Learning tricks of the AI trade

I asked Chatbox to draw a picture to illustrate the story below, but my request was rejected as “inappropriate”. Okay, you can’t argue with a pre-programmed idiot, computer or human, but you can usually find an easy way around it.

In any event, here’s the actual item I wanted to comment on.

Connecticut's budget committee presides over the deaths of dozens of bill

Another bill that died that day  would have banned the sale and use of polystyrene food packaging and containers along with plastic straws, starting on July 1, 2027. It would also mandate water fountains in state and municipal buildings to be replaced with water-cup-and-bottle-filling stations at a cost of $5,000 to $10,000 per fountain.

A well-deserved fate for this idiotic bill, but as demonstrated by our Hartford legislators year after year, decade after decade, lunacy is forever, and this one will resurface:

Co-chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee State Sen. Cathy Osten said she thought the ban on plastics will … come back to the General Assembly next year.

Fight, fight, fight.