“Why Civil Resistance Works” is a good book about why civil disobedience is the most effective means of resisting a regime. It’s not an easy read, but it’s still great info.

Which workforce? The Chinese? There’s only one union and it’s run by the government. Any non-government unions are illegal.

The US is gaining a new interest in unions, but we have our own anti-union laws to deal with. Not as bad China’s obviously.

The California High Speed Rail Songin my ass.

More like melted it down for scrap

As with all tools, there’s good use and bad use. I use GPT tools for when I can’t remember what the name of something is. They seem to be particularly good at that, and I always follow up with a real source. It’s been wrong, but not often.

Oh, no, sorry I was speaking on the general concept that people remember wrong answers even when told they’re wrong. Everyone here is so annoyed at “I asked chatGPT, here’s a link, I haven’t verified it” that I think they purposefully ignored everything else you said.

Except they do. That’s how brains work. Wrong answers will stick in people’s heads even when they know it’s wrong. Then, later on, the “wrongness” fades and you’re left with only familiarity for that answer, which is used as a proxy for correctness. Generally speaking, your brain primarily uses familiarity when assessing information, not strict logic or interrogation.

When given an answer, people will trust it, even when told not to trust it.

You asked ChatGPT to do your homework, didn’t you, kid?

These are good suggestions! I would also expect acetone to be a poor choice in this scenario. I worked as a chemist for a while, but I didn’t do any organic stuff as a professional, so it’s all very hazy memories from orgo 1 and 2.

I have plenty of test pieces.

IPA sounds like a great idea, I’ll start with that.

Ignoring whether or not patents on agricultural products is moral or not, and ignoring whether ignoring those patents is itself moral or not:

No company is gonna bother going after you unless you try and sell product.

Used guns are not much of a reliability concern. They’re pretty durable goods. Plus, you should really be looking the thing over in person before you buy it anyway, and ideally put a few magazines through it.

The lawyer has skin-brown teeth.

Yeah, it made sense when a horse was the fastest way to travel over land. These days? We’re stuck with a ridiculous government structure designed when no one knew how democracies worked.

It’s not an overpass. A loose brick falls off a truck going in the opposite direction, bounces off the pavement once, then goes through the windshield.

Edit: oh hurray, there’s two different brick videos.

Every individual syphalitic rambling counts as its own reason.

I hope they haven’t.

I use DM because PM stands for Post Meridian.

It goes near, but not through Ukraine.

Whoops. Point still stands.