As if the world hasn’t collectively had its head up it’s ass recently…

Really? That’s the third time today. It’s gonna fall off…

This is my kind of shoulder cat.

The British philosopher R G Collingwood noticed that the painter doesn’t invent painting, and the musician doesn’t invent the musical culture in which they find themselves. And for Collingwood this served to show that no person is fully autonomous, a God-like fount of creativity; we are always to some degree recyclers and samplers and, at our best, participants in something larger than ourselves.

But this should not be taken to show that we become what we are (painters, musicians, speakers) by doing what, for example, LLMs do – ie, merely by getting trained up on large data sets. Humans aren’t trained up. We have experience. We learn.

This is what happens when people try to apply philosophy to science. They get romantic and egotistical. “Oh, humanity, will your wondrous powers of learning ever be duplicated? Not by brutish machines, I daresay. They only do what they are told and learn what is given to them.”

And it slaps eternally.

Somehow an improvement to both.

“Ha, ha! Look at that guy! He ate a candy bar, now he’s gonna die the fat death.”

Go boof some kale, or something.

And a modern calculator has more computer power than the Apollo program… This is how tech works.

I’m so glad I don’t have kids. If I walked into a day care and saw that every solid object had a fucking screen on it, I’d burn the place down.

He cuts off a dude’s dick and taunts him by eating a sausage in front of him.

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Well, just feed it to the cat.

Like the Pizza Hut turned Bank turned Chinese Food Restaurant turned Fed Ex Pack and Ship

Fuck yeah! I can’t wait for their reunion tour, just as soon as Charlie gets back from Australia.

He is holding the People’s Choice Award, and what you see are two glass pillars. Here is a better image: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/459/418/575

Truly, sometimes the simplest explanation is the truest.

Let’s start with a big-ass “H”!

That is a modesty wrap. Please, avert your eyes.

Just gotta make sure those taxes are going to the right place.

Infrastructure is a large issue. Border towns can become saturated, which will reduce living conditions, and when immigrants move to larger cities, they can often have trouble finding places to live. A lot of this can be because of a communication barrier. Sometimes that is because there are too few to translate, but there can also be educational issues. As much maligned as the US education system is, it is better than some others, and when your culture eschews school for an early start at earning a paycheck, communication in any language becomes a challenge.

Many issues can be overcome, or at least minimized, by compassionate workers, which many that work with immigrants are, but there isn’t enough funding to get compassionate people where they are most needed. Supporting increased budgets at the border isn’t always about putting guns on the border, it can be about improving the infrastructure that helps get people where they need to be in more efficient ways. I’m starting to ramble, though, and I think I’ve given a partial answer to your question.