Rectangular pan, Wisconsin Brick Cheese blend, cheese spread to the edge of the pan, thick crust. That’s pretty much a Detroit style pizza. It’s not complicated to make. We also often use cup pepperoni.

Can you send me more crisp bread and some yjetost? I’m almost out.

After being rectangular, the Wisconsin Brick Cheese is the critical element.

Detroit style?

There is something unjust about being killed by a Ford Aerostar.

How is that different than saying, “dry air is more clear”? And wouldn’t that be so regardless of temperature?

I completely agree. However, I think there are wealthier areas that also are becoming more and more sterile. I’ve been moving around for a while now. My company hasn’t let me stay in any one area for more than a few years. 4 states, 3 countries. But every time I move, I end up in the part of town that is upper-middle class but it has these “executive apartments” type of places that are near shopping malls and chain restaurants and freeways. They offer convenience. They have zero character. And the people you meet are like you; temporary. I was there to do a thing for a few years and then move on. No reason to get attached and nothing to cause you to become attached.

My parents were never this mobile. They found jobs and stayed put for nearly 50 years. So did our neighbors. And they didn’t go very far from where they grew up.

I agree that the poor always have it worse. But I think the sterile locales are present in all income classes. They are just far more pervasive for the poor maybe.

I’d express it this way; highly urbanized landscapes cause people to view their locale as transactional. I’ve lived in such places. They don’t engender any connection. You know you are probably there temporarily (you hope). People you see each day you will likely only see once and never again so no reason to treat them as fellow community members.

And personally I think this could apply to a true city as well as a suburb. Any place that stresses efficiency over community is likely to get this result. Sterility might be efficient but it doesn’t make you feel at home. I would think high density developments that cater to residents who plan to transition elsewhere soon reinforce this.

I live in Houston. Good luck finding a landscape that has looked the same for more than 50 years. And likely it hasn’t looked this long for more than 15 years. So how are you supposed to develop memories in such a place? And it isn’t attractive anyway. It’s just practical. Many US cities like Houston are planned only as a means to an end. There is not thought to how all of these very poorly built building will look in 30 years because no one is thinking in those terms.

Are you certain they are albino? I know they are described that way but I think they are leucistic (meaning an absence of all pigments, not just melanin).

In French she would be called la renard, and hunted with only her cunning to protect her.

and that’s just SAP. Imagine turning over decision making to AI. OP thinks that’ll be complete for “most” jobs in 15 years.

Those a pretty minor roles. Show me the AI that can provide useful marital advice.

I’ve never in my life worked at a company that moved this fast. I’ve worked for 4 Fortune 500 companies. They move at human scale. You’re dreaming.

Most people view my job in purchasing as a series of binary choices between A and B where information is gathered on both alternatives and then the information is evaluated and a clear winner is selected. That could not be further from the truth.

Business is typically the activity is selecting amount many mediocre options. What humans are good at is presenting the option THEY selected as the superior option when in truth, all options are mediocre. A good employee then ensures that the option they championed succeeds so as to bolster their claims about having selected the best option (and not because it actually was best). This isn’t to say that all options are equal. Some are better. But the determination of which is best is often very subtle. And the skill isn’t simply selecting the best option. It is expediting that option. It is ensuring the purchase is implemented properly.

I guess my point isn’t that my job is difficult. It’s that it is a combination of subtle decisions that the employees themselves are unaware they are making. How would you ever program activities that exceed the conscious mind itself?

How would AI sell a new car using persuasion? How would AI convince a patient they are going to be OK? How would AI mediate a messy divorce? How would AI help a student struggling to grasp a difficult concept?

Honestly, I think some folks imagine some jobs are just these constant analytical, objective choices.

>most people will be out of a job in 15 years

Are you kidding me? It took my employer (a Fortune 500 corporation) the better part 6 years and hundreds of millions of dollars to implement SAP. That was just fricking SAP. And we are just one corporation.

I’m 50 and am entirely confidant that AI will not be capable of replacing me before I retire.

Take a few deep breaths and touch some grass.

Detroit has football championships but no Super Bowl win.

That song was ahead of its time I think. Today it would have been an even bigger hit.

Clearly they are making a joke. This is nonsense.

Reading has made me better informed and more articulate. But it also has a way of making you look like an egghead. I’ll often state something with confidence and support what I say with facts and people look at you funny. Sometimes I have even said aloud, “What?! They have books about this stuff and library cards are free!”

I honestly get tired of people looking at you funny when you say, “Trofimov wrote about it in the Seige of Mecca” or whatever and they look at you like you have horns.

The funny thing is I’m no intellectual. I went to a mediocre university. I just read a lot.

We were in the Middle East during this particular birth (Abu Dhabi) but the surgeon literally said out loud, “and one stitch for your husband”. I was ignorant to the concept. It was much later when I realized what he meant. By then it creeped me out.

Don’t all religions have to start with a small handful?

I mean, logically is there a religion that started with a million people?

Why were there so many units from frontier states like Illinois and Missouri but so few from CT and other New England states? There had to be greater population in New England at that time.

That’s not a period. That’s an exclamation point!

If we’re in bed, please comfort me with the lie like you usually do honey.

In some ways the US is one of the oldest countries; at least in terms of continuous form of government. Older than Germany and Italy anyway. But it simply isn’t a useful way to view things. America acts in nearly every way like a young country.

I saw the Serendib Scops Owl in 2018. It was only “discovered” in 1999 or so. It felt like we were invading it rather than seeing it. My guide got a call from a guy. We go marching up a jungle mountain side. Leeches everywhere. No big deal but we get sent from one scout to the next until finally. There is one dude whose job it is to keep an eye on this poor owl. Maybe 30 of these exist in the world. It was daylight and this poor dude is trying to sleep and I’m pointing my massive telephoto at him and using a flash. I felt like an asshole. Had to tip like 5 guys to see it. Not great birding.