Probably. And irrelevant to me - I’ll be long gone.

Why yes I have!

This is my big hope. That this fall is so deep that it is burned into our DNA. That a more humane species of mankind emerges from the ashes.

Verification of identity.

Using ICE to SWAT your MAGA neighbors. Sounds appealing. Also, a sentence that made no sense 20 years ago.

Add a fountain pen! You’ll enjoy it.

I found it. There is a utility called “boot repair”. Fully automatic. No thinking needed. It just worked.

Thank you all for the help.

A future that never was.

I work for a company in the AI industry. All staff gets endless emailed business propositions for short term “consulting” work or paid “surveys”. It’s so transparent.

• Make a brokerage account.
• Deposit $1,000,000 (or more).
• Purchase a balance of stock and bond funds.
• Profit.

The important thing is “adequately”. Sometimes the reality can make it improbable.

That this doesn’t happen is proof that we never invent time travel.

“I am ignorant and combative. Debate me.”

This is a plot point in Neuromancer. The AI recruits the Rastafarians by playing a “righteous dub”.

Very nice. Unfortunately completely illegal in NY. Thanks for the info, though.

“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”

This American Life did a full episode on this.

https://alienencyclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrinchan

And the scars from the ones we lost to AIDS are old enough to forget about for a few days at a time.

FTL travel implies a mastery over spacetime itself. After that, a practical time machine is a matter of engineering details.

We can be sure that we never get there because we are not flooded with tourists from the future. QED.