Rhaedas

I’ve always liked the seconds one because time is something anyone can relate to, and the gap there is staggering. Of course then there’s a trillion seconds, which is almost 32,000 years.

What’s the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars? About a billion dollars.

Thanks for the clarification. I assumed it was code only because I wouldn’t know where to look to find out, and you see it everywhere.

It’s a right of passage for a kid to learn what a 120 volt shock feels like if they’re careless in unplugging something. One pin is just an unforgettable sensation, while both will knock you down. The real mystery is why code requires the outlets installed upside down. Technology Connections did at least one video on the differences of outlets in the world, and his point was that if the ground pin was above the other two, something falling on a partially exposed plug would rest on the harmless ground and not what it can do, short out the two live pins. But then we wouldn’t get the cute faces, so…

I think he nailed the character in Bladerunner 2049, but maybe it suited him so it worked.

Did the ad agency forget the usual “items appear larger for detail” verbiage EVERYONE uses on their ads and packages?

Throwaway account: “…asking for a friend.”

required air traffic controllers to order two commercial jetliners to perform “go-around maneuvers,”

At least they had more than one person doing everything this time.

Everybody claps.

Just don’t make toad jokes.

Many do. Others don’t. It’s not required for living generally, and it isn’t needed to validate a vote. This is an invented problem to try and control who can vote. One party has to do that to survive, and they’re very good at minimizing turnout of people who might vote against them. As you can see.

The real VIP. That really was solid science, and surprising results. I do think some additional research should be done via peer review to expand the sample size and ensure the original cats were acting as any cat would and not just well disciplined.

Also, what about when a cat is sick? That is certainly going to change the results.

It occurred just like gasoline shortages occur. If the media doesn’t make headlines that suggest buying as much as you can immediately, even if there is a supply chain problem things can adjust to meet normal demands. But when everyone takes all the stock at the same time, even a running production can’t keep up with that demand in a just-in-time system. I experienced a local fuel shortage before because of news of a damaged oil pipeline far away, and gas became unavailable for a few days, then started filling back up, all long before the pipeline issue would have affected us.

“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.”

Unfortunately they left off the most important part. The original source to be cited in future internet debates.

Rocky and Bullwinkle

I know this is a stupid question, but is that even legal?

I’ve always loved the word “sonder”. Knowing that people have their own lives and thoughts and usually they aren’t centered on you at all is liberating. I wish I had run across this as a kid, to realize that the peer pressure I thought was there giving me anxiety was totally self-inflicted and I could just be myself.

Yes, after the fact you can’t just dump what you have and get something else unless you can afford to lose the money. I was referring to when some were out looking for an EV, especially back when Tesla was the name everyone was talking about. Now there’s much less of an excuse since other brands offer decent alternatives.

That’s a bit of a reach. We should have stayed in the trees though, but the trees started disappearing and we had to change.

Lots of attacks on Gen Z here, some points valid about the education that they were given from the older generations (yet it’s their fault somehow). Good thing none of the other generations are being fooled by AI marketing tactics, right?

The debate on consciousness is one we should be having, even if LLMs themselves aren’t really there. If you’re new to the discussion, look up AI safety and the alignment problem. Then realize that while people think it’s about preparing for a true AGI with something akin to consciousness and the dangers that we could face, we have have alignment problems without an artificial intelligence. If we think a machine (or even a person) is doing things because of the same reasons we want them done, and they aren’t but we can’t tell that, that’s an alignment problem. Everything’s fine until they follow their goals and the goals suddenly line up differently than ours. And the dilemma is - there’s not any good solutions.

But back to the topic. All this is not the fault of Gen Z. We built this world the way it is and raised them to be gullible and dependent on technology. Using them as a scapegoat (those dumb kids) is ignoring our own failures.