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I'd have to put Carson above Letterman. Johnny was faster and could get into quip exchanges with funny guests when Letterman would just have been laughing along with the audience. Letterman was a bit more in tune with the younger generations, though. But either of them could run circles around pretty much any of the other hosts I've ever seen. Conan was the only one funny enough to shine their shoes, in my opinion.

It's bewildering to anyone who saw Carson, Letterman, or O'Brien in their heyday to see the modern hosts like Colbert or Kimmel and try to understand what the fuck they're watching.

I've been using Gemini AI regularly just to get a handle on how it works and how it's going to integrate into daily life.

One of the funny details is that it will tell you something, with absolute confidence, that is completely untrue. Either an AI hallucination or it was simply trained on false information.

One such instance was I didn't feel like walking to my car to look at the sill plate to see what the GVWR is. It's a 2400lb car. Gemini told me with absolute confidence that the GVWR is 5900lbs. I asked it to verify that and it told me again, yes, the GWWR is 5900lbs.

Luckily for me I'm not stupid enough to believe that and was expecting a number around 3400lbs, so I didn't go to Home Depot and put 1.5 tons of bricks in my tiny sedan and end up driving down the road with sparks shooting out from under my completely bottomed-out car.

But if people stop using their critical thinking skills (or never develop them in the first place) and let AI make stupid decisions with absolute confidence in them, then Idiocracy here we come.

It's easy to legally involve law enforcement. You call them and say "Something happened." They show up and get involved.

It pays to at least know your rights whenever you are going to interact with any sort of authority. I'm not a lawyer, but I've dealt with cops and had to hire lawyers to navigate the system, and picked up a few things that you'll also see on Youtube. It can be hard to actually do the things if you don't have a lawyer who is YOUR lawyer telling you not to, because we get trained from an early age to be susceptible to the very manipulations they use.

One thing to know about CPS involvement is that they are generally not "officers" and can't simply take your child away from you in a lot of instances, but they'll act official and say "I'm going to take your child," and people will say "oh, okay" and let them, instead of saying, "Get off my property."

You'll notice in that picture it says the parents were "detained." That simply means that the police took them into temporary custody (not arrest) while figuring out if a crime had been committed. Since it doesn't say "arrested," it sounds like the cops took them into investigative custody long enough to decide that a crime had NOT been committed and let them go.

I would like to know if they maintained custody of their child after that happened or if the government thugs took the baby again.

I think it might be a broader issue in that hospitals generally want to claim some "custody" of any person who falls under their care, and those people are often unable to speak for themselves. Either it's an unconscious or altered adult, or a child who doesn't have legal standing to make their own decisions.

It makes sense in a way to give hospitals some leeway here, because you get somebody who'd got six broken bones and is knocked out from an accident, you can't really wake them up and have them direct their own care in sound mind. So the staff has to make executive decisions on their behalf.

The problem arises when they've built up such a bureaucracy around that idea that they hospital staff start to think they're in a little kingdom where what they say goes.

Ah. That's a Pinto. AMC made the Gremlin and Pacer.

The Gremlin was essentially a cut down Hornet and was RWD. It could be had from the factory with a V8, and there was a dealership that installed the AMC 401 in it.

The Pacer was originally intended to have a Wankel rotary engine sourced from GM, but GM pulled the plug on their Wankel program and AMC had to scramble and adapt it to use the AMC 258 inline 6.

Gremmies are badass. The original Hot Hatch. They were dominating the subcompact racing scene in the 1970's so badly that the rules had to be changed.