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This is a reference to Leisure Suit Larry and the Land of the Lounge Lizards and not some nerd game, by the way. I was cool when I was 11 and playing on the computer.

You have encountered a wizard and he asks you to choose between:

A) Experts B) Ted Cuz

Press A or B and then Enter to continue to the next room.

My favorite story about Ted Cruz is that he lost a drinking game in college and had to run around the dorm naked late at night and everyone hated him and just locked the doors or the dorm and went back to the party.

If self-driving A.I. models need a workforce to help identify trains, we could probably assemble an army of toddlers willing to be paid in cookies. My friend’s kid gets HYPE and yells “TRAIN!” when he sees one. He can also reliably identify cows. He calls most construction equipment “big truck” but that might be good enough. If a Tesla thinks a backhoe is a big truck, it’ll avoid it.

I literally couldn’t login to IRS.gov this year because the facial recognition software powering login.gov kept failing. And I recently got a new driver’s license, renewed my Global Entry (whose facial recognition system does work), have a passport, etc.

I have no idea what picture of me the government or vendor running login.gov is trying to match me with but I’m pretty sure I didn’t change my face recently.

Wealth isn’t that hard to quantify. An assessor comes to my house every few years and quantifies what it’s worth for property tax reasons and most people’s wealth is basically their house and maybe a retirement account. Private companies almost all have a valuation. When a start up raises a round, they literally set a valuation for the round. When a traditional business gets a loan, the bank estimates what it’s worth.

But no one even wants to tax small business owners. Every wealth tax proposal is on the super wealthy who can sure as fuck value their net worth. Donald Trump just went on trial for lying about his. If we had a formal assessment system, he would have never even been able to do frauds.

I’m going to make a Linux distro that helps you forget everything you did on the computer. “Oh, man. I was drunk last night. Thank god BoxWineOS comes with the Neuralyzer program.”

https://xkcd.com/1732/

I hate it in part because its adherents seem intent to relearn all the mistakes of the free banking era and constantly evangelize long-debunked economic theories. It’s like the goldbuggism of libertarian cranks of yore.

Also, for Bitcoin specifically, the extra demand for electricity raises rates for nearby residents. It’s essentially a transfer of wealth from ratepayers. A lot of them are in Texas and if you think Texas has “excess capacity,” then explain why they literally pay bitcoin miners an absurd amount not to mine when there’s a cold snap or heat wave.

I could go on about fraud and money laundering but I think being dumb as shit and raising electricity bills is plenty reason to hate it.

Yeah, then he probably was mixing things up (either who was mayor or when he did what where). I doubt he’d be talking about the Ebola outbreak since we only had 4 cases in the U.S. I think it was the biggest Ebola outbreak ever in West Africa but unless the mayor of Detroit’s duties include being the super secret Global Emergency Epidemiologist, not sure why he’d talk to him about that.

Just an aside: it’s kind of crazy that we had SARS, MERS, the Ebola outbreak, multiple Avian flus, swine flu, and several more since 2000 and COVID-19 is the one that spread around the world and killed the most people. It really illustrates how a relatively low mortality rate — I think SARS and MERS were 30%-40% and COVID-19 was like 2% — can be worse overall if it’s transmissible enough between humans.

I’m not turning a blind eye to it. I know he (and Trump) are sundowning. My personal opinion is that Trump is worse off just based on how they both were in the 90’s or 2000’s. Like, look up a video of Trump on Leno or Letterman and he’s not rambling on or angry like he is now. Biden always had “gaffes” or whatever you want to call them.

Everyone their age declines. To me, Trump is showing some of the early Alzheimer’s signs with the anger and the non-stop rambling (which he didn’t do in the past). Biden seems like he’s aging in the way where, if you were his kids, you’d stop letting him drive and be concerned but he’s substantially the same person he was 10 or 20 years ago (even if that included verbal gaffes).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_pandemic There’s been more than one pandemic, y’all. He was VP during Swine Flu. I know he’s old as fuck but I’d assume that’s what he was talking about.