I am hazarding a guess you’re in the USA so your dentist is probably trying to milk your health insurance company for all they’re worth.

Oh you sweet summer child.

Health insurance in the U.S. doesn’t cover teeth. What are you crazy? Dental issues aren’t medical issues, you see. They’re dental issues. And dental issues are a whole different thing. So if you want dental coverage, you need dental insurance specifically.

And it’s a lot more common not to have dental insurance than not to have medical insurance. Because I think not being “medical” insurance exactly, they’re less regulated and so can deny more of the claims that they get than medical insurance can. Which runs you the risk of paying monthly for it and then getting your claims denied when it really matters.

And I’m one of the ones who doesn’t have dental insurance. (Partially because as I said earlier, I haven’t had a cavity in 20 years.) So it’s me they’re milking, not an insurance company. To the tune of about $4,200 so far between the dentist, endodontist, and periodontist. I think that includes the cost of the crown (like, they had me pay in advance for the crown, which makes it even more infuriating that they’re putting me off).

I’ve got one in my wall and my clothes dryer is plugged into it. My house was built in 1962 and the electrical situation in my house remains the fucking nightmare it was when the house was built, though.

You plugged those into the wrong ports. You’re supposed to plug both ends into here:

Don’t worry if you have to use a lot of force to get it in there. That’s just to make sure it doesn’t come out if you trip over it.

The small print of the waiver you have to sign at the beginning of the food challenge says that finishing the challenge legally constitutes marriage in the eyes of the state.

“One prominent theory suggests they may be a sigil used in the worship of the deity ‘missingno’.”

Call my inclusion of Kanye a prediction.

Nope.

Even astrologers over there like “wtf he smokin?”

Don’t republicans hate the SI system?

Time to go back to commissioning portraits from painters who forage to make their own pigments.

I remember back when I was in college (don’t ask how long ago 👴) they used to have the blood donation bus park next to the student union. They didn’t push beyond that. They just made the bus available for students who wanted to donate blood.

And on days when that happened, the Jehova’s Witnesses also proselytized. Handed out flyers and stuff. I didn’t make the connection that they were there because of the blood donation bus until the second time I witnessed it.

That’s super shitty of them. But it’s compatible with their fucked up ideology, I guess.

Imma give my answer in an even harder math problem, then. 😈

“Oh, twelve minus five is just one hundred fifity-four divided by twenty-two.”

Oh that’s what Sapho juice is made from.

Wouldn’t replacing employees with AI actually be catastrophic for businesses?

Yup.

For one thing, LLMs can’t replace employees. Not really. Some who have tried (like Uber) have regretted it. (Others have fallen hopelessly into AI psychosis.)

I think there have been several companies that have decided to lay off a bunch of people and used the lie “we replaced them with AI” to spin it in a way that makes their stockholders happy. In fact that might be the majority of companies who are reporting that they’re replacing employees with AI.

But there are definitely other companies that have simply drunk the Kool-Aid as well.

Now anthropic comes to me and says they’re going to increase their prices to $100k/agent. What now?

Price increases is definitely gonna happen, actually. And not just because all the “AI” companies are greedy bastards. All the LLM offerings out there are running at massive losses. They’re trying to get people/clients hooked so they can way increase prices. And they’d have to increase prices a lot to make it actually profitable for them.

Each model has its own strengths…

That’s putting it a little generously for my taste, but yeah.

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