Clone your body and put your brain into it? No.

Make a better body and put your brain into it 👍

I know, right? Why send my BBQ data to the cloud when I can just cook with a handful of GPUs, locally? To start the grill you just ask the animated waifu to dance and sing a random, AI-generated song that matches your taste in music. Then the fans spin up and send scrumptious GPU heat into the grill, cooking up a delicious hallucination where your animated waifu sings, "That looks yummy! Yummy yummy yummy! Hai hai hai!"

The correct response is to do as he asks... Respectfully remove the painting.

Then replace it with a picture of an orange baby and put his name on the plaque.

Know Linux? Kindly filter out all job postings from Meta. You know, for failing to meet the Linux community guidelines.

Actually, you should do that anyway but now you have a more practical reason.

It seems RFK Jr is walking back some of his previous statements about vaccines. Notably, that he doesn't seem to want to ban them all anymore. From just two days ago:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/04/election-trump-rfk-jr-vaccines-fluoride

He's still planning on making everyone's teeth rot though.

Depends on how old your kids are... Are they old enough to understand suffering and loss? Then it's time to make your kids suffer and lose some of their free time in order to learn something important; like any good parent!

As someone who's caught a leaker in the past (well, someone that was exfiltrating company secrets to a competitor) catching leakers is actually pretty easy if you have any modicum of control over the tools they use and the places they work. Barring that, no. Just no. It's not going to happen.

If a leaker is gullible and stupid some trickery is possible but I wouldn't get my hopes up, Warner Music. Seems like a job that's doomed to fail from the start. I wouldn't even bother unless they know it's just a job on paper and are actually just looking to give someone's kid a legit-sounding job to pad their resume 🤷

Not only that but if I were in charge of hiring I'd be extremely skeptical of any and all applicants. Anyone smart enough to do the job will know it's impossible and will just become a master of stalling and picking low hanging fruit (aka useless) and everyone else is just a fraud.

I can't help but wonder if it's 80% from old, Republican women because there just aren't as many old, Republican men. They don't live as long as Democrats:

https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/study-finds-widening-gap-in-death-rates-between-us-areas-that-vote-for-democratic-rather-than-republican-party/

(Yes, it's true: Republicans policies and lifestyles literally result in more unnecessary/early deaths... It's right there)

Or it could be that old, Republican men still haven't figured out how to copy & paste a URL or use the share/retweet buttons 🤷

Dental Hygienist. They make like $40/hour to clean people's teeth. It only requires an associates degree and you can get it from community college (aka cheap).

I've been working in information security for many years now and this is standard practice all over the world. I'm sure the State Department is happy to have Asian Americans working for them. This is not that kind of discrimination.

It's a practical thing: It's basically impossible to tell if a person has a secret loyalty to another country. So how do you prevent spies from infiltrating your organization(s) from any given county? You take basic precautions like preventing people who have very direct ties to a country from working for you in that country. It's basically best practices because there's not much else you can do.

If I were a 2nd generation American Chinese citizen (e.g. my parents immigrated there) living in China and I applied to work for the Chinese embassy in the US do you really think the Chinese government would allow that? Hell no!

Would they let me work in Africa or other areas of Asia? Maybe! But the US would be a no-go zone for sure. There'd be no way the Chinese government would trust me not to have a secret loyalty to the US.

Not only that but if someone still has family living in a foreign country that's a big red flag as well. It can get you reassigned regardless of your ethnicity.

Let's say you've been working in the US embassy in China and your sister married a Chinese man who has family in China: You would would have to report that change in family status to the State Department (it's part of the rules). Then they'd make a determination as to whether or not you could keep working where you are.

"Consumers don't like self checkout"‽ Are they crazy? I love self checkout! You know what I don't like? When I have to wait for a self checkout to become available because there's not enough human checkouts.

My local Walmart has about 25% of their checkouts as self checkouts. They'll have 4 lanes open with humans and 1/3rd of the self checkouts won't be operational. This is the worst of all possible options!

If you only plan to have 4 human checkouts why do you have so few self checkouts‽ Arg! It frustrates the crap out of me every time I go there.

Another thing that pisses me off is that the human checkout lanes are designed so inefficiently. In the self checkout I can pick up the scanner and scan everything in my cart at about twice or three times the speed of a human checkout because the human lane has a horrible setup that necessitates taking everything out of the cart to get it scanned whereas with the self checkout one can scan everything while it's still in the cart.

You can scan scan scan at super speed, grab a bunch of bags, then put everything in the bags as needed in your car afterwards. You can be done in seconds!

Or be even more efficient like me and just keep your own bags in the car and skip the whole, "grab some bags" step.

This way also makes the door receipt checker person's job so much faster because they can visibly see everything in your cart; no need to peek into every bag looking for expensive items that may not have been purchased.

Let's move forward, society! Give us 100% self checkout lanes and just have people there to assist with scanning and bagging for the people that need help.

Many people believe that death by fan sucks but really, it blows.