Robert

What do we suppose it would take to start a publicly owned health insurance company? One where the participants are the stakeholders?

"what if... We let everyone die... But do so in a way that channels the wealth to us?" Isn't a cohesive plan?

I used to think that this was the military's job.

[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]

Every ad now

I think you lose the ability to call it a GOP shutdown when the Democrats are literally the ones that flipped to end it. Seems like they were in control the whole time.

How is Quality Time not everyone's love language (and why are the rest of you broken)?

Now it's weird to hunt them.

RE:welcome

What species?

Maybe your mortgage company?

I hope this was rhetorical because I do not have an answer

You ever have a situation that fits into a storage unit auction as a metaphor?

Like, you never KNEW what was in there but everything pointed to it being full of good stuff, but then your partner implies that "it's empty actually." and you have to decide whether or not to still bid on it?

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

I was really hoping that the good way wasn't phonics. There's just so many letter combinations in English that are stupid. Objectively.

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

What kind of instructions is "microwave to desired temperature"?

"because they're consigning people to death regardless, we've decided to co-sign those deaths and somehow have not ourselves become the monsters."

Pics? 😁

I mean. It broke the right way but we DID have a civil war. And genderqueer Americans have, by the American population, been utterly disparaged.

A togglable "I'm an adult with kids and a job" feature that assumes you only get to play once a week, and dumps a summary of what you were last doing/your current objectives in a corner tooltip on loading a save.

Oh man. I really thought y'all would take a swing at the AI discourse regarding ARC. It's unusual for y'all to avoid The Hard Topic completely.

There a market

It's wild to me they are able to move around with impunity. One civil traffic engineer could fix all of this. It's so hard to avoid complete traffic jams— causing one that blocks these assholes in should be trivial.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide.

Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.

Nobody talks about the Christmas on War.

Better to keep the government closed if it has become an engine of abuse than to reopen just to facilitate the flow of resources into the abuse machine.

The administration's funds are limited. Every cent this administration has goes to self enrichment and public harm. Snap funding is no less in peril by opening the government—any public good is under threat—defunding snap is just a lever they had to pull earlier than intended.

Let's swap in 13 but remove the numbers between 5 and 8.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

... And getting federal agents operating as state sponsored domestic terrorists out of our cities?

Can we walk and chew gum?