Humanoid robots are as dumb as a bag of hammers. It's like when the first automobiles looked like carriages because that's what everyone was used to.
The only practical reason to make a robot look like a person is so you can fuck it. That's it. Every other task can be performed better by removing human limitations and complexity.
I put the hook from "Freddie the Freeloader" as my ringtone on a flip phone back in like 2010. Even though I love that song, associating it with someone calling ruined it for me, and I still wince a little when I hear it.
Some people need concrete examples because they can't work things out in the abstract. So it's a good thing this is in the NYT, so plenty of conservatives will see it.
Fred Hampton once said (paraphrasing from memory) "a pig is a pig is a pig. No matter black, white, yellow, or polka dot".
I think this applies here in the sense that race can be ignored as a factor in the corrupt, the same way you can rule out a coherent doctrine. The only academic question about Thomas is has he received a bribe, or is he angling for a gratuity?
I'm saying this as someone who's tried to comprehend his political/ legal philosophy for years. Observers have often said that Thomas believes that black Americans can find more equality in capital than they can with the franchise. The reasoning goes that black Americans can never rely on voting because they're a permanent minority and therefore perpetually dependent on the good will of white America; good will that can never be trusted. Valid point IMO. But nah... Justice Thomas was just corrupt.
Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence
What?!? The central idea of progressivism is egalitarianism, or to put it another way, All Men Are Created Equal..... What kind of an RV or Private Island retreat paid for this ironclad legal and historical reasoning?
Social media companies will target teenagers with ads for impulse products if they calculate that the user is stressed or tired.
You should let your community college people know that graduates from prestigious universities are being paid seven figures to influence not only how they spend and save, but also what they earn. Let them know that it's their personal responsibility to overcome the efforts of trillion dollar industries that have captured the media and government.
Struwwelpeter describes a lazy, dirty boy who does not groom himself properly and is consequently unpopular.
Devastating. In Irish lore, ghosts appear to be phantasmagorical dancers in the forest and if you join in, YOU JOIN IN. As I mentioned elsewhere, a trespass unto the wrong part of the forest or even stepping in a fairy circle might provoke the faeries to kidnap your infant.
The Irish stuff is less cautionary tale and more explaining why terrible shit happens for no reason.
EDIT: another story from Struwwelpeter
Die Geschichte von den schwarzen Buben ("The Story of the Inky Boys"): Nikolas (or "Agrippa" in some translations)[7] catches three boys teasing a dark-skinned boy. To teach them a lesson, he dips them in black ink.
For starters, Irish faeries are not like tinkerbell. They like to play pranks. Like kidnapping babies and replacing them with mimics. The creature we'd recognize as the Headless Horseman is Irish folklore, as well as the whole concept of Halloween. Bram Stoker, an Irishman need not have borrowed from Eastern European traditions, because the Irish had a bloodsucking undead monster too.
The Earth's population has nearly doubled in my lifetime. I'm pretty sure we're not quite endangered yet. I'll also point out that poor countries that tend to spawn brown players are well above replacement levels if you count those as people.
Their is an old joke from Ireland, during The Troubles.
A man drives up to a checkpoint and the guard in the balaclava and holding an FAL asks: are you a Catholic or a Protestant? (this would reveal your allegiance to the Republicans or the Loyalists).
The man answers: I'm and atheist.
The rifleman responds: Yes, yes, but are you a Catholic atheist or a Protestant atheist?
This is funny to the heretic because we're still culturally attached to our sect. I read the book; I sat in the pews; I sang the songs. I'm a Protestant atheist and that Catholic shit will always be foreign and weird.
Bitcoin is for dodging sanctions and the influence America has over the international banking and payment systems. It's also may shield third parties from sanctions the US may impose on those who transact with Iran.
The national anthem of people who love the status quo!