That's what inheritance does: that money 401k gets inherited by your descendants. One of the problems is boomers are living a lot longer than anybody expected, so the money isn't being passed down as would conventionally happen.

Some people appreciate the human interaction, some people don't. You can't replace the former with a self checkout. I've walked out of stores after gathering everything and seen there was no human-operated checkout. I don't put anything back, I just leave the cart up front. The owners created the mess, now they get to pay their employees to put everything back.

Kroger, and the general AI movement, is just being at the forefront of realizing they're not going to have customers who have the money to go to their stores anymore, especially with the inflation of food prices.

FFS, mountains store water that gets rained down on them. We call that water "springs". And downstream, over and over, there are dams from the same exact water that Fontana Dam holds back. You ever seen the movie "The Fugitive?" That dam is one of them.

Yep. Critical infrastructure should never be connected to the internet. I wonder how many of these kinds of attacks need to occur before people get the message.

Allow me to spell it out for you. When founded, New Orleans used to at the mouth of the Mississippi on the gulf coast. Now it's inland. In the ensuing centuries, erosion dumped a ton of dirt into the gulf. Now Orleans is now about 100 miles from the mouth of the Mississippi.

And yet Fontana Dam, as do many others in the east, do just fine without snow packed mountains. Look at the online maps application of your choice and check out how many hydroelectric dams are downstream from the Appalachians. Fontana Dam, BTW, powered the Oak Ridge, TN facility that created the uranium for the Manhattan Project -- all without snow capped mountains.

Can't disagree more with the penalty. $250 billion seems more in the right range for Zuckerburg to to get the message. $3.45 billion is a tax rideoff. $250 billion is a "Wow, we really fucked up. We need to permanently change our practices." Make it, intentionally, payable at a rate of about $25 billion per year so that every year there's a reminder to stop doing the psychopath things they've been doing to make money and make it honestly.

ChatGPT had a hard time understanding complimentary angles when I wanted to do a calculation for a cut I was going to do on a saw that maxed out at 45 degrees. Not sure how it didn't understand a basic math calculation.

Somebody has never heard of the Mississippi river.

Maybe, maybe not.

Uhm, wow. I generally think people may disagree with one another on this site, but usually for intelligent reasons. Go re-read what you just posted. You just posted in #2 that more rain is a bad thing for the Cascades, but then post about how more rain -- you know, water that powers hydroelectric reservoirs -- is bad. Make the connection before making a fool of yourself.

So we're gaining more rain forests and crop land? I'm no denier, but Some things might actually help us. And ignore California. They have seasonal droughts and seasonal wet seasons that make the news all of the time because a lot of people live there and a lot of people do stupid stuff like put bushes right up against their houses. They look nice until they cause your house to burn down.

You can buy all of Alabama if the settlement reaches $300 million.

I saw him once eating lunch at a mall in downtown Omaha. I probably could have gone up and talked with him. He seemed a bit anxious for attention, like hoping people would recognize him and talk to him. I didn't see anyone go up and talk to him the entire time I was there. Kind of the opposite of Steve Martin, who can't stand the attention his celebrity has created for himself. If you meet him, he'll likely hand you a business card that says, "I have met Steve Martin." That said, I've also heard of people who made a great splash with him and he'd invite them to join he and his wife to join them at the dinner table at the restaurant. He lives near where I live, so at some point I'm sure I'll encounter him.

Or gets them.

When I was in a place where there was constant 5G connectivity and it was rural enough that there wasn't a lot of cell traffic, I dumped my cable provider and exclusively used my cell phone as a tether for internet. It was fast enough for my purposes and faster than the 13mb connection I used to have years ago.

Update: confirmed, the cameras are gone.