I think the point is that while your point is broadly true, in this specific scenario the treatment might not have been available anyway. Looking up on the named procedure, it seems likely most nations would have declined to offer this treatment, considering it futile in his situation.
in the Appalachian foothils.
Think part of the ‘fuck cars’ problem is the messaging lacks nuance. For example, the problems nearly do not exist in your scenario. Their problems are mainly around big city centers, and perhaps transit between those big cities. Appalachian foothills hardly have enough traffic or land usage to trigger the usual complaints.
Conversely, mass transit is a particularly terrible idea for Appalachia. Rural contexts in general make mass transit a challenge, but those slopes mean you pretty much have to have roads way too curvy for any bus, let alone getting rail going.
In short, a hellscape of traffic lights and crosswalks with no where to build because you have to split it with cars, I get the ‘fuck cars’ sentiment, but rural and esspecially mountainous areas, well cars are about the only reasonable answer.
Horses were tools that were fed and tended to in service of the economy, and would procreate as much as their circumstances of food and care allowed them.
Many humans are seen as tools to be fed and tended to with respect to their service to the economy, and will procreate as much as their circumstances of food and care will allow them.
Yeah, it’s one thing if it’s in a nice location and well maintained…
But good chance it’s got some serious issues because they haven’t fixed anything in decades and no one wants to live there, so you might be 50k in the hole for things before you can even show it to serious prospects…
Or take the hit and sell it as-is to some crappy company that will probably underpay by 200-400k dollars, even accounting for all the “repairs” (probably just blast everything with paint and hope to sell it to some sucker that doesn’t take the potential problems seriously).
To be fair, this may be about as well as a run would go for me if I tried.
All while simultaneously just being super annoying…
For all the risk people mostly get slop flooding their feeds for their trouble.
But at least it ruins local electric and water systems…
True, but it’s at least a rough indicator, and having intact concrete pricing from back then was a bit challenging, and sears catalog came to me as a very well preserved source of vaguely appropriate pricing.
We are talking about a genie here, not like they want to help you out (depending on the lore).
You are assuming you’ll even be allowed to utter specifc numbers at all.
Think a genie scenario would have you utterly blocked before the first syllable that could possibly be helpful.
Yeah, one would think that would blow a grand jury ruling. Vandalism, arson… ok.
If it weren’t an external gate and was instead someone’s front door, then maybe, but as it stands, it’s all property damage and attempted murder is a crazy reach…
A fine career as a lawyer awaits you
Still same boat, you are compelled to conform with whatever the actual truth is.
will be… impossible to know will be… a sequence of numbers between 1 and 69
You could be compelled to say any number of unhelpful things instead of the numbers.
“next week lottery numbers are… impossible for me to know”
“the best thing I can do with my life right now is … something I wish I knew”
The curse can be stubbornly unhelpful no matter what.
I think that would apply to people tricked into reading/watching AI slop video, but I think his definition is a likely one that could apply.
You try to google search, you get an ‘ai overview’. In a bizarre scenario, DuckDuckGo made a big deal of asking the users and showing the users overwhelmingly wanted to skip AI results by default, and duckduckgo still defaults to AI summary unless you take measures to opt out.
An analogy is dificult, but I suppose imagine a subway dropped off someone and there’s no stairs up, only a tunnel for a Tesla to take you to the next stop. You “use” a car, but were given no option to do otherwise because you were stuck underground and they forced you to take the car to carry on.
In either case, his definition certainly is a likely one for a Gen Z respondant to be thinking when they respond “yes they use AI”. On the flip side some probably felt as you do and responded that they did not use AI, because they did not voluntarily do so.
To provide a relatively decent source: https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalog/1997-Sears-Christmas-Book
Around page 286. So 1997 christmas season, Starfox and Goldeneye going for $80… FFVII for $60…
N64 had the challenge that every single game was a circuitboard, so that inflated costs. Nowadays the price is for just the right to download a copy.
Yeah, AAA productions:
Trump didn’t make the leap to directly say to do that, but he did clearly think that strong lights and disinfectant in the body ‘should be looked into’. He was saved from directly making a terrible recommendation by having some amount of deference for the medical organizations, but did try to show ‘thought leadership’ in a very dumb direction.
It was not some sort of Stanford spinning up wild concepts, it was Trump taking very obvious things about how we handle these things outside the body and thinking that we would be the first to ask ‘but what about inside the body?’. Yes, he phrased it as a question to be looked into, but he clearly thought there could be something to it.
About the only credit you can give to first term Trump in this scenario is that he at least ultimately left health issues up to the health departments, even as he groused the whole time.
“Cigarettes can’t hurt you, anything that goes in the lungs you can just blow it back out again”
I think directly in front of me in person I’ve maybe done 150.
Always hate those because the smaller ones you can have a conversation, but when it’s over 50 or so, either no one wants to speak up and comment or question, or like one guy wants to and just generally derails things.
Because of that last one, event organizers frequently tell the speakers to not take questions and comments live even if they wanted to try… Which results in blathering on pointlessly live to an audience that sits in silence except for generic audience responses like a little applause or laughter or whatever. When I give such a speech I’m just thinking the whole time “this could have just been a video, where they could seek and watch me at 1.5x or whatever they want to do”