Am I missing something? I only see the AI overview as an option after clicking the “try new features” lab logo. Are some versions of Google search forcing this feature currently?

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Is making art with the rain an option?

Sand darkens when wet so that could make a cool canvas, theoretically.

You could also play with that “wall of rain” effect you sometimes see when you are just outside of a heavy rain area.

Alternatively, just make “social commentary” like a torrential downpour on the financial district. Sometimes art is just revenge.

Hunting down Catholic priests

Turns out they were basically bounty hunters for Catholic priests during Elizabeth I’s reign.

“Really? How about dying for it?”

What’s the old lingers?

Maybe no one should see it?

There’s pretty widely documented evidence that slaughterhouse work is also harmful to mental health.

(Link is to sagepub)

Nah, it’ll find food no problem. The legal liabilities are the real kicker.

The community’s called work reform.

Imagine being this much of a jerk over a webcomic

Explaining a joke never makes it funny.

Also, you’re calling a joke low-brow while also admitting you didn’t understand it.

Do you also need me to explain why that’s a self-own?

Make them open and close in a circular pattern like a camera aperture and I’m in

I had heard the servitor story before but forgot where it was sourced. Do you happen to remember which book it came from?

RomneyCare was similar to Obamacare, mostly based on an individual mandate to buy private sector plans.

If we find people who regret it, do we then need to ban it? Is there a certain threshold of regretful people we need to meet?

Do you expect a lot of people to regret something that happened to them before they were capable of forming memories?

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“According to Air Canada, Moffatt never should have trusted the chatbot and the airline should not be liable for the chatbot’s misleading information because Air Canada essentially argued that “the chatbot is a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions,” a court order said.”

Can you imagine the hellscape we’d be living in if precedent went the other way? Companies could just run every unsavory decision through some machine learning system and then wash their hands of it afterwards.

“Oh you were illegally fired? Sorry, that decision came from the Overmind, not from us.”

I agree with you that the DNC, and lots of democrats, are often terrible at messaging.

I’d quibble with your framing about some of these things not connecting with average voters, but I’d rather take a step back a bit.

I guess my main idea is: If we care about the project of government being involved in people’s lives in a helpful way, we owe it to people who are less privileged than us to walk and also chew gum here. We, the people who have time and resources to research this stuff and debate instead of picking up a second job to make ends meet.

Maybe you don’t have time for this shit. I don’t blame or judge you if that’s the case. I’m speaking to the terminally online people who have time to worry about this stuff.

And when I say “walk and chew gum” I mean:

1. Vote in the primary against shitty centrist dems when you can,

2. Vote for them over their fascist opponent if they win the primary anyway.

3. Have conversations about solutions that are simple and straightforwardly helpful to people’s lives to help broaden that Overton window. Including criticizing the DNC when they fail to offer those.

4. Do the DNC’s job for them on communication about the helpful policies we do get. Because we have gotten some. Positive conversations about government programs that are currently being implemented are not happening enough.

They do take time to implement, and they’re not enough, and on and on. I agree with the negative sentiment about it. [Edited out some unhelpful whining here] That said, there’s too much work to do for the problems with the DNC to be the whole conversation. If you don’t support fascism, we’re on the same side.

I listed two already and others have listed more, but I’ll take your comment as if it’s in good faith anyway and link to:

more information about the Inflation Reduction Act

Which is both a huge investment in infrastructure and climate initiatives and also pretty poorly understood by most people.

And to make a bigger point: on the left we have an intrinsically harder job than the right does, since their argument is that government sucks and then they prove it by working in it and doing a shitty job.

It’s hard for government programs to work effectively, even when they have huge popular support. People with money and power always want them to fail. It means our results sometimes aren’t pretty, and aren’t perfect. But if even we shit all over them at every possible turn, how do you expect average voters to think any different?