This thread is making me want to buy an encyclopedia set.

Just checked, $1,500-2,000 for the Encyclopedia Brittanica, no longer in print. Most recent edition is from 2010…

I guess I’ll just put wikipedia on an e-reader…

The Britannica was one of those essential things for every home. It was like having a home computer. It contained as complete a collection of human knowledge that was possible without a full-blown library.

I remember in the 90s looking through them trying to answer a random question I had and then later on going to the library to check out more research material if the Brittanica didn’t satisfy my curiosity.

As great as the internet is, I miss running a finger across the tomes to learn something new about the world.

Naw, 64 million people are so desperate for work that McDonald’s was an option.

There have been a lot of layoffs and closures.

If you wanted to nitpick honestly, you would say what is actually going on and the data it is trained on is from the internet and they were discouraging it from being offensive. The internet is a pretty offensive place when people don’t have to censor themselves and speak without inhibitions, like on 4chan or Twitter comments.

Grok losing the guardrails means it will be distilled internet speech deprived of decency and empathy.

DeepSeek, now that is a filtered LLM.

Scout Master Kevin and Uncle Dave.

If you look into the YouTube comments in most “popular” videos, you will believe in the dead internet theory. There are tons of bot accounts commenting and more and more have other social media accounts. They make the same generic comments, usually with emoji, and some of them can’t keep their story straight like claiming to be a given race and having profile pictures that don’t match.

I don’t even know if America has passenger trains with car carrying. I believe that is a thing in Europe and maybe Asia.

You will see stuff in a car, especially out west. Seeing things doesn’t really have relevance unless we are talking hundreds of miles per hour. A bike is slower than a car.

As convenience goes, we are talking about using a bike, not going on a train.

As far as comfort goes, a car is more comfortable than a bike. If you disagree, you only know economy cars.

Your income is taxed in payroll taxes, income taxes(federal and sometimes state), and then you are taxed for buying things. That is bullshit.

Personal income shouldn’t be taxed unless you make substantially more than the cost of living. Anything over $10m should be taxed at 100% including capital gains and stock awards. If you need more motivation to succeed than $10m a year, you are a lazy parasite.

Where they need to actually tax is businesses. Tax the businesses based on profit and remove the loopholes that allow for tax avoidance abuse schemes that result in a state single digit tax percentage of profits. I would even go so far as to say that the federal taxes on businesses should only apply in interstate and international businesses and only states should be allowed to tax businesses that operate exclusively within the state’s borders.

The effects of that tax plan have obvious consequences and they are all beneficial to the people.

If you have never driven through the middle of America, you would have quite the time trying to do so on a bike.

It would be an adventure, to say the least.

Except in terms of speed, safety, convenience, and comfort.

Great exercise, very green, and an experience though.

Maybe in Europe or any other country that has a good or decent passenger rail system.

In America you can’t reach a lot of the country by rail and so many things worth seeing aren’t reasonably reach with a bike.

I have an older Dyson stick vacuum that works perfectly fine. The batteries for it are reasonable in the aftermarket, but I got an adapter that lets me use Milwaukee batteries and I have plenty of those. I have only had to replace the catch for the canister. I got it for $20 at Goodwill.

My mother has a Dyson from like 20 years ago that needed like $80 in parts to fix to make it just like new. It just needed the canister latch, after being dropped down stairs, as well as the main hose and the secondary hose.

Are they good vacuums? yes.

Are they bulletproof? No.

Are they reasonable to repair? Mostly, but major parts are expensive, but we are talking about a $$$$ vacuum.

They aren’t a Kirby, but they don’t cost Kirby money, especially if you buy a Dyson second hand and do a bit of maintenance. For US people, shopgoodwill.com has Dyson’s for sale second hand for cheap, like $50 for a stick and under $100 for an upright.

Sounds like you want a destabilized orbit that results in re-entry

War, war never changes.

That would take too much energy, it would be simpler to send him into a geostationary orbit.

Yes, also he didn’t declare war. Anyone old enough to remember 9-11 knows what is up.

They don’t need a vaccine to depopulate when heart disease(695k/y), car accidents(40k/y), overdoses(82k/y), abortion(1m/y), and suicide(49k/y) kill far more people than the vaccine could possibly be linked to the COVID vaccines(8k in total).

Don’t at me for including abortion, I support abortion access and want it to be a free service, but we are talking about depopulation means and abortion is a means to depopulate.

ED is a side effect of steroids… Maybe he should have popped a blue bomber if he knew he was going on the bus?

If they give you what you want, but harass you enough, you may just stop using an ad blocker to watch the video and might just forget to turn it back once you are done.

If you had to unlock your bathroom door to enter or exit, you will either put forth effort to correct the problem or you will take the lazy route and just prop the door open.