He thought for a moment and said, "I think he provides muscle for the newspaper union."

^
Sounds like something A.J. Liebling would have written about!

People I know in Pittsburgh who are from Pittsburgh stay in Pittsburgh because they are part of big Italian Catholic families and those are the ties that bind.

The people I know who moved there did it for robotics or some such career move.

Pittsburgh is like a reverse LA or Seattle. Being from there is the norm; being from somewhere else is often met with astonishment.

For the first time in human history, autocorrect was right about "ducking."

This marks a great leap forward for AI.

Come to think of it, AI needs that water in the reflecting pool anyway.

Drain The Swamp!

Can you imagine 22,000 angry drones hunting you?
The Singularity is ever closer.
#5 | Posted by donnerboy

It's happening right now on the web.

DuckDuckGo kills seven trackers every time I load this page on my phone.

Many of you here would refer to it as a red state ---- hole
#237 | Posted by eberly

Is that why the kids with promise (the girls) left?

Sounds like China is being provided a free proving grounds for their latest technology, courtesy of the American Taxpayer, just like the No Fly Zones over Iraq.

H is the 8th letter of the alphabet.

88 is common code among White Nationalists for Heil Hitler. Much in the way that 1312 means All Cops Are Bastards.

I don't think Eberly chose 88 for that reason. I don't think he could tell us why he picked that number.

40 years ago it wasn't an issue, now you have to be more mindful and selective when choosing schools and a path.
#223 | Posted by eberly

In other words:
They pulled the ladder up behind them.
Oh well.
Thoughts And Prayers.
Nothing Can Be Done.

I liken it to six-man poker, with the other five folks in one room showing each other their hands.
#8 | Posted by Danforth

It's also a cash game where you're you, and the other players are Vanguard, Geode, TRP, State Street.

They can put you all in, and if you somehow manage to call them off with a winning hand, their tiny losses won't even be a blip on the quarterly business report.

As I said a dozen times upthread ... ... the environment is much harder today.
#223 | Posted by eberly

^
Thoughts And Prayers
Nothing Can Be Done about the environment.

That's a capitulation, Eberly. An abrogation of responsibility.

Washing the blood from your hands is why being a conservative works for you.

#223 You're not wrong. But taking in risk is supposed to be a two way street, and it's not.

Notice how it's never:

"Perhaps Better thought needs to be put into lending choices before you agree to extend that much credit." And we both know lenders will be made whole by the government when up against the wall; borrowers will not.

I can understand how not extending credit to everyone who asks is the only way to combat racism.

But that's not an economically rational decision.

But somehow those saddled with the debt are supposed to be economically rational actors?

There was never a "meeting of the minds" when these deals were made.

I call them "deals" because legally and from principles of economics, the things we define as "loans" can be discharged in bankruptcy, while student loans cannot.

"almost"

You sure you're in the right thread little buddy?

#22 So this code change was just performative window dressing by Toyota?

#21 Sounds legit. But Tesla "data" has a credibility problem of their own making.

being told what to do
#48 | Posted by sitzkrieg

My Freedums!

Mass Media has spent two to four decades inculcating this rejection of social responsibility and the Social Contract into Republicans.

I bet if you polled Republicans in the years leading up to 2008, most would say that electing a Black President would help improve race relations in this country.

There isn't a Republican alive in 2026 who believes the 2008 election improved racial tensions.

Meanwhile, these same Republicans say if you just follow police orders everything will work out fine.

Opposite rules for Us vs. Them.

and the fear of being told what to do
#48 | Posted by sitzkrieg

Fear of Potty Training is probably when people start becoming Conservatives.

"Trump drove his entire motorcade over the newly finished pool"

I'm glad we finally caught the Vandals.