BarneyPiccolo

The armed guards in the lobby of the first agency they raided should have shut down the DOGE Pirates right there in that lobby with extreme prejudice. That's the very reason they carry guns. Instead, they just let them in.

Then we could have fought it out in court, like we should have.

This is precisely why Musk needs to prosecuted, and imprisoned for life, as well as his psychopathic minions. They are mass murderers.

That's pretty much America's Funniest Videos. About 35% of their videos are guys taking it in the groin.

I've been making the comparison to the first synthesizer in 1897. It was so huge, that it took up the basement of an entire city block in NYC. It was enormous, and relatively useless but it worked...technically. But 60 years of development later, and it can be put in a suitcase and carried around.

I see data centers and AI the same way. Sure, we can technically do it, but it's big, unwieldy, and wasteful. It clearly isn't ready for prime time.

Go back to the drawing board, address the real problems, including regulations, and get back to us in a decade or two, when they've figured out how to do this properly. Because right now it's a monstrosity that's more of a curiosity than an useful product.

If we could focus our schools on one single thing, it would be Critical Thinking Skills. It's how humans are supposed to think, but it has to be taught, and it has to be practiced. Everything else can be looked up on Google, but Critical Thinking Skills require active intervention to learn. Critical Thinking Skills allow us to immediately recognize and reject nonsense like propaganda and scams, and make proper decision based on facts, not vibes.

Those who don't have Critical Thinking Skills adopt other chaotic methods of thinking, like Faith-Based Thinking, where you choose to believe anything an accepted authority tells you, no matter how outlandish. Or they embrace conspiracy theories, or fall prey to cults, like Scientology, Mormons, or MAGA.

Conservatives are actively fighting the teaching of Critical Thinking Skills, claiming it encourages children to challenge/ defy authority figures, which is a healthy thing in a healthy society. The real reason is that it teaches people how to recognize their insidious propaganda, which is so vitally important to MAGA success. If people start seeing that propaganda for what it really is, Conservatism is doomed.

They intended to use AI to rape their employees and the American public, only to find out that the real money is in the AI companies raping THEM!

Our family's policy is that we don't start a Netflix show until it has run its course and is over. We've had too many disappointments watching a show we like, only to have it get abruptly cancelled. There are too many other things to watch that won't pull the rug out from under us.

I'm sure Netflix hates this, but it's their own fault. We are only responding to their irresponsible programming nonsense.

Where do I subscribe?

Maybe that's the original, but it wasn't the format I first saw it on Reddit.

Great clarification. I had moved by 2020, so I wasn't there for that one, but as you outlined, that was a unique incident, not caused by the river being so polluted that it could actually BURN!. And most people don't know that that last big burn was only the latest in a long series of river fires.

I remember driving past the area of The Flats where the factories were, and EVERYTHING was black, the buildings, the equipment, the very ground. There was nothing green at all. It looked like another planet.

The Cuyahoga River hasn't caught fire in over 50 years. That was because of all the factories along the river that dumped their pollution in it for decades.

But that ended years ago, when all those factories went out of business, and Cleveland became the economically and culturally stagnant shithole that I grew up in.

That's because you could leave.