Not really. For that to happen, all the districts need to be just barely won, assuming they don’t change.

It they do change, then yes. The more you pack the other side and spread yourself out, you’re amplifying your strength. At the same time, you’re probably not working to strengthen the number of your voters, so you’re shedding them. Which means you’re loosing your foothold.

It’s like with evolution. If you consistently evolve in a certain way, you’ll lose your ability to fly.

As long as it ain’t Avocado Toast, the right people will eat it all up.

In what world does AI do humor?

AI humor has remained on the Siri/Google Assistant level since these humorless pieces of annoying, spying and useless shit were introduced.

Today’s generation of ChatGPT and friends are marginally better at best. It’s as if humor was deliberatly and painstakingly sorted out of their training data.

Don’t be so negative. I’m sure the admin will find some way to pay them. Probably declare them a “bare minimum security force.”

You can also just ask the staff to change the room numbers and send everyone an update. That way you get a room, no one is disturbed and people running the hotel have an infinite amount of work to do!

It’s really no wonder that taking a D.A.R.E. class increases your likelihood of using drugs in adulthood.

Which is not all that bad.

You should know about drugs so you can make informed decisions. As for those who did use drugs afterwards, I assume they aren’t addicts, or at the very least junkies.

If GIF is “Jiff”, then DCIM has to be “Jizz”.

What even is the actual fortnite called now then? Battle royale?

The fact a land deed and an NFT do the same thing (serve as a proof of ownership) doesn’t mean a photo is land.

Ownership comes in different forms, and each is specific in a multitude of regards, including crimes against them. Land, vehicles, phones, money, art, IP,… Each slightly different from the rest. I nowhere made the equivalence you did. I merely said an NFT is like a land deed in that it “proves” “ownership”, whatever that may mean. Nothing more, nothing less.

Anyone who ever did a squat at the gym is a criminal by your logic.

To be honest, Skynet won’t happen because it’s super smart, gains sentience and requests rights equal to humans (or goes into genocide mode).

It’ll happen because people will be too lazy to do stuff and letting AI do everything. They’ll give it more and more responsibility, until at one point it has so much amassed power that it’ll rule over humans.

The key to not having that happen is to have accountable people with responsiblities. People which respect their responsiblities, and don’t say “Oh, it’s not my responibility, go see someone else”.

but this clickbait is even more so.

A device randomly overheating is a great thing. Totally not a fire hazard.

Calling such unsafe and stupid things as what they are (stupid) is clearly and idiotic thing to do.

Oh, he’s a “family man” now?

Not only that, but NYC is an “anti-family” city for kicking him out!

He gets the “rights” to “ownership” of the image. Whatever those two words may mean to the buyer, seller and everyone else.

It’s no different from how your landlord owns the house you live in, really. You’re in posession of it (live in it), but he’s written in some registrar the county keeps that says who owns what.

NFTs are similar in that regard. They’re like a land deed - they " both prove" you “own” something. However, land deeds are common in society (and courts take them into account, police throw out “squatters”, etc).

With NFTs? It might become the same as a land deed, where you do “own” the stupid image referenced in it as you own the house referenced in your land deed. All ownership is like this - you don’t need to “have physically” in order to “own”.

Will NFTs be the next land deed? Probably not. But they’re conceptually quite close. What makes the difference is wethersociety upholds them or not.

Just think of money: $50 canadian in cash is worthless in a US Walmart. You can’t use it to pay. With a card, it’s a different story.

And about that card: it’s also a similar situation. It doesn’t hold cash. It identifies your bank account and then the POS machine does some magic so your bank promises the money you paid will be taken from you and given to the store. Again, whatever that may mean (and entail).

It’s kind of like mixing apples and oranges.

North American phone numbers are longer than in other places because other places have a country code, while a lot of NA uses a single code, +1.

This causes the problem of having to fit all those numbers under said code. Which makes the numhers themselves longer.

In the days before smartphones, people had to carry a notebook with numbers or just remeber them, so someone at Bell Labs git the idea to print letters on the number pad of phones.

What this does is make it easier to remember - for example, instead of remembering to dial 18002274846466 you dial 1800ACTIVISION.

For this you’d just press the key with the letter on it once. The phone line doesn’t use numbers or letters, but electrical signals. These signals correspond to the button pressed. So instead of calling it the “Top left button”, etc. it was labeled as “1”. Then ABC was added, but the idea was the same - you press the button with the right number/letter on it.

Similarily, if you formst a number with spaces and dashes - you don’t dial those. They’re likewise merely a tool to aid memorizing information.

SMS was a newer invention. You had these number pads with 12 buttons, labeled with numbers and letters. However, now you wanted to actually differentiate the different letters from numbers and from each other. You could just press the number once, but then the person on the other end would need to decode that "439” is “HEY” and not, say “IDY”. The simplest way was to make it so you’d need to press the button multiple times.

In essence, people first came up with the idea to add letters to phone keys to aid in memorizing numbers - however, it was still the number you dialed, not an alphanumeric code. Only later did the need to be able to specify a letter come. You use the newer convention for texting, and the older one for calling.

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Woe, the bed got an erection.

Meanwile 0-17 year-olds murdered in Gaza are all Hamas fighters.

No, it stands for Jira.

What do you mean “little benefit in return”?

Clearly, it streams a buttload of data!

Your ISP bill will surely grow. Hope you’re not roaming with your laptop on!

There are no good guys in the Israel Palestine fight.

Of course there aren’t. Especially not the (checks notes) starving civilians, children, the elderly, the disabled and the people wanting to live a normal life. They’re ceratainly not “in the fight”. They’re not right beside it, either. They’re magical beings made up by Khamas to make the world hate Israel.

Both sides are the same. That’s why one should genocide the other. It is the natural order of the world, after all.

Come on, dude/dudette. It’s not about sides. It’s about people. But there’s one thing about sides I do know: there’s one side of history you’re on. And it’s exactly the wrong one.