You assume they were listening.

That’s why my spouse works for a NYC company, from LA.

And are they effective while remote? Except for the part about wanting you to go in? Are they decent bosses otherwise? Or do you just need the health insurance…?

Not part of the corporate scene, but is it necessary those face time benefits occur at the office in a work context? Or could it be a monthly BBQ?

Oh wait, that either takes precious weekend hours or we’re back in office time, even if we’re outdoors.

Nvm.

Just checking… Was anyone on the team named Igor?

Exactly what I meant by poorly-developed.

Are you happier with “inadequately-developed”?

In both cases I was referring to the fact we’re letting the equivalent of a toddler run amok while being exploited by greedy capitalists and trained by fascists. It’s a very smart toddler but that just makes things worse.

Or how about cutting back on the idiotic and venal misuse of poorly-developed AI?

Ah, that is stupid.

I had something similar happen to me years ago in a Toyota minivan. The car stalled and died in traffic, some kind of electrical glitch. I got out to raise the hood. The door closed behind me and it came up with just enough battery to lock itself, with my keys in the ignition and my two babies and quadriplegic husband inside. It was 107° outside. And pre-cellphones. I bolted to the nearby gas station to call 911 and grab something to break a window. Meanwhile hubby tried to coach toddler how to wriggle out of car seat and open door, but straps were too snug. Firehouse was near, and the jammed traffic was all in one direction so they used the opposite side and didn’t take long, and they jimmied the door open quickly. But it was boiling in there. Sat the kids by the road to cool off with water and get checked by paramedics, gave water to husband in car with open doors, and waited for a tow to the gas station so I could lower the ramp and get my husband out. Meanwhile of course we made the traffic even worse, but people weren’t too mad when they saw our plight as they squeezed past.

I’m wondering, did some similar glitch happen here, or do Tesla doors lock every time they shut?

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I thought so too, and schtick is a valid variant, but dictionaries list shtick first.

Them beating you in the head with their stick probably didn’t help.

Their shtick?

Someone with, for instance, older kids who could get themselves into a situation (and only communicate by text) and a parent in a different time zone who’s got Alzheimer’s and is being cared for by a stressed-out sibling who needs support and agreement from the rest of us by group email.

So, the monster was given a human brain that was already known to be murderous. Why, we don’t know, but a good bet would be childhood abuse and alcohol syndrome, maybe inherited syphilis, given the era. Now that murderer’s brain is given an extra-strong body, and then subjected to more abuse and rejection. That’s how you create a monster.

Zackly!

To be 100% fair, if you have only heard “DNA” and never seen it, you could be forgiven for wondering if it’s “D&A” or “D and A” like the reverse of “A&D Ointment.” But that’s the kind of thing that usually gets cleared up in 3rd grade.

I’m reading a lot of comments from people who haven’t been in a hospital bed recently. AI has increasingly been used by insurance companies to deny needed treatment and by hospital management to justify spreading medical and support personnel even thinner.

The whole point of AI is that it’s supposed to be able to learn, but what we’ve been doing with it is the equivalent of throwing a child into scrubs and letting them do heart surgery. We should only be allowing it to monitor the care and outcomes as done by humans, in order to develop a much more substantial real-world database than it’s presently working from.

Is that a straw instead of French fries?