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If you dig you can find this on Amazon. I’ve been buying from Amazon since 1995 and the last time I looked my purchases were somewhere around $260,000. And that was before covid.

Trump announces “Things aren’t expensive enough.”

They refilmed it without the truthiness.

I feel smart because I met Penn in his dressing room in Vegas few years back and discussed Gary Johnson’s running for President. But I came to my senses years ago…

My digital thermostats have Alexa built in. When I first installed them I went around telling people “I know I live in the future because my thermostat can play the Beatles”.

Also, I have a heated coffee mug. I have legitimately used the sentence “My coffee mug is doing a firmware update.”

That’s what I said above. First two terms can’t be consecutive. Ridiculous.

That’s it. It’s just a pretty idea with no bearing on reality if not enforced.

You don’t think they’re covering that contingency?

They rules they have formulated and want to pass as law are that the first two terms must not be consecutive. This would preclude Obama from having a third term.

The point of the test is to demonstrate that vision-only, which Tesla has adopted is inadequate. A car with lidar or radar would have been able to “see” that the car was approaching an obstacle without being fooled by the imagary.

So yes, it seems a bit silly, but the underlying point is legitimate. If the software is fooled by this, then can you ever fully trust it? Especially when sensor systems exist that don’t have this problem at all. Would you want to be a pedestrian in a crosswalk with this car bearing down on you in FSD?

Wall of Doodoo

Like anyone can get within 300 feet of Vance without permission. Ridiculous.

Ha! Birthing hips.

This is what dictators do. Grab power and place it under their control.

Trump will whittle away at the other branches of government until there’s nothing left, and then he will say we don’t need those other branches since they don’t do anything and dissolve them.

This has been played out many times.

Operative System?

Careful. I suggested kagi in another thread and was accused of being a shill.

Don’t understand how people can pay $7 for a coffee but won’t consider paying $5 or $10 a month for clean search results.

Tunes. Looney Tunes.

I’m stuck on Bobiverse too. This whole section on the Archimedes alien did me in.

The Three Body Problem is bad. The hype for the book is a good example of “The Emporer’s New Clothes”.

We’re a family of three with a 19 year old, so our cutlery drawer looks just like this unless we ask him to bring all the dishes from his room.

There’s a sci-fi book series called Hyperion where one of the main fucuses of the far-future theocratic government is to search for signs and symbolism of Jesus on other planets. Since if you find an alien species worshipping Jesus or using cross symbolism, you’ve all but proven that God exists.