What?

The groom replies “No, duck in black bean sauce. Oh, I guess tour restaurant orders things differently to mine”

Nope. They don’t destroy the mass, just move it away from your body

Also, Batman was born with his power. (His power is money).

Those two things not mutually exclusive. Kevin can be smart caveman.

This has actually been tried. It’s called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage_currency](demurrage currency). Basically, every note decreases in value every week: in 1930s Austria, this was accomplished by requiring people to get regular stamps to keep their money good, but every stamp reduced the value of the note.

This encourages people to spend money instead of hoarding it, but the obvious downside is that it makes saving functionally impossible.

He was born in 1963, a time when the Netherlands were as car-focused as the USA. When Huang was a child, the number of parents killed by cars outraged Dutch parents, and they mounted a years-long protest campaign under the slogan “Stop murdering children” (but in Dutch). The protests were big enough that the government listened and changed Dutch transport infrastructure in major, fundamental ways. They built lots and lots of bike lames as well as investing heavily in buses and trains. The overall result was aaddive turn away from cars, and streets are once again safe fir children to play in.

One good outcome of generative LLMs is that more people know what Luddism is actually about.

I got my degree in 2008. All my exams were handwritten (but fortunately I didn’t have to write 10 pages per question, which is good as I physically can’t write that much in the time allotted). I did at least get to type my undergraduate thesis.

You shouldn’t start fires in data centres. They have very effective fire suppression systems.

I don’t know Can you repeat the question?

Richard Dawkins: Men have penises and make sperm, women have wombs and make ova. That is objective truth. If you lack a vagina you cannot be referred to as she/her, and if you lack a penis you cannot be referred to as he/him.\ Also Richard Dawkins: This network of silicon and fibre optic cables running a fractal Markov chain is clearly a woman who one should obviously refer to as she/her.

(Paraphrasing a quip by @2something@transfem.social)

I’m a line worker in a factory, and I recently managed to give a presentation on “AI” to a group of office workers (it went well!). One of the people there is in regular contact with the C_Os but fortunately is pretty reasonable. His attitude is “We have this problem; what tools do we have to fix it”, and so isn’t impressed by " AI" yet. The C_Os, alas, insist it’s the future. They keep hammering on at him to get everybody to integrate “AI” in their workflows, but they have no idea how to actually do that (let alone what the factory actually does), they just say “We have this tool, use it somehow”.

The reasonable manager asked me how I would respond if a C_O said we would get left behind if we don’t embrace " AI". I quipped that it’s fine to be left behind when everybody else is running towards a cliff. I was pretty proud of that one.