthropically endowed, like the Simons Observatory, that would be fantastic.

And where are the Oil Sultan countries on this? Muslims used to be the very best Astronomers in the world.

Ah crap, misclick. Commenting that I think this is insightful to revert my moderation.

Same, but my takeaway is that people just don't care about even using the trashcans/dumpsters. As long as the garbage is away from their own area, they don't really care.

There is a pretty awesome AI generated video with War Pigs as the song. It is actually fairly old now. It paints an interesting (not in a good way) reality.

Oh shit. It is gone. The only trace I can find is:

https://www.reddit.com/r/black...

It is only a problem if you follow the suggestions placed by YouTube, The AI slop creators know how to manipulate the algorithm to get into the "suggested" bar that is on the right hand side by default.

Dumbass. It isn't about clinging on to old technology. It is about usability. Having a choke knob reduces usability as those matters can be handled invisibly without your intervention. The climate control can not be handled invisibly. My car has "automatic" climate control and it is pretty damned good; however, it is also nowhere near perfect. I still need to fiddle with it from time to time... and, I have actual knobs and dials to do it with, so the lack of perfection is not so annoying.

Nobody gives a fuck for the unemployed. People only care about money and profit. There is no obscene profit in manufacturing those things here, so they will not be manufactured here. You are dead and your country has fallen. You just haven't realized it yet.