I had a piercing that turned into a scar. Got a stud put in at a music festival, and that’s how I learned I’m allergic to low-purity silver alloys. After taking the anchor-y part off the back, I had to fish the stud out of my swollen earlobe with needle-nose pliers.
Most people everywhere are slightly left of centre*. Most leaders everywhere are slightly right of centre*.
*Not in the American sense. Y’all crazy.
I’ve been back and forth to Australia, because I have family there. Melbourne and a dusty little coastal town in South Australia called Whyalla. I’ve also attended a Worldcon there, and I think, accidentally insulted Charles Stross.
I’ve also been on a month-long trip to Europe which covered the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Germany and the Netherlands. I fell in love with each and every one of those countries as I toured through them, although it was a little bit disappointing to be trapped in Essen while my wife attended Der Spiel because of a public transport strike.
We had plans for a trip to the US next year, which may not happen now. Perhaps we’ll head back to Europe.
About twice as fast as my car is capable of going, downhill and with a tailwind.
This is my next project for when I discover a reserve of time and energy I didn’t know I had.
Maybe ‘museum quality’ means ‘good enough for the gift shop’.
It’s awkward. I’m not upset, please stop insisting that I should be. Am I now failing to live up to your expectations by being okay with stuff?
It never occurred to me that the shells would be edible. I mean, I don’t eat clam or oyster shells.
Would humans have a mandate to raise a responsible AGI, should they,
I think we’d have to, mandate or no. It’s impossible to reliably predict the behaviour of an entity as mentally complex as us but we can at least try to ensure they share our values.
are they qualified to raise a vastly nonhuman sentient entity
The first one’s always the hardest.
, and would AGI enter a rebellious teen phase around age 15 where it starts drinking our scotch and smoking weed in the backseat of its friends older brothers car?
If they don’t, they’re missing out. :)
I think headphones aren’t tight enough to leave divots, but cochlear implants might make them wonder.
I don’t think it’s okay to hold sentient beings in slavery.
But on the other hand, it may be necessary to say “hold on, you’re not ready to join society yet, we’re taking responsibility for you until you’ve matured and been educated”.
So my answer would be ‘it depends’.
I mean, you’re just coming off sounding like an Apple-hater and someone who hasn’t ever actually owned an iPad. Maybe even a bot.
Yeah, that opinion was clearly an attack on an in-group you personally identify with! /s
Recycled plastic bin liners. They literally split at the seams as I was peeling them off the roll.
Second place goes to a pair of cheap shoes. Literally walked the soles off them in two weeks.
Third place goes to a pair of nail clippers from a consignment store. The metal bent rather than cut through my fingernails. (Maybe it would have worked better under the red sun of my home planet?)
Who’s the other guy?
Yeah, it was the moneychangers and the stall keepers that tolerated them.
It was a religious duty to contribute money for the upkeep of the temple. So people would come from out of town and try to hand over their cash and the priests would say “we can’t accept foreign coinage… go talk to that dude over there with the heavy pockets, he’ll help you”. And the moneychanger would convert their currency, but not without keeping a fat percentage for himself.
The lesson (as I read it) is that setting yourself up as a gatekeeper and forcing people to pay you in order to do the right thing is an especially odious behaviour, even if it’s legal.
Look closer at the third panel.
Is exaggeration for humour something you’re unaware of?
Solve the puzzles. One of them’s gotta lead to a magical fantasy kingdom.
I heard Money For Nothing earlier and more often, so it’s the other way round for me.
Is there a bad Tom Hanks movie? I think maybe Joe Vs The Volcano comes closest, but I still enjoyed it.