Surprised Pikachu face
But in all seriousness. Always looked at them as Middle Class version of payday loans. Never would have considered one but gosh darn… If things don’t improve I can see myself begrudgingly getting one for something I need.
Emacs since it’sa trojan horse for an operating system on an operating system.
Lol, could you imagine if the president just came out on a live broadcast and said, “I pardon everyone currently convicted of a federal crime”
Didn’t the US do that in Vietnam? Issue an evacuation order to an area and then declared anyone remaining an enemy combatant?
I declare war on this hill!
As a salaried employee. i demand that i get tipped my salary
I am desperately trying to be positive in a really bleak situation. But……
Maybe this is the 5D Master class Chinese Checkers move by the administration? Make the EU the primary regulatory source for medical trials and set the bar here in the USA by saying its FDA approved if it is already EU approved? Then boom cheaper drug prices for Americans and more expensive drug prices for the EU?
Again, most likely not the case but I really need some optimism at this point.
In other words. Israel has decided to do the absolute bare minimum in order to be no worse than a 90’s Somali warlord.
Dude, top ten expositions of all time. Up there with the importance of pizza delivery.
I mean say what you want, but thats legit how new tech is being developed right now. My favorite book is Cryptonomicon. It came out in 1999, But the premise was that the main characters were going to build a currency backed on cryptography. There was even a side story in the book where one of the man characters is looking for a specific investor who is obsessed with trading cards. The main character sells the investor on the idea by saying how the technology could easily be adapted for distributing digital trading cards.
The dude basically predicted Bitcoins and the rise of NFTs in 1999.
Lol, Interestingly enough. The hacker who steals the book realizes that each copy he makes can’t have a ractor so he substitutes it with a computer generated voice. I distinctly recall him acknowledging that it’s not as personal as a ractor but is adequate enough for the purpose.
Everyday we get closer to the book The Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson where the main character has stolen from him a book he created called, “A Young Ladies Illustrated Primer” The thief turns out to be a hacker and mass produces copies of the book for orphans.
The book itself is an AI that assess the users surroundings and intelligence level before creating stories that are relevant to the user that also educates them.
I can see this being a net positive if done correctly. But I don’t think the tech is there yet.
Are you talking about an ERP system like SAP? If so it’s all about data collection of business operations. Sure you make some no brainer decisions to do things that are practical but it always devolves into “how much did this improve the bottom line?” You start to get data on what business has the highest margins in sales and what products are proving to be a PITA to the bottom line due to customer support eating through labor.
spreadsheets are good but you start hitting walls when the company expands. Suddenly Purchasing managers are making entries to a file, but simultaneously works in production are changing the same file to reflect what they consumed in production. You then start auditing things and don’t know what the QTY row numbers mean. Is that actual inventory? Is that a mix of inventory on order? does this reflect what the production consumed today? if so when?
It gets messy without the right tools when the company scales.
Not trying to be a pessimist. But we need solutions in the next few months to a year. Even if we went all in on high speed rails, its gonna be years before there are tangible impacts to transportation.
Here is the neat part. ATC controllers in training needed a huge bump in recruiting numbers 10 years ago. These jobs aren’t something you can pull people off the street to do. There can be zero mistakes, trainees need to be vetted and undergo tons of hours in training and education to be experienced enough to work unsupervised in the tower.
I reckon we are past the point of no return with the current system. Either we are going to see a reduction in operational airports or we are gonna see a lot more automated systems directing traffic.
Oh good, you’re bored, I can now forge in peace. I heard the farmers in the next town over is basically giving away soybeans since the tarrifs hit. I should go and see I can get some to make tofu.
I am just responding to what you said. never called you anything. I got no time to creep on your comment history. I am too busy searching for cheaper eggs on the DL so that I don’t rouse ICE to any potential thought crimes.
I mean, if they are gonna get rid of it, I will take one for free. Free EV is a free EV if it breaks down 5 days later then I am in the same situation I was before getting the truck.
I am winning so hard with tarrifs right now. /s
Aye! Silver lining is that the project is done before DOGE decided it was a government waste project and the feds investigate it for DEI.