She doesn’t have the job because she’s smart.

She has the job because she’s on their side.

There’s a lot of stupidity to point out with Trump, but I found myself focused on the pens.

It was my understanding, and perhaps I’ve gotten it wrong, that the reason there are a pile of pens there is so that the president can use all of them, using one for each letter in the name, one to cross the T, etc. Then give them out to a bunch of supporters so that they can each have a pen that was used to sign the law, executive order, or whatever other bullshit this moron puts his name on.

While I can’t imagine why anyone would want a pen this shithead put his tiny little hand on to sign something, I am really baffled as to why they would want a pen that happened to be in a box with a bunch of other pens, one of which was used to sign something.

Lazy fuck can’t even put the most basic effort into doing something for his most brain-dead, sycophantic followers.

They’re fishing for answers in the answer pond,

Except, they’ve actually dropped their lines in the stupidity toilet.

Trump never really understood

You could have stopped there.

They also happen to be linked up to a rapid and highly efficient super computer far outclassing anything that humanity has ever devised

A neural network that has been in development for 650 million years.

I think you can dislike pedophiles and even want to see them punished, yet still recognize that some asshole doing it to get revenue from their YouTube channel is not the right solution.

Personally, I’m of the opinion that most crime is the result of either poverty or neurological flaws, and torture is not the best solution to either problem.

People need to be kept safe, and the criminal justice system is ostensibly the mechanism we’ve decided to use for that.

Saying “written” suggests to me that you’re referring to the sonnet, “The New Colossus”, which was inspired by the statue the French made, but was written by an American poet, Emma Lazarus.

Oh, yeah, it definitely worked.

It didn’t start in the 90’s. Pushing ignorance predates the formation of the United States. What you’re referring to is the successful fight back by the right that started after education started succeeding in freeing people from the historic ignorance.

The right thought they were going to get people who could build better weapons through education. When they realized that they were also getting reasonable, compassionate people who could feel empathy, they decided it wasn’t worth the cost.

I had a professor in college that said when an AI problem is solved, it is no longer AI.

Computers do all sorts of things today that 30 years ago were the stuff of science fiction. Back then many of those things were considered to be in the realm of AI. Now they’re just tools we use without thinking about them.

I’m sitting here using gesture typing on my phone to enter these words. The computer is analyzing my motions and predicting what words I want to type based on a statistical likelihood of what comes next from the group of possible words that my gesture could be. This would have been the realm of AI once, but now it’s just the keyboard app on my phone.