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That's been my experience with AI "support" chatbots as well, in every single case it's been an optimistic attempt to get the bot to fix the problem I'm calling with followed almos…

Argh, beat me to it, you bastard :-). Eiichi Goto used to joke that he was always being eliminated after Dijkstra's letter came out.

Been to Poland a few times and it's pretty decent, everything as you say and unlike their immediate western neighbour their trains work too. It's a pretty nice place. Now if only t…

When you spend many millions buying a government, you want to maximize your return on that investment, not just play by the rules like everyone else.

Problem is all the (relatively) efficient and (relatively) quiet turbines have long since been snapped up, so the AI sloppers have to go with inefficient, noisy ones for the forese…

In Afghanistan, and presumably Iran as well, the US military defined all "military-aged males" (12-65 years) as "combatants". This makes children and old men killable. You could dr…

Just to check, this video isn't NSFW is it?

> power lines carry up to 30% of all communication lines with Finland. And suddenly 30% of all cyberattacks mysteriously went away.

"I never dreamed leopards would eat... I mean, he'd actually build a wall, sobs person who voted for candidate who said he'd build a wall". And I do realise that not everyone there…

> I think that this person does not know what the Jevons Paradox is. Actually, Jevons Paradox is a pop-punk band from Birmingham that formed in 1997 but mostly disbanded in 2003 be…

"Join the army they said. It's a man's life they said" - Numerous Roman legionaries throughout all the Asterix stories. Along with "my caligae are killing me". So it's been around …

They also look very similar to spotted owls, and are almost indistinguishable from the distance you'd be shooting them from. What could possibly go wrong with giving a bunch of yah…

In the Volksgerichtshof the people judging you get to make the rules. While Rand Paul is no Roland Freisler, he's certainly trying his best to fill the role. I wonder whether they'…

Shouldn't be too hard, just detonate all the explosives they're loaded with and then go around picking up all the pieces.

> Leaving aside one's opinion of Elon Musk: was the CT any good as a truck? I have never, /ever/ seen a truck-y business (plumber, contractor, etc) in a Cybertruck. If a plumber tu…

It's like nuclear weapons. Ask any nuclear physicist and they'll tell you in great detail (I mean really great detail, lots and lots and lots of detail, using common everyday phras…

You right to bitch and moan about (a) your commanding officer and (b) the army/navy/air force as appropriate (but not the marines, they don't complain) has been enshrined in the UC…

It's only a joke if farts are involved.

For non-Australians, this is the airline popularly known as Shitstar. My employer occasionally flies people on Shitstar to remind them how much worse it could be than the standard …

Or pronounce the name of the hospital he was on.

It's like the web, I'd never realised that it had turned into Idiocracy until I had to use a browser on someone else's computer without a Pihole, NoScript, and UBlock Origin. Same …

Yup, it's a dementia patient floundering around, supported by a coterie of nutters and incompetents. You know it's bad when the Iranian leadership is the least crazy party in all t…

And then it starts wandering into 6G and a bunch of other stuff. It's not even generic clickbait, it's just off-the-shelf yellow-peril clickbait.

a cornet of compactly aerated vegetable-fat emulsion threaded with sauce You've got to hand it to the British, no-one can do food the way they do. Gelato? Meh. Glacé? Meh. Sorbet? …

Was there ever a Mr.Chainy?