Yes.

Get a dumb TV, I’ve had great luck with the Specter brand, and hook up a set top box for your smart functionality.

Smart TVs spyon you, report on you, eat bandwidth even when off, and become out dated quickly.

They changed their business model from a mode of transport to a mode of vacation. The profits for major cruise lines are in the billions so really it’s more than surviving.

Industry adapts or changes, buggy makers become car companies, radio stations started also broadcasting TV signals, cable companies started offering Internet, and cruise lines started offering vacations rather than transportation.

As for airships, they were set back by The Hindenburg and USS Akron & Macon crashing. But they are starting to make a comeback, most are just focusing on cargo ships at the moment. It’ll take time since The Hindenburg is burned into everyone’s brain, but as people get used to seeing cargo blimps and larger cargo airships flying around and not crashing, they may just come to accept it and treat it like a mini cruise ship. Spend a few days flying over scenic spots and relaxing then disembark.

I was just pointing out that they still exist, basically they adapted and remained in business.

As always, there’s an xkcd for that…lol

To quickly further expand on my previous example with a few I thought of afterwards,

• the wax cylinder will kill live music
• the radio will kill live music
• the TV will kill radio
• the airplane will kill the cruise lines

Seriously, I don’t get the issue but I understand the phenomenon. It’s like painters when the camera was invented,

“cameras will put us out of work, cameras are lower quality, anyone with a camera can just take a picture!”

Painters are still around, painted art is still desired and expensive. It will be the same over time with AI, we just have to wait for people to get over it.

This was my ex girlfriend, she had her a girlfriend when we met but they both understood that she was more attracted to men. We had a sit down early on and agreed that from time to time they would need some alone time, and that worked until they broke up over money.

The funny part was they were both bi, my girlfriend was more attracted to men, and her girlfriend was more attracted to women. So I saw both sides of it.

To paraphrase Al Franken, I like Martha Stewart more than others, and I hate Martha Stewart.

Also, fuck Elon.

Signal has already stated that they will pull out of the UK if they go through with their version of this, I imagine they’ll say the same for the EU.

Get a good VPN, exit it from a non-5 eyes country, and hope they don’t start blocking by phone number alone… and hopefully they’ll drop the phone number requirement sooner than later.

Also, welcome to Signal!

Crypto (ETH and the like) is useful for it’s protocol, you can build projects on it.

Bitcoin is a good store of value, and with lightning payments starting to be accepted it could be a good way to pay for goods and services. The third world is currently using lightning to circumvent inflationary currency swings.

Well that makes sense, pro business DeWine does something that hurts the workers.

Interesting, in Ohio you have to clock out before the 6th hour.

Yep, I work for a fortune 500 and I have to clock out for lunch.

Welcome, yeah it’s one of the few good memories I have out of my school days.

It wasn’t a direct reference, but definitely inspired by Dr. cox.

Yep, I was lucky to have a few out of the box thinking teachers and I learned more from that handful of teachers than all the others combined.

I had a social studies teacher that had us act out historical events…he was asked not to return the next year after ordering us, the roman legion marching down the hall, to attack the vice principal.

I had a government teacher who would teach the facts for three days then spend Thursday and Friday debating us on the facts.

Several others like them that just challenged the status quo are the only reason I graduated high school.

In the mid 90’s I was in a computer class and we had some really basic paint program that our teacher said we had to make a piece of art with that included a saying.

This was at the height of the Got Milk campaign so guess what everyone did, a cow or a glass with Got Milk as their slogan. Since we were allowed to listen to CDs with the CD ROM and a pair of headphones I popped in some Aerosmith and made a geometric man with a Dr Seuss hat and my slogan was “Reality is such a drag”.

The next day the teacher calls everyone but me up and gives them their B graded print out, then he calls me up and hands me mine with an A+ and says that’s for not doing got milk and actually being creative…by the way where did you come up with that? I told him I heard it on the Aerosmith album I was listening to, he grinned and asked if I liked Boston. I told him I hadn’t listened to them before, and the next day he had a Boston CD sitting at my desk when I sat down, turned out he had a book of CDs he kept in there and let me borrow anything I wanted during class for the rest of the year.

I mean he could just make the platform “we’ll unblock the porn” and nothing else and win a majority in the first election.

And the book will have been better.

I put together a chair for my mom and they included a consumer grade T-hex with a molded plastic and rubber handle. This was for a single $120 wooden chair. It’s now in my toolbox next to my multi size hex key tool.

I looked it up and you are infact wrong, it was 9 years ago. You don’t get to hurt me, only I hurt me…

Half point to you though, I probably did watch it 7 years ago, I got into the channel after reading an article about it on some website and watched all of the back catalog in less than a week.