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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:

• These drawings don’t look like a photo
• I had thought to communicate these emotions required being able to draw like a photo
• I have learned by looking at this comic that drawing these complex emotions does not require drawing like a photo.
• I have learned by looking at this comic that drawing complex emotions is a different artistic skillset than drawing like a photo
• The artist is clearly very artistically talented.

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”

source

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.

The creator in that video seems to think the Chips Act subsidies were to benefit consumers by having affordable memory produced domestically. That wasn’t the goal. The goal was to derive drive GDP by having another source of domestic production, and drive job growth/tax revenue from workers working at the domestic facility. Lastly, it was to have strategic domestic production decoupled from other nations so we, as a nation, could not be held hostage by another nation (like we do to so many other nations) for crucial (pun very much intended) resources we need.

Nothing about that is about making RAM cheaper for retail consumers.

Blagojevich had the “D” but was also a bad pardon. Criminals need to account for their crimes and serve their sentence.

Then again, I don’t want to live in Ohio either. Yet here we are.

Well, at least its cheaper cost of living than FL.

I had read October Sky

The book was called “The Rocket Boys”. The movie made from the book was “October Sky”. (I honestly like the movie name better, though).

The promise of “fiber to the home” is still mostly unrealized, but those trunk lines are out there with oodles of “dark fiber” ready to carry data… someday.

Counterintuitively, I’m seeing “fiber to the home” deployed more in rural an exurb areas. My guess this is because its lower density meaning installing and maintaining copper repeaters becomes more expensive than laying long distance, low maintenance, fiber. Additionally its easier to obtain permits because there is far less existing infrastructure to interfere with right of way and critical services.

We got fiber to the home in our exurb about 4 years ago here in the USA. Its really cheap too. 500Mb/s is $75, 1Gb/s $100, and 5Gb/s I think is $200 per month.

Again I get your point… but no reasonable plumber would make that mistake.

To extend your analogy, agentic AI isn’t the “reasonable plumber”, its the sketchy guy that says he can fix plumbing and upon arrival he admits he’s a meth addict that hasn’t slept in 3 days and is seeing “the shadow people” standing right there in the room with you.

I absolutely understand what happened here. The point is there is no benefit to these Agentic AIs because they need to be as supervised as a monkey with a knife… why would I ever want that? let alone need that

I can see applications for agentic AI, but they can’t be handed the keys to the kingdom. You put them in an indestructible room with a hammer and a pile of rocks and say “please crush any rock I hand you to be no bigger than a walnut and no smaller than an almond”. In IT terms, the agenic AI could run under a restrictive service account so that even if they went off the rails they wouldn’t be able to damage any thing you cared about.

What I’m hearing then is that Patel performed a drag show exiting the steps of the aircraft.