Relativity

Saw this breathless statement over at Insty’s:

Big fat hairy deal.  Only 327x?  Going from memory, let’s look at some relative increases* in the costs of goods and services since the early 1940s, shall we?

Groceries:  353x
Gasoline:  417x
Electricity (when it’s not browning out):  330x
Apartment rental:  472x
Housing cost per sq.ft:  488x
Bourbon whiskey:  270x  (congratulations, Jim Beam;  yours is the only commodity that’s still more-or-less affordable)
Large automobiles:  634x
College tuition:  729x

In fact, our mythical “AI researcher”, even at his current earning level, still won’t be able to buy a car or a house;  rent an apartment;  pay his utility bills;  be able to drive cross-country without taking his bank manager along;  or pay for his kids’ college tuition.

Yet somehow Oppie managed to do all that, and more, on his pitiful Manhattan Project salary.


*Okay, I made all those numbers up, but I bet they aren’t far off the mark.  Hat tip:

News Roundup

Never mind all that “gold-digging whore” stuff…


...I’m just surprised they didn’t use AutoTune.

Time for some :


...bent ol’ Ursula over the desk, he did — and the EEEEWWWW knows it.


...not that this would be too difficult.


...wait: you mean we can go back to driving the cars and trucks we want, use toilets that flush properly, and not have to depend on solar power in midwinter?

Of course when we read the above good news, can Global Cooling Climate Warming Change© warnings be far behind?


...is there anything climate change can’t do?  (And before you rush to check, the report is total bullshit.)
#NoSurpriseThere


...next:  ban heating oil for furnaces, because New Yorkers deserve to fucking freeze to death for electing the same asshole politicians time after time after time.

And now,


...keep it going, guys.


And speaking of child molesters;  this from the Dept. Of Education:


...why would he need “pressure”?

#StupidKid

And in our Hearts Of Stone Dept.:


...yeah, well
#India

In Political News:


...that’s too bad, ’cause it could have pushed CA over the edge into complete ruin.  Even worse, this means she’s probably going to run for POTUS again.  [cue political laughter]:

Some Celebrity News:


...what’s left for Meg ‘n Ginger?  OnlyFans.  (You heard it here first.)

And yet again, some link-free 

Alesha Dixon reveals surprise career change as
she makes major move away from music
...oooh Britain’s got talent (and legs, especially legs), all right:

And on that note, it’s time to leg it outta here.