Lots of citations. Lots.

Also, wide margins.

Do you mean “sit-down, shut-up, & read”?

Seems reasonable on its face, but I’d love to see what the “rebound” times are for getting back to normal.

Like, I know that my computational speed goes up when I use a calculator and I suffer without it. But when I get back into the swing of mental math, I feel like I return to a baseline. Do the doctors who get worse at spotting cancer bounce back after they realize they’ve gotta do it without AI?

That makes sense. But I’ve got a wallet of burned CDs from the 90s that put the question to that 15 year timeline.

And these discs? They have not been treated well.

I definitely agree with you. I feel like I see people talking about optical media rotting all the time and it just doesn’t seem like a practical issue for 99% of use cases.

I seem to remember the conversation in the early 2000s being about how discs would rot in 50+ years and now I see people saying ten or 15.

What is this 10 year thing? I’ve also got CD RWs and CD Rs from 1998 that still work. And DVD Rs from like 2002 that are still fine.

First, I didn’t make the argument.

Second, I think most people could draw a line between allowing a suffering prisoner to choose death and forcing it on them.

Third, that assumes that there’s an ethical argument for life imprisonment.

On the other hand, there’re good, ethical reasons to cut off Bob’s leg sometimes. If you hold the view that there’s never an ethical reason for the state to execute someone, then by that definition all those killings are just some varied degrees of unethical.

Yeah, doing the stock is an extra step for sure. I use so much stock in cooking for normal meals that it saves me a ton of money to carve out the freezer space (especially because all the almost rotted and throwaway veggie bits can find a home in the pressure cooker).

Our grocery stores don’t have the last chance shelf, unfortunately. In school, we’d raid the produce dumpster and have smoothie nights.

Plus, with a slow cooker, instant pot, or just a stove, you can make delicious broth from the leftovers and upgrade your next couple meals.

Sorta, but that’s not usually from burning the fuel. Ethanol attacks rubber in older engines, so that can be a source of gunk.

But usually it’s because ethanol absorbs water and small engines often sit longer with fuel in them. Also, when gas with ethanol evaporates, it leaves a varnish that can clog stuff up.

Also, it has more oxygen available and can burn hotter, which is rough for some small engines, especially air-cooled ones.

The bridge to true AI.

AI says to!

That’s good to know! Maybe the legislature will overcome the aversion to an income tax and fix some regressive structures.

Conservatives think of childen as property, so it’s not surprising.

Article VII, Sec I of the state constitution says

“All taxes shall be uniform upon the same class of property within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax…”

So taxes on things need to be uniform (so, like, 2.5% on ALL property or ALL Doritos).

The voters approved a bracketed state income tax back in the day, but a lawsuit from it basically said “income is property.” So they could probably do a flat tax on income, but those are stupid.

But that same article also says “All taxes shall be uniform upon the same class of property within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax…” and pure value doesn’t constitute a different class.

That’s basically what I remember backed up by two searches on Google, so sorry if I’m wrong.

Yeah. There’s no income tax, so it’s sales tax and excise taxes all the way down.

Depending on circumstances, federal agents can be charged with state crimes.

Being a hundred-millionaire is not making yourself poor or even giving up that lifestyle.

But yeah, of course they don’t do it: billionaires can’t be good people.

I’m here welding a patch onto the chassis rail of my almost-60-year-old shit box. I can’t imagine spending a mortgage payment a month on a car.