So what were the counts?

Is that why Meta is also being sued over the negative mental health effects of Facebook and Instagram?
They too are promoting a non-western narrative?

Me too.
Next time you get groceries, count how many people are dressed normal, and dressed to offend as you say.
Report back the numbers when you do.

It’s really not.
The overwhelmingly massive majority of people never do that.
Practically everyone is just trying to look normal.

This feels like we’re making fun of someone with clear social disabilities.

I don’t like it.

No.
The original concept had the first 3 digits identifying a regional office that issued the number.
And no SSN has been issued with any group of digits having all 0’s

Fore more info Wikipedia is good at this kind of stuff.

Will AI soon surpass the human brain?
If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable.

That doesn’t answer the question.
If it will happen is unrelated to When it will happen.
I’d expect we’ll see AGI some time between the next 20 and 200 years. I think that’s pretty soon. You may not.

“If only everybody chose the thing that was worse for them, but better for everyone.”
That’s called magical thinking. A few individuals may choose to that, but never enough.
“A person is smart. People are dumb…” -K (Men in Black)

My mother was a reading teacher. She bought all the books her kids read each year. She’d hand them out. The kids would keep them for a few weeks, and usually return them.

Every year I would schlep several boxes of her books, between home and her classroom. 30 copies of this. 40 copies of that. Maybe a couple dozen titles. I personally would’ve appreciated it, if the school bought the books, so I didn’t have to carry them all twice a year.

This is why I thought Blink Twice was the most realistic horror movie I’ve ever seen. I new that kind of thing was happening some place.

Does it matter what percentage of parts are manufactured in the US?
I feel like it did. I don’t recall.

Sounds like you buy a lot of weed.

That is a tall claim.
Citation needed.

Not at all. You can absolutely choose not to vaccinate. It just limits the places you’re able to work, or send your kids to school.

The freedom to swing your arms, ends at someone else’s nose. If you choose to set yourself up to spread a deadly infection, it makes sense for society to limit your chance of doing so.

Republicans make the inverse argument, with the same basic logic.

There are plenty of good reason to vote for Harris over Trump. That isn’t one of them.

I could argue that within our broken electoral college system, the only rational vote is 3rd party or not at all.

Of course it is!

They’re not promising they won’t be hacked again.
They’re only promising they’ll try not to be. Which is promising practically nothing.

People looking at a strobing light, start to see it as just “on” (not blinking anymore) at almost exactly 60Hz.
In double blind tests, pro gamers can’t reliably tell 90fps from 120.
There is however, an unconscious improvement to reaction time, all the way up to 240fps. Maybe faster.

As common a tactic as it is, it’s not actually a denial of the allegations.
It’s an accusation of “Everyone does it, but they’re targeting me! Not fair!”

It certainly is; Otherwise that derogatory comment itself would be illegal.

I think you may have an unworkable concept of what “solving” the plastic problem means, when you can’t tell the difference between a film and a bottle. Both of which have largely phased out BPA already.