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They name the new one The Largest Pacific Striped Octopus

“You’re folding it wrong”

Fatal error? More like “a spot of bother”.

Yes, though the second part is the more important and also possible without the other.

Sorry to be that guy, but…

https://www.amazon.com.au/hello-Toothbrush-Replacement-Refil...

(And for the record, I think this is an absolutely stupid idea).

For those not familiar, these are the ones which were in common use in the 1970s and 1980s:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/79/12/4f/79124fb24fd0cc6ac4cf...

“Some people just want to watch the world burn”.

Or in the case of America, many people just want others to suffer so that they can feel better about themselves, and are willing to elect a leader who will do that on their behalf, even at their own cost.

“When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”

> steal shit from the office

The correct euphemism is “strategic relocation of resources”. Use their own bullshit against them.

While this article does sound a little like an individual grievance, I think the general point it is making is correct. The customer is no longer valued.

During and after the pandemic many businesses posted signs saying “abusing the staff will not be tolerated” and other words to that effect. I was shocked and horrified that enough people would be abusive to require this, but believed that there could be some customers who would make such a sign necessary (not that it would have the desired effect on them).

Now it makes more sense in the light of these changes to how customers are treated. Unreasonable practices, terms and conditions and stonewalling of complaints probably leads to immense frustration, anger and incidents of abusive behaviour.

It was interesting that the article cited an example of a preemptive accusation of abusive behaviour (swearing) even though the writer says that it didn’t happen. I wonder if this is also tool used to dismiss legitimate complaints - anger the customer and bait them or simply accuse them of being aggressive as an excuse to not deal with the problem.

> why not just go all fake?

Perhaps they needed some real fireworks for those there in person, and to be able to claim that there really was a fireworks show, but wanted to amp it up for those viewing the event virtually (most of the world).

Yes, it somewhat undermines the point that the auto industry is not realistic about the future.

Why consider flying cars when teleportation may be just a few more years away?

I see another problem being that the same words can have different meaning or intent in different contexts and particularly with different intonations and facial expressions.

That last sentence also works without the last 4 words.

According to YouTuber Bjorn Nyland, some such as Circle-K had already installed charging stations and are now removing some pumps and replacing them with chargers while adding even more charging stalls.

The movie Touching the Void is highly recommended.

If only it were that easy! The economy would collapse if scams were stopped. There would be no progress. The president would be poor. We are already losing the scam war with china, this would just hand victory to them. Is that the world you want to live in? /s

But seriously, I wonder how much of the economy is scam activity?

Also, the three sticks are called the stumps and are topped with two unattached cross-beams which are called the bails. Hitting the wicket (stumps) does not count unless one or both of the bails are dislodged.

Let’s be clear here. If the ball is bowled and strikes the stumps and dislodges a bail, that is “bowled out”. If the batsman contacts the ball but it still hits the stumps and dislodges a bail,that is “played on“. If the batsman in playing the ball dislodges a bail, that is “hit wicket”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit_wicket

“Replaced” seems very pejorative here.

The times are clearly changing, as they always do. Are you saying that it is “natural and sensible” to be racist and xenophobic? Perhaps it is. But perhaps we can do better.

Thanks for that final BTW which sent me on a side quest to listen to a half dozen different versions and gave me a completely different outlook on what that song was about and what it was saying. Made it even more poignant.

Try Orion

> they described these projects as a horror show. Yes, they allowed, some progress was made, and some of it was pretty cool, but he also left a long, fiery trail of chaos in his wake. Months later, some teams were still grinding through waves of cleanup work.

That has been my experience with supporting and maintaining many large systems, so this has long been the case even without AI.

I assume the use of AI allows the crappy, flawed systems to be developed faster and perhaps cheaper.

I have to think that there were other similar things contemporaneous with this device as the skill and knowledge displayed in its design and execution would not come ex nihilo.

Sadly they seem to be lost to us.

And yet we still have a huge problem with spam calls and “nothing can be done about it”.

Personal anecdote from my wife yesterday. She doesn’t get many spam calls but has noticed that when a particular friend calls her, she gets a spam call later that day. I surmised that the friend has some spyware on their phone which is reporting “active” numbers.

Why do you think musk was all about the small private tunnels for transportation but then he blabbed to the public and was forced to go quiet?

/s

As is that “off road adventure 4x4”, yet people still buy them.

We may or may not be experts on a particular topic but most of us are inexpert at estimating competence on that topic.

“Weaponizedspaces” seems appropriate.