GreyEyedGhost

You could run profitable businesses, yes, but would they be profitable enough?

Six orders of magnitude, not a factor of six. The first is how many powers of ten, the second is a direct multiplier.

I was there a year ago. It was nice enough, not nearly as worrisome as I thought it would be. Yes, I stayed in the tourist areas, no I didn't wander into the rural areas, no I didn't try to start shit in clubs, yes I saw armed military on patrol. There were a lot of people trying to live their lives despite the serious crime in the region.

There are absolutely terrible things happening there and I would love for them to get better. I can say the same thing about the US. At least Mexico isn't waging war on my country, trade or otherwise.

I'm honestly surprised that any company would sit on $43 million for any substantial period. While I'm happy that American companies and Tesla in particular are being removed from the EV rebate program, I'd be happier if the stupidest trade war ended and Musk stopped being an enormous piece of shit.

My eyes can't roll hard enough. Start throwing the sabots, they won't bother me. The current shit the public is being sold as AI is very likely a dead end, but AI will be doing a better diagnosis than doctors soon enough, and already is in a number of medical fields. If you or others don't have the cognitive ability to assess the various branches of artificial intelligence, well, then you aren't doing any better than the people pushing the current consumer AI. As far as the progress of technology goes, this dance has been done many times before and always ends the same way.

The people have an opportunity to remove her every 4 years, more or less. Hopefully enough of them have the good sense to do so. That won't solve the problem of how she got in in the first place.

We outsource various processes all the time. I can learn to cook a good meal, or I can go to a variety of restaurants. I can build my own house, or I can buy or rent. I can learn about a topic, or I can ask someone in the field and get an overview of the topic to better direct my own studies. I can type a request into a search engine, review the results, and select the one I believe is most relevant for me. I can ask a question in some LLM AI or other, review their sources, and pick the one most relevant to me.

We already outsource a lot of our brains to other devices. This is why writing was invented. Certainly, using AI to do the thinking for you can have negative consequences. Using AI as a search engine, likely less so, or no worse than using a more legacy search engine would. There are other very good reasons to not use AI in a lot arenas, which is why I very rarely use it. But even a bad tool can have utility in the right circumstance.

Dehumanizing people is the first step in treating them like animals, and then extermination them - genocide. Don't go down that path. It always ends the same way.

You mean authoritarianism like vowing to knowingly pass unconstitutional laws and use the notwithstanding clause to keep them in force? Is that the "totally not embracing authoritarianism" you're talking about?

given that our current Public Safety Minister is unwilling to learn our laws and safety regulations In regard to firearm ownership.

Bold statement given that it's his "third week on the job." But it gives a great opportunity to chortle about someone who likely never had an interest in guns past his eigth birthday not knowing what an RPAL is, as if that's the single most important subject the Minister of Safety has to deal with. Andy came in to do a hatchet job and he performed the task well.

Pretty much any book that is going to have useful information for sex ed, which is taught at around ages 10 to 12, is either going to be useless or sufficiently graphic for hormonal pubescent kids. Back when I was a kid, the go-to source for accessible nudity was National Geographic. Also, there were kids who would read the National Geographics to learn about the world (which included places with different taboos than us). Should the education of some be hampered for the sake of the ignorance of others? Alberta says yes.

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