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Can I mambo dogface to the banana patch?

Okay, buh-bye.

2026 Teslas will have new AI Feel-o-Vision feature.

Those damned libs and their intrusive Big Government.

Good thing Trump saved you from all the awful foreigners dragging America down tho right?

I agree, capitalism is just one way greed manifests itself. Greedy opportunists figure out how to exploit any system. The people douchevoting you are binary meme-brains who think you're saying capitalism is the greatest thing since Betty White because you didn't explicitly say the opposite.

When Meredith at Dunder Mifflin became a vampire.

If you don't accept all cookies you get a login page or blurred content and a paid subscription offer. Fuck that.

actual document

Make what you want of it. Strange detail at the top: "Document 199 of 54" - wut?

Very intelligent article in terms of painting a richly detailed picture. Falls short in reality awareness tho.

For example, it's easy for people like the author who are immersed in using information tech to imagine everybody lives that way, but about 2/3 of all jobs still involve working directly with physical objects and materials. Of the 1/3 of jobs that could be done entirely online, only about 1/3 of those actually are. The author mentions that we also interact with our personal lives solely through electronics - to communicate with each other, manage our schedules, our lists, etc - but we used to do most of that on paper. Electronics didn't replace direct interaction with reality, it just replaced paper and pencil.

Recognizing this takes most of the wind out of the author's sails. Silicon Valley, the label they seem to lump modern technology in general under, which most people see as a handful of IT companies, didn't start this phenomenon of insulating ourselves from the real world. We've had telephones and radio for about a century, paper for centuries before that, and all kinds of powered or motorized appliances and other conveniences all our lives. How many of us still have living relatives who ever depended on fire-based lighting or animal-powered transportation, for example?

Anyway, tl;dr I think this article is a fine example of stylishly writing up an interesting and stimulating point of view, which doesn't really have a solid basis but is written well enough to convince many readers that it's insightful.

Gorram right!

Musk saying something doesn't reflect on the quality of the idea itself. For many thousands of years people freely imitated whatever they saw that worked, in a process known as "the spread of civilization", which turned out pretty well for humans. At some point somebody figured out they could get rich by selling copies of other people's work and paying them a pittence, aka "royalty", and boom, IP laws were born, and so was the concept that imitation = "stealing". So now you're evil if you rub two sticks together without paying somebody - unless they're evil, then you're fighting for social justice. It all makes so much sense.

Yeah that's really my point. The head of any government department should have past experience related to what that department does. Same requirement as for ANY job - you don't get hired as head chef if you've never even worked in a kitchen FFS. Trump's appointments are a festival of incompetence.