It would have no effect whatsoever. All of that learning stuff is forebrain function. It’s hard to acquire, and the first thing to go when under stress or intoxicated. People make all kinds of bad decisions when they know better. They splurge on vacations when they are already paying interest on credit card balances. They sleep with strangers while they want to keep a stable home life. They buy too much car or spend to much on clothes for little hits of feel good when they would be better off saving money.

Knowing something doesn’t equate to action. And the impulse to gamble can easily over ride some school lesson on poor odds of winning.

Oh shit - that one too. And Star Wars. 👴

This. But Blade Runner.

When this strip originally ran a number of papers cropped the top of the cartoon rendering it somewhat incomprehensible. Of course that wasn’t unusual for The Far Side…

File under ‘don’t mix your letter cases’.

It was like this with my first wife. We knew who we had met through, but there were a lot of interactions and nobody knew what the first one was. We did not make strong impressions on each other. 😄

Hi VerilyFemme! I’m not sure I know dogpiling is…and I’m not sure I want to.

It’s a film thing. In film nobody meets through friends or slowly gets to know someone at work etc. It’s always a cold meet and there is some surprising or awkward interaction that forces them together. That’s the meet-cute.

https://youtu.be/nqEknI2kIag

You have a lot of unattractive people too. The system needs everybody.

If anything, the attractive are in over supply and good nondescript character actors are in demand.

I worked for a wildfire agency for a while. There are more people in the North than you imagine. The population figures for us are permanent residents. But the rotational workforce in the North is substantial.

They are there for forestry, but also heavy industry like mining and oil extraction. Outfitting for hunting and fishing as well. The most common human cause in my jurisdiction is the “shore lunch” where guys fishing will pull ashore for lunch and mess up the cooking fire somehow. Number 2 reason is messed up spark arresters on vehicles.

Your explanation makes some sense to me, but not a 400% difference. I’ll take a fire investigator to lunch this week and ask.

50% of forest fires are caused by lightning and they account for 80% of area burned…at least in Canada.

I suspect your fun fact is just low grade humor adding to people’s general ignorance.

I take it back. The figures are that different between the countries. Only 20% of wildfire in the US is started by lightning. Now I want to know why.

It’s an easy game not to play.

The pool of talent wanting to be in film is incredibly large - when Iived there it felt like half of LA was trying to make it in the entertainment business. Even the LA Police have casting leave written into their contracts in case they pick up a part.

So yes, the system is exploitative. But every person there is willingly playing that game using the cards they have available to them. Most of them lose.

I’m not sure that strategy works for the last numbers.

GenX Canada. Better by every measure. I don’t have children so it has helped with financial stability to an amazing degree.

I can’t imagine the zoning bullshit that would have happened in that scenario. You can’t put a golf course anywhere on any patch of ground. That’s why there are course architects.

Not a big deal. They move the holes every week to keep the wear on the green even. There is a hand tool that cuts the hole and you drop the plug in the old one. The cup is just a plastic sleeve. It takes less than 10 minutes a hole.

Is this someone who doesn’t understand what happens on a golf course?

1965 clocking in. I want slippers and some soup.

My workplace is currently rooting out every AI feature they can find and removing it. I work in a critical infrastructure industry and they can’t risk confidential information winding up in an LLM training environment.