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Oh no, not the strawberry catastrophe from The Mote in God’s Eye.

Almost like giving more to the people who spend it on the economy, helps the economy. Who knew?

Sh wasn’t threatening. She was just forecasting the future. She never said she’d come after them. So how long before thinking bad thoughts about those who hold power over us is enough?

Sorry. Please fill out a change potion application. Response time 6-8 weeks. Next in line!

The ones that went to not small businesses (because handing out money doesn’t need any oversight). And got forgiven even though they weren’t used for payroll (another trickle down failure).

The measure was tied to hurricane relief funding, delaying its availability.

The power grab hurts right-leaning rural areas of the state. Who will continue to vote for them.

It’s not like it takes much to do it. If they or their parents bought a computer that can run a recent game, it can generate pictures. The software is abundant and free.

there may be a general recognition that arresting children isn’t going to resolve this

Of course not. The genie is out of the lamp though and getting cheaper and easier to create more realistic things, so what’s going to change? This could probably qualify as a problem concerning AI safety, something that has been sidelined because profits are more important.

Exactly what I was thinking.

Y’all…People my age who did vote for him deserve your rant, especially since they’ve known both Republicans and Trump for decades. But we all aren’t that gullible.

My X-Gen brain still reads “woke” as the opposite of “asleep”, even in its slang version. So some of us are woke, we’re just tired of not getting anywhere after all this time. So in the spirit of the comic and societal collapse, I’ll stick with my “whatever”.

Big companies will switch if the rates justify it, it’s a yearly bidding war, and quite annoying when you have to change insurance cards and even a different provider because of things beyond your control. Healthcare should be nationalized and not tied to employment for so many reasons.

It could also filter to any McD’s worker, or possibly other fast food worker. I find it sad that the story of a blue collar worker not resisting the reward bait, perhaps even not knowing the full information and internet vibe of don’t tell, is now the lead rather than continuing the battle against CEOs. We really do have a short attention span for shiny things, don’t we?

If I was a really deep conspiracy nut I’d even ponder if the whole thing was a plant to turn the public away from the rich. Nah…we’re not that stupid, right?

Next up at 11 - are chess and Risk players secretly warmongers?

Can’t answer when we were forgotten about again. IF we had been asked we would have replied, “meh, whatever.”

I don’t think the review bombs were a great thing to do. It’s one step from doxxing the person, who might have been just getting by and the money was enough to convince them. A negative review of a place just because it’s where something happened unrelated to the place is just ranting and not legit. I wouldn’t have done it, but I’m not in that much need of such a safety net to make the next rent payment.

We can look at it as corporate protecting corporate, but in the end isn’t this just good moderation of posts that are not appropriate for the purpose? What if this hadn’t been McD’s but a family-owned restaurant?

Some of us “old timers” have a foot in both worlds. I grew up with some cars like this, but also with the birth of computers, so I can appreciate the old and new. I will admit keeping up these days is hard and I don’t know much of what’s out there, but I feel I can understand the basics and not be totally lost.

My dad on the other hand was genius with mechanical stuff. Could rebuild an engine, weld, draw up plans and construct things, including a house. He was totally lost in the computer world though, including the idea of the internet, no matter how much I dumbed it down or used analogies.

I’ve also seen younger people at work who can work a smart phone like magic, yet also would not know how to restart a router or recover from/avoid a computer virus.

That was the fascinating part. Only by actually using one you could feel it pull to the station via a literal string inside. Apparently (some/most) auto sunroofs work in a similar way, and you do not want to break that cord.

I believe I read his parents do have money. The suspect…not the shooter. They may still be two different people.

Content is far more important than spelling as long as the point gets across well enough. I’ve done the same as you only long before when shortcuts like R and U were introduced and persisted. Picking out grammar and spelling errors instead of discussing the topic means you don’t have anything to contribute TO the topic, and lack of content is far worse of a crime than odd spellings.

I have corrected spelling or grammar before, but only as a side note to be helpful, not to ridicule.

Remember the Boston bomber and the Reddit fiasco? For some reason I have a feeling we’re being reversed Reddited here (law enforcement grabbing or gasp manufacturing something to calm down the social media). I mean maybe he is the guy…but your points are accurate on how this is being played.

And now that AI is in the mix, I don’t know what to believe anymore anyway.