The Tigers are on track to outdo the 1995 Angels choke.

Yet another reason for me NOT to use Edge.

Which games did Twilight see?

There was a very old SF short story about a Robot Pope, I forgot its title but it was a good story.

Glad I did not buy the "Edge is great" posts I have seen, but to be fair there were only a very few of them. That means I never install that on my Linux system.

I still use Firefox, and a big warning to Mozilla. If you put this in Firefox, you will loose your last remaining market you are a player in, Linux and *BSD. I will use dillo 100% of the time before I deal with anything associated with AI.

They're too busy chasing tax cuts and deregulation. They won't want to do anything until it's too late and they're being pushed out of Windows and drinking polonium tea.

We might convince a few of them to donate to the Democrat party but that's about it.

I'd say you should be ashamed of yourself but if it's one thing I've learned the right wing have no shame. Like you're physically incapable of the emotion.

It's weird and creepy seeing you psychopaths operate. It's no wonder you don't care the Trump is a pedophile.

Apparently roughly the size of Manhattan. The locals are freaking out because it's going to suck out all their water and drive their electricity bills through the roof but they can't do anything because there's just so much money involved.

When I say that AI is an antisocial technology that's what I mean. I don't mean anti-social in the sense of being mean or not wanting to play with the other kids. I mean it's genuinely against the goals of a healthy society and civilization.

Ceo's complaining... They have been complaining in Russia for years now. They said the oligargs were going to end Putin's reign. I do not think this will dent the current US administration. They will just keep on marching further right.

Is there anything worth pirating? I've rediscovered an old hobby... reading. I'm down to just Prime now because it has the most older British detective shows and period dramas (a bit of a favorite with my partner right now). If it was left to me, I'd simply cancel it all. My last Disney+ subscription went unused for a couple of months, save for my daughter and I watching watching Alien Romulus (what a sad waste that was).

So far as I'm concerned they can raise it to a million dollars a month.

... and be glad it's not nearly as much economic damage as that recent absolutely epic hydrogen bomb of a Jaguar rebrand did. ROTFL!

Point in case: I dance Argentine Tango. There is a very specific evolved etiquette to avoid embarrassing situations for all involved when probing/asking a woman (or man) if she/he'd like to dance. It's a non-verbal cadence of positioning yourself within the space around the dancefloor, of glances and nodding or gently shaking your head while being friendly when glances meet. It's accompanied by other details to avoid misunderstandings and enable a completely non-verbal communication in a full room while dance music is playing. And it's an excellent place and mode to get (very) quickly get (very) close to beautiful ladies (and handsome men) you've never met before.

Anyway, in recent years the woke crowd and their flat-out toxic fad has started infesting the Tango scene and behaving as if it needs to push on it and reinvent a "consent culture" that in reality already has been around for 100 years. And it's effing terrible! They come up with all kinds of bizarre and convoluted rules instead of learning the old etiquette which perfectly solves just about every problem you could have in any social situation at a Milonga (the event where Tango is danced) and base their behavior on their own feelings rather than the classic and very efficient etiquette and display a somewhat more elevated level of immaturity due to that. It's become so bad that I've started avoiding certain events with young people(!!), because they've actually got way more of a stick up their ass than my at 55-year of age. True thing!

This persian culture thing seems to be of the same ilk. It's not really a surprise that cultures still deeply stuck in early bronze age revelation cults have this sort of convoluted ritualistic modes of encounter that are designed to hide real intensions, elevate dishonesty and often carve out petty short-term gains in social situations.

Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as “empty,” “meaningless,” or “dishonest,” and scorn to use them. No matter how “pure” their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best. - Robert Heinlein

There's a difference between having a huge cultural bias, and being... well... uncultured.

A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being “frank.” - Robert Heinlein

Gpt 4 for an hour consumes less than Netflix? That's a tough clame. Where are the numbers, and why isn't Netflix investing in a nuclear reactor?