They also invented salmonella and body odor.

Fortunately God decided it was necessary to intervene and created his own political party to protect us from drag queens and people who take that "liberty and justice for all" kind of crap seriously.

You mean, like, a good one and a bad one?

Anyone want to buy a $100,000,000,000 data center at fire-sale prices?

I'm anticipating the first time I see the word roboticide in the news.

Did that include the graphic card in that laptop or not ?

Yeah, a lot of jobs are done with their body. I never understood the people who oppose sex work because "it uses the body" or similar arguments. A lot of jobs are physical and will destroy you over time. What about a mountain guide and his rotten knees, a wallbuilder and his painful back, an electrician with crawling on his knees and repeated shocks, a plumber with handling shit, etc, etc...

It wasn't "anything goes" before capitalism. In Europe it was often king-given monopolies. The first one to do something could often get a monopoly for life (and sometimes even more) to continue doing it. A lot of industries were controlled like that, and it crushed any competition or hope for technical improvements. It also applied to unions (trade unions of which only one per job existed and you were not allowed to work if you were not a member). It even applied to weird things like composing/performing musicals (for Lully in France under Louis XIV for instance).

And B.Clinton, Carter, Johnson, J.F.Kennedy, Truman, Roosevelt...

Which conveniently brings this thread back to the story.

Cool. I like to watch snow on the relaxation channels.

Is slopocalypse a word?

s/red/shitter/

You could send someone back in time to stop the robot that the AI sent back in time from killing the chick who is going to be the mother of the guy who puts the AI cat back in the bag.

OK, I'm picking nits.

Sometimes I wake up and start doing new science. But usually I just roll over and go back to sleep.