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Sure would be a shame if he tripped / fell and broke a hip….

... then they'd have to turn the West Wing into a hospital

Bigger? .. it just means you need more booze and junk food .... infinitely

If you live in a northern climate, you have to rely on a very complicated and expensive delivery system that will supply you with this fruit that can only be grown in the tropics. And the only way to keep it economical is to create an economy where food prices are artificially kept low because first world countries systematically suppress developing countries that grow bananas into becoming stable economies that would actually provide better wages for farmers and workers who would raise the price of bananas.

We have cheap bananas because we don't mind living in a world where we abuse farmers and workers to work for pennies to supply us in the first world with cheap bananas.

Try .... only if the high ground you have

Hwat is now officially a Klingon word

The Epstein Ballroom ... it has a nice ring to it

This is the scary thing about the development of any kind of AI we are building as a society generally .... it will be heavily biased according to our general ideas of race, identity and beliefs ... no matter how you cut it, develop it, influence it or deal with it, the AI will always take away our human based general ideas of right, wrong, biases, beliefs, and perceptions.

When you think about it, we (humanity as a whole) are trailer trash morons who dropped out of school years ago that shouldn't have the responsibility of raising a child ... but we went out and got pregnant anyway and now we're raising a baby ... sure, there are instances of trailer trash parents who do go out to raise decent people but I've seen my share of down and out people who raise children in absolutely the worst ways possible and churn out a whole generation of maladjusted people who end up with drug addictions, and their only hope is in doing the absolutely dumbest things possible to get by in life.

We're dumb parents and we're raising a new being-AI-intelligence-whatever into existence. What do you think that new child (or growing AI) will become?

That's why the AI was triggered in the first place .... the kid is BLACK!!!

How many white kids with crumpled bags of chips in their pockets went away without any notice ... as soon as you have one black kid in that situation .... BOOM ... call in the SWAT Team!

Or better yet .... more and more people will start to realize that it's cheaper in the long run to just skip your loan payments. Even if you lose everything, how much more can you lose?

And when enough people lose, the banks and corporations start losing as well. So it's in the best interest of the banks to keep everyone afloat as long as possible to keep up the illusion that the system is still working.

It's a precarious balance between making people believe that they need to stay in the game and stopping them from thinking that the game is rigged.

A great educator and language teacher as well ...

Local politician ... a member of town council but also a character that just hung onto any and all political positions related to local politics. He never did much expect make money for himself. If he didn't get on council, he would try for mayor, and if he got neither, Financial Controller, Administrator, Manager, whatever, as long as it was with the town. He was in essence a salesman because he could talk circles around most people with political language and a bit of education, especially when he dealt with the uneducated or gullible people. It was basically his entire career and he's well on his way to retiring after having done nothing for anyone else or the town.

They vet ICE agents?