Best quote:

“To Geuter, a computer scientist who has been writing about the social, political, and structural impact of tech for two decades, AI is the “most aggressive” example of “technologies that are not done ‘for us’ but ‘to us.’””

I stock up when I see them at a reasonable price. They’ll last a few weeks.

The Time Cube so I could rebuild society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube

https://web.archive.org/web/19981212033445/http://www.timecube.com/

Even better version: https://web.archive.org/web/20120224094852/http://www.timecube.com/

This just shows how speculative the whole AI obsession has been. Wildly unstable and subject to huge shifts since its value isn’t based on anything solid.

The determination to make us use it whether we want to or not really makes me resent it.

I say go to the source and invade Denmark and loot their ham, cheese and Ozempic.

1. You get all of the maritime rights around it
2. You get all of the mineral resources as the ice melts
3. You can block the NW passage if you want as the north arctic ocean melts out

Even in Europe most rural small towns I saw in, say, the Alsace region had a bus line at best but most used cars.

Old east coast cities were built around streetcars

In my state it is the goddamn aftermarket exhausts and idiots setting their fuel/air mix to backfire.

The change to electric scooters was the most noticeable thing in China. It was especially noticeable after coming from Vietnam where they still choke on scooter exhaust. In China they like to ride on the sidewalk also so you get the shit scared out of you when someone comes right up behind you without a sound.

When the internet was still young I entered an online drawing to win a vacation on a travel website. I never really thought much of it. One day I decided to answer the phone even though we got lots of telemarketers. The woman was from the travel company and said I’d won a rafting trip in CO and that this had been their third and final attempt to reach me. It was totally legit, they paid for the flight, rafting trip and rental car. Due to low river levels the trip was moved to the San Juan river in UT though. It was an awesome trip. We even paid some extra to keep the rental car longer to add some extra sightseeing days to the trip.

Not speaking up for my wants and needs. Being a “soldier” and sucking everything up just creates resentment and gives the other person the mistaken assumption that you are ok with everything. It is ok to say “I don’t agree” or “I don’t like this” as long as you do it respectfully.

The worst part of mental issues is the part of your body that needs to be fixed is the part that isn’t working right and is the part that is supposed to make decisions.

For a few years after college I swear I was in some sort of depression. I barely remember anything from those years and my friend from then tells me about stuff I did that I have zero recollection of.

Mulva? Gipple? Deloris!

I don’t know who put the Panama canal and Greenland into his head

Seriously, it feels like he just crawled out of his basement full of bizarre obsessions.

Leave your phone at home.

Well they didn’t have any past government examples to use as a warning. News and communication back then was also much more limited.

I could grab my rifle and take to the streets

They literally had street battles with armed communists and ww1 veterans fighting each other. The average person was so horrified of living in a war zone that they voted for any party who could stop it.

Spain’s unemployment rate is 12.29% so not that great there.