Makes me think of the Thymus. Perhaps they feature that encoding built in, hence this becomes to them, a simple feat.

That person suffered so much, would be nice if the R&D community of the medical field paid that back to patients somehow. ahahaha, like they'd do that! One way street, information gained from them making money off you, classic medical world.

Almost feels like this is a play to 1) see if the market will tolerate this 2) deter people from signing up for theirs or Twitter by making people say, "I thought about signing up for Twitter, but if they are all gonna charge now, f that!" I hate META but I can't say I hate either tactic.

I think a near future sci-fi movie about exploring jupiters moons from an orbital station around Jupiter would be so cool. Maybe someone like Astrum could do it as a what if short or something.

Hmmm. This seems like one of those BS TIL that isn't really totally true. If it's just a retraction, how come your skin sloughs off?

It's funny that you joke about this, but I legit was thinking about this recently. Most of us have heard the stories of parole boards approvals come at the start and right after lunch, and become very unlikely as the parole board members get hungry. It makes me wonder how many high tension situations could be diffused by the person just eating something. Like, I wonder how many crimes are committed when the person is hungry, vs not? Super random thoughts for the day.

People who wouldn’t try and save others aren't worth saving. I’d throw over any objectors to make room for survivors,

I spend more time thinking about how so much of the universe isn't observable up close. I also spend a lot of time thinking about the big bang and how it applies to early life. If zero life existed, what are we measuring time with, and is the time where nothing was alive even relevant?

One of my absolute favorite things about cats is how they learn from other cats, and adapt to their environments. We have one who just about never made a sound for his first 5 or 6 years, then two little ginger littermates that look just like him came along and they all talk a ton now, to us, to each other, trying to get the 3rd one to come join, etc.

Yep, confused in Houston as well when he blew up, as he was a staple of our TV ads. I want to say he might have even done a super glue ad? I might just be wrong though, the hard hat on the girder guy?

I now this word from when Robert California says it, I believe the line is a "One last Saturnalia?"

EDIT: oops, it was a "one man Saturnalia" where he got into some "Cuban whites"

Think about it though, I think they are right. We don’t love Amazon, so we wish this was false, but look at it objectively. Have you noticed a downturn in Amazon deliveries in your area? Amazon is the new Walmart, full of things people need at low prices, so people will maybe even go there more in a downturn.

I don't believe in jinxing things, but if you were to, this is how you'd do it.

If they weren't so dumb we wouldn't be so mean. I stand by that we all know the tech should be further along than it is, and that's why we're mean.

Oh man, I love this topic. One huge gripe I have about these discussions is they often ignore the fact that the systems create this, not us. Example. If I ask, "Hey Google, what's the temperature?" and she responds, why would I say "thank you?" She doesn't hear it, nor respond, it is literally wasted breath. Chatbots and AI don't respond human like, so we treat them not human. They also don't have any kind of built in error correction like humans do. Dead silence isn't something a human usually responds with, or if it's unsure, a human won't just respond with what it misheard most of the time. If AI/chatbots were better, we wouldn't treat them so poorly. I remembered reading a Wired article in the late 90s about a phone service you could call and ask things of, before Siri, Google, etc. The tech was there, the implementation and development has been garbage. I think every day how those teams should be ashamed of themselves. A big part of new tech is faking it until you make it. There is a lot of stuff that they could just straight code in, to deal with common questions and replies, and they have endless data about requests people make that don't get filled to know what is popular, yet here we are. I just think these companies don't see a big incentive to it, so it's back burnered. We could have top notch AI that communicates well, today, if the market wanted it.

No pictures after the storm, just the word from the company that makes them that it was undamaged. It's mid installation, they have no reason to admit any damage. This is just a marketing piece for this company.

You awake to a cloud of dust clearing, you look down and see an ad on your airbag, for car repair.

Are there middle men and support industries? Oh, no? it's efficient? yeah, that's the problem.

Sorry, just updated, grass. But would a pallet jack + some plywood sheets be enough? or would I need to find some sheet metal?

Old men are the masters of the status quo, it should be no surprise. I'm 44, and my mind is as fluid as ever. I hope I can stay like this into old age. My guess is this guy isn't challenged in his ideas enough, and so he's settled into a stage where he repeats what he believes and everyone in the room nods so he keeps saying it.

When I was in the Air Force, stationed at the Pentagon, there was a TSGT that drove from Phily to the Pentagon each day and back. He did that all in a turbo diesel Ram.

Now you have me wondering how high water would need to be for the water layer to meet the vapor layer where the air is too thin?