@Jolly Well it certainly isn’t Pierre Poilievre.

It costs $2.50/mile to ship a van load of product from a port or distribution hub. IOW, about $800 for 40,000 pounds of electronics, widgets, whatever, from the Port of New Orleans to Shreveport. Or what, two or three cents/pound?

I could do high-and-tight on the left, mullet on the right?

Depending on format, this is definitely worth it... https://store.motherearthnews.com/products/mother-earth-news-classic-archive-1970-2021 Back in the 1990's, you'd get the archives for free...

@jon-nyc said in Chicago Air Taxi: Nice. We used to have helicopter service from midtown to LGA. I don’t think it’s there anymore. Remember this? https://gothamist.com/news/in-1977-five-were-killed-in-helicopter-accident-atop-midtowns-pan-am-building In 1977, Five Were Killed In Helicopter Accident Atop Midtown's Pan Am Building On May 16th, 1977, a New York Airways helicopter killed five people in Manhattan. While it did not crash, it did tip over as it sat idling on the heliport atop the Pan Am Building (now the MetLife Building, at 200 Park Ave) in Midtown. This caused the aircraft to come apart—as it tipped over a large rotor blade snapped off and, as the NY Times described it the next day, "slashed people to death before coming to rest 59 stories below and a block away on Madison Avenue." The first four victims were on the roof, the fifth was on the street below. Others suffered non-fatal injuries. [image: 1679679051506-e94ad04d-c826-4f44-a804-6ceda3bbf1a8-image.png]

I bet they didn't even see it coming

Oh yeah. Yer a fan.

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@George-K said in Homeless Camp and the Sandwich Shop: Is the US unique with this problem? What problem? The USA is #56, UK #36, Japan #85 Syria #1 by a lot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_homeless_population

@Doctor-Phibes said in Spotify has an AI DJ now.: [image: 1679666963661-9b72aeb4-1d88-4efb-b348-79ec850ee688-image.png] He'd be far more reliable. And honest.

I've stopped listening to NPR. It's awful. Every discussion has this tacit assumption that they're smarter than the rest of us. WGBH are the most patronising bunch of assholes, who stop reporting for about 15 minutes of every hour just to tell us how awesome they are. If you need to tell people how awesome you are every hour, you're probably not that awesome. Obviously, I don't listen to Tucker, either. I grew up in northern England, I really don't need to listen to his "sarcastic humor and ridicule in a way only he can pull off" to learn about sarcastic humour or ridicule

Wonder what would happen if we add a human toddler or two into the mix. Supervised, of course.

@George-K said in Bard: @Aqua-Letifer said in Bard: Could be the data set, too. Unless you think the media has been fair and balanced with respect to Trump and Clinton. THat's my point. GIGO Yeah I gotcha. And anyway, when these tools get sophisticated enough to self-learn, I guarantee you no one will ever remember the 3-year sliver of time in their infancy that they had a liberal bias when asked about American politics. "It's always been that way around here", IOW. No, my point was that these "problems" are going to seem hilarious once these tools develop self-awareness. You're going to wish you could go back to the days they merely had a liberal bias. The new, far worse problems are going to have nothing to do with that.

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My parents were median consumers when it came to automobiles. VW bugs in the 60s Chevy Impalas in the 70s Ford Escort in the mid 80s Camry after Camry in the 90s

I don't know...Back in the day, I've had a lot of fun in the stacks.

What an absolute clickbait title. It’s a shame what has happened to journalism. I guess I’m part of the problem since I gave it a click, although sometimes I go out of my way not to if the headline is clickbaity. Also, can we pause and realize how immature and weird it is that folks have debates and evidence and threads…using little Twitter snippets? Guess I’m in a curmudgeonly mood right now!

I knew about a lot of them. Too bad earlier ones didn’t succeed.