I personally agree. But if I pay for the cheapest option ahead of time, it hits different than a loved one deciding on the cheapest option for me, especially if they are grieving and a salesperson is offering them a range of options. Also, some people just want a big funeral for their own emotional reasons I dunno.

Killer sound, fam… wow, back from the days when USENET ruled the Net… Is this where you got your name from?!?

“discrete AI” (probably has a few other names)

• symbolic AI
• traditional AI
• GOFAI (good old fashioned) AI

Kinda sounds like you’re talking about Explainable AI too. Very interesting set of fields, but I’m pretty sure they’re all having funding problems too.

Best tune on the album is Sleep, imho.

But wat if you’re indoors and have limited room for maneuver?

great (and brief) article.

there is “no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do”

lel we have a lot to learn from those early systems theorists / cyberneticians.

The idea is that you figure all that stuff out for yourself beforehand, so your grieving family doesn’t have to make a lot of quick decisions.

This time god is drowning us letting us drown ourselves in trash.

Elsewhere in a comment someone mentioned Passport Cards. iirc they’re only valid for travel to Mexico and Canada, but they are proofs of citizenship, and you can have a card as well as a passport.

they’re on mad tour too

• 02 Aug Heidelberg Metropolink Festival
• Sep 11 Sputnikhalle Münster, Germany
• Sep 13 Zuiderpark Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Sep 19 IF Performance Hall Beşiktaş Istanbul, Turkey
• Oct 2 Paper Tiger San Antonio, TX
• Oct 20 Le Poisson Rouge New York (NYC), NY
• Oct 21 Le Poisson Rouge New York (NYC), NY
• Oct 22 Black Cat Washington, DC
• Oct 23 The Pour House Music Hall & Record Shop Raleigh, NC
• Oct 24 Variety Playhouse Atlanta, GA
• Oct 25 The Orpheum - Old Location Tampa, FL
• Oct 26 White Oak Music Hall - Downstairs Houston, TX
• Oct 28 Paper Tiger San Antonio, TX
• Nov 3 Small’s Hamtramck, MI
• Nov 4 Opera House Toronto, ON
• Nov 5 Société des Arts Technologiques (SAT) Montreal, QC
• Nov 22 ASTRA Kulturhaus Berlin, Germany
• Nov 29 Event Center Bochum Bochum, Germany
• Mar 4 Academy 2 Manchester, UK
• Mar 5 Electric Brixton Brixton, UK
• Mar 7 Elysee Montmartre Paris, France
• Mar 27 Markthalle Hamburg, Germany
• Mar 28 Felsenkeller Leipzig, Germany
• Apr 16 The Vermont Hollywood Los Angeles (LA), CA
• Apr 17 The Vermont Hollywood Los Angeles (LA), CA
• Apr 18 Regency Ballroom San Francisco, CA
• Apr 21 The Crocodile - Old Location Seattle, WA
• Apr 30 Marquee Theatre Tempe, AZ
• May 1 Observatory North Park San Diego, CA
• May 2 Riverside Municipal Auditorium Riverside, CA

check here for a couple more dates: https://www.lebanonhanover.com/tour-dates/next-live-shows/index.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There's_a_sucker_born_every_minute

Same energy as an unhoused cat choosing its new home.

Kinda reminds me of the AI winters that AI research has historically gone through.

I suggest you hold out for a Scooby-snack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_at_the_Crossroads

A day that will live in infamy! But in a good way. A day that will live in famy!

There was a sumo wrestler who would do something similar, except he’d bounce up and down and grasp with his hands…

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8RuUVwAbmDg

The tournament organizers made him quit doing it tho…

What are ya, vegans? Real Men sip crude, just like God intended.

I posted something from these people about a week ago. They’re really far out. I was checking out their vimeo account, besides their music videos it has this weird series of home videos where they seem to be telling some surreal horror story.

Great stuff. Looks like the guy’s out of Brazil.