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AMA Question Thread
🕑 Added 2024-11-19 15:07:04 +0000 UTCHey Beautiful Patrons!
We are doing an AMA This Thursday. We still have some post election questions from the other thread we will cover but any other questions you have we will try to answer. Post any questions here before Thursday at 4pm Central time.
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Driller32
Chicago style, a pint of Guinness and a good long nap.
Driller32
Tom, you mentioned scam baiting as a good use of AI. Here's an idea born of me watching too much "Road Wars": Driver assist for people experiencing a medical crisis. It will signal, pull you over and park in a safe place, while trying to get your attention. "Hey, wake up, asshole!" At some point it calls EMS to your location. How to get people to adopt it? Incentivize it, baby! Opt-in saves you insurance dollars. I would opt in. Not Lane Assist or anything like that, but if you are seriously not well, swerving around about to kill a family of six, it will gradually ease you onto the shoulder. Road safety is always controversial. Don't you know, seat belts'll cut you in half!! Helmets are for Commies! j/k Thoughts?
Jim Storch
Thank you
Lime Green Morpheus
Cecil, what is the most useful weapon in a zombie apocalypse. In my opinion it is a pole axe, what are your thoughts?
Lime Green Morpheus
If Ian and Gary got married, what would be their wedding song?
Lime Green Morpheus
Would you rather have eight ounces of eggnog or a slice of NY pizza?
Lime Green Morpheus
Cecil, what is one food that you put a lot of time into cooking and just wasn’t good?
Lime Green Morpheus
Tom, what is the last dream you had?
Jim Lyons
With the post-election trend of abandoning Twitter and traditional corporate media for alternate social media and independent news networks, have you reconsidered your choices of support for the old standards, or altered your choices about where to engage and consume news and other content? What do you see as the consequences of the fracturing of the media landscape? And is it more likely that liberal abandonment of platforms like Twitter and big newspapers gives the right-wing media machine more power, not less?
Driller32
Portillo's, hot peppers. Mmmm-MWAH!
Jim Storch
Any favorite spots in Chicago for an Italian beef sandwich?
Seigmann
Considering the theocratic hellscape we're headed for, have you considered working with the P.I.T.S. guys to bring back the Pentagrammys?
Mara S.
What role will you be occupying in the post-apocalyptic, Mad Max wasteland? Personally, I'm thinking I'll be a female version of that guy in Fury Road who plays a flame-throwing guitar on a rig stacked high with amps.
A turn knees general
In another universe, would we be better off if trump was just now finishing his 2nd term if he had beaten Biden in 2020?
Dave Pierson
What are your thoughts on removing the income tax on tips to help the workers that receive tips? The federal wage for tipped workers is around $2.31 (see https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped). Why not just mandate that tipped workers get paid an hourly wage like other employees and forego tips? AT that point tips are truly given as a bonus by the person receiving the service.
Driller32
I don't know, but Matt Gaetz confirmation hearing needs to open with, "She's Only Seventeen"
Battie
How can I communicate my disgust at, disappointment in, and disdain for Trump-voter family members while maintaining plausible deniability?
TreeHuggerPestControl.com
What do you mean "we", Kimo Sabe.
Sketchy Intentions, Disreputable Endeavors
During the pandemic, I would listen to Tom Lehrer's song "I Got It From Agnes" and imagine that it was the theme song to Trump's pandemic response.
Jay Voigt
How many guns is too many at this point?
Ian (no, not that one)
What's your zombie plan? How long do you realistically think you'll make it in a zombie apocalypse? Can be slow zombies or fast ones, your choice.
Deanna T.
During Trump's last term I liked to imagine that, instead of "Hail to the Chief", the "Circus Theme Song" would play every time he entered a room. Given the terror he'll rain down this time, that song seems inappropriately whimsical. What do you suggest for an appropriately sinister and villainous theme for when he enters a room?
Driller32
This is the era of open, mustache twirling tyranny. If you could assemble a Cabinet of evil supervillains, who would you choose, and why? I want Wario for Energy or Commerce
Melanie Gordon
What are the chances we can lure you both to American Atheists Convention 2025? Minneapolis is only about an hour flight, reasonably close.
Fraa Paul
How can progressives reach and appeal to the extremely low information voters?
Biolapse
Are we the assholes?
Erin Hall
Tom, you mentioned that you have "usual morning news podcasts". What are they? I'm looking for good live news as I get ready in the morning.
One I'd Nick
You get to create your own non-govermental department to manage whatever you want. What is the department responsible for? Do you give it a dickhead acronym (if so, what)? Who are you having run it?
