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Well, hopefully you at least reach for her from time to time.

krustyburgeron I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

Not just imprinted with the engrams of any one person (however brilliant they might be) — it’s more than that! Like all great writing, it’s more like it’s been imbued with patterns, patterns that are peppered with a potpourri of popular ways of writing in an enthusiastic style while regularly restating things and recapitulating them. Would you like me to explain more?

krustyburgeron Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio

The original comment had the typo.

krustyburgeron Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk

Bodybuilding, eh? That makes you vastly more likely to believe in bro-science.

krustyburgeron How many of the 170k English words do you know?

Kafkaesque doesn’t originate directly from fiction like your other examples any more than a word like Dickensian does.

krustyburgeron I want to live like Costco people

It sounds like you’ve just been around toxic and superficial people in your international travels and then extrapolated from them to their whole countries.

Unfortunately, they have people like that everywhere.

krustyburgeron Tariffs Raised Consumers' Prices, but the Refunds Go Only to Businesses

Many businesses added specific surcharges to final sales to offset the tariffs they paid. While they have no legal obligation to refund those surcharges they imposed, it would be straightforward to do so and it would be the right thing to do.

krustyburgeron How does Shazam work?

So the value-add would be the consumer would get to find out the name of the show or movie that’s playing, the same info that also pops up if they hit the pause button?

krustyburgeron Brands got worse on purpose

Italicizing every hyperlink makes this strange for the reader as italics are typically used to indicate emphasis.

krustyburgeron A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC

Nor is it nonsense to acknowledge how cool it is to recognize your own building or that he was able to accomplish the project without expensive materials. Spew is also quite the verb to use. What an all-around unpleasant comment.

krustyburgeron Honda is killing its EVs

Surely you don’t think birds have evolved to sing more complex songs in the time since mass EV adoption?

krustyburgeron Amazon cuts 16k jobs

But what if you want Amazon Basics brand batteries or counterfeit health products?

krustyburgeron Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"

Those references are to the recurring gag with Lucy and the football.

There’s a lot more to the character than that so I hope 99% is an exaggeration and people are still reading Peanuts and watching the various animated versions. I’m pretty sure they are.

krustyburgeron Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit

“No, I didn't know about the exhibit before that day. And then I saw the Al piece and it was just—as an artist myself, it was insulting to see something of such little effort alongside all these beautiful pieces in the gallery. It shouldn't be acceptable for this "art," if you will, to be put alongside these real great pieces.”

What an impulsive fellow.

krustyburgeron The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello'

It’s for when you’re greeting a cute animal.

krustyburgeron 50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player

There’s no need for name-calling.

krustyburgeron Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide

Camp Legume may be a reference to this scene from the film Blazing Saddles:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VPIP9KXdmO0

krustyburgeron Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

I don’t think Alamo Drafthouse sold to private equity, but rather to Sony.

krustyburgeron OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race

What will it do to Jony Ive’s legacy if his OpenAI device is no more successful than Snapchat’s foray into hardware?

If OpenAI becomes an also-ran by the time the hardware is released, this seems like a real possibility no matter how well-designed it is.

krustyburgeron GPS 'kill' switch allows state police cruisers to go dark and disable tracking

I remember gift cards originally being novel in the early 2000’s because they could be swiped like a credit card for purchases, unlike gift certificates, which they replaced.

If you had a girlfriend in the late 80s, I don’t see how police could have been bribed with gift cards as long as you can remember.

I should also add that I myself have never heard of it being common to bribe SF cops with gift cards, in any decade.

krustyburgeron White House rules out bailout for AI as bubble fears grow

The joke is that the dumb biker character believes he has to kill people to get things for himself. The joke is at that character's expense.

Or do you mean you understood the meme you found in /r/simpsonsshitposting and then claimed was from thirty years ago and showed that The Simpsons writers had pointed out the necessity of killing CEOs?

Before you try to use The Simpsons references to add credibility to your edge-lord political arguments you should try watching the show. Maybe after your next walk?

krustyburgeron White House rules out bailout for AI as bubble fears grow

Except that you completely misunderstood the joke. It’s at the expense of the character that thought killing was the way to achieve progress.

And you cited a post-Luigi meme using The Simpsons as evidence of something having been mainstream during the time of The Simpsons. With a fancy citation and everything!

krustyburgeron White House rules out bailout for AI as bubble fears grow

https://frinkiac.com/caption/S11E08/1028360

The actual Simpsons joke had nothing to with either health care or CEOs. That subreddit is for making memes around classic Simpsons references, not a repository for them.

If you can’t even get the Simpsons right, I’m more than skeptical of the various statistics you cited but didn’t bother providing sources for.

krustyburgeron Amazon Demands Perplexity Stop AI Agent from Making Purchases

Most of them, sure. But Agent Smith is cut from a different cloth.

krustyburgeron This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm

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

1988

krustyburgeron Bertie the Brain

https://youtube.com/watch?v=UOAdGjj-hIg

krustyburgeron Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado

Giving him credit for something executed under an administration two presidencies later seems like a bit of a stretch in any case.

But especially in this specific case, where he actually presided over a dramatic US escalation in Afghanistan:

https://www.afghanistanwarcommission.senate.gov/press-releas...

krustyburgeron Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado

The US did not pull out of Afghanistan under Obama.

krustyburgeron Meta Ray-Ban Display

Even if it’s small/cheap, if the item is scanned multiple times this will prevent any electrical infetterence.