Does what it says on the tin

O’Brien: “What a week!”

Sisko: “Chief, it’s Tuesday”

TBF there were some movies in the past where horses died during production (I believe Ben Hur was one of them). That’s why nowadays there is a disclaimer saying no animals were harmed making the movie.

That makes sense. I guess you would want at least one firefighter per tower.

“You complain about society, yet you participate in society. Curious. I am so much more enlightened”

Your landlord is Steve Buscemi?

That’s… Not a discovery. The first few pokemon games were all based on different areas of Japan

Anyone got a TLDW that explains what this discovery is?

The YouTube comments under this one are pretty funny.

My favourite: “how does he know the clown is single?”

She also tried a points system - follow on insta, buy merch, buy CD, get points towards early access so actually fans get tickets for a lower price. She got done for favoritism.

There really is no winning once your fanbase grows over a certain size. That’s why I prefer to go see only C-list or locally/regionally famous artists live rather than trying to go see A-listers live.

I’ve heard economists say that Ticketmaster is a useful scapegoat for a lot of natural problems in the music industry. Taylor swift is selling tickets for what seems like a reasonable price, but the laws of supply and demand say they are worth far more. Taylor doesn’t want to sell her tickets for closer to what they are actually worth since it would make her look like a price gouging jerk. Anytime in economics you have a mismatch between the price something is being sold for and what someone is willing to pay for it, there’s an opportunity for money to be made, people will take that opportunity if they can, and in doing so the price will tend toward the true intersection of supply and demand.

You are what you eat

That’s not how spoiler tags work

Correction: Moore’s law predicts that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would double every two years. It doesn’t make predictions about computers being “faster” or able to handle a certain “workload”. The only thing it predicts is the growth in physical capacity of a single chip.

And we actually broke Moore’s law and this capacity growth slowed a decade ago since manufacturing techniques started being the bottleneck.

I mean, he isn’t wrong that it will be used to fire people and to decimate labour. In fact I don’t think he really said anything “wrong”. He just didn’t paint as complete a picture as I would have liked.

To be fair, it’s not straightforward to explain on a comedy show the nuanced problems inherent in trying to replace people with token prediction engines.

I have to say, I agree 90% with Jon on this. Which is significantly less than I usually agree with him.

I think he could have talked more about the lack of reliability of AI. It’s not simply a drop in replacement for people like the invention of the conveyor belt or sewing machine. A better analogy would be the mass outsourcing of call center jobs to South Asia.

Fired guy

Yeah he says that in the video.

Frog legs, snails, birds so decadent you need to hide your shame from God… Yeah I agree with your assessment.

Do you not know people in your life that eat meat? It shouldn’t come as a shock to you considering the overwhelming majority of people do eat meat.