StereoTrespasser

But many are not. Many live in this shit-stain of a state and instead of voting with their feet, stay and complain.

That's what people say but it's rarely worked for me.

We owned and went back to renting. Home ownership sucks. Taxes, maintenance, the stress of finding contractors who couldn't care less about you, Saturdays at the Home Depot, being trapped under the weight of a mortgage for 10+ years before you even see a mild positive increase in your equity...it's a joke. And if you want to move? Forget it. You're stuck.

But the bigger problem with artificial trees is that the vast majority of those sold in the U.S. are made in China. The soft plastic needles on those artificial trees often are made of polyvinyl chloride, or PVCs, which contain phthalates. Phthalates are endocrine-disrupting chemicals that have been associated with reproductive harm, cancer, asthma and neurodevelopmental problems.

This is why we've opted for a live tree for the last few years. Our artificial tree started giving us a weird feeling on our hands, like a greasy slimy feeling that you can't see, but know is on your skin.

Mr. Musk explained that his plan was to colonize Mars to escape overpopulation and other dangers on Earth. Dr. Hassabis replied that the plan would work — so long as superintelligent machines didn’t follow and destroy humanity on Mars, too.

Mr. Musk was speechless. He hadn’t thought about that particular danger. Mr. Musk soon invested in DeepMind alongside Mr. Thiel so he could be closer to the creation of this technology.

I can't believe these are grown men talking like this.

You're not playing Lemmy correctly. The highest rated post must always be a half-hearted pessimistic lazy criticism of whatever new technology is being described.

And then someone saying something about Linux

That's fine if it's a troll account, but the problem is that it's not even funny.

That's what caught my eye too. I rarely, if ever, respond to someone who's responded to a comment I've made, especially if they're arguing or trying to correct me. And that's if I've even bothered to go back and check it.

Not that you'll ever see my reply to your comment...

What's so amusing, in a sickening, depressing way, is how West Virginia markets itself as a vast and beautiful natural utopian playground for the rich retirees out of northern Virginia and DC. Go just a bit deeper west and south into that state and it looks like the hellish barren embodiment of greed and evil.

I wish these assholes would just come out and tell the truth: they need you in the office to justify their multi-decade office leases that they can't get out of.