Somebody won the name lottery.

(also, wtf… it’s always the guys you expect.)

they’re gonna use Grok, aren’t they?

Pretty sure the CIA experimented with using bees to kill Fidel Castro.

They pretty much tried everything else…

They won’t be able to handle a MN winter.

Even the best gps isn’t accurate enough to know what lane you’re in (or on the shoulders,)

Remove lane markings (ie snow coverage) and bad visibility by both the LIDAR and daylight in any serious snowfall, and you have a recipe for cars going “weeee!” Into the ditch.

(Granted that first snow usually has a shocking number of cars going into the ditch anyway. Usually people learn their lesson, though.)

LA is the noob zone for self driving.

this is probably more for things that people won’t bother stealing. I certainly wouldn’t be trusting my phone to it.

I’d also be worried about it getting covered and misplaced/lost. piles of sand look much like another.

Could be a fun geocaching thingamabob, though.

Edit: I’d also suggest sticking a silicone o-ring on the lid. you can make them pretty easily using fish tank air-hose tubing. Pump it full of calk. If you want a solid ring, let it cure, then blow it out with an air-blower nozzle on an air compressor. If you want a hollow ring, which for this would be best, I think; blow out the tubing before it sets. then blow it out again. cut the ends on a bias and then glue them with more calk.

For this, you’d never know when a kid comes running over with a giant pale of water.

They’re technically not being used to do law enforcement or enforce marshal law.

They’re guarding federal buildings. Which then frees up the federal agents that normally guard them, which isn’t all that many- most fed buildings are guarded by private security. You don’t need a special agent to post up at a metal detector.

It’s a bit of a loophole and pretty dubious, but SCOTUS will let him get away with it.

yeah. I saw it the other day when looking for someone dropping a bird with both hands, as a reply to some of this shit. Had to check, because… you know. Mr Rogers would never… (oh he did.)(with a smile!)

here’s the full song, if you were curious about the context.

What’s fun, is that’s not AI. He was singing “where is thumbkin” which then goes down each finger “where is Pointer… where is Tallman….”

I’m the video, that smile comes on as he says “Here is Tallman”, knowing what the gesture was.

*Laughs in American*

*sobs in americsn*

Why are we so backwards?

I’m curious.

What’s your line of work, if you don’t mind?

Don’t tell the boss, jerk.

I was kinda referring to the impossible shapes and dimensional illusions Escher used. Like this one:

I kinda like escher’s work…. And this is giving off those vibes…

“I support Trump but I didn’t think the tariffs/deportations would hurt my business”

is what the infinitesimal portion is about. Only a very, very small sliver of absolute morons are saying that. Everyone else knew exactly what was going to happen and what impacts it would have.

thanks for a source showing business owners mostly reflect the rest of society, though.

Yes. Because an infinitesimally small number of business owners say so, all business owners must.

There’s over 4.2 million small businesses in CA alone.

Most of which are owned and operated by totally normal, not-awful people.

I can’t know their politics and neither can you.

What I can tell you is that cities across the country are fucking up the crisis and leaving everyone else involved in a lurch. The homeless people themselves are the most obvious and most needy, don’t get me wrong.

But the current situation is also impacting businesses, causing them to either move away or close as people stop shopping.

City and state governments are fucking it up. Not the fucking barber who probably is a member of that community just trying to earn a living. Not the others who had already left or closed and were also part of the community, probably.

You think every business wanted Trump?

C’mon. That was a relatively few, large, businesses. Be realistic. The barber that’s looking at losing his business, the others in that building had to leave or close.

The landlord, who can’t get tenants to move in.

They probably weren’t trumpers anymore than you were, and I doubt very much they would resist an actual solution to the problems they’re facing.

and the business is the one deciding these things?

Like. I get it.

The way we treat homeless people sucks in this country.

It shouldn’t be that way. But the business isn’t the one setting those policies here. That’s on LA and the CA governments. And while yes, some of the business interests are voicing opinions here… the barber shop and the landlords here aren’t big enough to have any pull. Many are just looking for ways to end it… and would fully support doing housing-first strategies and all that. (because they work.)

While perhaps inconsequential to the benefit accrued by removing the billionaire…

Disposal methods aren’t weighted against that, they’ve already been removed. So we’re selecting between various disposal methods, and really, we have no reason to not be green about it.

Probably pretty high, but also there’s an equally high chance it was programmed with vibe coding and has the opposite effect

Don’t eat junkfood…

I’m telling ya, compost and eat the veggies.