"Hell yeah, a credit card!" - people I don't get

wow the world you live in seems sooo um exciting

The people that made things got tired of the BS and moved on. The people that TALK about making things are going as strong as ever...

I've been at fark since Drew was begging for beer. It's a hole these days sadly echoing echoing echoing...

"They were one of the early zealot converts and, well, it didn't work out very well for them long term." ---------This very much

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Their cell phones will rot a generation, but they've got an AI horror bot to really screw up the kids. Will it help them with their suicide note ? or will it help plan the mostly justified revenge killings of the school council ? How about instead of the billion dollar AI bot we pay the teacher a few bucks and hire 2 of the mom's as class aids ? I liked Woz, mainly because he kept his fat ass out of the media and didn't make stupid grandstanding gestures.

These platforms are starting to let people bet on wildfire activity. What a fun way of incentivizing arsonists.

Well, yes. For many years, presidential candidates, both Democratic and Republican, referred to the United States as "the indispensible nation". And my reaction was always, "Doesn't that mean the US is a single point of failure for civilization?"

We are currently performing an experiment which addresses this question: can the US enjoy the benefits of soft power without the cost? That's the whole point of obeying *norms*. No individual force is going to punish you if you are treacherous, mercurial, foul-mouthed, disrespectful and generally unpredictable. Everyone will punish you.

I think an inevitable cost of this experiment will be that the world will decide that the US can't be a single point of failure for global democracy any longer. In many ways, that's something that will be good for us. But it's also going to cost us in painful ways. When the world decides to move away from the dollar as the international reserve currency, you will see both inflation and higher interest rates on everything from credit cards to mortgages, to business loans that will offset the export advantages. We will need *more* business investment to shift the economy to producing low value goods again, so the transition will be rocky.

Although, from my two second check just now, Venus is technically considered within the Goldilocks zone for this solar system it is right on the very inner edge of it. This finding differs from Venus in that respect, making it more interesting as a possibility.

All highly speculative of course, but to be fair that's exactly what the article says. Atmosphere detected, everything else speculative.

In the so-called fire-storm(2017) in the California Bay Area, I was out of power for 8 days. Several houses on my street were on an isolated grid and it blew 3 times in a week. Once while the PG&E guy was still on the pole. It was kind of like camping for a couple of days then it began to suck. Luckily we didn't have medical machines or such. We had a huge BBQ the 2nd day because the freezers were thawing in the extreme heat. I live in Yuma Az now and looking back 104 wasn't that bad :)

Denied for not being human enough...Because those kids are way better in an institution than in a home with imperfect humans. I almost gave up once during the adoption process, but my wife held the line and I am so glad. Our daughter is the best thing in our lives.

The big underlying issue is why does Microsoft deliver software with so many flaws?

You're conflating your emotions with facts, in a field you very likely know very little about.