ExiledInIllinois

Uh... The newscasters read from teleprompters. What's so "objective" about that??? I little small-talk with their co-hosts?

I wonder what would happen if they throw AI @ Him! My inlaws in their 80s. Buffalo News and MSNBC. LoL... Their daughter, my sister inlaw... She goes to other TV and puts FOX News on and has religious experience!

Yeah... Understood. A overly PC world, sensitive humans will push us more away from humans and towards machines. Why does management want to deal with the labor headaches?

Did anybody actually listen to it? I still haven't heard the actual words. Is there a link?

LoL... So true. They need humans. Outside, the sexy eye candy... Why are we still watching live humans deliver the news, weather, and sports? I tune to the NOAA weather channel on the marine radio, that is automated. Heck, I think even the Coast Guard automates the coded MAFORs if a mariner requests them.

Safety. I don't just lock boats. I assist in many functions like tieing off, water rescue, traffic control, snow plowing... The job is like running a farm. The bare minimum is two people for safety. I am not saying the station has to be automated. They can keep a skeleton crew to program the machines. That's basically what we do. Have a bare-bones, skeleton crew. My job is getting easier with automaton. But... Just like at the Weather Channel, will still need one or two people to program the machines. Why don't they automate the news delivery part? On that note... They actually ran the Mel Price lock near St. Louis from Washington, D.C. back in 2004. It was a test. A General did the honors. I would love to be able to work from home. Any place in the world! But, still need at least two boots on ground to assist in water safety and grounds maintenance. Today it is snowing like a MoFo. Somebody has to shovel.

Why don't we just automate the news, weather, etc... Do we really need humans anymore for this?

Shhh... They will pay with a trade deal. I am swinging my gates right now, moving 4800 tons of Mexican steel north... Asian carp are swimming alongside the barges as they go through the lock... Gotta a total of 30,000 tons of product in 14 barges queued and waiting as we speak. Gonna be a busy day for migrant fish! Anyway... The real retard is the dolt for creating a diversion from his scandal riddled Presidency and fighting the "Browning of America" with his racist and immoral agenda so his minority constituents don't lose their grip on power.

Like I said... Let Trump and the Basket of Deplorables think they are getting something. With two year olds, you gotta be stern: https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c37c7c7e4b05cb31c40ed3f/amp Rob Peter to pay Paul and a megalomaniac, authoritarian politician gets his way... Sorta saves face... Such a proud moment in American history when a POTUS has a terrible two's temper tantrum: "It’s not that there’s going to be a legislative breakthrough. It’s more that everyone now recognizes there is no deal to be made ― not when President Donald Trump won’t come down from his $5.7 billion figure for border wall construction, conservatives oppose a larger immigration deal, and Democrats don’t trust and won’t accept any offer but full capitulation. Instead, the solution to the impasse seems to be Trump declaring a national emergency at the border, using a dubious authority to reprogram military construction money for the wall, and then Congress passing clean funding legislation ― without wall money ― while Trump’s executive maneuver gets tied up in court. Trump has moved from toying with the idea of a national emergency declaration to all but promising it. He said Thursday that, if negotiations don’t work out, “probably I will do it. I would almost say definitely.”

LoL... Outlier. Always an outlier! ?

Hope you guys aren't into necrophilia, because she is dead as a door nail! Died not that old too: 70. Lung cancer, I think she was a smoker. How come the pretty ones gotta smoke. Like being smoking ain't enough! https://www.prwatch.org/news/2008/01/6927/why-dont-we-talk-about-smoking-and-celebrity-deaths

Thanks for the birds and the bees... LoL... Actually, our one cat was rescue. Litter of one. They named him: "Uno." We changed that to his midde name. He was a kitten. Now He has "two more bruthas from other muthas." LoL... All 3 rescues. Now you have proof I am insane. Wife is the crazy cat lady. One more and I will need to be rescued. I like Hawaii! ?

Do you even know where I live! LoL...

Really? $800k vs. $5.3 BILLION. What stupid comparison. And we know that the wall will have to be maintained, patrolled, etc... This will over run 1, 2, 3 times!!! The gov't stay in $5.3 billion range. Asian carp, silly Asian carp, they are saying 18 billion to replumb the waterways.... And that's only about 40 miles. It's... Just Your boondoggle now. A boondoggle is a boondoggle, wall, carp. Really big wastes!

Actually, I don't... Sometimes. LoL... /smh Both neighbors on sides of me have my key, code to garage door. Heck, even Amazon & Chamberlain are teaming up to get your Garage Door Code. I am a good leftist. LoL...

Be careful what You wish for, You may actually get it... ...An even bigger Swamp. This time smack dab in the middle of the desert!

I am a gatekeeper. Asian carp boondoggle has been going on for years. Perfect person for job. Just like up here, there is no "emergency" because there are no carp close. Corps will fit right in with the wall. LoL... I hope he gets military construction (where my job is funded) innvolved... This will get interesting! Fasten your seatbelts for one doosy of a wall!

Back pay? The essentials have been working.

I love Trump... I will deploy to the Southern Border! Make some extra $$$$. LoL...

We have 4 sluice gates and 2 fish screens, on dam. It's too expensive to put 2 more fish screens in. Yeah... We want the Corps to build a wall! /smh *IMO, leave the screens all out. The good species, "collateral damage" is shocking when those screens are lifted and cleaned. I mean, I swing 55 foot wide gates (110' opening) every 15 minutes during the summer to let boats through. Who the hell's bright idea is it to get the Corps involved? LMAO.... Let me guess, you are the low hanging voter that voted for Smilin' Don! LMAO... A little sawdust in the engine makes motor purr like a kitten!

If Trump was NOT a politician and was a straight shooter... Why the heck was he resorting to campaign rhetoric? Why not say straight up that a Mexico deal (bad for Mexico) will pay for wall? Why was Trump acting like super rhetorical politician striving to snag low hanging voters by spewing low information rhetoric? Is this the Guy that will "drain the swamp", "lock her up" or bait & switch you a lemon from the car lot? Welcome to "Smilin' Don's (Gently) Used Car Lot. Show your deplorable card and get 5% off.

Like I said... Slick politician.

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One slick politician: "When I say Mexico's gonna pay for the wall -- do you think they're going to write a check?" Trump asked. "No, they're paying for the wall in a great trade deal." Nice!

LoL... Hope the Trumpster knows what he is getting into invoking the Corps robbing Peter to pay Paul... Asian carp are filter feeders, they only orient themselves facing upstream... Migrants will just point downstream.