Its like the US and Russia passing a blunt back and forth except the blunt is filled with afghans.

Dickens

This is how FPTP elections work, unfortunately, and this will always be the case unless we switch to parliamentary system elected by proportional voting.

trump is pretty braindead at this point. I’m pretty sure if he was beheaded he would keep talking for several days but wouldn’t make any less sense

The hard fact is OpenAI is already exposing itself to lawsuits by training on copyrighted material.

So the proof here should be “what makes them trustworthy this time?”

chatgpt won’t save anything? Doubtful.

y2k the transparent plastics were when electronic manufacturing took pride in its products. (though I much prefer modern user interfaces)

industrializing meat production should have always been banned - we should just have allowed livestock in cities

This is spot on. The meat industry for years has been trusted because of regulation. The moment you take away regulation you take away trust and start a race to the bottom. Ask any of these other deregulated industries:

-News and Television -Deregulated in the 90s

-Boeing and commercial aircraft - Merged unchallenged in the 90s and the FAA allowed “self reporting”

-Banks - Deregulated in the 90s.

For some reason I thought nancy kerrigan was the zerg queen

However if the deceased has these shoes its your duty to take them

what is going on with the face of the guy in the seat in front of them???

She knows who the Nerevarine is. (also of all the elder scrolls games, morrowind would make the best tv series.)

I would actually love it if they picked up a newer fantasy universe like Mistborn

Let them fight.

the problem with dating platforms is like they open and people start mixing and then many just leave the dating pool as they match up or give up. The remaining people lean a little less dateable. Once this short term process repeats a hundred times there’s always some degree of permament toxic residents on a dating site.

This begs a feature dating sites should have is a shutdown date the minute they open.

gonna be a wet package

huh, I guess small changes can improve society

Maybe consider different framing: If 50 years ago we had budgeted as much public money on public railroads as roads, we’d be in a much better position today and its even more likely this trend will continue.

thats the thing though, a rail line can pay for itself, a road often can’t. Its easy to “create a new branch road” but when you add in all the externalized maintenance factors: policing traffic, emergencies, fueling stations, stormwater management, the costs per user, the costs per user per mile traveled, land use requirements per user (4 parking stalls per vehicle, multiple vehicles per person) etc.

They often cannot pay for themselves, hence why the subsidies are necessary and why things like big box stores with huge parking lots are a net drain on most communities (its not just the low wages)

If they could pay for themselves we’d see more companies that just build and rent private roads like train companies do.