We had a class called Consumer Math in High School which taught all of that stuff, like how to make a budget, buying a first car, taking out a mortgage, doing taxes. It was a remedial class for the “dumb” kids. Everyone else took the standard Pre Algebra > Algebra > Trig > Calc path. So dumb.

Yesterday I offhand suggested not using so much soviet imagery in order to make communism and socialism more attractive to people, they really didn’t like that. I mean I understand the symbols have a rich history but so did the swastika. Eh.

Before every game: A SHOWDOWN FOR THE AGES, TWO TEAMS ENTER, WHO WILL WIN, WITNESS HISTORY AS THESE TWO LEGENDARY TEAMS BATTLE IT OUT IN THE GAME OF THE CENTURY

Thanks for the deep dive, yeah that seems really suspicious, the pdf of that study definitely looks like it was paid for by someone with an agenda, seems to be the opposite of what I suspected, going towards alarmism. I feel like anyone who’s up for taking a survey on AI is already into AI so it’s pretty skewed. I suppose one thing from that study did make some sense:

Many people who are using AI relationship technologies report that they prefer AI communication over engaging with a real person in a genuine relationship.

Sure, everyone loves a sycophant who hangs on their every word and agrees with them all the time… for a while at least.

One in five are you god damn fucking serious? I keep hearing about this, it’s feeling like astroturfing to make it seem/feel normal. If people don’t even need each other anymore it’s over we’re fucked.

Right, kick ass. Well, don’t want to sound like a dick or nothin’, but, ah… it says on your chart that you’re fucked up. Ah, you talk like a fag, and your shit’s all retarded. What I’d do, is just like… like… you know, like, you know what I mean, like…

cool story, fuck capitalism.

No way me too.

I used to think like this… still do.

LFO - Freak

Wow good article thanks, added the RSS

There have long been extremely strong rumors that the CIA wrote and promoted the Scorpions’ hit song “Winds of Change” as regime change propaganda.

Dammit, that’s a jam too.

80s comedies, complete with totally inappropriate references, ableism, racism, sexism, homophobia, unnecessary nudity and macho bullshit. Idk.

“In 1902, they were going to put a statue of Robert E. Lee up. Would have been okay with me,” Trump said. “A lot of people wouldn’t have liked it, would have been okay with me. It would have been okay with a lot of the people in this room, but they didn’t do that.”

Go fuck yourself with a soldering iron.

I suppose it would work like working on an oil rig, only with much more hazard pay I would hope. I could see people signing up for a few shifts to make some money. Not me I like grass.

Why would robots even need to commute why wouldn’t they just be there ready to wake up and go? Sorry, are our sex robots going to work for us too? Hmm, I think it would be two different bots.

Pretty much my main source as well besides Soulseek and the occasional music blog, holdouts from another age lol.

Soulseek is great, welcome. OT I can’t really believe people suggest ripping music from Youtube as an alternative, how can you listen to such crappy quality music? It’s usually compressed and then when you upload to youtube it’s compressed again, then guess what it’s compressed again when it’s converted to an mp3 because youtube is using different compression. Do yourself and your ears a favor and seek out quality music.

The crime is coming from inside the House.

The Leftovers. It seems like a show about the end of the world, but then it’s not. Amazing show one of my all time favs.

Indeed and this very thing happened to me as I was a teenager talking shit to a user on our local MajorBBS system, which was a popular multi line BBS system that had chat, games, forums, fidonet, etc. and he showed up to the next meetup at the park (he did warn me he was going to be there, to kick my ass). Everything turned out fine but lesson learned.