Also, one would assume that the oil burning boat would arrive predictably on time, while the wind powered boat would have some variabililty depending on the wind conditions. 

Make shipping companies pay for the carbon they spew out into the air burning the nasty, unrefined sludge that they use as fuel, we’d see them looking for ways to use less, or even no fuel really quick. 

It’s also not ‘one simple thing’. Commercial ships have been designed without sails for over a century, and they’ve been optimized for cargo efficiency. Adding some sort of auxiliary wind-power is going to cost (and reduce cargo efficiency), designing ships around it will cost (and probably reduce cargo space over a…

Agreed. Keep the damn units the same. It is like saying “If I take the freeway to Jeff’s house it is 10 miles, but going backroads it is 120 furlongs.”

Okay but here’s the thing. The internet is all over the world. And the United States is not the only country.

Well, that’s because they’re called Artificial Intelligence, not Artificial Stupidity.

We kept trying to program ChatBot with conservative values, but the AI told us it was illogical to drink bleach instead of getting a vaccine or that it’s inhumane to tell certain people they shouldn’t exist or that an insurrection is not the best way to elect a democratic leader. ChatBot is so liberal!

Huh.  Then maybe these are more intelligent than I’d thought.

Yeah, what exactly is the “center” position between “I believe this group of people should be afforded the same rights and respect as another group” and “I believe this group has no right to exist”?

“Reality has a well known liberal bias” - Stephen Colbert

If chat GPT being woke means it doesn’t espouse anti-LGBT beliefs I’m ok with that. There seems to be a lot of sensitivity on the right currently about saying some groups of humans should be allowed to exist and have bodily autonomy. But if the training data was from diverse, respectable sources, IE: not brietbart and…

Lol, so now cops aren’t even human!

you didn’t read the article properly, they ran the plate and got no hit because it does not exist.

They could sue for racial profiling, unnecessary arrest and all that kind of stuff.

Also traumatizing their children.

A typo on the state is a mistake. Seeing “no information” and jumping directly to “it must be stolen” is a choice to escalate the situation to a level that isn’t appropriate.

The exchange when the female cop is explaining her mistake is why people think some cops are fucking idiots:

From what I recall in another article, he ran the plate and it didn’t even come up as stolen, it came up as invalid, likely because the states use a different numbering format.  So it comes up as invalid and he jumps to the “it must be stolen” mode.

The problem is: they didn’t get a hit when they ran it.

“Why do you need to do that if you thought you put in the right info?”

Even if we ignore the profiling (allegedly of the car), how does “that license plate doesn’t come up” immediately jump to “it must be stolen, hold this family at gunpoint” and not “huh, I wonder if I typed something in wrong” or “I should follow this car to a safe location that isn’t the side of a freeway to pull them…

You bootlicking gutter scum. If it were a white family, there would have been no guns drawn, nor handcuffing.