All questions that your local gun store clerk would be more than happy to answer for you.

I'm fairly certain Google Maps also lists busy times for specific locations, at least it does for restaurants and stores.

This is all very on-brand from Florida, a place where according to Republican logic, this is not supposed to happen because open carry should've brought all those supposed "good guys with a gun" out of the woodwork. Gee, I can't possibly imagine why more guns isn't making us safer. /s

I thought it was a series of tubes. *smirk*

It's also clear he's never actually tried running his own business. The way that the deck is stacked against you isn't that you'll be targeted and run out of business (what is that anyway, a TV trope?), it's that you'll have a hard time achieving profitability because small businesses get raped on wholesaler pricing, and the bang for your buck when advertising does not scale down linearly.

Plus, unless you're staring a business to compete against something people really hate (like say, the cable company), you really do have to be some combination of cheaper/better than your competition, or people will just collectively shrug and wonder why they're supposed to be giving you their hard-earned money instead of to some business with an established reputation. Call it the incumbent advantage, I suppose.

Why Auto-update is a trap.

If you have WP plugins from teams you can rely on that have a professional software pipeline serving the updates, then auto-update really isn't a problem. The key point here being of course "professional software pipeline". The broader WP community and it's huge 3rd-party market is a crazy bunch delivering the most ghetto-type sh*t in code under the sun. Quite a few of these guys shouldn't be let near a keyboard, that's for sure.

Likewise, if you've bloated your WP setup with 15+ plugins, half of which are in maintenance delay or offered up by the aforementioned ghetto faction of "developers" (emphasis on the quotes), you shouldn't be running that setup at all, either with or without auto-update.

The key problem is that WP these days is basically not a CMS but an platform and millions of users use it as a playground for their web-projects while barely knowing what they are doing. That's a huge upside since it does enable total n00bs and ords to dive deep into FOSS and FOSS-driven user empowerment - by and large actually a good thing - but with the downside being that most WP setups quickly get bloated beyond repair and eventually fail the most basic of security and stability standards.

As someone who has done a decade of WP development and using it as a key platform I don't really mind if this sort of thing keeps me in a job with things to do. What is frustrating is that you constantly have to convene with deciders would can't tell the difference between a client and a server.

A well implemented and managed WP-centric pipeline with disaster recovery in place however is a god-send when it comes to rapid development and pivoting some web-project on a dime within half an hour because some agency type person can't make up their mind about what they want. Truth be told, for most end-customer web projects time-to-market with WP is unbeatable.

You are right, I didn't know or didn't remember those.

So, UBI is great in the context of a false dichotomy where it's either that or starving. That's not high praise, and it's also not what I asked. Would you be happy living on UBI? Or better yet, would you take pride in having a child who amounted to nothing more than a life on a government stipend?

You're still laboring under the delusion that UBI is some sort of stopgap for a better situation that might come along eventually. That isn't what the politician in TFS is proposing - he's saying if AI fucks up capitalism and we've got a society with a bunch of people who are now rendered obsolete, UBI isn't going to be a temporary solution, it is the solution.

This is just government cheese all over again, except now you can choose the flavor.

That a euphemism for swirlies in the public toilets?

Here in the US, you can get a learner's permit at 14 in a few states, and in the vast majority of states at 15 (with a few outliers at 16). I'm really not seeing how a freakin' car is somehow more age-appropriate than a smartphone. Anything you don't want your kid to access on a smartphone can be locked down with parental controls. Can't really say the same about sending 'em off into the real world with a vehicle.

I think some schools do ban phones during what should be students' "free" time. That's great if your goal is to send a message that you can't trust them to be responsible with their device usage after laying down rules as to when it is and isn't appropriate to use their phones. Also, making something into contraband almost never backfires. /s

Would you want to live on UBI? Realistically, if your proposal isn't something you'd be happy with for yourself, it's just another "let them eat cake" proclamation from the ruling class.

People not being able to fully participate in capitalism because their labor is now worthless, is not an easy problem to solve.

This.

You won capitalism and still aren't happy? Cry a river about it to your therapist. It's not like you can't afford one.

The Bird scooters in my town have been looking pretty shabby ever since they went under new ownership after their bankruptcy. I'd recommend evolving into a Lime person instead.

That Bird should've pivoted to AI a long time ago, too. Then the scooters could say things like "Your mom's ass is so fat, when she goes into the store she's still blocking the sidewalk - just like your lousy parking job!"

A shoe factory can't easily pivot to AI, but they're not a shoe factory. Many American companies selling a branded product line act more like IP holdings and logistics businesses, with the actual manufacturing taking place overseas.

Realistically, the flaw in their scheme is mostly that the AI gold rush isn't likely to be profitable, not the act of pivoting to something else. Most of these type of businesses act like private equity firms anyway, so the actual end product can be anything they believe is worth investing in.

I used ZIP drives extensively in the 90s. I still have a drive and some disks. As far as I know they still work though I haven't tried them in quite a while. They were a huge improvement for people like me who had relatively large files (speech data).

... instalbase compromised! We're all gonna die!

My HDD on my laptop with VGA grayscale had 40MB, the Zip disk 100 MB. It was basically a permanent extension of my early 90 DOS setup. I could even run it off my Highscreen Handheld pocket PC. The cable was pretty thick, but you could do it. Awesome. It never failed me and I eventually decommissioned it and moved all my zip disks to one CD. 8-)