EdamAnchorman

Wow. Gel-mullet + troglodyte chin + flannel + dumbass shades. Tell me you're a redneck moron without telling me you're a redneck moron.

It's very clear what they're doing. Musk decreed that LIDAR and other capabilities that literally every other level 3/4 self-driving vehicle uses are stupid and too expensive, so Tesla is relying on cameras only. To do this and to do it well requires a shit-ton of data (real-world data is best, obv.) so Musk turned his fanbois into beta-testers. These people are putting their lives (and the lives of others) on the line so that Tesla can save a few $ per unit, not to mention that it's just foolish to continue to attempt to get to level 4 autonomy with cameras alone, especially when such better supplementary technology exists. Tesla were even so cheap that they only very recently added a camera which monitors the driver's eyes to ensure that they are paying attention to the road while using autonomous systems, something that every other company has done from the beginning (again, risking lives strictly to cut cost and make share price go up / burn the shorts).

Wow, that's amazing! It managed to create what I hear in my head when I listen to most country songs!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5oKo4ArUKY/ Edit: Larry David tire changing AI song

Not an exact parallel, but did McDonald's make people stop and question why they like the foods they like and what food means to them? No, they just shove it down their gullet. Like someone above said, music to most people is something that's ancillary, disposable, on in the background while they work/jog/exercise, etc. I think there are enough people out there who value music enough to create a market for human-made music, as long as it can still offer a superior experience.

Idk, some of the stuff I find most interesting is when I hear something I didn't necessarily expect or something that I didn't necessarily know that I wanted to hear. Seems to me that this kind of thing would be great at churning out representative examples of what's out there but might not be as good or good at all at actually generating something good, new, and exciting that rests in a musical whitespace, so to speak?

My brother posted some nice pics from central Ohio

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46346-0

IMHO, Tom Fec from Black Moth Super Rainbow / Tobacco is a master of vocoder Edit: just love this one

Half of me wants to say: But the other half of me would be fine if the R party was just blown into nonexistence.

Right in the nick of time.

Read the article. There's even a video of cicadas pissing.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2317878121

There is still an embargo and Americans are not allowed to travel for tourism, but there are several reasons for which we are allowed to travel. Look it up; the most popular is, "to help and support the Cuban people." Supposedly, you're supposed to do something like 40 hours worth of helping the people each day, and you're supposed to keep receipts that they can check for up to 5 years or something. We stayed in privately-owned AirBnBs and did several private tours, all of which count toward that goal. We did a farm tour in Viñales where our guide (a farmer) took us through tobacco fields and to a tobacco / honey / coffee farm. The gov't takes 90% of their crop, but they're allowed to do whatever with the remaining 10% and I may or may not have hypothetically in an alternate universe perhaps not purchased 50 cigars from this farmer (there's some gray area there, as they are not "branded" cigars; they are made and sold by the farmer not the government so nobody could tell me if they were illegal but idc because now I have them in my humidor). We also did a vintage car tour and an Afro-Cuban / Santeria tour in Havana; both supported privately-owned businesses. Inflation there recently has been crazy af (something like 100 - 500x?), the gov't ration books don't provide shit, and COVID / Trump's policy shift from Obama wrecked a lot of their tourism (country's main source of income) so they are facing a pretty bad time all around. Because of the embargo, we had to take a fat stack of cash and change it there (American credit cards and bank cards will not work), but tourists from other countries do not face this restriction, although you can really only use credit in a limited number of shops and there were long lines for the ATMs that were actually working (side note, the gov't restricts Cuban citizens to withdraw max 5,000 Cuban pesos per day, which currently is only about $16 USD). Bottom line was that we had an amazing time, and nearly all Cubans we met were friendly and helpful and had a lot of good things to say about American people. It also helped a lot to have a native Spanish speaker (father-in-law) and fluent Spanish speaker (my wife); I'm not sure how well I could've gotten around with limited Spanish. It was amazing to hear all kinds of stories like our Viñales hostess and how her 2 sons had to sell drugs for a coyote just so they could get to Grenada where they're barely making enough to eat but she says, "at least they're free". Or our Havana hostess who was a pharmacist but also does the hosting/AirBnB concierge gig because her pharmacist job pays less than $15 a month and that's not even enough to feed herself let alone her family (doctors make a whopping $20 a month)... I'd definitely recommend going, but do your research first and plan well.