Elon Musk predicted that AI and robots would eventually allow work to become optional for human beings, that money would become “irrelevant” and poverty would cease to exist.

I mean first off, we’ll need “AI” to actually mean something other than marketing bullshit. Actual AI (what’s being called ‘AGI’ nowadays, but that’ll be bastardized the same way ‘AI’ was) doesn’t exist outside of science fiction. If that day ever comes (my money’s on humans being extinct before we get there), then yeah that’s gonna be a humanity changer in par with discovering fire or electricity.

Second, we’ll need the folks who run that tech to actually be benevolent, and the odds of a billionaire becoming benevolent are even lower than real AI becoming a reality.

Third, poverty could cease to exist RIGHT NOW if people like Elon Musk got the guillotine treatment they deserve. No AI necessary.

For the rice, look specifically for “fortified” - it has things like vitamins added in. From there, unless you want to actually track your micro and macro nutrients, your best bet is to just shoot for a good variety, and that’s where things like food pantries will shine, cuz (for most of them at least) their inventory will be changing constantly, so it’ll force you to try things you wouldn’t normally have the desire or financial access to.

This is assuming your local area has food pantries - you’ll have some homework to do to find those kinds of resources. Also look into langar kitchens if there are any Sikh churches near you. I’ve never been to one, but heard nothing but good things.

…I mean…

My wife has been watching that… Per the glimpses I’ve caught, 90% of it is footage of the chick in the thumbnail looking from side to side with an utterly confused expression. 9% is the Hitler-sans-stache looking dude looking like he’s on the verge of a roid rage. The remaining 1% was Dr. Bruce Banner breaking into a mansion, presumably to steal the formula for wish-dot-com-Hitler’s roid juice so he can go back to being the hulk.

Aren’t most superpowers an infinite glitch by themselves?

Like if they used their voodoo to crank a giant turbine instead of causing or fighting crime, the entirety of the power industry instantly becomes obsolete.

SNAP.

…but for real, fortified short-grain rice, and dried beans are probably single best bang-for-buck you’re gonna find. Mix in whatever’s on the clearance wrack or provided by things like food pantries, and you should have no issues keeping yourself fed. Won’t always be good, but it’ll be dirt cheap.

Buy, post negative review, return.

you wont last long. your best bet is to lay down those arms and come out with your hands up.

…said the Nazi to the Jew.

…malevolent? You get the gist of what I’m shooting for.

Seeing a lot of hate for their food… I haven’t been to a subway in probably over a decade (or two, even…), but I don’t remember them being bad. Overpriced maybe, but once the sub is actually in your hands it’s alright, isn’t it?

Or did they enshittify since then? …actually stupid question, every fucking fast food chain has enshittified since then.

In this context, all good = the complete absence of evil.

Interesting definitely, but idk about actually living under that lore… Top boss God is a horny mofo that’ll stick it in anything with a hole, with or without consent, sometimes immediately after shapeshifting into a bull or something; and all of the other gods are some degree of petty or mischievous.

…which honestly is kinda how life is under the US government, so… pass!

God.

Specifically the version of God that is simultaneously all good, all knowing, and all powerful.

Were our universe created by such a being, evil could not exist: our reality would be very, very, very different compared to the dumpster fire that we all get to experience.

Sorry Ukraine - didn’t mean to let our trash blow into your yard.

Please kill him swiftly before he has the chance to do any tangible damage to your nation. May his corpse nourish a few sunflowers.

Flush the floaters day. Every year we guillotine the 10 (+an additional 10 each successive year) richest people on the planet. Once everyone has baseline access to food, housing, healthcare, education, etc, we put the guillotines on standby and instead have an annual feast. If conditions backslide, or if we’ve failed to reach the feast benchmark by the 10th anniversary, we switch from guillotining the 10 richest individuals to the 10 richest families with case-by-case exceptions being considered for anyone in the bloodlines in question who have shown that they’re worth keeping alive.

…dude half of my neighbors want to see me killed because of things like me refusing to worship that dead neonazi that recently got himself shot in the neck.

They’d buy off my possessions just so they could see my reaction as they set them ablaze.

No, not in my country (US). People will not band together like that again, possibly ever.

It really is a slap in the dick that climate collapse according to the livable ranges for human life, seems to equate to a climate utopia for some of this planet’s worst creatures.

Like… If we’re gonna create an apocalypse anyway, is it really too much to ask to fuck the planet in a way that makes mosquitoes extinct before humans??

Tiny me playing Zelda OOT when it released - in the days before guides were really a thing, so my dumb ass just had to figure it all out on my own.

Anyway, first 3D game I’d played - before that it was just some SNES and the original GameBoy cinder-block… and I was pretty much at the lowest end of that game’s target audience, so tiny me was struggling to progress. Finally finish the Deku Tree after, idk a few weeks or so, which is about how long it normally took me to finish a game, so I thought that was it.

Cool! Well that was fun! All that’s left is to escape the forest and that’s a wrap! …what’s this chick on about with the ocarina?? Oh yeah, that’s the name of the game, I got the thing! Woo! Okay, through that next log, and surely the credits will start to roll… oh, I’m still in control of my character. Weird. OMG STFU YOU GODDAMNED OWL YOU’VE BEEN TALKING FOR LIKE AN HOUR!

And then the moment: taking my first steps into Hyrule field and seeing all the paths shooting off from it. Realized the was in fact not over, but had barely started.

Mind. Blown.

Troodon. Little dudes that were thought to be smart, formed communities, had weird teeth, and have been the cause of multiple controversies over classification or existing at all. So, tiny trouble makers.