Google images of “oasis band members.”

The planet is great. It’s the fucking occupants that are a problem.

That’s better. I guess the Aristotle helped with making coherent arguments.

Yes, I did read it. I’m going to need a source that says that was written by Diogenes Laertius quoting sometime else, not a quote of him, and he was quoting Diogenes of Sinope and not one of the other “pretty much all of the famous Greek philosophers”.

Maybe you should brush up on basic logic with Aristotle.

Wrong Diogenes.

Diogenes of Sinope

Diogenes Laertius

Balls

I suppose you could bake a brownie sphere in microgravity. That might be hard to get the center cooked without burning the surface though. Maybe a metal ball as a pan that you could coat with batter.

Even if Tesla somehow managed to de-Elon themselves and address the quality issues, those cars look so dated compared to other EVs that are available and what’s coming soon.

They gave the model 3 a facelift but they really need a major bodystyle update across the whole line. Nothing in the entire line looks much different than the 2009 prototype model S.

They went from being futuristic to boring as fuck.

Edit: Except for the truck, of course. But that’s just something else entirely and I don’t feel like writing an essay.

It’s a lot easier to tolerate the copaganda when they’re almost exclusively going after rapists.

The thing I found funny about SVU is someone obviously said “shit, Olivia has been at this for decades, she should be a captain by now,” so they made her one but she’s still taking calls, the first on the scene, and participating in the investigation.

Regulatory capture, it’s a problem through the government. Decades ago U.S. regulatory agencies were well respected around the world, to the point where if a U.S. body approved something, many other countries automatically followed. Now they’re a joke, taking orders from the industries they are supposed to oversee.

It’s not even just cheapo stuff anymore. They’ve really stepped up their game in the last several years, with ICE and a good range of EVs. I know a few people that have Hyundai EVs, and they all love them.

Their Genesis badge is also legit luxury. I would say they might be the best value in luxury cars right now because they can’t yet command the price the more established brands can.

These aren’t the shitty tin cans from when I was younger. If you’re looking for a new car don’t dismiss KIA/Hyundai/Genesis without checking them out.

Season 2 is out and there is a third season on the way. They’re beyond the book, obviously, but Gaiman co-wrote it.

I understand where you’re coming from and I’m pretty much an atheist, but if that happened I would at least consider taking a stroll over to the temple.

I think part of the difficulty discussing this is the discussions usually combine two different things. The production and distribution.

I was informed elsewhere in this thread people can already produce these images/videos on their own machines with no third parties involved or remote processing. I can’t think of a single thing that can be done about that so acceptance is all we’ve got.

Nonconsensual sharing, on the other hand, we can and should do something about. The legal system won’t be able to stop it altogether but it can push it to the fringes and stop it from becoming mainstream so any victims wouldn’t see fake images/videos of themselves proliferating everywhere.

Well…shit. It seems like any new laws are already too little too late then.

Some people can, I wouldn’t even know where to start. And is the photo/video generator completely on home machines without any processing being done remotely already?

I’m thinking about a future where simple tools are available where anyone could just drop in a photo or two and get anything up to a VR porn video.

As soon as anyone can do this on their own machine with no third parties involved all laws and other measures being discussed will be moot.

We can punish nonconsensual sharing but that’s about it.

I didn’t expect to get a laugh out of reading this discussion, thanks.

I stayed with Sprint through years of them being the shittiest in my area because I was grandfathered into an old plan with free nights starting at 5pm. Just taking non-stop at 6pm like a baller.

You don’t think the ‘greedy’ food production industry is gonna raise their prices for restaurants?

It doesn’t matter what I think, or what you think. The intermediate PPI I linked is what they’re paying. And what they’ve been paying has seen annualized deflation of ~5% for most of a year now. Why? I’m not sure. Maybe because we can’t stop eating but restaurants can close their doors if their profit margins disappear so their demand is more elastic. It doesn’t make sense for suppliers to drive their customers out of business. Maybe it’s something else, it doesn’t matter. They’re paying what they’re paying, and what they’re paying has been deflating at 5% annualized for a while.

Or are you saying…all the restaurants in America, along with all the grocery stores, are conspiring to keep prices high for consumers?

No need for a conspiracy when there is a lack of incentive to do anything else. Why would they ever charge less than we’ll pay?

And no single mom & pop shop is like, hey, we could lower our prices

Have you not been paying attention for the last 40 years? Small business in competition with giant corporations have to run razor thin margins to stay competitive. And if one did manage to find a little fat to cut, Walmart et al. will just run at a loss until they’re gone.

As long as we can pay, they’ll charge more. Where is the money coming from? I don’t know, maybe it’s the increased savings rate during COVID I read so much about, maybe something else. For things with inelastic demand people will deplete savings and run up credit cards. Once that money has been extracted…blood, stone, etc. The prices will come down, but not until maintaining them is literally impossible. Anything else would violate fiduciary responsibility to the shareholder.