Tilt shift filters need to die a fiery death.

It’s not hard to estimate the rough size of these things. A foot is a little less than 1/3 of a meter, just as a centimeter is about 1/3 of an inch.

You misunderstand. Your game runs at 30fps because of the visuals, yes, but that doesn’t mean your entire system is bottlenecked. The vast majority of games aren’t even close to being CPU bound, which means (conceivably) there could be much more complex AI or mechanics going on in the background without affecting…

I’m sure you though really hard when writing this. For that reason, I’m almost sorry to say you missed the point entirely. Almost. You really need to check yourself before wandering into a conversation that’s above your level. But I’ll drop it down a level and rephrase my argument in terms even you can understand:

Given that, if maintained, these things will stand for a millennia? No, disposal cost is not a priority. Even IF you found a structural issue, it would almost always be cheaper to simply rip out that one section and replace it with new steel/concrete.

Counterpoint: if you’re dropping $20K on a wedding, you can probably expect $10-15K back in gifts...unless your family is a bunch of cheap assholes, in which case don’t invite them.

There you go. Hopefully warp drive comes with gold power armor and giant flaming swords for everyone back on Earth.

The Fed will shut down overheated economies. So, yes, it’s responsible for some recessions. It wasn’t responsible for the last one though. In fact, one of the criticisms laid on them is that they didn’t do enough to cool down housing.

Cycles are caused by all of us, Wall St, Main St., Maple St. Everyone. Banks offered money to anyone with a pulse, that doesn’t mean (figurative) you had to take it, etc. The Fed acts in response to that, and is not the cause of cycles. There’s others who argue otherwise (monetarists, Austrian Schoolers) but the last…

Shared cars need maintenance, fuel, and insurance as well. And those costs will be born by the users. Whether or not someone is retired or work from home is irrelevant. Cars do not become more expensive to own once you hit 65 and a paid-off car idled for a week will costs you less than a single ride share. In fact, if…

* Automation is not the cause of the recession. I never said it was, as it was clear shoddy lending standards caused the recession. Recession is just part of the larger cycle anyway. You have to look at the trends over more than one cycle.

Me thinks you should do a bit more homework. Like how there’s more than one unemployment rate. There is a lot more than the U-3 rate you see on TV. Here’s the U-6

True, it’s probably inevitable. And I think you addressed the problem more directly than I did: our social structure is not keeping up with changes in the economy. There will never be enough coding jobs to replace all of the suddenly surplus drivers, mechanics, and automakers caused by this. Even if there was, by the…

Each of those inventions did kill thousands of jobs. Fortunately, they also spawned new jobs to replace them. It’s been a naive assumption that all technologies will create more jobs than the old ones destroy. In the last 20 years we reached the tipping point: automation is destroying old jobs faster than it’s…

The headline makes sense, the article just didn’t touch on it. Fewer cars means fewer jobs making cars, fewer jobs driving cars. It’s gutting a major segment of the service industry and carving a decent chunk of one of the few major manufacturing industries still in America. Those thousands of jobs support millions of…

Blue Dog Democrats. Blue collar workers with no college, living in rural or red states. Union workers like coal miners and conservative blacks who only vote democratic because the GOP hates them.

12% of any national survey are contrarian asshats. You could get 12% of the population to say the sky is green and the ground is blue.

A lot of people these days say they’re socially liberal and fiscally conservative. The problem is that you can’t be both. Either you believe in one thing (say...women’s health and education) and you put your money where your mouth is (by funding initiatives) or you refuse pay for said programs because you think…

edit: responded to wrong post.

Such a hot take!