“We’re wrong about economics. But because we’re all wrong in the same way it kinda works.” ~Mark Blyth, political economist
“We’re wrong about economics. But because we’re all wrong in the same way it kinda works.” ~Mark Blyth, political economist
A new priest has to replace another priest who recently retired. As he’s taking confession, the woman on the other side says she sinned because she performed a blowjob. The priest had no idea of the correct penance for this. Just then a young acolyte passes so he leans out of his chair and asks the boy: “how much do they give around here for a blowjob?” The boy promptly answers: “One snicker bar, sir.”
Yeah, that’s the kinda stuff going around in the 80s.
And some just define “research” as clicking the next video in the recommendation list, a list carefully crafted by an algorithm to keep people engaged by feeding more of the same.
Hydrogen cars and trains.
Musk often operated using the “better forgiveness than permission” policy
Big difference between having a conversation and having a media company distributing propaganda.
The limits are only your imagination.
Except Tesla’s uncle had brain damage and doesn’t really learn from the situation so will go it again, and had clones of him driving thousands of other cars.
I need some alcohol at least once per month.
Turns out there are after market mods for that. Spoiler, other front, flame paint job
That thing’s front and back are exactly the same. It saves on fabrication costs to use the same part but it gives a weird look.
not as fun as Reddit used to be
Reddit isn’t as fun as Reddit used to be either
Citroën Ami is available. Closer to $8000 and technically a quadricycle. All bare minimum to make it street legal.
Everybody forgot that chatGPT-2 was just a bullshitting machine. Version 3 to the surprise of the developers very useful to many people while they just made a highly trained bullshitting machine.
People: “Government should be run like a business”
Government: “Speed enforcement is now done by a private business. You’re welcome.”
People: “They’re now trying to squeeze every less cent out of us with speed enforcement!”
Business: “Efficiency!”
Their precious economies can’t survive beyond 2050. Damages from climate disasters will be big enough to make every economy shrink and make the Great Depression look like child’s play.
For a lot of producers, that’s not even true for ICE cars anymore. More safety features and emission regulations make them more expensive to produce relative to larger cars.
Let’s see some numbers that ads work.
Companies have tested this. A DIY chain ran an ad and people complained it was annoying, so they stopped running it. Their sales started to decline. Started running the ad again and sales went up.
Probably you’re not the target audience and just collateral damage in the ad war, but for the population in general they work.
Self checkout is often not the quick option for me. Accidental double scans, coupons, random tests all requiring assistance who is already occupied make waiting behind an old person a more consistent experience.
Originally Christmas celebrations were 12 days. It’s still accepted to keep an decorations up until the 12th day, so that means you can start taking things down on Epiphany