I’m still hoping for a rogue AI company to allow people to produce their own sequels to films, or maybe fix endings or problems within existing ones. Want to create a new Ninja Turtles film that looks just like the original? No problem! Want a Robocop vs Terminator film? Easy!

These would likely need to be crowdfunded and worked on in teams but that’s half the fun.

I have strong evidence that both Elon Musk and Sam Altman have developed antigravity technology and plan on speaking on it very soon…

Maybe a decade from now, we’ll be reading story after story of how many companies went belly up after offloading their talent for the AI scam.

They milked 16 years out of everyone. Totally worth it on their part. Like when tabloids run a lie, make millions and have to pay $100k in damages. Totally worth it.

Yeah yeah… OpenAI said the same thing about GPT-2 7 years ago. ‘Guys, we’ve accidentally built something so strong that it’s dangerous!’

And what did we get? AI slop videos and no cure for cancer. Pass.

I haven’t heard anyone mention Snapchat in a long time.

Some countries have nukes so they can bully other countries. And some countries have nukes to keep the bully’s at bay. I don’t think anyone seriously considers Iran a terrorist nation that would use one in a preemptive strike. Now the US and Israel in the other hand…

They paid the shakedown fee.

that’s the outcome of soft fascism: a lot of pay to play.

I passed on an invitation to tender a number of years ago because there was no way to meet the minority / women quota that was tied to it. The big players use pass through front companies which isn’t feasible for me as I’m a solo operator.

The Netgear thing is more egregious but the quotas are more pervasive. I would like to be rid of both.

It’s very possible to do so. Partner with someone in the space and they take a vig.

An even better option is to partner with a veteran owned entity, which often allows you to bypass the bidding process.

The funding was tied to women and minorities only, so no veteran option. Also I would have had to get certified for that specific location which involves a third party that comes in and interviews the women / minorities to make sure they have actual positions of power and were not just figureheads. They had a scale down option so they could opt for a very small purchase that would actually be smaller than the audit cost let alone the cost of passing such an audit.

Gotcha. Well, at least it's a legit program, although that doesn't help you.

In some places this stuff is so vague that using a minority business (like say SHI) is essentially a sort of tax to win discretionary purchases with governments.

What Trump is doing is outright grift; payola, racketeering.

And you think it's a good moment to complain about affirmative action?

> It is because people were upset with what the democrats were doing

This is vague and doesn't say anything. Can you be more specific?

1) Which people? 2) What were Democrats doing?

Cutting off one's nose to spite one's face does not convincingly impugn one's face.

I wish you the best of luck turning the sinking ship around, I’ve already voted with my feet.

Somehow, doubt that you do.

Stop filtering your nutrition through animals. It’s inefficient.

To add to that, it is environmentally destructive and cruel.

It works both ways: "Yeah, let me eat 100kg of beef per day instead of 500g of broccoli to get my Vitamin C."

But anyway, legumes are much more efficient source of protein than beef. I don't understand why you decided to compare against broccoli.

Sorry, let me eat 1.8kg of lentils instead. The point I was making is that there is a need for both.

Maybe we should eat both then.

Okay but what are you eating after your weekly allowance of 500g red meat to avoid needlessly increasing your bowel cancer risk?

Dog meat isn't available here, and where it is available in countries such as China and Vietnam, they are readily tortured and boiled alive to make the meat 'taste better'. No thanks.

It is for the same reason I do not eat pork.

So he has upgraded from an alien to a robot to AI. Next stop is a ghost.