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jon sinton's avatar

The cruelty is the point.

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Susan Linehan's avatar

Today I happenstanced upon a paper on the NIH website about coronavirus. Yes, it is still up, presumably because it is 5 years old. It contained the word "inequitable." How did whatever AI the technobabbies are using to ferret out the Bad Words miss it? Really makes you trust AI, doesn't it.

Turning over everything to AI seems to be a form of central planning. Let me think: what country was founded on the idea that central planning was the way to run a government? Oh yeah, Soviet Russia. And Communist China. The result was widespread famine. (Greg Olear described Elon as a Muscovite). Let's see--what happens when a country's agriculture fails in producing enough food? MMM..as perhaps caused by tariff trade wars and no one to tend the crops?

Colombia has a 100 year steel industry, rapidly growing. Trump has tariffs. Colombia may be reconsidering supplying coffee to the US. That would probably bring our economy to a halt, with all those folks coming into work now curling up asleep under their desks.

On Wikipedia: I recently wanted to find out how old someone who was "forced to retire" --can't remember who, there are so many. I discovered that all information regarding his birthdate and age was gone--found by looking at their "compare versions" page that it was deleted since 2.0 was inaugurated. I hope it is back. He turns out to be 63.. Not retirement age, really.

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