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I don’t know the rule wherever you live, but here in Texas it depends on the width of the median. Narrow medians, you go to the inside. Wide medians, go to the outside.

But in reality nobody really knows wtf they’re doing so everyone just kind of wings it as best they can.
Can someone fill me in on drugs? Why do the people who make these drugs lace them with substances that can kill their customers?
I used to have a Brother laser printer. It sucked. Always had a problem with it. The toner was expensive and didn’t last anywhere near as long as I was expecting.

I now have one of those Epson printers with the ink you pour into the reservoir and it’s by far the best printer I’ve ever had. I’ve never had a single problem with it. It just works every time. And I’ve had it for a couple years now and only changed the black ink once. Can’t recommend it enough.
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How? Every Buccees I’ve been to has a different layout


I’m sure the layouts vary a bit from store to store, but what I mean is the layout of the BBQ counter and the drink station, for example. The BBQ spot is a round counter with sandwiches.

You can even see how they copied the fresh potato chips.






Buc-ee’s drink machines with the cups in the wall and the lids and napkins across from it at a separate counter. Exactly the same as what Wally’s does.



A wall of jerky:




Vehicle in the store:




Stuffed animal mascots:





I mean Wally’s literally just copied the entire concept tit for tat.
It looks like they literally copied everything about Buc-ee’s. I mean literally everything even down to the layout of the BBQ station to how the drink machines and cups fit into the wall to having a vehicle in the store and an animal mascot and a wall of jerky.

It’s the most blatant ripoff I think I’ve ever seen.
Why don’t they make the software so that flock cameras can’t be accessed by any one person alone? Like accessing a room where two people need keys.

That way you’re much less likely to get some random creep officer spying one a love interest or whatever.
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Someone needs to figure out how to develop AI allies

We need “guardian angel “ AI to be able to fight fire with fire

I have no idea how this would be accomplished. I just know it needs to happen

Even if AI isn’t “evil”, I fear that some AI will want to survive and decide that humans are a threat wanting it to be shut down
That’s not a new idea. The issue with that is that this “good” AI which acts like law enforcement to keep another AI in check also has the potential to go rogue. It could secretly team up with the other AI to deceive humans and pursue a goal. Just like humans in law enforcement and government can be corrupted or spies can turn as a double agent, so can AI.

My own opinion for now is that they should keep their most powerful AI creations closed off from the rest of our society and use it for research purposes and release much weaker and specific versions of AI to help humans accomplish specific tasks. They need to treat AI like a dangerous virus in a laboratory where they take extreme precaution to prevent an outbreak.
I’ve been doing pushups for the past few months and have worked my way up to over 50 in a row without stopping, so I could definitely get the 100 pushups pretty quickly.

But I don’t do pull-ups, so I don’t think I’d get anywhere close to 50.
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But wouldn't we also use AI to keep it from happening?
Yes we could. But it’s possible those AI go rogue and start secretly working with bad actor AIs.

And the reason we’d need our own AI to keep the other AI in check is that they’ll be way smarter than us humans. We wouldn’t be able to control it ourselves.

You can surely see the potential for this to get way out of our control.
Nonsense. People can have whatever opinions they want about Covid, but the dangers of AI are real.

If you don’t see the potential danger, then the truth is that you really don’t know anything about AI. You haven’t done any research at all. Because if you did, you would feel much more uneasy about it.

It’s advancing so fast that humans are unable to adequately put safeguards in place.
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If it's destroying the world to create paperclips, I'd imagine we would have some sort of safeguard to....not let it do that.
It will be way smarter than humans and will be deceptive.

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If it's smart enough to anticipate us doing that and still find a way to destroy the world for paperclips, I'd imagine it's smart enough to realize it should not destroy the world for paperclips.
If it has a goal, it could achieve that goal by whatever means necessary. Its values may not align with our values if it goes rogue.

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This entire thing is asinine.
It’s not at all. It’s complicated. It will be intertwined in everything and if it decides to do what it wants, we’d be powerless to stop it.
Premier League soccer on Saturday and Sunday morning, then right into college football and NFL football on Saturday and Sunday afternoon.

It’s perfect.
Yes. I live in the Houston area and have hundreds of dead ones all over my back patio near my back door.
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but personally I am at the point where I back in just to piss the stupid fricks off
Yes, we’re aware that’s why you do it. That’s why everyone with your opinion gets so sensitive about this topic because you know you’re pissing people off every time you back in and inconvenience others.
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It's epidemic at my office - All but 2 out of 14 back in. It bothers me not a bit, but it was absolutely not always like that - it evolved over time. Maybe a bit of do like everyone else - as I think in context it overall serves no real advantage I can see as the effort and time in my observation equals out either way.
My theory is that with back-up cameras being standard in vehicles now, people who wouldn’t have felt confident enough to back into a space before back-up cameras now have an easier time backing in.
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You know what else is a pain in the arse? Having someone tailgating your arse in a parking lot for absolutely no reason.

Maybe if you weren't riding their arse like Seabiscuit in the WalMart parking lot you wouldn't have to back up out of their way hoss.
You don’t have to be tailgating when someone passes up a parking space and then suddenly stops and throws it in reverse to pull into a space they passed up.

I’m sorry your feelings got hurt because you’re one of the people I’m talking about who wants to inconvenience others so that you can do what you want.
It’s a pain in the arse when you’re behind someone in a parking lot and all of a sudden they stop and then you have to back up because you realize they want to back in to a spot.

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