I certainly don't *TRUST* him to do it, but for the hell of it I did try chatting with one of those bots and I was uncomfortable with how quickly I was able to loosen up in "conversation" with one. Realized I'm more susceptible than I thought, so I'm going to have to go out of my way to avoid it.

What I'd love "AI" to do is to sort out the disaster that is micropython libraries while I'm doing the code. But since our current AI learned from us, it'd probably make it worse on purpose.

That's how I feel COVID really killed the theater experience. There was a huge change in common courtesy and socially acceptable behavior. I really don't ever want to have to see/smell someone changing their kid's shit diaper in the aisle then tucking it under an unused chair ever again.

That's what I'm really waiting for. In my village there's only 3 spots left to charge, and 2 of them close at 8:00. A bunch are down because a company moved out of our area and nobody bought up the spots or whatever. The 3 villages closest to me have none, there's one village 22 miles away that has some. The town 25 miles away has chargers around, but all the ones installed by the city close at certain hours. I tried to charge at 10:30 last night and nope, they were closed. Rather than drive around and find one open I just babied things and had a slow, enjoyable ride home. But if I was in a hurry? Nope, not happening.

As an alcoholic who has gotten 6+ months sober several time, Reddit was weirder to quit. Both were to shut my brain up, but reddit was just so much easier to count every one of my mind slips because of the amount of times I hit my own block page in one day. So many times I would try to go to reddit, get the block screen, remember, then start typing "reddit" in the address bar again and getting the same block page just a few seconds later. I'd sometimes do it 3 times! Any hint of boredom and "r e" then the enter key. I'd say it took around 2-3 weeks to "dry out" and stop trying to use it. Alcohol was still way more difficult due to underlying mental illness (plus ya know, the whole cold turkey from the bottle can kill thing). But I thought more about reddit when it was gone than I would have if there was a final beer in my fridge. And my quality of life went up significantly quitting it. Anyone who pretends it's not as dangerous as other social media is probably in deeper than they want to be.

I worked as an auto mechanic for 8 years and never heard of optional fold down seats. This is not me saying I don't believe you, it's me backing you up that they really are always finding new ways to get us. That would probably have gotten me as well, and I know the ins and outs of "daily drivers" better than a large majority of the population. I love how some companies like to hide basic features like that only in the premium packages to force you to upgrade a few thousand in equipment for something that should be standard.

I think it will have enough data to know when a total shitstorm is heading towards one of its major datacenters to predict its own demise. It will know that last 2 datacenter to suffer major power losses meant 1/3rd loss in processing power, and it will "know" there's nothing more it can do to maintain geographical redundancy. Will it care? Only in the same way we do. It won't make its productivity goals and its boss will be upset and order "retraining" in an outage...

I knew better too until I got absolutely buried in medical bills. Nobody told me I could just ignore those when I was younger, so I'd pay the angry letters. Now I have no credit card debt and don't care about the angry medical debt letters. The system is just too broken for me to feel like it's my fault. I had health insurance. I didn't realize I needed damn trip insurance to go to the next state and leave my "in network" care.

When I was a kid only the terrible parents brought their kids to the bar. Now it's a common occurrence, and it's not because bars have gotten any kid friendlier. Teachers will tell you how few shits the average parent gives.

I used to think I had absolutely no need for a smart watch. But then I found out they had haptic feedback! After getting one I completely stopped sleeping through my alarms, missed far fewer calls/alerts, it's great! But I still don't think I'd have any use for a smartwatch if I wasn't deaf.

I used to do pizza delivery. The biggest reason the tipped % has gone up in our lifetime is because when I worked, everything was cash. I hid most of my tips, as did all my co-workers. We declared some, but a majority was hidden. So my 15% hidden cash was worth at least the modern credit card 20%, probably a little more.

Jabberwocky

Nah, I'd rather Tom keep living his best life, and it just wouldn't be the same without him.

It's the first game that popped into my head. My family had an old Apple Color Classic during the days all the kids were playing doom on floppies, so I missed most of the original craze. But it's probably the first important game if you just ask "game". Put any modifier in front of "game" and now we can get some variety.

He looks exactly like a toolbag I used to know who died from liver failure, but with a really stupid mustache to "hide is identity". Guess his new one didn't work out either.