I was so tempted to try their service, but it was always in the back of my mind, inside the part of my brain that was conscious during marketing 101 class in college: “What’s the long term business model here? What happens after they have everyone’s genetic identity?” Then it dawned on me like ooooohhhhh that’s the plan… no thanks.
The automotive manufacturers General Motors and Chrysler were partially nationalized in the wake of the 2008 Financial Crisis as were several banks… these were less a full government takeover and more of a government guided restructuring, but the government owned large stakes in these companies. Before that, the only full nationalization of anything substantial was the bankruptcy of the Penn Central Railroad and subsequent establishment of Consolidated Rail (branded as ConRail) the US’s only national freight rail company.
Conrail was later privatized into what is now the private companies CSX and Norfolk Southern. The collapse of Penn Central was the largest bankruptcy in history until Enron in the 1990’s. Amtrak, our national passenger rail corporation, is also a nationalized entity created around the same time as ConRail, for similar reasons, and is still nationalized (although the Trump admin wants to privatize it).
If only we’re that lucky. Like, I’ll even take “caught in a hot mic” trashing what few fans he’s got left while in a k hole. After he dies we’ve got to commit to a global effort to never allow his legacy to be white washed. Make him Benedict Arnold… did some good things, but was an unforgivable jackass otherwise. Maybe we can make his name synonymous with something anti-social? I dunno what that should be but we did it with Rick Santorum and it should be easy to do with Musk.
so many LLM’s just tell their users they’re always right
This is the problem, they apparently cannot be objective as just a matter of course.
Guess I’m not playing it then. Oh well.
I think it’ll be more of an Enron slash Theranos docudrama… questionable accounting and overvaluation mixed with a superstar CEO stuck in a faking-it-till-you-make-it corporate death loop with investors drunk on hype.
Some US states and local school boards are doing this as well. I believe South Carolina has a law like this going into the upcoming term in August. Students will be allowed to bring devices, but they must be stored during class. One school district is using these little pouches with magnetic locks to which the teachers and admin have the key… so students can keep their devices on their person, but would be unable to access them.
Sadly, one of the more relevant (and understandable) arguments against this trend is parents concerns about being about to get in touch with their child in the event of a school shooting. In active shooter events and lockdowns, many school systems and local governments have been slow to inform parents of the situation… this exacerbates concerns where parents (again, understandably) want to be able to get in touch with their child.
Us Americans live in a hell scape of tragedy and senseless death.
Nah, it’s on the bridge… that panel is loaded to the max with rocks and fireworks.
Still… I expect hurricanes in Florida, not in Tennessee.
Corporate does this all the time to at my work.
The GM of my office came talk to me because I had actually won like employee of the quarter or something, but when I got the email with the “redeem here for your $50 gift card” I reported it as phishing. I asked him why they couldn’t just go to the grocery store and hand me a physical gift card, he blinked for a moment like that hadn’t occurred to him. I showed him the quarantined emails I get on Outlook every day from dozens of phishing attempts made to my work email everyday.
Indeed it is brother… indeed it is.
Rugby players.
I don’t care for sports so much, but a ton of my friends play rugby. Several of my exes play rugby. I’ve got cousins who play rugby. I live in the States and, while rugby is popular, it’s no where near the levels of enthusiasm where like 90% of the people a person hangs out with plays it (and you not also play or have any real interest in it). Mostly to support people I was dating, I’ve been to like ten games in my life and, while I understand how the game is played, I’m just completely uninterested in sports and following sports as a hobby or interest. I don’t know why, but rugby people love me and I love them.
Season 1 was basically Seth MacFarlane’s TNG fan scripts… it’s a Star Trek series through and through.
They’re kinda like the S-Pen… is it cool? Sure! Do I find myself using it? No, not really.
As an American I implore you to start.
People are telling me to boycott Tesla and I’m over here like “I wasn’t about to buy a $65k vehicle spontaneously but I guess won’t now anyways.”
Loads of people go on about how “awe shucks, we’re in the Mad Max future, instead of the Star Trek future” completely unaware that Star Trek’s utopia was built on top of the ruins of a Mad Max distopia that came first.
In canon, Star Trek’s utopia only happened after Earth had a nuclear WWIII followed by the Eugenics War (and several related genocides) before first contact with the Vulcans. In fact, without those wars, we might not have gotten the tech for warp drive. In further lore, after the wars of the 21st century and before first contact, there was a concerted “never again” kind of movement globally eventually resulting in the United Earth government being founded. It then took more than a century of technological and societal progress to get to the matter replicator driven post-scarcity economy.
So we could be on track for Star Trek future… but none of us will be alive to see it.
I really loved the “Anchor Man” DVD menu. Solid graphics, great playthrough, simple controls.
And turns out… he can get away with everything.
I mean… yeah, probably.
Seriously… the fact that Rachel Ray is the only one to made it out of Oprah’s influence with any kind of wide-spread appeal is crazy.