I don’t remember ever actually not knowing basic firearms safety, handling and operation

Many weekends I recall spending in middle of nowhere West Virginia getting hammered on weird chemicals that had just been invented 4 days prior with fully automatic weapon

Yes, I am looking at you weirdly.

the CEO has said that managers need to prove that AI can’t do a job if they want to increase headcount

This is why it will fail. Instead of the CEO providing any kind of explanation for how AI could work, managers now need to waste their time arguing with the CEO why their stupid ideas won’t work.

I have one manager who does this kind of reverse burden of proof all the time (unrelated to AI), and in the meantime we don’t get anything done of value of to the company.

It’s like trying to push a door that says pull.

In a city of billionaires, 10 days of food is about enough for 1 days of food for one of them.

Yes, we have quite an unhealthy alcohol culture here.

The only redeeming factor is that most people make their mistakes learning their tolerance while still being young enough to avoid getting in serious trouble.

If you’ve never touched alcohol at 18, you might want to be extra careful about it. It’s kinda cringe to watch grown ups not knowing their limits, because it’s assumed that they should know by now.

I know. I just find it hard to believe.

The largest and most expensive military on Earth shouldn’t be that incompetent.

Doesn’t change much does it?

Whenever I park my car, I usually check if there’s a bunch of innocent schools girls in the way first.

I’d like to think that bombs are thrown around a little more carefully than how I park my car.

Is there anything the rest of the world can do to help you with your orange fascist problem?

Because it seems to be in the way of solving a lot of the other issues.

This right here:

The effectiveness of boycotts relies on a mass demonstration of refusal, and that massive movement doesn’t currently exist."

This is the problem.

If one dumb ass CEO decides to destroy the environment, it requires millions of people to know about it and act upon it, just to make a dent in the quarterly income statement that might make the one CEO consider other options.

We don’t actually have a choice as consumers.

We can vote for more regulation of companies, but politics only work locally, while pollution works globally. We’ll basically need a world wide political concesus just to stop one single idiot from destroying the globe.

The guillotine might be a brutal and unpleasant vigilant idea, but it sure as hell is faster, cheaper and causes fewer casualties than any other way.

Who’s volunteering for that role?

The primary function of most umbrellas is marketing.

If you want an umbrella that works better on (slightly) windy days you’re going to want one with a dome that covers further down over your head and is transparent, so you can see through it. These don’t break as easily in the wind, but of course any umbrella works like a sail.

There’s also asymmetrical umbrellas made specifically for windy weather. I have no experience with those, but they look cool.

At this point I’m starting to believe that we could replace all engines with hamster wheels with actual hamsters and it would be more efficient.

His personal Vietnam.

Sons of Anarchy. There’s a season ender where some Irish bloke kidnaps a child and sails away. They had to make an entire season in Ireland because these knobheads of criminal but also mechanics can’t figure out to follow the kidnapper on water, even though they’re standing on a pier with hundreds of boats.

blur, Suede, Pink Floyd.

I don’t know if any of them will tour again anytime soon, but I’d definitely recommend seeing them live if possible. The reason is that it’s beautiful music played honestly. There’s nothing else to it.

it will just be like a great fairground ride

Ok, if you say so Mr. Bones.

You’re right. I agree, but also have to believe that we can make a way out of it.

I initially wrote a long rant but regretted, because I think the two of us could spend all night long writing back and forth and I need to sleep more than arguing in agreement online.

Remind me: I’ll buy you a drink if we’re still alive in 5 years.

At least they’re not pretending that this is anything other than another Holy War on both sides.

The good thing is that none of the alliances on either side have any political need to intervine, due to the religiousness of it.

Russia is looking at Iran and going “who the hell is Allah and why are they fighting for him?” and NATO is “What kind of kind of mess did the Megachurch get into this time, oh well whatever.”

Yeah there’s too much stuff to restore.

Every time anyone wants to do anything new in my city, there’s a choir of old people moaning about the removal of old stuff.

Seriously… if they want to keep that shit, put it in a museum. We don’t need your old railways in the center of the city for memorials. We don’t use them. You don’t use them. They haven’t been used for 70 years. The same kind of shit is present in each and every city throughout Europe. It has no preservation value. We can remember your great grand uncle’s achievement in other ways. Take a photo and look at it as fondly as much as you want.

It’s apparently wildly surprising that humans were all over Europe thousands of years ago. Come on. They had feet, of course they shat in the shrubbery where we live. We do not have to preserve all of it.

I surely don’t hope future generations dig out the shit I’ve posted online.

When they invented LIDAR scanning and flew over Germany, they found a lot of old stuff in the dense forests that had never even been investigated. It was silently decided not to even attempt to dig all that shit out. Good call Germany. We don’t need any more stone axeheads in the museum. They’re not that different, and I don’t care if you can trace your lineage to the man who made it. We’re not keeping that rock.

People should have a right to be forgotten.

Ötzi never asked to be dug up. People made stories about how he died of cold. Other people say it was sacrificial. The latest I’ve read was that he a tumor in the ass.

Have some decency. Leave that shit alone. The wearing of time is prettier than restoration anyway. It’s a solid reminder. Restoration of artifacts is like botox to a 70 years old… you’re gonna look like shit either way.

Disclaimer: Put on a tinfoil hat.

The only reason this is all over the news is unfortunately not because it’s a despicable crime. Which it is.

However. The story is that: She turned herself in. They were intoxicated by alcohol. She’s hot for 40 year old. She’s “independent, blablabla. both sides”.

No, no, no!

The media is showing this because they want to normalize rape.

There’s something a lot worse that never make the news.

Maybe it’s the drug epidemic, causing this shit to happen on daily basis in the southern states. Maybe it’s people of importance who don’t turn themselves in. Maybe it’s not the alcohol or libido at all.Maybe it’s the …

Maybe it’s in the Epstein files.

Money.

Money up front this time.