Assuming the common use of third world to mean "poor countries", then I suppose a "fourth world" country would be one that is poor and *also *not really a functional state, perhaps with some armed conflict going on.
But to describe NYC as that? Nonsense.
Why even involve ChatGPT? The "against" side should have been allowed to bring a speak 'n spell.
National ID wouldn't change that unless voter local registration and change-of-address updates were all rigidly and securely integrated.
So long as voter registration is a locally-managed list of names and addresses it's possible to go in and arbitrarily declare some of the registrations void.
I suspect Google wouldn't publish this.
Has he never heard of a humidifier? Good lord.
will automate millions of jobs if it works, might kneecap the economy
will kneecap the economy if it works, too. Because companies certainly aren't going to keep people employed in those millions of jobs.
Doh! Should have read the full Wikipedia article.
Pfft. Real hoopy froods play Heroclix.
I do not play Heroclix but I bought some about 20 years ago.
Jesus christ 20 years? Huh. Also I didn't notice but it was discontinued in 2008.
Yeah that was my read of the game from my first exposure to it. "You have to buy cards sight-unseen hoping to get good ones? That's a scam."
It's like they looked at Dungeons and Dragons product churn and thought "No, that's not shitty enough"
The Auryn project has a sub-project called North Star, founded by a VC partner, and a Bain Capital veteran, among others.
The whole thing gives me the ick.
Books would be really boring if the protagonists were all just the author speaking as themself but using various funny voices.
The Vatican, now using shipping containers as diplomatic pouches.