There are those who have weighed the pros and cons of raising the minimum wage to $15/hour and have decided that it would be a great idea.
Are you socially awkward? Do you hate human interaction? Now there’s hope, Fight for 15. Raising the minimum wage would speed up the robot takeover.
A magazine ad for Chrysler, 1968, shows some of their then-current products. Note the one at the top: yes, back in the day Chrysler had an aerospace division, and was the prime contractor for the first stage of the Saturn I and Saturn Ib launch vehicles.
Huh.
In short: a boyfriend and a girlfriend were having a fight; the boyfriend asked “did you call the sheriffs,” which the Google Home device overheard and interpreted as a command to “call the sheriffs.” the fight was overheard by the sheriffs, who proceeded to send in the SWAT team (anybody else remember when SWAT was used to go after terrorists?).
Ta-daaaaa…
BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
It’s not a big event, but it’s still amusing to watch supposed “anti-fascists” applauding Hitler.
Huh.
In short: apparently the family was constantly ill, so they had the air in their home tested. It was found that they were being poisoned by formaldehyde coming off their large collection of books.
I have two questions:
A 1963 NASA-Marshall report on man-rating launch vehicles included this small chart showing modifications to the Titan II Space Launch Vehicle.
The security at Baikonur seems a little lax. The fate that has befallen these spacecraft is tragic. But at least the footage is pretty neato.
Lots of people are really looking forward to the day when they can be uploaded. The idea with a lot of folks is that a sufficiently advanced system should allow a complete emulation of not only the individual, but a bajillion other people as well as a good fraction of the universe. Thus the uploaded person would be able to live essentially forever in digital bliss. Right? Unless…
No matter how mind-snappingly stupid an idea or a movement is, no matter how objectively and *obviously* flawed its basic premise is… there will be people who cling to it forever. Observe:
Oy.
There’s no point in me rehashing the history and ideas behind the flat Earthers, we’ve heard it all before and it remains an infuriatingly awful conspiracy theory. What’s of interest is that as scientific data proving the non-flat nature of the Earth continues to pile up, more people seem to be signing on. Why? Well… I think one quote from the article nails the cause:
“They want you to think you’re insignificant, a speck on the earth, a cosmic mistake,” Sargent says. “The flat earth says you are special, we are special, there is a creator, this isn’t some accident.”
Here’s the thing: you *ARE* insignificant. And I don’t even mean on the cosmic scale. Take *any* random human, from you, dear blog reader, to your most cherished loved one, your workplace nemesis, your best friend, your neighbor, whoever. Now, assume that that human has a perfectly normal heart attack and dies tomorrow. Will people care? Sure, probably. But how many? For virtually all the seven billion+ people, that one persons passing will be completely un-noticed. It would be surprising if the news goes beyond an obituary in the back of the local paper. And in a hundred years, that perfectly average human will have been *entirely* forgotten by living humans, remembered solely by unread words on a stone in a cemetery and in unread old databases.
Yeah, you’re insignificant. You’re a speck on the Earth, a cosmic mistake.
But you’re one insignificant speck among seven billion others. If you work at it, aren’t a jerk and behave rationally and intelligently, you might help be a part of turning this mess of specks into something meaningful on a cosmic scale. *YOU* won’t live to see it, but so what? If you live well, you might enjoy your brief life and have some satisfaction that you did something useful.
Or… you could decide to live delusionally and just decide that you are more important than you really are. It might make you feel special to think that the universe was set up just for your piddly ass, but it won’t mean that you really are special. In the end, you will not only die and be forgotten, like everyone else, you will play no useful or meaningful role in advancing mankind.
Oh, and headline writer? Being mocked is not “persecution.”
The last 50 years have been filled with all manner of excuses to try to keep humans Earthbound. Here are some more, pretty much equally valid with all the others: