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Interestingly enough (to me and Billvon, at least) is the inclusion of AI in dropzone.com spam. Some of it's good enough that I have to look at the original post's date, and sometimes the country of origin and email address, to determine if it's more likely an AI-generated answer or a real person. And I at least hope I'm guessing right. But maybe I'm banning real skydivers from poor countries instead, just because they sound too educated and/or a little too general. Wendy P.

You'd probably be a lot more interesting if you did your own talking. Me, I can't be bothered to listen to those videos. It takes a few seconds to a minute or two for a post; compared with 5+ minutes for a carefully-guided story/opinion piece. Wendy P.

Naw, this still gets us riled up. Wendy P.

I don’t know, who was it? Wendy P.

Make it topical, not personal Wendy P.

Yep. Idiot-proof something and they just invent a better idiot. That said, no one can make it perfect, but each of us can improve something in our community. Wendy P.

Wait for it. The US storm with the greatest loss of life was still the 1900 Galveston hurricane. It’ll get drug up sometime. The fact that neither weather reporting nor communication technology were where they are now will be deemed irrelevant Wendy P.

No, Brent. Some of us have lives, and some of us don’t really give a shit about someone with zero curiosity about anything that won’t confirm their currently-held opinions Wendy P.

The problem is that in 10 years it’ll be better at some things, and profit-oriented management will command “the AI said to do it, so do it.” And the guardrails of people who think laterally will be removed. From what I’ve read, within well-delimited domains, AI rules. Throw in a monkey wrench, and you get wack job Wendy P.

Well there's a problem right there. Ever consider that we may be just as individual as you? Wendy P.

Well, Biden pulled us out of the Covid-supply-chain induced inflation. So I guess he gets credit for that, right? Wendy P.

Mainly because that's not a helpful metric. He'd happily use a totally misleading scale (for instance one with one set of years represented logarithmically and the rest arithmetically) to make a chart if it sounds convincing. Wendy P.

Yep. I travel quite a bit, and it seems that nearly everyone who has some curiosity is interested in how others live, and most of those people don't assume that they have the only good way of living. Wendy P.

Colonialism puts a whole new meaning into "doing well," doesn't it? Wendy P.

That'd be the voices in his head. Wendy P.

I had a co-worker who grew up very poor in Taiwan; I don't remember her saying anything about cat, but she did say dog meat was OK, but reserved for days when there wasn't enough food. And mutt meat is much better than pure bred. Wendy P.

Basically, if you're not a Brit you ain't shit... Wendy P.

Personally, I think a good, real, crisis might just reset. Because then people will have to help each other. But it'd have to be the kind of crisis that did away with the money and power of a significant number of rich people. There was a wealthy industrial baron in our family in the 00's to the 20's; he lost his money in the 30's, and didn't quite live long enough for his fortunes to recover in WW2 (it would have). So all that wealth was redistributed. I think one of the worst things that Bush 2 did in the Iraq/Afghanistan war (besides invading Iraq because a war tests a president) was to tell America that they should go on with their normal lives as though nothing were happening. Way to tell us we don't have to pull together. Wendy P.

I can think of several who are more highly qualified for that particular honor. Wendy P.

Whether that person is against him or for him (failed attempts get more attention on him). Wendy P.

Only on dedicated loads; I don't remember seeing any going out before the up-jumpers. Wendy P.

The picture can construed as a personal attack. Your one warning. Wendy P.

I’d say that if Darth Cheney, and other architects of the Iraq war are the establishment, it’s still a change from the 60’s and early 70’s Wendy P.

So then Biden just says "ha ha fooled you, Trump's treaty is worthless and I'm going to do whatever I want." That'd go over big. Wendy P.

Talk about cherry picking. The whole point of that chapter is the availability of data to assess risk from climate change (you know, like insurance companies and farmers do -- they're capitalists). A single chart showing where the best data is doesn't mean that confidence is lacking in those areas. It just says that's what people pay most attention to over the long run. And given just how big and varied the earth is, it'd be surprising if there were excellent data in all parts. Dry regions, and wet regions, historically pay attention to the amount of rain. Hot and cold regions historically pay attention to the temperature. Temperate regions don't really pay attention until it gets their attention. The executive summary of the chapter starts with Did you read the whole chapter, or did you go fishing for a piece of data that "supports" your contention that the change in planting climate regions in North America (which is what I have data for) is anecdotal. Farmers in Europe are adjusting what crops they plant to new realities of temperature as well. Smaller scale farms that actually grow food are hurting. I suppose one answer is for us all to go to engineered and prepackaged food made out of corn and soybean waste, but that's not really a good answer. Soylent Green was a movie, not a prediction. Wendy P.