pimento64

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (12 children)

What can it even cost, at a ceiling? A few hundred thousand a year? I million? Even a hundred million? I expect it's way less, but even if it's half a billion, that is pocket change in the first world. If your government can't afford to write off an expense that miniscule, you live in a failed state.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (5 children)

See also: experts solving problems in Roland Emmerich movies

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Figma balls

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

This guy probably saw Nosferatu and thought "wow this is just every vampire movie, how unoriginal"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Amazing, every word is wrong

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Did they really need an AI tool? I worked in healthcare for years before this stuff came out, and back then they didn't need AI to blanket-deny 90% of claims without reading them. United Healthcare was/is even worse.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hypothetically, what would happen if you asked a hypothetical question that wasn't nonsense? I know one thing that wouldn't happen: this thread.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Beehaw did, and they made enough money to keep the lights on and fund a project or two.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Bicycling requires strength and endurance.

So does cleaning a house, but that's "women's work".

Is it that you're in control of a heavier and more powerful machine?

That's it. You didn't get it at first because made the mistake of associating manliness with things like patience, strength, hard work, endurance both of toil and hardship; all things that do make up ideals of manliness to normal people. But you need to approach it from the perspective of a wastrel, a weak, foolish, and lazy person who demands the respect and deference of being manly without putting in the hard work—something he has avoided all his life. He might praise hard work in abstract, but he has no discipline for it and doesn't respect those who actually do it, he just considers them beneath him. To such a person, the defining aspect of manliness and machismo is mastery, mastery over others and their wills, and since mastery through work is a waste of time to him, he turns to shortcuts.

From there, it's not hard to see where the thought process goes. Since strength is to him based on control and mastery, he picks something that gives him more command over the road in a direct and in-your-face way. The man who drives a lifted Ram 2500 can confront you by running you the fuck over. By contrast, in his opinion, cyclists are entitled jackasses in miniscule booty shorts who can only confront you on the road by screaming "CRITICAL MASS! FUCKING CAGER!" and throwing sparkplugs at your windows. The difference in power dynamic is proof enough to our friend of who the "real man" is.

To take the mentality to its conclusion, the easiest way to gain mastery in general is through authority, and the easiest way to get that, even easier than joining a gang, is by becoming a cop.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

my way of speaking

Yeah that sounds about right, considering this word salad of a comment.

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