I've been keeping track of my own "Taco Bell Index" since tacos were 59¢.

50 year old dude. I always thought I had good hair... I'm not balding anywhere and had an amazing mullet in my teens in the early 90s.

I've kept my hair really tightly cut for most of my life, but I'm at the point professionally where my hair doesn't really matter. I could have a full mohawk and they still can't replace me. So I tried to grow my hair out because I wanted something like this:

But it turns out I probably missed my opportunity for that by a few decades because this is what grew out:

Now you may say "well that's Einstein so that would have been cool".

Einstein hair was definitely not what I was going for. 😕

I actually tried the braids when I grew my hair out recently. It looked so cool for the first few days but there's a whole new set of hair care issues that you need to worry about...like you can't get it wet! I had no idea how to care for my braids and had to take it out after about 10 days.

If I could afford to have the braids professionally redone weekly then I would have kept it but each braiding session was 50 bucks from a professional braider.

Alternatively if you have a partner who likes braiding hair then...maybe?

The 3 people who didn't vote in your scenario could band together and vote to drive off any cliff or no cliff at all. But they won't...because what? Their vote doesn't matter? Not a perfect cliff? Not a perfect non-cliff? Their favorite streaming series just got released and voting is really hard?

Still a bunch of dummies not using their power.

Absolutely! You're part of "the system" due to the fact that you exist...

The people in the gray bar in the actual registered voter turnout graph below could band together and vote to, ya know, not drive off a cliff. But they won't, even though they are the majority.

How do we get enough people in power who support ranked choice voting without first voting for those people in the existing system?

Ahh but your numbers are wrong.

Translating reality to your scenario, there are 3 for one cliff, 3 for another cliff, and 4 who could vote for no cliff if they were actually paying attention.

The Tesla flying car is clearly a Spectacle for Fools, but the gas being used is basically compressed air and doesn't contribute to our greenhouse gas problem.

There's plenty of other aspects to this to make fun of that are factually accurate.

Ahhh... you're in Canada. I'm in the US. RCV is light years away for us.

You've remembered the face of your father.

No I am genuinely asking. I don't know how we could do that.

We are in a thread about not voting but I am serious. How? Sorry about asking in this thead.

Yeah, people voting against their own best interests is crazy. I guess to some people driving off a cliff is worth it as long as they get to decide who pees in which bathroom?

I was looking for this.

It's a post-scarcity society. The acquisition of wealth and the resulting theft are not a thing anymore.

The Ferengi computers probably have 2FA.

A Spectacle for Fools.

I'm just replying here because I want to remember that phrase. That's probably the best way I have read to describe Musk's "flying car".

The secret to this is not believing in the promotion fairy.

If you want a promotion, apply for it at another company. If you get it, awesome, if you don't, try at a 3rd company.

At my current job, the agreement is I do the job you hired me for, and you give me the money and benefits we agreed upon.

+1 for stating that the technologies themselves are not the grifts.

LLMs are fantastic tools. Quantum Computing will have meaningful uses.

The grift is the marketing and the dumb C-Suites that fall for it.

To answer your real question though, I need an AI that will actually convert a basket of dirty laundry into a stack of neatly folded clean clothes. That shit will be revolutionary.

This Dad needs a CPAP so he can get a real 8 hours. Not needing naps during the day is life-changing.

Addicted to alcohol: Stop drinking. You can't control an addiction so you have to completely stop.

Addicted to cigarettes: Stop smoking. You can't control an addiction so you have to completely stop.

Addicted to crack: Stop smoking crack. You can't control an addiction so you have to completely stop.

Addicted to food: Must be your fault for being weak-willed. Just don't consume so much of that thing that you're addicted to. You can control your addiction. Just stop being a loser...

The literal solution to every addiction is stop it, cold turkey. One Day At A Time. But you can't stop eating food.

The interesting thing is now that the Internet is completely corporate free market driven it resembles a sewer much more than it used to.