I can’t believe this is real.

Home ownership out of reach? No problem, just never own a home. Bing bang boom.

I would love to have another 1997. Man I loved that year. A 1998 would be cool too.

You’re right, though. AWS has far more data centers/regions. Even if a company only uses AWS, they can set up High Availability/Disaster Recovery solutions that replicate across AWS regions.

But they won’t because:

• management doesn’t understand the technology, just “cloud good”.
• the experienced tech workers who do understand that you still need HADR in the cloud have all been laid off or retired.
• redundancy costs…wait for it…money.

Portal 1 and Portal 2. Every time.

Not at all.

By calling for education and healthcare to be free, you’re voluntarily giving ammunition to politicians that they can use to sway low-information voters.

If every person who supported public education and public healthcare stopped calling it free right now, the people against these public services would still call them free. Because they want it to sound like people are trying to get something for nothing. They like it when we call it free.

Calling something free just conforms to the narrative that education and healthcare are something you would have to pay for in the first place. Why would you ever have to pay for a basic human right?

Disclaimer: I 100% support “free” healthcare and “free” education.

Being a teacher is a job. Being a college professor is a job. Being a nurse is a job. Being a janitor for a college campus is a job. People need money and benefits to do jobs. We’ve not yet achieved a post-scarcity economy where people can work without being reimbursed for their efforts.

Anyone who labels the goal of providing publicly-funded education or publicly-funded healthcare as “free” is either arguing in bad faith or too naive to understand what the goal should be. As a society we should provide public services, such as education and healthcare, to all humans who ask for it. For the good of all humans. But it’s something we all have to collectively fund.

So at Universal Halloween Horror Nights they have Freddy Fazbear’s spaghetti pizza.

Now spaghetti pizza you could argue is not quite as bad as a spaghetti taco, but I really thought spaghetti pizza was an abomination.

That. Shit. Was. Straight. Fire.

The spaghetti pizza was so good that I’m sad now that I genuinely don’t know of I am ever going to have that specific meal again…maybe I can order a cheese pizza and make some spaghetti and meatballs and slap it on top? I just don’t think it will be the same.

Anywho…I would definitely try those spaghetti tacos.

Do not discard advice from older people because you think “the world has changed” and old people are out of touch.

ALL the advice that the older people in my life gave me in my teens about money/college/jobs/people/relationships was right, but I refused to listen to any of it because they were old and didn’t understand my life.

Don’t force yourself to learn every life lesson the hard way, like I did.

You’ll probably learn everything the hard way…but I tried to tell you.

I don’t think we’re any closer to AGI due to LLMs. If you take away all the marketing misdirection, to achieve AGI you would have to have artificial rational thought.

LLMs have no rational thought. They just don’t. That’s not how they’re designed.

Again, I could be wrong. If so, I was always in support of the machines.

If/when we actually achieve Artificial Intelligence, then maybe it would be a concern.

What we have today are LLMs which are big dumb parrots that just say things back to you that match a pattern. There is no actual intelligence.

Calling our current LLMs “Artificial Intelligence” is just marketing. LLMs have been possible for a while but until recently we just didn’t have the processing power at the scale we have now.

Once everyone realizes they’ve been falling for a marketing campaign and that we’re not very much closer to AI than we were before LLMs blew up, then LLMs will just become what they actually are: a tool that enhances human intelligence.

I could be wrong though. If so, I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords.

Honestly, in my opinion, follow the money. In any situation, try to figure out who will be making money. That’s where the truth is today.

Politicians --> money

Corporations --> money

News --> money

TV/Music/Movies --> money

Oh man that’s the worst…trying not to spoil something for other people. I’ve accidentally spoiled shows that came out years ago. What’s the statute of limitations on spoilers?

On the flip side they’ll not get to experience knowing that the channel you were watching was the exact same for everyone. It feels really strange and isolating to me to know that what’s on my TV right now is streaming just to me.

I know it’s silly; we were still watching TV alone, but there was something about knowing that other people were watching the same thing at the same time that made it better.

Yeah, Android Auto is definitely the thing I didn’t think I needed and now can’t live without.

I have no idea if there can be a foss alternative that would work with existing cars…

I’m 50 and I’m still too young. That movie gives me the heebie jeebies every time, though Laurence Fishburne is the most cool-headed, logical character in any horror movie I’ve ever seen.

A Nightmare on Elm Street.

I was 8, my Mom said I wasn’t allowed to watch it. I watched it at a friend’s house.

I was so sure that night that Freddy was going to grab me through the bed like he did to Johnny Depp that I went to my Mom in her room and admitted to her that I watched it then promptly vomited on her due to the accumulated fear.

TNG “Devil’s Due”

Top notch in my opinion. The moment when Picard steps up to The Devil (Ardra) is one of my top moments of all time.

I think lots of people could identify with this episode due to it’s scifi content and it’s theological content.

Obviously TNG “The Inner Light” is literally one of the best television episodes ever to have been recorded, but it’s too much of a side quest to really introduce someone to Star Trek.

I’ve done this a bunch of times when camping.

Good, crisp apples are the best. A carbonated honeycrisp apple is amazing!!!

This is great advice for signing up for streaming services, and very, very bad advice for a gym membership.

They absolutely will send your delinquent gym membership account to collections and it will wind up on your credit report. It’s part of their business plan.

You’d have to sign up with a false identity, which is technically fraud.