This doesn’t make sense. He can’t vote by proxy, so there’s no point in delaying. If anything, Republicans should want to hold the special as soon as possible, because the Kentucky governor gets to appoint a temporary replacement, and he’s a Democrat.
(I know this is just a meme, but I just don’t like poorly supported conspiracy theories.)
If I ever want anyone to know I’m old, I either tell them about the snowstorm of '32 or that I use Pandora. Still got all my stations from college!
You monster
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Great jaerb out there, Homestar!
Definitely Sephiroth, not the organization/government that’s literally draining the life energy of the planet
Fuji nine!
Björk Björk
“WHAT?” *pauses midway through microwaving a banana
I did this for a while when I had an injury and couldn’t walk easily, but the produce selection was always trash. Plus shopping (and maybe delivery) fees were very expensive. How do you get not-crappy produce if you do this?
Engineering: We only care if it works, even if it breaks math/physics/chemistry/biology.
“Sharing is caring!”
Fox News: That’s communism!
Fair enough, and I wish she was elected over Trump because she was the only other contender. But is she actually the best choice for 2028? The Democrats’ bench sucks, but there are still people I’d prefer over her (who could hopefully actually win a primary). I might take her over Newsome, though.
I mean, I do wish she was president right now because the world would be a better place. But that statement is also probably true of approximately 8 billion other people.
The last panel looked off, so I think it is edited from the original comic: https://jakelikesonions.com/post/184087753999/drug-sniffing-cats
Oh, duh, it’s in the description. But thanks for the recipe! I’ll try that out soon because I’m almost out of my store-bought one.
Looks delicious! Is there something on top of the furikake? Mine usually doesn’t have any kind of red peppers on it
“I would prefer not to.”
~Bartleby the Orangutan
My thoughts, ended up being longer than I meant, but here:
Paying attention to the loudest voices, you will think we’ve split into two societal groups: those who use AI and think it’s absolutely perfect and will save humanity (“sheep”), and those who deny it has any uses whatsoever, is morally abhorrent, and is going to end mankind, either through war or through decay (“luddites”).
Most people will be in the middle. We will slowly learn what LLMs are good at doing, and what’s it bad at doing, and it’ll be messy. People will lose their jobs, but then some companies will realize that AI can’t actually replace those people, and some services/products will get dramatically worse/enshittified. Others will begin making a living through the use of AI, some adding great value to society and others just creating slop that a small but big enough fraction of the masses will consume to keep it around. People who are smarter at separating the good from the bad will laugh at both the luddites and the sheep.
One or two AI companies will fail and there will be massive turmoil and fallout for them. But most will either slowly reduce expectations or succeed moderately over time. Generalized AI will turn out to be way harder than some thought, and consciousness a way bigger leap from LLMs than predicted. There will be a loud push to implement safeguards, and it will be mostly ignored by politicians. However, there will be some progress on energy and water concerns, leading to large differences between countries/US states in terms of regulation. AI will turn out to be mostly bad for kids.
There will be several huge successes - a huge medical cure/vaccine, or an amazing technological invention/improvement, probably some kind of multi-disciplinary discovery. The people who drive it to completion will acknowledge it wouldn’t have occurred without AI, but humans were mostly responsible, but the media will claim that AI invented it out of whole cloth. There will also probably be some high-profile failures, like car crashes or critical server outages, maybe even leading to deaths. Luddites will seize upon them as if they’re apocalypses, and sheep will dismiss them as anomalies. The truth will be in-between. Most people’s lives will not change drastically.
I scrape all of the kernels off, then have a friend fling them into my mouth with a slingshot while screaming “Ayayayaya, Zordon!”