I think he means it would take six hours of walking to reach his city. I mean I live four miles outside of town (which incidentally I’d need to travel to to reach a railroad) and even though it’s smaller than 3000 people it still calls its self a “city”. Also I’d like to note it’s four miles of hilly terrain, which depending on season may feature hundred degree plus temperatures or foot deep snow.
Okay, hypothetically let’s imagine someone who is a Bitcoin trading god. Every peak he’s there unloading his bags, every dip and he’s buying hundreds of Bitcoins. This guy turns thousands into millions and millions into billions. Huge success story right?
But here’s the rub, where is all this money coming from? The money isn’t coming out of thin air, it’s not coming from the crypto exchanges, otherwise they’d go bankrupt, it’s not coming from the value of any goods or services produced. The answer is that all that money is coming from other people. Someone has to be buying at the peak thinking it’ll go “To the moon” and getting burned, or maybe the need to pay off some hackers cryptolocker. The same for the dip maybe someone needs real money right now and must sell despite the loss, or maybe someone is panic selling thinking the price will go lower. Our hypothetical trading god hasn’t really created any money or anything of value at all, they’ve just moved money from the losers in the Bitcoin to his own wallet.
This makes you the equivalent to one of the spokespeople from near the top of a pyramid scheme taking about how this is one of the legit pyramid schemes, because you’ve earned so much money! Ignoring of course that all of their money means that someone somewhere needed to lose that money first.
However, I suppose at the end of the day, you did take twenty four thousand dollars from crypto morons, so I suppose that’s kinda noble in a way.
Wow, that’s bad. I thought it would be more of a “confusing a sentence for a similar sounding one” type thing but from the above and the article it’s just generating semi-believable text and sticking them into the transcriptions.
The character “Kelly” isn’t explicitly right wing, instead he’s supposed to be as wrong as possible. As an example rather than “Pro-choice” or “Pro-life” Kelly is “Pro-abortion”, because he hates children and thinks they should be aborted before they have a chance to destroy their parents lives. Or the comic where Kelly opposed drug legalization… because police dramas wouldn’t have anything write about.
Oddly, Kelly’s “wrong as possible” stance does seem to frequently align with right wing politics, for some reason.
Well most of human management can’t be held accountable (unless they step on the toes of someone above them) so honestly, what would be the difference?
I mean it’s cheap easy protein. I’m not gonna judge.
But keep in mind there are a lot of invasive populations of mosquitoes and some of them are disease carrying species. Since they’re invasive, by definition they’re not vital to the natural ecosystem and those populations could be safely wiped out.
My best guess is that it was on some of the equipment and somehow got transferred in during the colonoscopy.
At long last we’ve created killer drones from the cautionary short film “Slaughterbots”.
Of course, given how jank what we’ve decided to call “AI” is if you tried to make a real Slaughterbot it’d probably be blowing up random people or patches of the wall that it thought looked like a face.
I was thinking about that a while back. There’s got to be some sort of upper limit to collecting data being useful. I mean at some point it becomes more economical to just buy the data from one other thousands of companies data mining phones rather then going to all the trouble of building and maintaining your own data mining app.
Grinding is another possibility. Rubbing rocks together isn’t a very complicated technology.
The groceries in the passenger seat are a nice touch, because of course there’s gonna be no trunk space.
Gee, we’ve had over a half century of computer graphics at this point. However, suddenly when a technology arises that requires obscene amount of GPU’s to generate a results a GPU manufacturer is here to tell us that all computer graphics without that new technology is dead for… reasons. I cannot see any see any connections between these points.
It’s probably better then the days old garbage they usually scavenge. And I cut off the moldy part too.
I bought one of those vegan Spam-a-likes and I have to say I really didn’t like it.
I my thought process was “Spam’s so heavily processed, how much worse could it be if no meat were involved?” the answer turned out to be “A lot.” I don’t know how to describe it. It’s like… you know how there are all beef hot dogs, but they don’t taste anything like beef? It was kinda that but with Spam… but Spam isn’t very meat like to begin with.
All that being said, after the plant based Spam sat in my fridge until it started to get fuzzy, I threw it out for the stray cats in my neighborhood. Despite the fact I found it to be quite unappealing, starving alley cats found it to be meat like enough to eat it… which I guess is a mark in it’s favor?
There was a whole stupid controversy in my town when a (very stylized) statue of Athena was going to be put up. Lots of performative pearl clutching about a statue of a “pagan god” being erected. Finally the town just renamed it “Vision” or something and put it up anyway.
Visiting the corpse of Twitter was your first mistake
It’s even more amusing when you consider how the Trump administration kept trying (and failing) to slash law enforcement budgets.
“Sand Kings” by George R. R. Martin
Huh, I never knew that Outer Limits episode was (very loosely from the Wikipedia synopsis) based on a George R. R. Martin story.
Just be aware that the Gemini is rather limited in the logic department, even as chat bots go.
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