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  1. Was talking about this today. He's a cheat code. If the Spurs can't win a bucket full of championships in his run then it's because Wemby was injured.
  2. I didn't give much credence to the NBA rigging the Draft for us to get Flagg after trading Doncic away for AD and a bucket of balls, but with all this gambling stuff and the fact that the executives all knew, I'm starting to think it's not really a conspiracy theory anymore and more of an open secret.
  3. Gotcha, not the baliwick I was thinking/had some inroads to, but will keep an ear out for ya!
  4. lol ok. cool, hook em, my friend!
  5. haha, it's just one thing after another with this guy. "flood the zone" has a new meaning with trump and maga, it's a constant barrage meant to wear us down to an exhuasted nub. It's actually hard to keep up and if it wasnt't for your website I'm not sure how I would. It's almost a part time job to keep up with this idiot.
  6. Dear God. I get the outrage. This has all been insane but this is a fever pitch. This buffoon..... Yep. He's a fascist ego maniac. I know, water is wet.
  7. Reasonable minds can disagree because the story is being written as we speak. The absolute and assuredness some people (AI doomers is the term I've used because that is the actual term being used out in society where people touch grass between meetings, not just a word I'm making up to disparage you fine folks here like Brisket), is what I'm pushing back on. I'm not trying to "both sides" this as if it's some moral political argument. And I do think that despite what you think you know and what your lived experience is, which I'm sure is considerable and meaningful, you are still in the shallow ends of all this stuff just like the rest of us who have our own professional and personal experiences. Nobody knows with any certainity how this is going to play out but my personal opinion is that a good guess is to draw on history which suggests that this at a minimum a) there is no stopping the AI revolution at this point no matter how much handwringing and magna cartas are written by influential people b) there will be technological progress c) wealth creation for the some d) interesting fundamental changes in everyone's personal and professional lives and e) we will adapt and move on without unaliving ourselves as a people group. There are real challenges and concerns as you mentioned with power generation, natural resources, costs, and yes bubbles, but the tracks are being laid for the next 100 years IMO. And I've said it before but I think there are literal trillion dollar companies of the next 10 years who are not even incorporated yet today who will take advantage of the opportunities.
  8. I've seen a lot of AI slop around what the East Wing "project" is going to look like or what is affected, but saw this and it seems to be the most neutral, factual view (from atop) so thought I'd share as it was helpful to me:
  9. That is CRAZY not just for all the reasons already stated, but also because of the popularity and trending 996 work schedule lately which seems to suggest the exact opposite? I wonder what his angle is....
  10. Of course I don't, nobody really does! That's also kind of the fun of living through such a disruption, it's such a fast moving and dynamic landscape we are living through that what you thought you knew yesterday could be wrong 6 months from now, and there is so much opportunity. Maybe I'm just a glass half full kind of guy as a predisposition though.
  11. $70 net
  12. say what? I'm not defending them, I'm calling them ineffectual dorks who don't know ball. That's the worst insult imagniable where I'm from. But also, sorry if that interpretation ruined your party. This is literally how coup's happen.
  13. All I'm saying is the constant AI doom and gloom and ruining life and society, especially from old people and people of my generation, is giving the Mexican Fishing story, as the kids say. And I get it. At a certain age and disposition, I don't have the energy for the disruption. I'm old and tired and on the downside of the slope along with all the other old fogies on here, and I'm overrotating a little here today to be provocative, but the point is let's add some balance to the conversation. AI isn't going to usher in utopia, but it's also not going to be the fall of mankind. The doom feels unneccesary and even lazy at this point. No matter what you believe, I think we all agree that AI is out of the tube and there is no way backwards. Boom, bust or otherwise.
  14. Which is why, it's been argued, we are the leaders....
  15. I wonder how much of that (the staying in your big house once empty nest) is a cultural shift. Used to be, once my kids are 18+, in college or college educated, they go out and get a job and have an apt or house with roommates, go live a life. It's not much different than the spartan life you lived as a broke colelge student, but it's a little better and it's a life. Earn some money, gain some skills, go out, go on dates, etc. but be 100% independent. The only time your kids moved back in with you was if something really bad happened and it was kinda shameful. That or there are some fundamental issues like with disabilities or handicaps that precluded the ease of a normal life. Now it seems like a cultural norm to have your kids stay with you longer, the coddling mother saying "just live here and save some money", while you go to school or work your first couple of entry jobs to pay your dues. It's not uncommon for able-bodied adults to live at home until their 30's these days, which kinda blows my mind, but I get that it's harder than ever for kids to live without roommates in desirable cities and locations so it's not longer the burn outs and losers who live at home, but good kids who need more time and help. And I wonder how many parents don't sell their big house because they are taking a "wait and see" approach to see if their kid will be able to muster it or if they need the extra rooms for the boomerang in case they need some more time and help.
  16. How is what you are saying ANY different than any other time in history when we've been confronted with a monumental shift via a technological disruption (or revolution, as they are typically called e.g. Industrial, PC, Mobile, and now AI)? Seriously you are just playing the same hits that the doomers of those times played but with a modern backing track and click timer in your ear to keep the beat a little better. I'm actually astonished at how so many folks who claim to be progressive are full of fear with the progession of technology. As Dr. Malcolm once said, er, um, erhm, uhhh.....[after massive societal disruptions and advancements and growing pains, American Society and] life will find a way." It's like with physics and math, it's hard to breakthrough because you have to think about the problems and frameworks and what could be so differently than what currently is, and I think it's hard for most of us to visualize until hindsight is 20/20 when it comes to these truly disruptive times as aforementioned. But hey, Maybe, just maybe, this time is the different and this is REALLY the one-- the one time where we will extinct ourselves and truly be the downfall of human beings and ruin ourselves. Also, maybe the next time someone gives an exact date and time the world is going to end they would be the first to be right as well.
  17. A lot of you AI doomers are giving "Electricity is a deadly and scary new technology" in the 1900's. Won't someone think of the candlemakers and the wax engineers! eta: real anti-electricity cartoon of the 1900s by great-great-great grandpa Brisket DeLedgio
  18. I'm still catching up on the details of the nba scandal that broke this AM (and it's probably being updated and commented on heavy in the bball forum) but the use of the quotes with fraud here, as in "fraud", are you suggesting there wasn't some illegal gambling ring / money, points fixing / insider trading and dishonesty that affects the integrity of the game going on and it's some sort of distraction or witchhunt?
  19. It clearly states in the documents, however, the correct name. I think this is clearly one of those cases, like if you've seen three jeopardy nerds try to answer sports questions which are obvious to most of us on a sports website, where these dorks just got tongue-tied.
  20. @Satchel was this a Joan Didion reference or a W.B. Yeats reference? Either way, bravo dude.
  21. @Gatorubet looks like we were reading the same article-- should have read your post first!
  22. I agree. Been thinking of that. I read earlier this week that the number or percentage of folks late on their car payments has doubled and is higher than during the 2008 crisis (and the economists interviewed were talking about how it's a very big deal because the car payment is one that most people prioritize first, after shelter because it's so important in US). ETA: Also a big driver obviously is car payments are like literally twice what they were in 2008 with the average car price being so high and the dearth of cheap/budget/economy vehicles anymore, etc. Might be able to get some sweet rides on the cheap soon?
  23. Um. WHAT? are you a literal insane person? I was saying that @immamacis like Atlas with the world (tailgate) on his singular shoulder and he has decided it's not worth carrying the weight of it all alone.
  24. Atlas Shrugged
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