As someone who wants a Miata when it's finally time to get rid of my current car, images like this make me shake my head in annoyance and fear. This isn't my car or even the right brand or model, but it's about the right size, and it's dwarfed by most pickups on the road these days. And Miatas are even smaller!
Category: Words
Rename the Department of Justice
In the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder, our so-called Department of Justice has removed access to a study they did that showed the opposite of the narrative currently trying to be spun by the White House, the FBI, Twitter (which is mostly Russian and Chinese bots these days), and Fox. They desperately want folks to believe it's the Democrats and other leftists sowing the seeds of violence when instead the data shows clearly that the call is coming from inside the house: that it's mostly those who vote Republican who are responsible.
ChatGPT loves to offer up its own diagrams
But it doesn't know what the hell it's doing. Don't believe its lies.
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Twenty-one lessons from the beach
In no particular order of importance because none of them are ultimately important... except perhaps the very last one.
AI is designed to ruin lives
Is this a sufficiently clickbait title, you think? Still, I do kinda firmly believe this is the case ⸺ that AI's overarching goals are rooted in the desire to replace paid, job-holding humans with much cheaper automation. There's no way to tell how many fewer jobs will be available in five years, but I reckon the damage will be great and the numbers very high.
I was an early Facebook adopter
I mentioned in a previous post that I was a late adopter of pretty much everything: social media, iPhones, iPods, streaming, etc. That's not entirely true, however, as I was actually quite an early Facebook user ⸺ and abandoner.
Are we great again yet?
When you're under a turd avalanche there's hardly time to look at any particular turd, figure out what it means, and deal with it. This is the political strategy of "flooding the zone" that Republicans use to great effect whenever they gain sufficient power. This week's deluge of turds has been extra stupid, and now I must rant impotently for a moment.
When redoing a song goes wrong
As a terminally uncreative person, one who's basically never the Idea Guy but more the Idea Implementer Guy, I probably shouldn't be commenting on stuff like this, but here goes nothin'...
1990 Honda Prelude on Coilovers by Copilot
I use Edge periodically for random situations where Firefox, the extensions I use on it, and my personal styles and scripts get in the way of site functionality. For instance, when trying to pay my electric bill each month, the company's website embeds a form hosted by their payment processor. This process doesn't work in Firefox for me. I don't know why, nor do I care enough to try to figure it out, so I switch to Edge and do it there. It ain't worth the hassle for a two-minute task that only happens once a month, you know?
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A rolling bike gathers no dust
It's hard to get back into something once the habit is broken. They say it takes three weeks or so to form a new habit, but at this point I'm pretty sure "habit" is not the word for this. After all, if a so-called habit can be broken so easily, doesn't that disqualify it from being considered habitual? I'd think so.