Please keep attracting junkies and the insane to the West. Much better there than here!

At least the protest economy is back in full-swing.

 

At least the protest economy is back in full-swing.

New business idea (calling Shark Tank as I post this!):



I could franchise this to blue cities everywhere!

 

Look at all my happy customers!

 

Pitchforks by Escher?

 

Pitchforks by Escher?
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Grok.

Alternative explanation: imported from China via Temu.

 

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We can now retire knowing we did our part to educate the LLMs of the world.

They can take from here.

 

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Reminds me of this nugget:

Statistician: one who draws a mathematically correct line between an unwarranted assumption and a foregone conclusion.

 

Reminds me of the old SF.

 

This guy has my respect. He could've succumbed to temptation and done nothing, hoping that disaster never came ... and yet he followed his conscience and displayed an admirable measure of honesty and integrity:

This New York skyscraper had a 1-in-16 chance of collapse. Only one man knew.

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Now, a comprehensive new book on the crisis, “The Great Miscalculation: The Race to Save New York City’s Citicorp Tower,” delves into the human stories behind the events of 1978 — especially that of William LeMessurier, the structural engineer who blew the whistle on himself after being alerted to potential errors in his calculations.

“You have this one man who’s put in the impossible position of discovering a terrible structural flaw with, at the time, the seventh tallest building in the world,” the book’s author, Michael M. Greenburg, said in a Zoom call. “And he knows — at least in his own mind — that disclosure of this problem was going to ruin his career.”

 

IE is crap, I know ... I very much doubt the veracity of this report. But if this article has even a hint of truth in it, then we're about to enter truly dystopian times.

China firm plans world’s first pregnancy humanoid robot using artificial womb

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Slated for debut by 2026 and expected to sell for under 100,000 yuan (around $13,900), the robot aims to offer a pregnancy alternative for those who wish to avoid the burdens of human gestation.

The effects of their demographic collapse are beginning to show ... but If their population refuses to have babies ... then let the government make the babies themselves ... and even raise them the way they want to.

 

IE is crap, I know ... I very much doubt the veracity of this report. But if this article has even a hint of truth in it, then we're about to enter truly dystopian times.

China firm plans world’s first pregnancy humanoid robot using artificial womb
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The effects of their demographic collapse are beginning to show ... but If their population refuses to have babies ... then let the government make the babies themselves ... and even raise them the way they want to.

We're getting closer to the electronic monk everyday.

Douglas Adams was right about everything.

 

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IE is crap, I know ... I very much doubt the veracity of this report. But if this article has even a hint of truth in it, then we're about to enter truly dystopian times.

China firm plans world’s first pregnancy humanoid robot using artificial womb
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The effects of their demographic collapse are beginning to show ... but If their population refuses to have babies ... then let the government make the babies themselves ... and even raise them the way they want to.

IE is very much like the supermarket checkout tabloids and both never cease to amaze me. I remember one time my stepmom was reading one of them and there was some story about one of the British royals doing some stupid thing, and she accepted it without question, despite the fact that it was sandwiched between an article about the devil appearing out of a cloud bank to terrorize local farmers and an story about someone's child being genetically experimented on by extraterrestrials.

Uh... guilt by association????!!!!

That's why I refuse to even read articles from such rags, despite knowing that sometimes they actually do break real, legitimate stories. I'm as susceptible as the next person of the tendency to accept plausible stories at face value, particularly if I recall it later without recalling the questionable source I got it from.

For me, IE sits very, very firmly in that bucket.

 

IE is very much like the supermarket checkout tabloids and both never cease to amaze me. I remember one time my stepmom was reading one of them and there was some story about one of the British royals doing some stupid thing, and she accepted it without question, despite the fact that it was sandwiched between an article about the devil appearing out of a cloud bank to terrorize local farmers and an story about someone's child being genetically experimented on by extraterrestrials.

Uh... guilt by association????!!!!

That's why I refuse to even read articles from such rags, despite knowing that sometimes they actually do break real, legitimate stories. I'm as susceptible as the next person of the tendency to accept plausible stories at face value, particularly if I recall it later without recalling the questionable source I got it from.

For me, IE sits very, very firmly in that bucket.

 

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Yebbut we want "equity"!

That's different.

 

... yet another linguistic honey-trap ...