Holy fuck, I read the article and he really is trying to claim that. Replace a factory full of jobs with one or two robot techs, and “everyone” can get such a job? Does he not math?

Hurt low income people, mortgage our future, sell off national assets to enrich oligarchs, personal enrichment. Yep, that’s about the speed for DODE

Well, I just got back from swimming in the pool, and the water was cold.

I’ve thought of that, and there already are versions of that - I’m pretty sure Scouts organizes one. However the result is me accumulating dead fluorescent tubes, oil based paint and insecticide. Then I forget about it and it may be years of accumulated hazards. I need to change that result

We use a regional landfill and they charge your hometown. It’s only for hazardous waste so the town get pissed if you waste their money with insufficient items or something that can go in trash or recycling

But I still have old style fluorescent tubes in my basement. What do I do as they burn out and are replaced by LED? Because of mercury, trash won’t take them. However I’ll never have enough to make up for the $50 my town is charged. Plus the last thing I want to do is accumulate old tubes that will eventually get broken and contaminate my house

The taxes are a benefit though. While I agree pot should be legal, it is a vice and vice taxes seem like a good approach to discouraging a bad habit.

And yes as someone who moderately drinks, I whole heartedly agree the same is true with alcohol. Let’s increase those vice taxes. And cigarettes. And gasoline. And drink cans

I’m happy with legalization and would do it again.

• the health impact is similar enough to alcohol and cigarettes so we should treat them similarly
• even before I agreed with legalization, the legal consequences seemed cruel and unusual, way out of proportion
• law enforcement needs to focus on things with more impact on our safety
• for-profit prisons? wtf
• I don’t know about medical benefits but how was pit so illegal that we could never even investigate such claims?
• smoking is a serious health hazard but now it’s easier to get marijuana products that do t involve smoking

The one thing I’d do differently is stricter regulations against secondhand smoke. Now that cigarettes have seriously declined, it’s easier to appreciate just how much they stink. But we’ve backslid: smoking pot stinks worse, and has a lot of the same second hand smoke hazard.

Did you ask your Mom whether she has any kids who might still be around?

Maybe it’s a consequence of charging per bag for trash disposal.

While I don’t know anyone who has, I know quite a few who are get weird about being charged per bag for trash, so I can see that happening.

Maybe they plan to. I’ve been wondering why companies don’t do this already.

While a product is actively manufactured, cranking out a few extra pieces is cheap and easy. However once it’s discontinued stocking or manufacturing parts is a cost with no profit potential. Wouldn’t the manufacturer save money, resources, warehouse space by releasing the deign and contract with a printing service to build on demand and shindig to the customer?

It’s usually not that messed up, but yes, some restaurants do delivery through DoorDash/Uber. I’ve had that happen at multiple places: get excited that a restaurant offers delivery but then cancel when I find out it’s uber eats.

Sandwich is rectangle, sub is elongated

You’re being too pedantic. We clearly have cars that do a lot of their own driving, we clearly have people (multiple) making claims, and we clearly have at least one company piloting self-driving taxis. Let’s consider our ethics before it’s too late

In 2020 we didn’t have to do anything about it. It was just another set of online nutcases, no one who could get elected would actually try that.

2025: hold my beer

Is that a word anyone uses? While I had no idea it was considered a slur, I also don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone use it.

If it involves moving to a device that has a keyboard, you’ve lost me

Maybe. Sounds like a good compromise

Gimme a “C”

Elon claims Tesla is already past that point. I’ll accept a much larger approximation that several manufacturers are past or near that point. Even if you’re skeptical of the claim, it’s clearly close enough to be concerned about.

In this context they’re identical - some automated process looking at all your content. While some of these agents may be honest, there’s no real distinction from search or ai or archive.