Except that if the Romans actually built high-rises, the damned things would probably still be standing.
Except that if the Romans actually built high-rises, the damned things would probably still be standing.


I’m all for an AI tax to offset the jobs replaced, with that tax going towards providing a universal basic income to those displaced workers, for life. Maybe then AI will actually be useful for something.


I work as a slot technician. One of our jobs is moving slot machines with hand trucks. When setting them down, one typically counterbalances the weight of the machine with their body. I wanna get catapulted across the casino floor, fly through the air while screaming like Goofy, and hit the wall leaving a silhouette-shaped hole.
Thankfully, the only injury I should sustain is little coins going around my head.
Google image search yun men tsui ti building. It was destroyed in the 2018 earthquake.
Earthquake-damaged building. It was called the Yun Men Tsui Ti building.
It was the Yun Men Tsui Ti building in Taiwan, taken after the earthquake.


Preferred by the same people who think that trans individuals using their own preferred names are committing a literal crime


Somehow, that sounds more Christ-like than what these so-called Christians are preaching these days.


Sounds almost like a satanic cult…


Here’s a little something else to think of. The government is shut down, so the purse strings are closed. And yet, a private “donation” is being given to the military. By a man who apparently has a problem with Venezuela. At the same time the world’s most powerful warship, along with its associated battle group, has been pulled out of Europe to go play drug cop in the Caribbean Sea.
And meanwhile, name structures of similar scale built with modern engineering would probably be gone long in a fraction of the time.