It reminds me of the old adage you can’t make a joke about rape. Sure, TECHNICALLY you can, but the odds of it working as so slim, just don’t try it. (To my knowledge, Sarah Silverman has made the only funny rape joke I’ve ever heard and the punch line of the joke wasn’t really the rape part). I’m not saying it’s…

But it isn’t an ‘incorrect’ usage. It’s perfectly correct. Your definition is usually labeled as the ‘formal’ definition and it’s actually the rarely used. The dominate usage is the informal method. Just like the word ‘it’s’ is an informal usage of the phrase ‘it is’ and appears regularly in discourse. Informal…

No, it begs the question. There’s two uses of that phrase - one can be translated as ‘assumes the conclusion’ and the other is ‘create a specific question in response’. Both are equally valid uses of the phrase ‘begs the question’. If you can replace it with “the question that begs to be answered” and it fits, then…

I get a very distinct feeling that Stockton Rush sees himself as analogous to Elon Musk.

Russell, FancyMan that he is, is RIGHT!

Yes, but when the average length of owning a vehicle is 12 years, what percentage of vehicles on the road actually come with that stuff? For instance, my 2014 CX-5 doesn’t have automatic breaking. If I replace it with a 2023 CX-5, automatic breaking is an option - and expensive one at that. But it wasn’t even an…

I feel bad for the kid, but the rest? Play stupid games win stupid prizes. It always sucks that people have to die before someone goes, “Ya know... maybe there should be some sort of oversight into this sort of thing?”

Hey, you do know there’s more taxes in the world than ‘income’, right?

No my argument is that the data is clear - the kids aren’t alright. We can try to make the kids alright, OR we can continue to ineffectually blame things that aren’t really the source of the problem. We know they aren’t because, well, history SHOULD have taught anyone paying attention that complex problems rarely have…

Since The Police is my favorie band of all time and I’ve been known over the years to go on philisophical waxing that borders on the obessive ranting, I’ll keep my comments brief....

Passwords are a terrible and outdated technology and they need to die already. It’s a failed experiment. 

Not that I can see. I picked the Honda Accord EX and it came to $30,155 with the defaults and destination charges on Honda’s website. Tesla’s website says the Tesla 3 is $32,740 “after tax credit”. Unless you mean the hybrid Accord? That’s $34,085 with destination charges and all that.

Just how cuckoo pants is this nutcase?

No, it’s pretty much spot on. Data doesn’t equal knowledge. We have no evidence that phones and social media are bad to a degree that exceeds, say, TV or Cars when they were initially rolled out. Few bothered to think to ask the question and the tools we had at the time weren’t particularly good for measuring the…

Now the bot isn’t even trying. I mean come on! A ChatGPT API subscription can’t be that much money.

Brand loyalty is irrational, brand disloyalty is even worse.

Bad bot.

I fully acknowledge this is going to be a weird and kinda out there analogy, but it’s kinda the Hybrid Motor of its day. Look, we all know we’re moving towards Electric Vehicles as the norm and the Internal Combustion Engines are going to fade into history. It’s just the timing that’s in question. Hybrids exist as a…

Screens. Before that, it was D&D. Before that, it was any TV. Before that, it was Rock and Roll. Before that, it was comic books. Before that, it was the car. Before that, it was Jazz. Before that, it as the moving pictures. Before that, before that, before that, ...

Probably not much risk. Most salmonella from eggs is from poop on the shell itself. You could always use pasteurized eggs and that will 100% fix any issues from the yolks.