Yep, that sounds like LLMs all right.

Good idea. Paint them gold too.

If I had a mod point, you'd get it.

I have every intention of driving my 1990 car until I am too old to drive. Hand cranked windows, but it has A/C. It also has AWD and a manual transmission. Real gauges. EFI so the emissions are decent and it doesn't get gummed up with carbon or detonate if it gets a bad batch of fuel. IMHO cars peaked in the 1990-2010 time frame, depending on the manufacturer.

That looks great, thanks for the link. I'll keep an eye on this one.

That thing is cool! I'm looking at a modern DIY equivalent right now: https://github.com/amarullz/pi...

We never had regular "coding" classes when I was at school in the 1980s. But I do remember a hip young substitute teacher who taught us some Logo on a BBC32 one afternoon. The class drew pretty pictures, learned some simple geometry and learned that once you have written a subroutine into a computer you can reuse it over and over. It was a very powerful lesson.

A couple of years later our class got a couple on BBC32s right in our classroom. We spent most lunch breaks laboriously typing in games in Basic out of library books. Again, we learned how to write loops, improved our typing speeds and learned the correct words for brackets, semicolons etc.

I don't think we need extensive formal "learn to code" education for 8 years kids either, and I wouldn't want to let Google or Microsoft run the class. But there somewhere in the middle there is some amount of exposure that will help kids realise "Huh. Computers can do cool stuff."

https://xkcd.com/323/

I'd go further. "hecto billionaire" should be declared a mental illness. As you said, it would take them a thousand lifetimes to run out of money. These guys can do literally anything they want, for the rest of their lifetimes. Swim with dolphins. Volunteer at their kids' school. Scuba dive on tropical reefs, ski year-round. Snort coke of hookers' titties. Instead, these guys go back to the office. They read and write articles about "business." They go to stupid meetings with stupid politicians. They give stupid speeches at graduation ceremonies. Clearly, they have serious mental issues.

Therefore, like any other mentally ill person who is a danger to themselves or others, they should be supervised. They should be somewhere safe where they can be looked after and not pose a threat to other people or themselves. Forget "AI psychosis," we should have a broader policy of dealing with "billionaire psychosis." We don't need torches and pitchforks, just a quiet home with nice gardens and big strong fences, where these people can be prevented from hurting the rest of us.

Don Jr will get his cut either way. He owns a piece of these Enhanced Games and he owns a piece of Polymarket: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/2...

That White House link is crazy.

Oh god, I fear you are right. I can hear it in my head already.

I think you've hit the heart of the problem. Changing clocks twice a year is pretty dumb. But any time there is a conversation about ending the practice, it becomes clear that the politicians and the voters are even dumber than that.

This is what they decided in Australia. It fucking sucks. I live in the capital city of Australia, and I have copper to my house, with VOIP for "landline" service. If nobody else in my street is streaming, data rates are OK. In the evenings, when everyone in the street is watching Netflix, I can barely browse the web. When it rains, ping times triple. When it's windy, ping times triple. When the weather is really bad, or some dipshit clicks the wrong button in the back end (happened a fortnight ago) it just goes dead. Because the "landline" phone is all VOIP too, that's not reliable either.

Wireless is even worse. Since 3G was shut down a couple of years ago, cellphones don't work in my house. I literally have emails from the network team at Telstra admitting that the service sucks now and they have no plans to fix it.

I'm a reasonably healthy middle-aged man. If I was old/disabled, I would be fucked. If a burglar breaks in and I reach for my cellphone to call the police, I'm fucked. If I fall over in my house and can't get up, I can't call for help. Hell, even if I did have a signal, our telcos frequently drop emergency calls. Real people have died because of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

This is in the capital city of a developed nation. This is what happens when nobody has the balls to regulate telecommunications companies. I WISH I had access to legacy POTS copper. At least it would still work when other people in the street are watching TV.

I think I see what you're getting at :-)

I wasn't thinking of the Mediterranean or Japan, which are indeed often touted as zones of longevity. I was thinking about e.g Muslims (alcohol free) and Buddhists and Hindus (often vegetarian)