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  • Ah, I remember this. Has it really been two years since the tongue-lympics were held in Japan?

  • I liked him on The Colbert Report. Never watched him on The Late Show.

  • Don't care. I've never so much as seen either of them.

    Fuck Jeff Bezos and fuck Amazon.

  • Same, and I didn't understand the teapot one, either.

  • McDonald's is a place for grease, and salt, and sugar, and shame.

    But, they sell fresh fruit. The apple slices, they're sort of like fruit. They're fruit adjacent.

  • I know this is impossible to enforce, mostly because the parents are addicted too, and see nothing wrong with handing a one-year-old a tablet, so they can spend more time on their phones.

    I think what's really needed is a huge social pushback, shaming parents who let TikTok raise their kids, and shaming everyone for spending too much time staring at their phones.

    If you can't stop doing it, at least stop defending it.

  • Perceiving AI as a 'job killer' negatively influences attitudes towards democracy...

    Towards democracy, or towards AI? I feel like this is bait and switch.

  • The enemy of my enemy is not my friend, but let's not interrupt them.

  • Solar is great while the sun shines. But, the electrons need to be stored for when the sun doesn't shine.

    Yes, we should continue to install solar, and the needed batteries or other storage methods. But, the future is fusion and geothermal. Geothermal development is making steady progress, in part by piggy backing on the fracking methods developed for oil. I expect geothermal to become widely adopted before fusion is ready. Or, at least it would be if people in power stopped ignoring it. It's cheaper, and there are no big issues that we can't see a clear path toward solving with current engineering knowledge.

  • Unbob Nopants!

  • I think most people in the 90s could easily see that something would replace CDs, because CDs replaced tape and vinyl in their lifetimes. Also, CDs have not disappeared, and neither has tape, or vinyl. Or, live music, for that matter, or buggy whips.

    While most people don't use a PC, plenty do, and they use them for things that are either impossible or extremely inconvenient to do on a phone or tablet. Professional design of practically anything does not happen on a six-inch screen, for instance.

  • Sounds more like they were her pets.

  • Yes, it's along the left side.

  • That was built just to prove they could do it.

  • Some of them want to be used by Leela.

  • After reading the descriptions here, how DO they survive? I'm assuming on some island where they have no significant predators?

  • Until there's a law against it, a law that requires an obvious flashing red light, this will continue to happen. I know the Meta glasses have a light that supposedly can't be covered without covering the camera. But, that's there only because Meta chose to put it there to head off complaints, à la Google Glass.

    But, I think those lights will go away, and I believe that is what the billionaires who make the choices want to happen. Because, being in public, not knowing whether you're being filmed is a great way to keep the masses in line. Fear and division in the populous is how those in power stay in power, when the people want them out.

  • As someone who has written a couple of books, yes, you'll read it over and over while writing it. So many times, you'll be sick of it by the time you're done and never want to read it again. You'll only read it as reference for the sequel, to make sure you get some detail right.

  • stelth

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  • As your non-smoking co-worker, please skip the beans. I don't care that you're getting high at work, and pot smoke doesn't bother me.