My wife meant to take my name, but then we never did the paperwork. So we just left it.

Say it with me now:

J E B B B B B B B B B B B B!

Right? Shocker, I'm able to listen to a thing actively and vocally contribute while doing something mindless like doing/folding laundry or making food because they use different parts of my brain.

The meat mech is capable of doing something physical with no thought, while engaging language processing for something else.

A track record of beating trump?

Something about the statistical validity of a sample size of one.

I'm convinced conservatives would vote for a potato if you put it in a Nazi arm band at this point.

Any tips for eliminating the stutter, or increasing the smoothness of the emulation? I've got an i7-12700k, 4090, and 64GB of ram and it seems to struggle a bit.

Saw a video from Denmark I think where everyone is biking everywhere and the metro station has an enormous numbered rack for depositing bicycles for storage. The entire thing is spotless, well maintained, and has zero graffiti.

All I could think is that in the US the fabric of our society and the integrity of the social contract is so degraded that even if we somehow had the political capital to build it - it would be destroyed by individual anti-social behaviors. And we'd certainly never have the wherewithal to maintain or repair it.

I'd pay 5k but only if it also did basically all animals, plants, provided information about them (especially edibility or usefulness), ideally could accurately identify fungi, had a variable zoom, thermal/night, and a laser range finder

New Year's Festival. Mandatory day off for everyone except emergency services

It definitely sucks. The difference in quality between the pine boards my dad purchased at the hardware store for projects when I was a child, vs the pine boards available now when I get some for a project is NUTS. The number of rings visible on the end has dropped from a dozen or more to a mere handful, they're way less dense than they used to be.

I fucking HATE buying lumber because it's an all day ordeal to sort through the stack of boards to find a dozen that aren't warped, crooked, knotted, rough edged, or missing a corner because it came from the very edge of the log. I almost wish they'd leave an open space next to the stack so I could stick all the trash boards there as I go through them, because only one out of every ten to fifteen is actually usable for anything where precision or appearance matters.

Or you can choose to pay a premium over the already absurd (but appropriate, considering the factors you mentioned) for "Select" grade boards. It's legitimately difficult to build any kind of furniture type project under what it would cost to buy from a company producing the same thing using an economy-at-scale advantage.

Imagine you own a couch you can sit on for forty hours a week, and it's decoratively on display in your living room, but generally completely unused.

You're not going to want to pay the same amount to be able to sit on it less, even if you never do.

The analogy here is that management basically sees you as furniture they literally own. They don't want to give up ownership of that time for any reason.

Exactly this.

Non violent mass protests work because the implicit threat is, "make the changes we're demanding or we'll drag you out here and beat you to death."

MLK was only effective because of the alternative of dealing with Malcolm X.