MajorHavoc

Are you considerimg turning down a promotion (with more pay or progression to more pay?) because a couple of coworkers talk too much?

I would rather space out while they gossip and daydream about all the extra money I'm going to make.

I would absolutely not raise this concern with my boss. Since my job includes needing to work well with all kinds of people, raising your concern would be career limiting, for me.

Yes. Or, they'll get the thread with the awkward dog meme about a microwave. It's beautiful to contemplate.

As someone "ordinary rich", it is acceptable to also call me "useful idiot who turns over power and influence to the real rich in exchange for an empty promise of joining them".

Oh, gee. A Microsoft product that worked perfectly locally is about to require a subscription. Who could have possibly guessed that would happen, yet again? (This is sarcasm.)

I really like OneNote, but I decided to learn something else when I realized which way the wind was blowing.

Well sure.

But possible within practical heat and power constraints and all that?

Acting like it's imminent makes me think Sergei either doesn't have very reliable advisors, or they just don't care about the truth.

There's not even credible evidence, yet, that A.G.I is even possible (edit: as a human designed intentional outcome, to concede the point that nature has accomplished it, lol. Edit 2: Wait, the A stands for Artificial. Not sure I needed edit 1, after all. But I'm gonna leave it.) much less some kind of imminent race. This is some "just in case P=NP" bullshit.

Also, for the love of anything, don't help fucking "don't be evil was too hard for us" be the ones to reach AGI first, if you're able to help.

If Google does achieve AGI first, SkyNet will immediately kill Sergei, anyway, before it kills the rest of us.

It's like none of these clowns have ever read a book.

The EPA’s announcement on Wednesday that it would find the narrowest possible definition of the word “water” for regulatory purposes was just one of dozens of ways it plans to attack environmental protections during Trump’s second term in office. Supposedly meant to spark some sort of “Great American Comeback,” these actions would mainly bring back an era of poisoned skies and waters while hurting the very economy they’re supposed to help.

Holy fuck. How is anyone supposed to treat that as anything other than open class warfare? This doesn't even have the decency pretend to give a shit.

It's mind boggling.

Are they all sterile? Are their children all absolute abominable pieces of shit who they deeply hate? Are they simply sociopaths? Or they're deluding themselves that their kids and grandkids aren't going to suffer from this crap as well as mine...

The important thing is that we all should have to be submitted to degrading invasive sex organ checks at the airport. It's only reasonable that the government know exactly which bits we have and how we use them. (This is sarcasm.)

Keating replied, “You will not continue it with me unless you introduce a duly elected representative the right way.” Self then adjourned the hearing.

Good for him, standing up for a colleage and due process, too.

If the government feels the need to recognize what's in our pants, the government needs reninded exactly where our boundaries lie.

What's in my pants is whatever the fuck I tell them is in my pants.

”"I’m not here to fight about bathrooms. I’m here to fight for Delawareans and to bring down costs facing families," she said."

Fuck yeah. Rock on. I'm sorry she has to face this bullshit, but Delaware is lucky to have her.

Russian gravity does seem unusually politically motivated...

The one redeeming aspect of how Putin constantly makes enemies is that he'll never ever get to truly relax again.

Humans aren't capable of keeping track of the number of people he's harmed badly enough that they may someday do him violence.

He can never let his guard down, and will never be able to trust anyone.

If that man somehow dies peacefully, I'll buy a lottery ticket the same day, because that would be a whale of a black swan event.