“There’s a *TON* of really awesome contemporary African music out there right now...”

I’ve been saying this to my Elon fanboy friends for a long time now. The issue is not “Can an automated car do what a human can do?” but rather “Can they co-exist with human drivers on the same roads and if they could, who would have ultimate authority and responsibility, the car or the human?”

The thing about hard AI is that humans will almost certainly not “invent” it so we won’t actually know when it’s “really here”. Intelligence is not a top-down construct, it emerges from the bottom up.

Well known bands make a killing selling their music for sync... but not nearly as much as your favorite celebrities get for selling your attention by pretending to use products in their social media feeds.

We see similarly “unlikely” interactions in our own system where what our minds expect to be chaotic turns out to be remarkably synchronized.

It’s only “standard” because we evolved to live in it. I’d be willing to bet my port side self-replication module that there is perfectly functional and even intelligent life in the universe existing in conditions that you and I would consider nightmarishly “non-standard”.

Calling Hanover Fist!

How about we work on getting airplanes to do this first?

So after all the hype end of the world, hair on fire hype about dying bees and the end of human agriculture, it turns out to be the carpenter bees that are endangered, not the cute honey bees that people like, and no crops are in danger.

I get it folks, I would never order a steak well done. My mother used to do that and I think the real reason she did it was that she really hated steaks... and chefs.

Consider this... when was the last time you drank a glass of whiskey someone distilled in their back yard or basement?

“The Opposition’s main role is to question the government of the day and hold them accountable to the public. The Opposition represents an alternative government, and is responsible for challenging the policies of the government and producing different policies where appropriate.”

No, the “giant ass” is, of course, filled with methane.

Most Populous Muslim Countries:

Trump’s banning muslims now? When were Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Egypt, Turkey, Algeria and Morocco added to the ban? These are 9 of the top 10 most populous muslim countries. Iran (number 7 in that list) is the only country that was included on the Obama terrorist watch travel restriction list.

It’s just for convenience, you know. Mostly just yoga and wedding stuff.

The whole “****phobe” trope has been played out. Reducing a complex concept such as “How are we as a sovereign country to best represent and protect our interests in a complex, fluid and highly interconnected world?” down to the simple suggestion that someone is “afraid of the other” is childish and not a valid…

What could have caused such a weak turnout? Could it have been the bad weather? Maybe it was the tens of thousands of violent anarchists filling the streets and blocking access to the Mall? Or perhaps it was because it was a weekday and Trump supporters have jobs.

“after she and Finn ‘stole’ the Millennium Falcon”

It’s simple. Move to the country. There are towns in the midwest that are dying because nobody wants to live there anymore. I’m not talking about Detroit type situations, I’m talking about places like Mason City, Iowa where there is plenty of land and you can buy a 3 bed 2 bath 2000+ square foot home for $80K.