I’ll tell them

Is there any religious prohibition against enclosing the whole thing? Just make everything indoors, problem solved

When you look at the material that the human mind generates, it kind of makes you look at output from AI a little different.

Funny, I just commented elsewhere that my credit unions have always offered great rates on auto loans. Where are you located? I’m in the states.

I previously had a dealer be like “let me see if my guys can give you a better financing rate” and they did (slightly) than a bank rate I had secured. But since then I’ve financed a few times with a credit union and they’ve never been able to beat the rate.

In the U.S. most credit unions are regional, if you go to a branch you can withdraw cash easily, or they’ll have agreements with ATM networks where you can withdraw cash for a fee, just like banks do.

In my daily life my credit union is indistinguishable from a bank, with the exception that I’ve had a few auto loans from my credit unions and they’ve always offered a lower interest rate than anything a bank or car dealership can beat. They also gave me a discounted rate because I was buying an electric car.

Yes, that’s what I came here to say

Yeah, if evolution is so great, how come we can’t fly??

You don’t have to go, but unless the parties have tens of thousands attendees you’d probably have decades between invites. So it would be like, “it’s my turn for the big dope party!” Or even if it wasn’t your thing, you’d probably tell your friends “what the hell, I guess I’ll go.”

Plus imagine what innovations in party throwing will be developed with this infusion of funds into the party industrial complex!

Yeah, party!

Airbud

Tough crowd for this one! I think I get it though - like magic in the sense there are unseen forces that do amazing things, but also like a wizard in the sense that if you study giant books, gather various artifacts and take the right steps in the right order you can harness the unseen forces.

I’m a millennial too. You’re right, there were definitely people saying we suck, aren’t hard workers, it’s our own fault for not doing well financially, etc. I’m just saying that wasn’t all the boomers in the same way all millennials aren’t giving gen z shit. But those sorts of claims drive engagement, from upset people in both demographics, so that’s why the narrative keeps popping up.

Hmm sensing similarities to that other thread where the gen z person was saying millennials always complain about them. What if some predictable percentage of people regardless of the time they were born are assholes?

I think UBI will become a lot more plausible in the future.

That said, as a macro approach to the problem of job security and AI taking jobs, I see serious potential in worker co-ops which own the equipment and processes. As in the past, the problem isn’t that technology is making something more efficient. The problem is a small subset of people benefiting from the technology while others struggle. If we own the business and democratically control decision making then we all can benefit. (And going beyond protecting our jobs we create more long term security and power)

The problem of course is how we get there from here. For myself, my current plan is to grind enough until I’m in a position to start a co-op (or join an existing one) and then focus on growth, bringing more people onboard, and expanding the benefits that the co-op can bring its members.

I value small co-ops like local grocery stores, that said to really move the dial in creating the world we want to see, I think we need to get big, and to be competitive in terms of product as well as pay compared to non-democratic major players. One co-op I’m excited about is Obran, which is a conglomerate that converts private owned businesses to co-ops. I’m also excited about platform co-ops like the drivers cooperative and Artisans cooperative.

Ow stop slapping me with your words

But your words are the part that go and touch other people’s brains.

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Joker is claiming he’s smoking good weed and Batman disagrees telling him it’s low quality. Then Joker goes to clean out the bottom part of the grinder he uses to prepare his weed, which is the part that catches all the tiny weed particles, so it’s the most potent part.

Seems to be the elf is setting themselves up to receive the human’s inheritance money. If they play their cards right they could pull this scam many times

Sorry to further bum but this article says his dog was lingering around the neighbors house after the kidnapping so it’s suspected the neighbor killed the dog. It was found poisoned in front of their house.

This article says the only reason the kidnapper’s family member snitched was because of an inheritance dispute.