and delivery will be super cheap

lmao, you think they’re going to start charging less for their service after you’ve been gleefully paying full price for it all this time?

You’re in for a rude awakening.

I don’t even know where I put all that food when I was that age. I could eat 5000 calories in a single day and not gain a pound.

I want science to give me back my teenage metabolism.

Give em the old three leaf clover skidoo ☘️

It sure is convenient that the business owners are always reporting on their findings that support their business models!

Because they can. They don’t even have to justify it. My car insurance goes up every year despite no accidents on my record. I look at competitors rates and they are even more expensive. Across the board they are just raising rates.

And we as consumers have no recourse, because we are required to have car insurance to drive, so it’s not like we can just boycott them. Would not be surprised to learn that there is collusion going on between all the auto insurance companies to keep their rates roughly similar and raise them all at once.

All my latest most rare achievements are all from Megabonk, which IMO don’t really count. They are easy to get if you just play long enough.

My rarest for a very long time was this one with something like 0.3%, but it has apparently since gone way up. It used to have one of those gold borders around it indicating it was very rare. I got this on my second round that I played and then quit pretty much right after that. Not a very good game, unfortunately.

The one I am most proud of is this one:

I got bored after I took over Britannia as the Britons and had no more enemies who could realistically challenge me, so I sailed directly down to Rome with my army of slingers and tribesmen and sacked Rome for something like 100k denarii.

EDIT: Well, nevermind, this is my newest rare achievement (for now)

We need to go back to tar-and-feathering people.

The Al Bronzo brand of Barilla does taste better, imo, but not worth the extra cost. I’ve never had a problem with the regular stuff sticking as long as I salt the pot and stir occasionally.

Sadly that means euthanizing ones that they do not have the money to support.

Ah, yes. The only ethical euthanasia are the ones we conduct!

I’ve got a trip to Vegas coming up in September. I’ll give it a try next time.

Cheers to my Australian friends!

You’ve missed the point.

Someone who Googled their symptoms and ended up at WebMD were presented with reliable albeit ambiguous information. Carefully curated by medical professionals and not random snake oil salesmen or homeopathy gurus. They fail to interpret the symptoms correctly, because of course they would. If they are looking up causes of a headache, it can be anything from brain tumor to low blood sugar, or even no reason at all.

Someone who asks AI for medical advice is going to get the entire internet worth of fucking opinions, as well as medical journals and such, because that’s where ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and Claude all got their data from. And it will string those words together in a way that sounds authoritative, but it will have literally zero concept of what it’s talking about. It’s an overgrown autocomplete. You ask for it to provide some citations, but no amount of asking for citations will compel people to actually read them, nor will there be any guarantee that the LLMs couldn’t just hallucinate that as well.

It’s like taking a Google search for medical information and adding a middleman who occasionally filters in junk data, then wrapping it in a nice package, giving the impression of authority and accuracy, making the process as frictionless as possible.

There can be no reasonable expectation that people who have not historically been capable of making good choices in regards to seeking online medical advice will suddenly start doing it all of their own volition.

You might say “What’s the harm if they end up at the hospital either way”? But the danger is that they never go to the hospital at all because the chatbot told them to sun their perineum or inject bleach with the confident prose of a medical doctor and they just… do it. Because why would the AI be wrong?

And who is to blame when someone is injured or killed as a result? Doctors have standards, and they take an oath to first do no harm. If they make a mistake, they are liable for it. How can you hold a machine intelligence accountable for inaccurate diagnoses?

The simple answer is you can’t, and so logically they should be strictly prohibited from masquerading as any kind of authority on medicine.

My go to airport meal is pounding as many beers as I can at the bar so I hopefully pass out after I get on the plane.

I like to tell people that Sekiro is a rhythm game disguised as a Soulslike. It’s not bad, it’s just… different. Fully understand how it would be a turn-off for many.

I think that is what Miyazaki’s philosophy is. Not everybody needs to be a parry god, nor do you need to defeat the boss naked with a broken sword in order for it to “count”. The souls games and their contemporaries are as difficult as you want to make them. If a boss is too hard, come back when you are overleveled and stomp it. Or use some cheesy build to trivialize it. That’s what he means by “fac[ing] that challenge” and “overcom[ing] it in some way that suits them as a player”.

The flesh is weak, but steel endures.

Expecting people who have already taken the easy route of asking an AI to summarize medical information to do additional due diligence by reading the sources that the AI spits out is naive as fuck.

There’s a reason it became a meme for someone to Google their symptoms, click on WebMD to read about it, and then come to the conclusion that they have cancer, all without ever having seen a medical professional in the meanwhile. Do you really think these sorts of people are going to be using AI responsibly for research purposes only?

But the real answer is we just need to make people aware of how they work

Good luck with that. There are people posting in this very thread that seem to be convinced it’s magic.

For as long as I live I’ll never understand how people could see that unveiling where the doofuses on stage hurl a big metal ball at the “bulletproof” glass and watch it crack during the live demo, and still think “Yeah I’ll pre-order one of those”.

Manchildren, fascist sympathizers, and deeply unserious or delusional people drive these cars. There is no “I bought it before I knew how crazy Elon was.”

We do print money and we have steady inflation, but inflation is still inflation.

A lot of people seem to be clinging onto the wrong concept here. Nobody is arguing against the reality that the government can print money to pay it’s own debts or solve an economic crisis, because they obviously do it all the time and sometimes the damage done from the inflationary reaction caused by printing more money is significantly preferable to what the alternative could have been (severe recession, economic collapse, etc.).

The point I am trying to make is that Elon is making a specific claim that printing money has a deflationary effect, which I have personally never seen evidence of, no economist has ever seriously theorized, and flies in the face of common sense and human nature.

No man of woman born shall hold office more than twice, Macduff!