LanyrdSkynrd

Tho, I suppose towns back then just had a general "don't ride your horse recklessly in town" laws, regardless of your intoxication level.

Yeah, when I was searching I found an article from 1901 where a guy was arrested after being drunk and riding a horse dangerously. He was charged with disorderly conduct and something like reckless riding(I don't remember the exact wording).

I just did some searching, and I couldn't find a single reference to any law criminalizing drunk riding that isn't fairly recent.

Looking at some of the state laws criminalizing drunk riding: Minnesota only criminalized it in 2000, Oregon explicitly extended the motor vehicle code to riding animals, and it appears several other states(NH,SD,MA) it was the courts determined that horses were considered vehicles under the law. Interestingly SD explicitly excluded horses from the definition of vehicles back in 2006. I didn't look at every state, but from those laws and a few articles I found about the earliest drunk driving laws(this one about Vermont is interesting) it seems likely that the constable was wrong.

I think the reason drunk riding probably wasn't illegal before cars is that it didn't really need to be. Horses aren't machines, they don't do exactly what the rider wants them to do at all times. If a rider is completely wasted and passes another horse or pedestrian, the horse will instinctively avoid them even if the rider directs them toward collision. It really only becomes an issue when 2000+lb machines zooming around that have the potential to scare the horse that the rider needs to be fully capable of taking control.

I don't know why I just did an effort post about this, but I found it interesting.

I think if I had one of the affected chips, I'd want it to fail while they're still replacing them for free. It sounds like the various measures data center people are using are only slowing the degradation, not eliminating it. Maybe I'd wait until it's clear the issue is not in the replacement chips though.

The high failure rates that have been reported are in situations where the chips are working hard 24/7. I think for most home users, were not going to see the failures for a few years, which is exactly what Intel is counting on by not doing a full recall.

I use Audiobookbay, and 3xforum

Audiobookbay has a lot of books, but the direct download links are scams or paid. You can use the magnet links, though. Either sign up for an account and you get access to a limited number of magnet links per day, or you can just copy the "infohash" field and put it at the end of "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:" without the quotes, and then paste that into your torrent software.

The 3xforum has direct download links, but a much smaller selection

Qanon has some really creative lore. Like JFK Jr faking his own death and having plastic surgery to avoid being assassinated like his dad, only to come back and help Trump defeat the deep state.

This reminds me of The Tyranny of Structurelessness, a great article about how organizations without formal power structures inevitably become oppressive.

Informal power structures are still power structures but the positions of power are not chosen in a democratic way. Popularity and perceived necessity to the organization are the only things that matter. Because leadership in informal power structures is taken not given, people who abuse power are more likely to end up in those positions.

I want the bubble to burst, but it seems like companies can get away with being fraudulent forever now.

Tesla was a fake ass company built on hype for so long. There was several years it was worth more than all the other automakers combined, despite being incredibly unprofitable. Yet Elon was able to keep boosting one scam after another until it was a real(but significantly smaller than promised) company. He was going to build a $35k electric car years ago, going to have a fully automated factory, going to have 1 million robotaxis on the road in 2018, going to launch an insurance company, and many more promises. Each time the company was desperate to raise cash, he gave a presentation with big promises, and all the dipshit venture capital firms lapped it up.

AI is a perfect grift, too. It's really easy to trick people into thinking something is intelligent, you just need to make it produce human like output from real human input that you steal.

Doesn't the party make the rules? The DNC was able to make a rule change at the Nevada caucuses on a voice vote and despite it being clear the vote didn't pass, the chair ruled that it did.

Ultimately I think VP's rarely ever matter. Maybe in a rare instance where a VP has an amazing reputation in their home state it energizes some voters who would have otherwise stayed home, but nobody is not voting because a pres has a bad VP.

Have you done any of these?

I'm being forced off disability benefits this year and am freaking out about being able to handle in person work. Looking at Telus's AI bs job, it seems like it would work well for me if I could get enough hours. The hourly rate is a little low for my area, but it beats working at McDonald's or something.

I only need to make $1100 a month to match my current benefits, do you think that's possible if I did this kind of thing?

So it's not even a mouse designed to last forever, but a mouse leasing program with free replacements.

Or, when your old mouse breaks, order a replacement, put the broken one in the box and return it. Free replacements for as long as they keep making that mouse