Please. The kill switch is a guaranteed feature. There is no way it isn't there. This is one if those times where only a stupid person believes otherwise.

The simple truth is that I am less valuable than I used to be.

Smartest thing I've read online this week. And that extends to the main point of great vs. good enough.

Too many folks are living in denial while their value proposition bottoms out.

I agree. I've been saying since the he was running his first bid that he is simple. He can't help himself. In a strange way he's as honest a politician as there is. But he surrounds himself with evil people, like shitty moths to a flame. They know better. But they are truly awful examples of humanity.

Whatever you suspect his motives to be at any given time... yeah. That's exactly what they are. Want to take the heat off one conspiracy? Throw the red meat of another to those same wolves. There's no subtlety or nuance to the mechanism. No deft sleight of hand or misdirection. Like his " I know you are but what am I?" approach, or the reliable way he accuses others of doing exactly what he is guilty of, the man's actions and defenses come straight out of the schoolyard.

It's actually one of his more endearing qualities - a kind of backhanded honesty in a way.

Why not indeed? Other than that one costs next to nothing and the other requires massive investment, coordination of emergency services.m, and an army of lawyers covering all sort of exposure...

Doubtful. Like it or not, too much of the CEO job is not easily automated. It's about connections, what palms to grease, when to bend/break the rules, lobbying, applying political pressure, navigating competing interests... a company actually lead by a bean-counting AI would fail miserably.

Depending on the model...

AI: "No, we shouldn't get intimate so quickly."

Me: "I think that's wrong. Are you sure?"

AI: "You're right, I apologize. Here's three more reasons why."

Worse exchanges might include phrases like:

"Anywhere vegan is fine."
"I'm so glad to be out. I need a break from the constant drama at work!"
"You smell like my dad." - Actually said to me. Brut after shave. Without context, completely unusable. Too scary to delve.

Turn on the radio. When you hear something you like, check the catalog. Or listen to some podcasts that feature up and comers, or niche music. I can't begin to list all of the music I stumbled across listening to "Bands Under the Radar" by Kami Knake back in the day. Or classics I somehow missed on "Vinyl Tap" by Randy Bachman. But if you have "all" of Spotify, branch out. Tune into the local university AM/FM broadcast. Check out jazz stations. Come back to your library for the rest of it.

You're right. A library that big isn't useful for discovery. It's an archive. Use it as such.

Blame it on a boogeyman but, "it was just here, it's gone now." They would should print it on shirts to save some time. Just point and move on to deflection.

If you have zero ability to stop the train, the best you can do is not be complicit in the crash. Get off and let people know.

A country looks into the future and sees something bleak. Then they begin to plan for it.

Imagine how stupid they would be if they just denied it, turned a blind eye, and then actively attempted to accelerate directly toward it.

I drink two cups of caffeinated coffee every morning. My working assumption, based on this post, is that this will have saved me from my lost decade of hedonistic alcohol and drug abuse. Maybe I'll up it to three cups.

Yes, but every last bit of it will be held until the money is big enough and then they'll get it all, right back to the beginning. The company's no longer pretending to be altruistic.

I know you're going to be a trillionaire soon, but damn. Your projections started out grandiose, but now they're just humorous. You blew past unreasonable so quickly we didn't even notice it.