Scott Adams Thread (Garfield Cartoonist)

[freebeard]

...what seemed like ages ago (before our most recent daughter)...

Does that explain the chaos a #887? Because that's something that would make nine days seem like eight months.

Nickname the kid Space Monkey.

[redpoint5]

The show today was above average, and "theater kids" continues to be a useful frame, but then there's "the world is a stage", so...

There was a discussion about how to compensate copywritten material that AI trains on, which is an interesting problem.

I'm allowed to read something and then tell others what I've read. If I were a savant, I would be allowed to recite verbatim what I had read. At some point though, when I've gathered multiple people and am profiting, it becomes illegal to recite what I've read.

Seems like AI will have to distribute a portion of the profit it generates with the sources it uses, or otherwise bring income to the author of the copywritten material.

SA speculated that AI art won't catch on, because it's the story behind it that is inspiring. I tended to agree, though I'm among the few weird people that don't care about stuff like that. When I sit down for a meal, it does nothing for me when the waiter tells me the wheat was harvested in Ukraine, the wine grapes were hand-picked in a French village, and the beef came from California. I just want to eat the food, which hopefully tastes good. I don't tell people the journey of how I fixed their computer, I just fix it and give it back.

That's my long way of saying I think AI will undermine the profit of artists and authors first. I have to admit that I don't care much. Artists often annoy me because they're so narcissistic. Musicians don't like to play the songs that everyone else wants to hear, because they write for themselves and occasionally produce something others want to listen to, and that usually isn't among the songs they like the most. Bands that could be super entertaining playing cover would rather bore everyone with their objectively inferior music. Among other musicians, they talk about the unsophisticated taste of audiences.

Then there's the other side of the industry that is organized by a guy that has a formula for organizing a boy band and writing music that is designed from the beginning as a consumer product.

Anyhow, I'm fine listening to music that sounds good regardless of where it comes from.

Originally Posted by freebeard

Does that explain the chaos a #887? Because that's something that would make nine days seem like eight months.

Nickname the kid Space Monkey.

3 daughters under 6 is chaotic in the morning, especially when mom leaves at 6am and I've got to get one of them ready for school, feed the rest and change diapers, and get ready to travel to a customer site.

I got the kiddos to myself again this morning, and witnessed the youngest crawl forward for the first time.

The days are long and the years are short.

All the kids are named monkey. Oldest one I call "baby girl" since she was my first baby girl. Middle I call Liberty since that's the name I gave her. Don't have a nickname for the baby yet other than baby.

[freebeard]

I'm fine listening to music that sounds good regardless of where it comes from.

Space Monkey (Live)

She was born while there were two space monkey stranded in space.

[freebeard]

Listening now. The 'yes, but+' strategy is pretty good. I think the robot peacekeepers should be giant hexapods.

OTOH, i might start skipping the days when he puts his cats in the thumbnail.

About his intro featuring the stock market each day -- what they're saying on 4chan is 47 is running hot and cold on tariffs to 'shake the box' in the stock market, causing capital flight to treasurys so that interest rates drop and he can refinance the national debt at 0% interest.

I'll definitely be watching for that one.

edit:
Whelp, that didn't take long. As soon as I posted that I went back to the tabs where the Episode had ended and Youtube had queued up this guy: $7 Trillion Debt Bomb: Is It Driving the Stock Market Crash? Trump's Plan to Fix. This guy has a pretty good rant (and an interesting stack of monitors) that works through DOGE and tariffs and finally gets to re-fi at about the 12 minute mark.

2nd edit:
It happened again! I posted a parenthetical comment about his vertical monitor setup, went to the Youtube home page, and there was this: Add Dual Display to any Laptop. 18.5” X2 120Hz. At 3:13 he uses the Raspberry Pi 500.

I shall go outside instead of back to Youtube.

3rd edit:
I walked to Grocery Outlet and got two bags full, and saved $70 on a $45 purchase. Someone's car alarm was beeping and a neighbor sitting in their car was syncopating to the beat. Until they shut it off. It was kinda neat.

[freebeard]

About the dual display, I started a thread on the Technomad from the 1980s -- ecomodder.com: A old school story from the 1960s

He used a recumbent bicycle with a trailer. Rethinking it today a reverse trike (like the Arcimoto MLM), the dual USB-C powered dual display and a Pi 500 running on USB-C would be a good start.

What else would you want. A train of these?


https://external-content.duckduckgo....76a&ipo=images

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

What else would you want. A train of these?

My friend in Eugene has this



I use one of these (my Eugene friend gave it to me)


and one of these (different friend gave it to me)


Kids these days are riding bikes at 3 years old though, so they can pedal their own bikes.

[freebeard]

My son was borrowing my full size Schwinn when he was (5? 6?). He'd launch off the front steps and then when he was done, crash-land it in the yard.

...they can pedal their own bikes.

So long as they are under voice command and control.

What did you think of the debt bomb theory?

[skyking]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

My bucket list includes purchasing an excavator (with bucket and thumb). Step two would be figuring out what to do with it, and step 3 is profit.

I made a career of that. It's OK to see what you can do but ultimately it gets boring.

[redpoint5]

SA mentioned that AI would remember him by 2 falsehoods of "being racist" and "advocating WuFlu vaccination".

On the first topic, he was pointing out racism, and that apparently makes one a racist.

On the second, it's difficult to reveal a decision, and simultaneously maintain a neutral position. He did often mention that all decisions are "coward reactions to fear" in the sense that we decide what is most fearsome, and then decide how to proceed from there. We either perceive the WuFlu as more dangerous, or rapidly developed vaccines as more dangerous, and for various reasons.

All of that is less interesting to me than the fact that any search of most free countries in the world doesn't include the USA in the top 10 results. None of the top listed countries have the right to freely speak or right to be formidable as top priorities, which has me wondering what the freedom criteria even is. The right to use OPM to purchase Yoo-Hoo drinks must not rate high on their criteria, because that doesn't get the US into the top 10.

It won't be in the news though, because that's not on the agenda.

Originally Posted by skyking

I made a career of that. It's OK to see what you can do but ultimately it gets boring.

I've never found myself bored mowing the lawn, and that's among my first memories.

[freebeard]

Cat thumbnail again, saves me an hour this morning.

We either perceive the WuFlu as more dangerous, or rapidly developed vaccines as more dangerous, and for various reasons.

Various reasons would include the the Nurmberg Code, 1947.

Britannica
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nuremberg-Code
The Nuremberg Code is a 10-point statement designed to define the limits of permissible medical experimentation on human beings. It was developed in August 1947 in Nürnberg (Nuremberg), Germany, by a panel of American judges during hearings involving 23 Nazi doctors accused of...

All of that is less interesting to me than the fact that any search of most free countries in the world doesn't include the USA in the top 10 results.

I only looked at one. https://worldpopulationreview.com/co...dex-by-country and Canada is number five!