There's an upper ceiling on capability though, and we're pretty close to it with LLMs. True artificial intelligence would change the world drastically, but LLMs aren't the path to it.
In terms of boredom, it's a healthy thing! Boredom is what pushes people to learn new skills, find new hobbies, and just generally do things. I think the demonization of boredom is very bad for society.
In terms of disaster relief, that sucks. If you have to use Reddit for that, then so be it. People getting the help they need in an emergency is more important than sticking it to spez.
You can be a member of a party without being a politician. As far as I understand it (I could be wrong, not American), the process for signing up in the US is a state-by-state thing, not at the federal level.
For Americans, it seems like the easiest way to do insider trading is to first get elected to Congress. Then you can do as much insider trading as you want!
That's currently being scheduled.
The complication is that he'll never spend a day in Romanian prison, the UK has requested extradition. As soon as the trial is over, he's headed to the UK. From that point, it's Britain's decision as to what happens next.
On the plus side as a Romanian, him becoming a convicted criminal here means that no matter what the UK decides, he can't come back.
Yugoslavian communism: there's dinos and toys on the shelves, and people keep buying them to smuggle over the border
I thought Umbrella Academy would be the obvious comparison due to the fact Elliot plays him
It's kinda funny that the whole Vanya - Viktor trans thing in S3 Umbrella Academy had his siblings behaving pretty similarly. The vibe was pretty wholesome. Basically "I don't really understand it, but you're my bro and we're trying to save the world. On with the plot!"
I went and tested it with copilot.
The vast majority of memes like this get patched as soon as they become viral. Some developer somewhere very likely manually entered a list of fruits ending in "um" and got the LLM to refer to it when asked.
Having one line about sleeping with the captain's daughter might have been even more amusing (and thus more catchy) because of the double meaning.
Very likely, probably why the whole captain's daughter = captain's whip thing took off as sailor slang to begin with.
your average deck hand singing sea shanties isn't thinking metaphorically when he's singing about getting drunk and laid.
I never claimed it was a metaphor, it's slang. Similarly, the "gunner's daughters" were the gun barrels midships on gunships.
And insisting that the one line in the song isn't about fucking is feels like wishful thinking
I mean, no skin off my nose if you believe that, but it seems pretty clear judging from the fact that the captain's daughter is a well known slang term for a whip in a song about punishing a drunk that that is extremely likely the correct original intent. Of course anybody can interpret anything any way they want.
Think about it inside the context of the song. Every other line is a type of punishment:
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Shave his belly with a rusty razor (painfully pull chest hair out with a dull blade)
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Put him in a long boat till he's sober (put him somewhere uncomfortably cramped on his own)
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Give him a dose of salt and water (probably the nicest variation of the song, make him vomit)
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Stick him in a scupper with a hosepipe on him (scupper= hole in the side of the ship, so stick his head in a hole and hit him with a hosepipe)
There's also loads of other variations on the song with tons of different punishments for the drunken sailor.
Why would this line suddenly be different?
Ah, I misunderstood then, sorry. But still, even with all the investment in the world, LLM is a bubble waiting to burst. I have a hunch we will see truly world-altering technology in the next ~20 years (the kind that'd put huge swathes of people out of work, as you describe), but this ain't it.