They're "hungry" for grocery store food.
They're not "hungry" for food bank food (which is not as junky, tasty, or otherwise gratifying as grocery store food is).
That's why they only threaten to loot the former, but never the latter - despite...
To be clear to RPF participants, @jmdrake is on ignore for insulting me in the most vicious manner possible. He is welcome to PM me and reconcile/apologize. This post is not a reply to that individual, this is clarifying information for other...
The reasons the US has thrown Aafia into the Chateau d'If are not complicated at all:
- Under torture, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed named Aafia Siddiqui among many others. Like most of those names, she was guilty of nothing more than her name being...
WHY we know that modern AI does NOT think in any sense of the word "think"
The current discussion of AI -- like practically all topics in Clown World -- is largely conducted at the knuckle-dragging level of "I'M FUR IT!" or "I'M AGINST IT!" In...
From a pragmatic standpoint, it is a pure-Pareto-improvement to pay government workers like this to be on permanent vacation ... they can start a hot-dog stand if they want or travel the world if they want, only don't go to the office and do your...