Perfect is the enemy of good (enough).

If this is real

I’m guessing the “AI” results are just smart enough to contextualise “is we getting” with the meme without understanding the joke.

They came out close together and both featured ants as main protagonists. A Bug’s Life is the one pictured.

Ironic you say this because the plot of A Bug’s Life was initially inspired by Aesop’s The Ant and the Grasshopper.

Antz or A Bug’s Life?

Thank goodness you’re not running for political office in America I guess. They already have enough people in power who like to shit on others and try to demoralize them while doing nothing to support or help.

You might fit right in quite well in Alberta though.

It’s not a quarter of all people, just adults and Canada and Mexico are both pretty easy for a lot of Americans. Plus cruises and/or resort trips to the Caribbean and there’s plenty of people who have “been to another country” without ever having really experienced another country.

A quarter of the working age population is functionally unemployed. They can’t afford to protest the way you want or they won’t eat, will lose their housing because there’s no social safety nets. Of the few that existed those were some of the first things to go.

Americans could petition their government representation to fix that but that representation either doesn’t care or has no power in the current system.

What you’re talking about would be, essentially, a siege with each side trying to wait out the other; and that’s assuming you could get enough people together.

Let’s compare France, a country known for protest, with the US:

• France population ~70 million

• US population ~340 million

• France size ~551,000km squared

• US size ~9,900,000km squared

With just those two numbers we can see that France’s population is ~1/5th of the US in a country roughly 1/18th the size of the US. That’s without getting into the transportation options that are available in France that aren’t available in the US to get people to the seat of power.

There has been an ongoing campaign to weaken the power of the citizens of the US for decades and that’s not the only place. Fascism is on the rise globally.

with the massive presence of US media and popular culture

Look to the billionaires, the Epstein class, for who’s to blame for that.

Almost a quarter of American adults have never traveled abroad. Only another quarter has been to 5 or more countries. Americans, by and large, only understand the world outside of their own country in the terms American media presents it to them.

That is basically a non-answer and doesn’t mean anything.

You struggling to understand a statement doesn’t make it a non-answer.

The reality is AI is classified a national security priority and therefore has the US govt to prevent it from running out of money.

Your conflating the current technology AI and AI companies.

but ultimately its the willingness of people/companies to use the AI that results in the win.

Ah, you’re one of those people.

There is no way it doesn’t get propped up by the government at this rate.

There absolutely is a way. It starts with people hold their governments and representatives accountable.

The AI companies can and absolutely should fail. AI itself isn’t going anywhere. That Genie is out of the box.

My thought is the AI market won’t crash because especially in data engineering and devops there is an inherent worth.

Did you see Anthropic’s IPO filing? The company is upside down and there’s so much commingling between 3 or 4 companies that when one goes the rest will topple like dominoes.

What won’t crash are the billionaires at the top. See, they’re going to cash out with piles of money and leave the index fund investors (e.g. the every day person) holding the bag.

Jokes on them! My mail carrier never comes down my street.

Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Scott, Palmer, Malone, Hudson, Martinez, Martin, Howard, Kapoor, Bratton, Lapin-Vance, Bernard, Lewis, Hannon, Philbin, Halpert, Beesly, Schrute

It’s kind of fun in an ironic meme way!

lol your friends want you to come and fake it even if you’re drained? They don’t sound like good friends then.

It’s not about being fucked. As with all drugs there are those that will abuse it but GLP-1s have been shown to have physical effects that reduce food noise and make people feel fuller faster and for longer.

Have you ever eaten a meal and immediately afterward one of your first thoughts is what’s the next meal going to be? Or maybe you’ve felt satisfied, or even full but then that one food item you happen to have pops into your mind and you can’t get it out until you have some? That’s food noise.

The feeling fuller faster and longer is crucial because some peoples digestive systems respond to food intake very slowly making it easy and common to overeat. Or process food too quickly so they feel hunger sooner than others.

Combine the medication with improved habits and suddenly it’s much easier to lose weight. If your eating habits and intake doesn’t change then the medications aren’t going to cause weight loss magically.

The regular Costco members can still shop at a business center but the merchandise is not targeted towards them.

The business centers sell things like cases of cups, plates, disposable silverware, legs, shoulders and other large cuts of meat, cases of common restaurant ingredients, salt and pepper shakers in bulk for tables etc.

We go to the business center by us every so often because they carry real American cheese in bulk, not the Kraft garbage the regular Costco has.