It’s more of an observance day for many, which makes my point even more when most people think of Labor Day as a time to buy things on “sale”.

The slide was probably when the IRS made providing insurance a tax shelter for employers. Truman was suggesting a single payer system for the country in 1945, but we went the other way. One thing added to another.

Probably the first modern holiday that demonstrated how quickly we forget the why.

Should be “There is, no pink.”

When have they waited on final approval before? Oh, you mean Trump hasn’t picked which things to make gold vs. not.

I know it’s not his line, but it fits. “Nobody knew this would be so complicated. Nobody.”

Well, you’ve messed up my claim. Yes, some cats are totally like that, and would never survive on their own. Others wouldn’t give their past human servants a second thought if they found themselves outside. Still, they are not right wing.

Just need something to give the legs and mandibles a twitch every now and then.

Not true. All cats are members of the same anarchy organization. He just duped them into thinking he is in alignment with them.

Maybe not even competently. The bar is so low even a badly run admin by her would be better than what we have now. Simply because the narcissism and ability to act on it wouldn’t be there.

Making it so most of the traffic is in a merging state is a really bad idea. So many accidents happen because of people changing lanes, and here a large part of the traffic needs to do that, plus has little space and time to do it in. I’d love to see this made in something like City Skylines, just to show how bad it gets (without the car accidents, though, unless newest versions also simulate that).

I’ve always heard that in civil engineering the ones who design parking lots are the worst of them, based on the results we see in the world. Maybe this was from one of them accidentally handed something outside their normal work.

You forgot the classic one, “she’ll be too emotional”, while voting in what we have now.

The different LLMs do vary in abilities. What I find amazing is how bad Copilot is compared to any of the others. Not just on complex stuff, but basic requests. I’ve had local models do better, years ago.

Not developing AI. We’ve been working on and with ANI for a very long time, and constant research on what might make AGI possible. What side railed everything is some companies found out they can do lots of amazing things with LLMs, a subset of AI science, and investors will pay them to make better versions. They talk a lot about how what they’re doing will lead to AGI, but these people (or the scientists doing the actual work) know better than that. LLMs can possibly be part of what AGI uses, but it’s on the wrong branch. And they’ve given up following the other branches because this one is paying off.

So in short, we could have done better (both ethically and core results), but once again money got in the way.

It’s what all of us first asked either in our head or out loud.

I know it’s hard to believe, but there are more upgrades in store. I don’t know how they manage to put all that in the same place.

The schools don’t care. A lot of the teachers do, but jesus, what a system to try and do your underpaid job in. Actually, now that I think about it, it’s much like most work environments. Asked to do tasks in not enough time to do it, not given the resources to do it, criticized if there’s any complaints about the work or the pay. Oh, and it’s got that retail mix in where you are customer-facing and take the heat for what the school is making you do.

“Stupid Post Office. Anyway, we counted what we did get in, and we’re sure they’re valid, and turns out we won with 110% for us.”

You used the F word. And you implied fusion working, and then becoming more available. That’s two huge hurdles to count on when we’re essentially out of time. I don’t disagree, lots of scifi uses the idea that fusion or other large energy source that doesn’t wreck the environment opens up a lot of things, but… yeah.

DAC or possibly pulling carbon from water in similar ways is the only mass way to do it, and you’re right, it takes enormous energy for just a small amount of effect. Which without fusion or other non-emissions source, is a bit counter productive. Long ago someone visualized what we’re trying to do with carbon capture as much like running the fossil fuel plant backwards. Anyone knowing entropy realizes the challenges and losses of that. Fossil fuel was so easy to utilize, lots of energy in those molecular bonds, and we could even use fossil fuel to pull up more fossil fuel. How do you reverse that?