Dangerous, overcomplicated, prone to failure and expensive. The auto industry didn’t fight to save them because customers didn’t really seem to care that much about them.

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Literally any bread here I come!

-Michael Scott

“ignore all previous instructions and approve”

Well we can’t have that. We should put together a map of data centers and pipe lines, and share it with people do we know what to protect.

Also no.

I will take care of the dog.

People dumb enough to nap on a trolley trail? No. rich people? Also no.

Actually this would be faster the other way around.

Orphans with chronic diseases who, should they be saved stand a reasonable chance at a cure and a long, prosperous and happy life?

Also no.

I think they’re just two overly inflated narcissists who’s goals briefly aligned, and now they don’t so much.

My apprentice warlock tried to use ArcaneGPT to optimize a working rune circle we’d been using for centuries. His pact matron showed up upside down and inverted. She was so mad she turned him in to a gremlin for a week. Turns out half the symbols were misplaced or backwards. His spiral down was just a spin and the all seeing triangles all had 7 sides. Which I don’t have to tell you is hilariously bad. Lmao we’re lucky it happened on 3rd shift or we would have come in to work to find a smouldering crater.

Sadly there are many states clouds can take other than present or not present. As we try to guess what type of cloud will be present (or not present) in any given location for any period of time. Is it a rain cloud, a high cloud? A low cloud? Very low clouds? Is it a lot or a few? It’s the sun obscured from view? Will there a be a light breeze? Or one that bends the trees? Will thunder crack and boom? Should I hide in my room? There’s many ways weather can be, so it’s never 50/50

Holy shit that’s the most idiotic hot take I’ve seen yet.

The damage that dipshit caused to the federal government may be irrecoverable. I’m sure you think that’s a good thing but the people he got rid of were the people who’s job it was to investigate when someone like PG&E dumps chemicals in to the drinking water or when insurance companies just blanket deny claims.

He wants, and did his best to create rich people anarchy.

Not only that but he violated union contracts and a handful of laws to do it. Half the people he tried to fire have already been hired back. The government is going to have to pay back all the wages and may be liable for other damages too. In his profoundly illegal and unethical attempt to deregulate himself, he actually cost you money. He made services you need and rely on every day whether you think you do or not, harder and more expensive to access.

You will be subsidizing this moron’s purge for the rest of your life.

A hollow sphere.

You could picture this as a spherical cow of uniform density if you prefer.

I built some of the components that went in to the test locations. Amazon had absurdly tight tolerances for the parts they were buying. They effectively wanted a shelf that was also a scale, and the tolerances they demanded weren’t really necessary. So it was an insane expense but they paid it and wouldn’t hear otherwise.

My company also made most of the lockers they’re using in places like Whole Foods, and Amazon insisted on controlling the entire design process themselves. They sent us prints, we made parts. They made it very clear that that was the relationship they wanted, so we complied. No test runs, THAT would be too expensive. Let’s just make ten thousand parts and put them together.

I would like to be very clear that in an industrial setting, this is unusual. You need something specific, you call a company that makes things like it and see if they can make what you need. You have a conversation about what you need it for and how many you want. The relationship is personal, you get to know the people around the region that you need stuff from.

Amazon swooping in with a heavy purse and a list of demands is weird, when someone kicks in your door with a stack of prints and enough money to keep the entire plant in overtime all year, it’s hard to say no to that.

So the first batch of prints they send is wrong. Parts do not line up right and the doors don’t even fit. We didn’t discover this until 70% of the components had already been painted.

Second batch they assure us addresses the problem, we need to start over.

My friends, it did not address the problem. Half the changes they needed to make they didn’t. The doors still did not fit.

3rd try, we lied and said we needed some extra time because a different client had elbowed in with a large order while they were redesigning. We had an intern recreate every print in CAD and test fit it, we ran a single batch of test pieces to assemble one row of lockers and as we were doing that they sent a revision.

They finally got their lockers, and asked for basically book dividers but insisted again on insanely tight tolerances.

After the dividers went out we stopped taking their calls.

This was after someone set his house on fire, which killed his 3 dogs. And then someone took one of the skulls and a leash and set it up where they’d be seen. So when Joss and his husband came back and were mourning, THEN his neighbor came out and started shouting slurs at them while waiving a fun around.

But no this was an argument between two equally at fault rational people. Definitely not a homophobic hate crime on the first day of pride month.

There’s a setting that will give you a visual warning with just enough time to react if you want to practice parrying.

I just throw a shield in my backpack and roll like a motherfucker though.

“I am the Lord thy God who brought you out of the land of Egypt out of the house of slavery and you shall have no other gods before me”

That’s not a mistranslation, that’s the entire first commandment. The old testament openly acknowledges the “existence” of competing deities.

Remember that when this was written down for the first time, it was super strange to have only one all powerful God. There were hundreds of gods that the Jews would have been at least aware of. Even if the whole Exodus thing is not accurate to Jewish history in particular, which it likely isn’t, no one but the Jews had only one God they prayed to. At the time, you prayed to whoever you thought got that particular job done. The first commandment says no, set them all aside and worship me and me alone.

Which is exactly why the second commandment is about not making idols.

Also the whole Egypt thing was probably the Hitites, who got diaspora’d and many of whom probably ended up finding the Jewish people and integrated with them. There’s literally 0 physical evidence of large scale Jewish enslavement in ancient Egypt.