Where the hell did you go to see all that? I’ve lived in the US for half a century and never seen any of that. There are some states that need to figure out how to pave roads that will last more than 2 years, but many states have figured that out.

Looks small to me

I also think makeup is gross. Women think they look pretty, but they just look like clowns. I can understand covering a zit, or using it when you’re on camera or stage, but that’s the only reason you should use makeup.

I think high heels look really stupid, not hot. They also look horribly uncomfortable. You would think that in 2023 we would be way past those outdated and horrible contraptions.

If you did, someone probably spit in it.

That’s not going to help them out of the mess they’ve gotten themselves into.

Mine will show “Spam” or “Telemarketer”, but there’s no way to stop it from ringing trough, outside of blocking each number afterward. I’d like to know who thought that just announcing spam was better than not letting it through.

I agree. Nazis are ok, but the Illinois Nazis are horrible.

It’s because of the napkin gnomes. Nobody can ever catch them.

Try making it legible. I can’t make out most of it because the characters are not clear and they are not lined up well enough to understand the flow. Maybe hire someone with better penmanship than you.

As a recovering alcoholic, I will answer your question as to when you become alcoholic. I drank every night for 22 years before I started having issues in the day. It took me a while to figure out that I was going through withdrawals. I didn’t think I could be having withdrawals, because I drank last night. The withdrawals got steadily worse until I had to start taking a sip at lunch just to calm them. After some time the sip at lunch turned into a sip after lunch, a sip before lunch, and eventually a drink every hour just to ward off the massive withdrawals.

Addiction is a progressive disease. It always gets worse, but not at the same rate for everyone. I had a friend that died of alcoholism at 27. I drank just like he did, sobered up at 44, and am still here.

That could apply to almost anything in the news nowadays.

The only issue with Audile. Is that you have to sign up for AudD. The cheapest option is $5/month. If you use it a lot, then that could be worth it. I would like to find an open source replacement for SoundHound, but since I only use it, maybe 10 times a year, it isn’t worth $60/year.

The “current gen AI” is the key here. How sustainable it is depends on how quickly it can grow and improve. Technology is growing much faster than in the past. I remember getting a dictation program in 1998. I had to spend 2 hours talking to it so it could learn my voice. Even after all that, it still only had about a 25% success rate in properly transcribing my text. In 2015 I bought my first smart watch. The first voice transcription I made from it was 100% correct with absolutely no learning of my voice at all.

I believe that the LLM will quickly give way to a different type of AI. There may be several different approaches to AI before something really takes hold and changes the game.

I’m not sure where you get the idea that “the pilgrim thing is all made up”. It’s was very well documented at the time, and the texts of the individuals involved are available through the national archives.

The national holiday of Thanksgiving has been transformed into part of the retail Christmas season. It was cemented as such by FDR. The holiday is more about focusing on Christmas spending, and guaranteeing annual profits for retailers than it is about giving thanks to God for the blessings that have been bestowed upon individuals.

If you don’t like when the holiday is, then you are more than welcome to celebrate it at another time, just as much as you can not celebrate it at all, if you choose so. If the actions of the last few years have shown us anything, it’s that traditions are no longer sacred. Just live your life the way you choose, and ignore what everyone else is doing.

I really don’t know what I’d do with a 1978 Ford LTD.

At least my search for penis enlargement systems and local hookers aren’t making Google money.

Yeah, we didn’t have cable in the 80s because there was no cable where we lived.

Holy crap! I didn’t know that. Now I have to start searching for it.

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