There we go. I appreciate your contribution 100% proving my point.

Like throwing chum in the water to sharks. It doesn't matter the subject, it's always political, isn't it?

Who knew TPMS reports would evolve into snitches?!!

I have that for my Mahir van in Night City.

Bob Dobbs returns to the chat.

Broccoli Hair is LIFE!

Same as it ever was.

Apple's taking a slow lean into AI and at it's core, Apple has always been a computing appliance company.

Easy to see Apple offering a home AI Mac Mini with home Siri support ("All your stay inside your house. Really. Trust us!"), along with easy to impliment IoT applicances.

This is just an evolution of Jobs' vision from the early '80s.

Raccons are the Norte America 'B-Team'.

Squirrels are the 'C-Team'.

I wonder what the other continents have as B-Teams?

1350s pompadours for teh winz!

The sandwich is a lie.

They're rich; consequences are for the poors.

It doesn't surprise anyone, you can already see this forum is full of the usual suspects spouting their long-established stances.

"Oh no they're going to do it now" Really? That's the best you've got?

So you're going to pretend you don't know about Soviet weapons deployed in space basically as long as either of us has been alive?

Or are we pretending there's no Chinese space weapons program?

How naive are you, or just disingenuous?

There's a weird confluence here of the capability of basically everyone having access to more information than ever, and the most constant nonsense gaslighting at the same time.

One can - instantly, really - ask about something incredibly obscure like Fermat's last theorem and depending on how much one is willing to accept someone else's summary, their own comprehension, and appetite for falling down a rabbit hole of REALLY detailed explanation, context, history, personalities, and everything involved, one can - likewise instantly - get not only the basic information but pretty nearly any gradation of explanation that wanted. And I can even get that wherever I happen to be - a library, a classroom, but also a bus or sitting on the shitter.

Objectively, that's a COOL THING.
Really, it is an amazing accomplishment for humanity generally.

Simultaneously, though we have more or less constant gaslighting over even the most stupid/obvious of facts. In the US it's often political, whether from the president & his government, or the opposition. Every single thing now has political weight in which the moment it's presented, the side-weighting are applied and if it's my side I'm for it, if it's the other side I'm against it, and by god there will never be reconciliation on even the most basic of facts.

I'd ask how we got here, but I expect all I'd see are politically-weighted answers anyway.

My point is just to highlight the constant irony of the availability of infinite information coinciding with the apparently-collective abandonment of any fixed concept of reality.

Yeah, exactly.

NPR may think it's possible to wave a magic wand and say "no weapons in space, my dears!" but it's not.