Holy shit, the broken clock and I agree on something for once! Contrails are water vapor and CO2, both of which alter temperature. If she wants to ban them, then by all means.

I am curious how she expects to control for lake and sea evaporation, but I’m interested in hearing her ideas.

• We are already seeing its impact in my industry. Much like the proliferation of the Internet in the late 90s, this is going to be a paradigm shift. There will be winners who keep up and losers who lag behind.
• AI helps me get to the things I don’t ever have time for.
• I’m a huge advocate of sustainability and the environment. I believe it is a core foundational tenet of mine. I do not believe the naysayers that say AI is going to be more destructive to the environment. Yes, in the short term. However, it has great potential to improve efficiency and reduce waste. – AI augmented cars will reduce stop and go traffic and accidents – AI augmented industry (AI + CNC) will maximize the use of manufactured/cut materials – AI augmented design will produce structures that meet tolerances with both material constraints and safety in mind – AI augmented maintenance means that “things” will tell us before they break down, reducing failures and replacements. – AI augmented reporting/spreadsheets will reduce double entry and the need for manual reconciliation – AI augmented chatbots will mean everyone has access to a personal assistant

That said, I do have concerns about what I’m hearing about brain activity and use of AI. I can somewhat relate it to the same idea that back 30 years ago, everyone knew something like ten of their closest friends’ and relatives’ phone numbers. Now I’d be lucky to remember two. Cell phones reduced the need to keep those in my head. Likewise, leaning too heavily on AI is already starting to produce some homogeneity of thought across business, to the expense of creativity. I think there needs to be careful consideration put into what we should all be able to learn and recall without AI, before we turn AI into a crutch.

I don’t trust DOOFUS with the cognition to spell his own name, why the hell would I want to give him power to declare war?

No thank you, I am not privy to a war with Canada nor Denmark.

Pork BBQ and Collards. Finish it down with some Cheerwine.

Left to my own devices, I am a messy person. My wife is very tidy. A clean sanctuary is respite for her.

I don’t know how we ended up staying together after those first few dates, but I do know our twice a month housekeeper is acting as our marriage counselor.

They’ve made their decision, now let’s see them enforce it.

Utilitarian - Row houses and small single family starter homes.

Detached single family housing is suffocating this country and the environment. I’d rather leave the woods to nature and nature walks, not streets and houses.

In addition to that, utopian architecture, like arcologies.

I’m much more a fan of the PBS/NPR underwriting model. Tell me who deliberately funds the show or video.

When the advertisement is so divorced from the show, is not relevant to the conversation or is not relevant to me, then the andvertisers are wasting their money.

If you show me the same ad over and over again, I am actually more likely to NOT buy that branded product or service because I’ve become so annoyed and numb from the ad taking what little time I have on this planet that I will actively boycott it.

However, I do have a nice space mug from PBS, a plot of land on Mars, the moon and Scotland, and a t-shirt for the Truth podcast to prove that I will spend money when the advertising is relevant to the content I’m consuming. So if you want the ad to work, invest your dollars directly into the content and providers I care about.

But for the love of everything, do not think for a moment that your contribution gives you license to control their messaging or content.

It’s as if there should probably be some short, somber, but eloquent poem about this very thing.

• Energy demand to power heavy industry that we all use (steel, aluminum, chemicals, fertilizers)
• • I don’t see these going away, so it’d be best to make their processes greener by repurposing the carbon into ag products, then institute a viable carbon tax and offset the rest of their footprint
• Use of concrete in construction
• • some promising technologies coming that crystallize the carbon and use it to self heal the concrete, carbon tax and offset the rest
• Shipping
• • bring manufacturing closer to consumers, global environmental manufacturing and shipping standards, improve right to repair laws
• Transportation
• • upgrade public transportation options where it makes economic sense to do so, make our cities and towns more people friendly instead of car friendly, raise the gas tax to fund these efforts. Reduce the amount of detached single family housing stock and encourage multi-family stock, particularly in cities.
• Heating and cooling
• • incentivize heat pumps, add taxes to heating fuels and fossil energy plants to fund it. Start a major campaign to educate people to keep temperatures around 68 (winter) to 76 degrees (summer). And encourage use of ceiling fans.

Mostly vendors. Often on-prem versions customized for their sensitive work and the versions are 30+ years now.

They very much go by the mantra “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” If you’re lucky enough to get one of those contracts, you’re on a gravy train, but brace yourself because you can expect to get a lot of complaints about how outdated and crap your system is. That and a whole lot of time dedicated to training and documentation.

You’ll also get the occasional person’s personal monument to themselves. “Joe’s been doing that GIS stuff for 30 years.” Whew those can doozies.

Brooks Brothers riot

I’m gonna need to ask the people tied to the tracks some questions about themselves…

Thinking quickly, Japan constructs a homemade blood from a scientist, a shell and a blood.

Joking aside, I remember articles on artificial blood from 20 years ago, but it always failed in trials. I’m glad to hear things have progressed a good bit.

I wish people would spend 10% of the time that they doomscroll towards activism. 15-30 minutes a day in real life. Join groups that align with your worldviews. Meet face to face, donate, call representatives, volunteer.

If we all did that across the country, our numbers would be so overwhelming that the people pulling this shit would be put back in whatever hole they crawled out of.

But instead, we all sit here, reading this, wringing our hands, doing nothing but worrying, and they pick us off one by one, among the nearly silent tap tap taps of our fingers on our phones.

I am not an AI hater, it helps me automate many of the more mundane tasks of my job or the things I don’t ever have time for.

I also feel that change management is a big factor with any paradigm shifting technology, as is with LLMs. I recall when some people said that both the PC and the internet were going to be just a fad.

Nonetheless, all the reasons you’ve mentioned are the same ones that give me concern about AI.

Rebuttal, he doesn’t actually need to stop paying the taxes, he just needs to nullify them.

• California’s port in LA brings in more goods than any other port in the country. They could collect the tariffs and federal dues and not remit them to the federal government
• Likewise, they could collect a fee for all agricultural goods coming from every other state leaving the port.
• California is the nation’s fruit and vegetable basket. He could impose a tax on all ag products leaving the state.
• He could seize all federal buildings in the state as collateral.
• Ever heard of the La Brea tar pits? California is an oil rich state. He could pull a page from DTs playbook and seize the mineral rights.
• If he was really ballsy, he could seize the naval base in San Diego.

Grow a pear….we dare you!

So if he ends birthright citizenship, does that mean we get to deport his ass back to Germany?

Never really understood that saying. Cheese is proof that the gods love us and want us to be happy.