Better than South Korea’s 69 hour work week

Is… is this reverse Fetterman? Did Trump have a stroke and become a democrat?

This is where technology advancement need to be focused. I’m looking at smart home stuff right now so that I can automate as much of my house before I get old. Memory? We currently have AI transcription and context processing medallions, think of a decade of progress on that could get us to (please keep it opensource and the transcripts out of corporate hands). Walking? Well, lots of exo-skeletons out there. One might take off - I’m hopping for a balloon powered one. Dementia? Actual good use of context-aware genAI. Medications? Diabetics already have smart pumps, why not work on something like that for other medications?

I think once the babyboomers pass through the system, hopefully the next generations will finally begin to embrace technology and lessen the need for so many healthcare workers. I want LAN parties at my nursing home, not shuffleboard.

What are the odds that the presidential immunity case will be decided after the first debate?

The picture included makes me think we should challenge the mayor’s hotshot skier son to a race down Triple Diamond run, and if we win the library will be saved for us punk kids to use on Sundays.

Yes, that maximizes happiness at the expense profit, the polar opposite of setting it at $100 to maximize profit at the expense of happiness.

Three thirsty people walk out of the desert, one at a time, and walk up to a water salesman. The first has $1, the second has $10, and the third has $100. What should the salesman charge in order to maximize profit while keeping all the customers happy?

$1 sounds reasonable, if their are other water salesmen it would probably be the best price, but it leave a lot of money on the table.

$10 sounds good, since 2/3s of the customers will get water and the saleman gets 600% more money.

$100 is the price that gets the most money, but leaves 2/3s thirsty and is way above what you should charge for water.

The answer, strangely, breaks the notion of “fair”. Let us pretend that these three bottles of water are the only sale this salesman will ever make, quitting the business right afterwards. Also, let us say that none of the three will ever see the other two people’s transactions. The answer then is to charge the first man $1, the second $10, and the third $100. Everyone gets water and the salesman gets the maximum amount of money. The problem is that we, subconsciously, feel that this is ‘unfair’ even though everyone got what they wanted. The ethical would set it at $1 while the businessmen would set it at $100 while trying to drive everyone else out of business. But what if the rich could be charged more than the poor? What if sales were based off of what each individual was willing to pay instead of which fixed price would garner the most profit?

Would this be a better world or a worse one?

He was told that a vaccine would be produced by Easter of 2020. He then repeated that to the press. A vaccine was produced by Easter of 2020. In fact, the RNA Moderna was ready before Easter. It just took 9 months for it to be approved as safe.

For a “red tape cutter” he sure dragged his feet on getting the vaccine to market. Of course, he was also the most “close down the border” president in the history of the USA, and even then he was still letting planes fly straight from China up until people called him on it in April of 2020. This just shows that there will never be a situation which we can truly shutdown the border, so we should just plan that viruses will cross and we will have to deal with them.

So, if you are married for a day (after, lets say a drunken wedding in Vegas), the person you are married to gets 50% of your assets and you get 50% of theirs? I think a fairer way is either keep all assets separate or have some sort of automatic pre-nup for all marriages.

Voice recognition vs. Download an app where you can’t make mistakes (and a giant corporation can harvest your data). Hmm, I wonder which mcway mcdonalds will go?

“Will you be using our app today?”

Maybe instead of getting rid of divorce, just make divorce fair for both parties?

Too bad we can’t get get the granularity of congressional district on these…

MAGA SCOTUS justices in this case, MAGA judge in the classified docs case, MAGA prosecutor in the Georgia case … good thing we hit him with four cases at the same time.

Well, second in Asia, after China.

What? They don’t do same-sex marriage? The Chinese province of Taipei does. Unless you are suggesting that isn’t part of China.

<ANTI-LGBTQ China bot has hit an exception and has shutdown>

No, this one is a republican, so he is Rwayne “the Dock” Johnson

Meta, when seeing this, confirmed that it will buy the company and then say “due to low active users, we will be shutting down Gorilla Tag to focus on other areas”, then secretly hope if they shut down everything popular, people will finally give Meta worlds a try.

Reminds me of the Galaxy Quest line: “miners, not minors!”

Ya, the Ruble is falling against the dollar again, so of course this happens.

Since they are lifetime appointments, does that mean they don’t loose it if they get convicted of a crime? Could we see Trump and Thomas both in prison serving as president and SCOTUS judge?

Arizona is on the cusp of voting out it’s 1864 abortion law supporting supreme court justices. So, this measure would nullify that vote with a simple majority.