What other things would be a big difference with the people today?
The lack of cigarette smoke everywhere, at least in the US and probably most other developed nations. In 1965, around 43% of American adults smoked. Today, just over 11% do. You no longer have to sit in the “non-smoking” section of a restaurant that still smells strongly of stale cigarettes. They no longer put ash trays or cigarette lighters in vehicles, which were a standard feature up to at least the late 90’s.
Altman, a regular user of X since 2008, has been forthright about his frustration with the bots on it. In September, he posted to X that “somehow AI twitter/AI reddit feels very fake in a way it really didn’t a year or two ago.” A few days earlier, he made a similar point, citing dead internet theory, which posits that since 2016, the internet has been overrun with non-human activity. “I never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM [AI]-run twitter accounts now,” he wrote.
CEO of glorified bot farm complains about effects of bot farming.
Rock salt is great for dispersing ice from streets and sidewalks.
On one hand, I’m genuinely curious to see how the JP Morgan suit pans out. They have vast financial resources, an army of lawyers, and unlike some of the other defendents in Trump’s recent lawsuits, a potentially dangerous precedent to be set by settling.
On the other hand, they’re both scum and they deserve each other.
Or the time Ulysses Grant ordered the Treasury to flood the gold market - temporarily tanking the US economy - in order to crush his own brother in laws market manipulation scheme.
Probably called the feds on himself.
The officials said Flores appeared at an immigration hearing on December 16, where he represented himself, and admitted to the allegations against him then requested voluntary departure.
If a bunch of morons offer you a get out of jail free card and a one way ticket to freedomville, you take it.
The prosecutors added they “remain eager to prosecute defendant for his crimes and vindicate his victims” if he returns to the country.
That dude won the jackpot, cashed in his chips, walked out the front door, and he is never coming back.
This whole story couldn’t be more ridiculous if it were a Looney Toon’s episode.
That’s a tough call. I would say the hardest was when I was on the board of a regional charity organization and we caught the CEO embezzling. If you’ve never dealt with something like that before, it’s hard to imagine the river of shit that is coming your way.
This dude, who was paid a decent salary and benefits, very smugly told us that he felt he was more entitled to the money than the people who actually needed it. I’ve never wanted to punch anyone so badly. Firing him was the easy part. Dealing with the criminal investigation and the loss of community trust was the hard part. That was more of an emotionally exhausting year and a half rather than just a day though.
“Hmmmm. This codebase seems surprisingly lightweight.”
Opens random ‘Helper’ class.
“Oh… Oh boy.”
You can pull the fuse but this also disables Bluetooth iirc.
You would “clear it” by “opening” the action. A firearm cannot be fired with the action open. What that looks like depends on the type of action.
Edit: It’s a good firearm safety protocol to open the action before handing a weapon to someone. Always, always, always assume that it’s loaded.
If you want men to think you’re older, be assertive. I know that’s probably an intimidating suggestion but the results may surprise you. It’s pretty normal for people in their early 20’s to not feel totally comfortable with themselves just yet.
There’s also this stupid cultural expectation that men are supposed to initiate. I think both of these factors tend to cause a lot of women to not shoot their shots.
Some women get older and realize
A.) They like themselves for who they are.
B.) They don’t give a shit about cultural expectations.
C.) They know what they like and they’re not afraid to ask for it.
In my experience, if you’re chatting me up or asking me out, I would automatically assume that you’re older because when I was on the dating scene, I was never approached by a woman who was younger than me. Most of them were at least a few years older.
If you decide to try this, just know that you’re going to get rejected at some point, for any number of reasons. As long as you’re polite and honest, rejections will be a reflection of the other person, not you. Don’t waste your time dwelling on what other people think of you.
There are plenty of men out there who will be impressed by your cojones, even if you just make the effort to talk to them.
I bet (or at least I sure hope) if you asked Mrs. Cornpone if she regrets asking me out, which I now know was a huge deal for her and took a lot of courage, she would say, “Not at all.”
I had an old buddy who served in Vietnam. One time I asked him what it was like to kill someone. I’ll never forget his answer.
“You know, when you’ve got your rifle trained on somebody, there for a split second you’ve got the power of God in your hands. You get to decide if that person lives or dies. Nobody should have that kind of power. I only wish I had known that before I had done things that I couldn’t undo.”
He said he still had nightmares all the time, even 45 years later.
Step #1: Integrate “AI” into all ACME products; including anvils and dynamite.
Step #2: Draft press release that we expect to have solved the “roadrunner conundrum” by the end of the third quarter.
Step #3: Repeat Step #2 for a couple of years.
Step #4: Fail to deliver on the promise of Step #2.
Step #5: Exit the business with my now substantial fortune, leaving the Wyle E. Coyote holding the bag.
due to Alabama experiencing a massive shortage of OB?GYNs.
Turns out doctors don’t want to practice where they’re not wanted. Who could possibly have seen that coming?
Is it a printer? Hold on. I will come help you throw it out the window.
I always thought it was weird that in the Baptist church I grew up in, I never heard a single sermon from the Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, etc.) and the gospels, except for the parts about Jesus birth and death.
I later figured out that there are a LOT of passages in there that are very… Uh… Inconvenient for Evangelicals and fundamentalists. By “inconvenient” I mean it causes the rest of their theology to collapse on itself. So it’s just easier to ignore all those “liberal talking points.”
The Rapture occured on September 11th, 1988. She got left behind.
Automotive cigarette lighters eventually developed a secondary use as an auxiliary power port. The modern ones don’t actually function as a cigarette lighter though. They don’t have the clips needed to hold the lighter coil in the socket.