@AlexNoonan6 This seems to happen every so often that it seems ridiculous to ever buy the S&P 500 and yet it keeps chugging along magnificently.
That being said, if all the boggle heads were at a boggle head convention and it were struck by a meteor, our country would be stronger as a result
@baldridgecpa I wish their UI still looked like that. Everything you needed is right there and the pages loaded fast AF. Now it's all formatted for boomers to mash big oval buttons with their fat fingers on their iPads. Slow as shit too.
When Mount Saint Helens erupted 46 years ago today, nothing survived that was within 230 square miles of the explosion.
Except for photographer Richard Lasher who escaped on his dirt bike after taking this shot.
@QuietProsperity Its funny no one said "you can basically get an omega for less than..." when they did the moon swatch but the AP Swatch is doing some sort of weird IQ reveal.
Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???
Exactly.
AI is an amazing tool for those already experts in a domain and makes a massive difference already.
It also gives a false sense of confidence when you nothing about a domain - and v easy to get stuck
@1000yearhouse yeah this is the biggest problem ive always had with "new materials." might be "better" out of the box but when they fail they have to be completely replaced rather than repaired. Also, worn natural materials often have character where worn veneers/etc look like garbage.
@youwillmakemaps ebay has effectively become my goodwill drop-off. I make sure shipping is 100% covered and I set the bid at $1 and will list anything that fits in the UPS box near my house. Some stuff sells for $2+shipping... others gets bid surprisingly high. Either way its convenient for me.
@josephnollasj How will this guy reconcile the fact that the clergy gets increasingly more conservative as one moves toward the newer generations? Or is he just ignorant to it?