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Comment Re:Because the subsidy goes away in October (Score 1) 81

Ah, are you smart enough to realize you just contradicted yourself? You actually sound stupid enough to have voted for the YOB.

YOB too shall pass?
Max YOB Time: Day 3743 of 4968
In-WH YOB Time: Day 3159 of 4384
Adjusted YOB Time: Day 1697 of 2922 (with time off for good Biden behavior)
Countdown to EOYOB Jan 20, 2029: 1225d 0h 48m

Comment Re:Because the subsidy goes away in October (Score 1) 81

The reactions make me believe I should have specified I was thinking about DOGE and USAID. I am not aware of electric cars having any relation to the #GazaGenecide4Golf fiasco...

But I admit I am sometimes prone to simpleminded solution approaches. For example, what if Poland announced that any Russian drone over Ukraine would be shot down if there was any possibility of that drone reaching Polish territory? I'm pert' shure the Ukrainians wouldn't object.

Comment Re:Because the subsidy goes away in October (Score 2, Interesting) 81

My reaction whenever I see a Tesla is that I feel like sticking a little note under the windshield wiper. Something like:

"Are you pro-life? Owning this car makes me think you support starving innocent children to death. Do you even know how many kids have died? Or care?"

Or some kind of WWJD joke? What would Jesus drive? Probably not a Tesla.

Submission + - Who killed Charlie Kirk? And was the Internet involved? (bbc.com) 1

shanen writes: Surprised the story hasn't appeared already. Technical link is going to be the drive to insanity via the Web. Already some mention of social media websites.

My basic premise is that killing a human being is insane. Even in cases where the victim has a death wish.

And yet too many people rationalize killing. Even in extremely cold blood like this case. Real self-defense is quite rare, but claims of various forms of extended self-defense are far too abundant. Especially on today's Web.

Not much potential for Funny in this story, eh?

Comment Re:Inquiring minds want to know.. (Score 1) 60

Only joke on the rich target? I was at least expecting some kind of obligatory joke about getting the entire shaft from the "just the tip" promise...

But I can't sustain the pretense of humor. I just don't have the right angle to see the humor in shooting themselves in the foot or in the wallet or wherever. Liars rulz stopped being funny a while back.

Is this joke funny yet?

Max YOB Time: Day 3742 of 4968
Presidential YOB Time: Day 3158 of 4384
Adjusted YOB Time: Day 1696 of 2922 (with time off for Biden behavior)
Countdown to Noon Jan 20, 2029: 1225d 23h 23m 37s

Comment I'm mostly here for the Funny (Score 1) 67

And this juicy target didn't get any Funny? As of now that's out of 56 comments.

Not even some sort of obligatory joke about "That AI fad sure died fast. Let me ask my AI what went wrong?"

Do I need to clarify the "here" reference? As in Slashdot space, wherever that is? Virtual reference problem? Or more of a null pointer problem? However the real problem is with Slashdot time. Slashdot has become sort of like a continuous toilet that gets completely flushed each day? However I'm basically on a one visit per day schedule, so I never see see the same river twice? And the lag time on the sparse and flaky moderation ain't helping.

Comment Re: long-term support is questionable (Score 1) 63

All a central planning system does is take a very small number of incredibly greedy people and put them in charge of everything, with no way to swap them out.
That it is not a workable approach should be obvious from a computational standpoint. How much processing power would be required to "solve" economic questions for a billion people? More than exists. Certainly, more than can be computed by a planning committee.

All true, which is why China's system isn't completely centralized like that. Centralization is a matter of degree, not a binary on/off switch. The Chinese government mandates the broad strokes, and leaves the detail work decentralized, to be handled by the market. They've got a lot more capitalism in their system at this point than they'd probably care to admit.

Comment Re:Global Warming v. Pirates (Score 1) 116

Might be a safe link, and the moderators thought it was Funny, but care to explain? I don't like clicking on unknown things, even from people with funny handles.

Perhaps this YouTube link is a safe video version? https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F... It's about the Flying Spaghetti Monster...

However I was actually looking at the discussion for some consideration of extreme weather events. Yesterday we had a little rainstorm that apparently set new records for rain intensity. (I was trapped in a coin laundry for about half an hour... "Climate change? Nothing to see here!")

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