I’m thinking its also confusion about the backscatter X-ray machines that were used before the millimeter wave scanners replaced them in most places. I had heard some small airports still use the backscatter machines.
I still take the patdown instead of the millimeter wave scanners when I’m randomly selected for more scrutiny than the bog standard metal detector.
Maybe MS couldn’t stuff enough ads into the old Start Menu requiring a re-write to allow for more ad space. /s
In every version of Windows up until now which has contained a taskbar and start menu, as far back as Windows 95. Not just Windows 10.
Sadly not true. Microsoft removed the Start button in a version of Windows before. It was in Windows 8 (and Windows Server 2012 for some godforsaken reason) with the cursed “metro” interface. MS did it for the same stupid reason they’re citing here “tablet and touchscreen users”. The uproar caused MS to release Windows 8.1 a year later where they returned the Start button.
“My life would easier and more comfortable with the AI off.”
I’m imagining code snippets that would actually download ads into applications people are writing. This would target those that copy/paste’d code without having any concept of what the code in question does.
2028: The law was changed and now Barron is president.
If you look at the history of what donald did to his dad, you’d see why donald would never let his son have power of him. They’re all horrible people.
Isn’t that convenient! One lesson you learn as you get older is to simple “let people continue to be wrong”. That’s what I’ll do now. You should probably just block me then because I must be AI, right? I think you’ll be doing both of us a favor. Have a great day!
Are you being intentionally evasive, or is that just your “thing”?
Gotcha, no hard feelings. I think we both appreciate the art and the artist.
but imo it’s important to aknowledge the skill behind something like this.
From my first post that’s what I’ve been doing. I’m not sure why you’re taking this thread where I have done nothing but compliment the artist and their skills and try to make it sound like I’m insulting the artist instead. Even with your response here you’re doing that again.
Get started with what?
I, uh, I think those are the tires of the car it ate.
This isn’t the first time I’ve been accused of being a bot, nor of using AI. Instead, its the other thing. I’m older. This is just how we talk. Heck, why do you think LLMs talk this way? Because it was trained on people data that talk like I do.
I don’t really use LLMs or AI for regular tasks like posting online. I grew up with the skills to do that
Corrected, thank you. Aging eyes and lack of proofreading on my part are to blame.
Okay fine. I’ve tried to say this 2 times, but apparently I’m bad at communicating. None of my opinions have changed in my posts, this is what I’ve been trying to say this entire time. I’ll spell out what I meant from the very first post:
I’m not bashing the artist at all. I’m not saying they are bad at art. I’m not saying their simply drawing style is simple to produce. I’m saying it doesn’t look like a photograph, yet still accomplishes the artists goal of relaying these emotions incredibly effectively.
Good observations, but don’t mistake simplicity for a lack of talent or effort.
I’m saying the opposite. Or rather, the talent in expressing the ideas doesn’t require a photorealistic drawing talent. I’m recognizing the talent for communicating these human emotions is separate, but not less amazing. This artist has this incredible talent!
The joke here is great, but what is really striking to me is how the artist, even with their simple drawing style, perfectly captured the affect of each person pictured. The clerk with a bit of anxiety delivering bad news yet with detached indifference, the other mechanic thinking “goddamit, another one of these. I don’t get paid enough…”, and the patron just exacerbated exasperated by the whole thing and having to once again make a bad choice from a menu of worse choices.
I always thought it took much more artistic talent/effort to communicate these feelings, but this comic is an eye opener for me for how simple it is drawn, but how effective in communicating.
but I think the realistic reading is it was simply a kickback to fortune 500 companies that got these politicians elected.
If there were no legitimate geopolitical reasons, then the “simply a kickback” would be much more plausible. Also, if it was a single source company, then “simply a kickback” would look true. Additionally, if was perhaps just domestic companies “simply a kickback” would certainly be even more likely. Lastly, the Chips act wasn’t just about production domestically. It also blocked sales/exports of completed high end chips and chip making equipment to China. If the Chips act was “simple a kickback” you wouldn’t do all that other stuff, and you certainly wouldn’t allow foreign winners (like Taiwan’s TSMC).
Was their rewards because of industry lobbying? Certainly. However, unless you’re in a purely communist system of government where all the companies are owned by the state, you’re always going to have private companies benefiting from government spending, tax breaks, and subsidies. As to this just applying to fortune 500 companies, there isn’t really a “mom and pop” semiconductor industry making handfuls of chips at a time except outside of engineering sample that are used in R&D for fortune 500 companies.
The worst of it hasn’t happened yet. The point where consumers can no longer afford to consume is coming.
Its mostly already arrived.
“As of June 30, the top 20% of earners accounted for more than 63% of all spending”
This means that the other 80% of Americans represent only 37% of the spending done today. If a company is looking to maximize profits the typical path is to do so by marketing to the group where they could earn the most money. That is less and less the bottom 80% of Americans.
If taking an extra 15 minutes to go through security is causing you to almost miss your flight, then you’re already not arriving at the airport early enough. Shit happens. Gate changes occur. Overbooked flights are a thing. Long lines at bag check or security happen without any apparent notice or reason. Even something like unexpected traffic getting to the air port is common.
Welcome to the world the rest of us live in where the average citizen has to be the calm and collected one in the confrontation when dealing with law enforcement lest you earn their ire (or be shot because they’re nervous or angry).