The best part is that the therapist was straight up bilking them and making the easiest buck of his life.

I'm afraid people do just about anything you can imagine.

Because they want to drink the garlic fake butter but are too ashamed to just ask for it by itself.

That's some Repo Man shit.

They'll definitely sell it to social-climber upper-middle class types, but your point is definitely well-taken.

That particular band would not be GG Allin and the Scumfucs.

And here I thought a band's worst nightmare was dying in a bus or plane crash.

The American Girl-bros are going to shit a brick.

There is such a lack of conceptual clarity about what human intelligence actually is that AI discussions like this are an extended exercise in counting chickens before they hatch.

To respond seriously to your jokey comment, my guess is that at top-dollar best, some kind of gimmicky version of cybernetics happens—for instance, a technology that is functionally a smartphone but with a brain-computer interface component.

Hmm, this tracks since cyborgs are basically a made-up version of what humans do.

All I care about is whether the battery will be okay.

Love to be killed with a captive bolt pistol wielded by a perfectly symmetrical humanoid robot so my body can be turned into a battery.

If it's any consolation, the history of AI research has taught us that a fully-functioning AI has been 10-15 years down the road since the early 60s.

Damn straight, Bruce is still alive and I am extremely him.

Anybody see that thing Mike Pence wrote about Mulan way back when where he basically sounded like a more prosaic version of Sen. Howell Tankerbell?

Also the slogan in the greatest political satire ever made, Wag the Dog.

"Goodwill rejecting Ivanka's line now; disgraceful!"

And that means there will be a revolving door of hyper-ambitious idiots who do the equivalent of grabbing a grenade by the pin every time they try to accomplish something.

The White House is still basically unstaffed, except for the administrative side of things which seems to be mostly Obama holdovers who constantly leak. Nobody—even Bannon, a purported Leninist who should really understand these things if he's even a fraction as smart as we've been told—seems to have told this dude…