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There are plenty of bpa-free options.

It adds that vidoes … should not be made for the “sole purpose of getting views.”

Now do the rest of the internet.

Yeah, and I see no mention of type-safety and concurrency.

Didn’t some magazines ship software with plastic records that could be played on a conventional record player?

As I was grabbing my things, the lady ringing me up at goodwill said “last but not least, your receipt.”

I got to my car before I thought “what part of this transaction could be less than the receipt?”

To use your car metaphor, there was a time when you basically needed to know how a car worked in order to own/operate one. I'm talking like the 1910s-1920s. They were unreliable, simply made, manual transmission, hand crank start, and needed a lot of maintenance.

Millennials grew up at a time when you needed to have some understanding of how a computer worked in order to do basically anything.

I suppose the issue is that the car metaphor breaks down because a vehicle really only does one thing. Push pedal and go. Maybe worry about snow conditions if that affects you.

Meanwhile, computers can still be used to do thousands of different tasks and the only thread tying all of those tasks together is that they're done by the same machine. So knowing fundamentals about the machine gives you access to a lot of capability vs. just memorizing how to do a few tasks.

I think it’s saying that estrogen has more double carbon bonds, so it’s more stable as a molecule

Sure. Either way, if the goal is to keep older cars on the road, I don't think EVs are impacting that. If cars are useful, they get driven. If there isn't a market for them here, they get shipped overseas to developing markets to be used there. Nobody is throwing away functioning or serviceable vehicles.

People tend to not drive their old cars into the ocean when they buy an EV.

They sell it to someone who is probably replacing an even older car. Newer cars tend to be more efficient than older cars, so the effect is the same.

I once tried to use it to find the title of a book my wife enjoyed in her childhood based on her description of the plot. It described a possible book that could be written with that content and even suggested a title.

Cool, thanks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

Yeah except one is a private entertainment establishment, and the other is a public transportation service.

The perfect consumer-facing example of this is Clear at the airport.

Instead of waiting in line to have your ID checked by a TSA agent, you let an iPad take your picture and then have an agent walk you to the TSA agent and vouch for you.

The whole iPad thing is marginally faster than just checking your ID by hand, so really they just found a way to monetize cutting the line. This provides zero net benefit to society except for extracting money from people for something that's supposed to be free.

Also, when everyone has Clear, we'll be back in the same boat with long lines and they'll probably charge more for Clear+ or some shit.

Vodka is renewable

Theater where I used to live in Rhode Island in 2012 was $2 a ticket. Thursday’s were half off.

They played stuff that was out of theaters but not yet on streaming, but it was basically a LCD projector in a room with a few speakers.

They didn’t give a FUCK what you did in that room when the movie was running.

Not true. A few months ago, a kid played Tetris until it crashed. Technically beating the game.

Johnny Five-dicks

Pretty sure otters are just little people in otter suits

Isn't the whole DOGE thing to remove people and replace them with AI or something? Isn't this kind of a bad endorsement?

Hm... isn't a holiday coming up in a week or so?