It’s a shame there’s no way to single out the ones abusing the system without punishing everyone else. Someone should invent a machine to do that. Something that could compute the amount of resources used by each participant. Probably an impossible task. We should build a coal-burning power plant to drive a block-chain driven NFT generator voice assistant. That would do the trick. Also AI.
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Thank god they told us in time. I will stop aging immediately to avoid this dire threat.
"How did I make my first million dollars? I started a business selling all of my parents' expensive artwork. Now I'm going to teach you how you can start your own million-dollar business, just like I did!"
When Kellyanne Conway said, "alternate facts" you had to know this was going to be a dark ride.
5 years ago voice assistants were being promoted with all the breathless excitement that "AI" is receiving today. I imagine in 5 year's more time Google will be giving the same listless attention to their AI products that they are giving to their voice assistants now. Well, actually to just about every product they've ever made, except maybe for Google Mail.
My how things have changed over the years! Why, when I was a young girl, we didn't have the internet. When we wanted to turn a light on, we had to write a letter to Ford Motor Co. (They were the tech of the day.) I'd write, "Dear Mr. Ford, please give us permission to turn on our light in the dining room." Of course then we'd have to find a stamp, then walk the letter down to the nearest post office. (That was faster than waiting for the mailman to pick it up from the neighborhood mail box.) Sure enough, 6 weeks later we'd receive a reply saying, "Fine, turn on the light in the dining room." The postman delivered mail in the morning, so we had to wait until dark to all gather around in the dining room and turn on the light with great ceremony.
We never understood why we needed to get permission from a company far away to turn on a light switch, but we were patriotic Americans, so we knew better than to question the process.
“nobody’s doing anything” according to the people who weren't at the No Kings protest.
“We westerners” amounts to Kraft eating Americans in this article. True. American corporations are taking over America.
“We westerners” amounts to Kraft-eating Americans in this article.
True. Americans tend to have very bland palettes.
I had to re-read that sentence.
favouring the fatty parts over lean meat, and the maggots that riddled the putrefying carcasses.
The next new diet fads are going to be really interesting:
"Bruh! You gotta try the latest True Paleo(TM) diet..."
MAGA voters were OK with the idea that on each "rigged" ballot, the votes for Republicans should be counted but the votes for Democrats were illegal and should be ignored.
Been doing a lot of data verification lately. That max-sized drive would take almost a day to fill up at max speed (assuming you had a data source to max it’s interface out). Reading it all out again would only take a bit longer than 5 1/2 hours.
I’m sure there are plenty of orgs that these things would be a godsend.
Corporations have (theoretically) one person who makes the decisions. Anyone who disagrees is shown the door.
Governments are led by thousands of competing interests. Once a decision is finally made, everyone who disagreed actively tries to undermine their opposition rather then work together.
It is incredible to believe that on average corporations cannot compete against that level of internal conflict.