"So, how do these illegal therapy bots make you feel? Do they remind you of your mother?"

Dear Rude Neckbeard, YOU were not clear on whether you meant Mel not having enough energy, or outright dying. I interpreted it as the first (although perhaps should have stated that assumption in hindsight).

Because it's bundled with MS's Big Beautiful Bundle. Clueless managers only look at the superficial cost savings and don't factor in the wasted labor from dealing with bad bundled products compared to a real application from a more competent different vendor.

Penny Wise Pound Foolish.

I wanted to murder Teams hundreds of times over the past few years. It's slowly getting better, going from F-minus to D-minus, but it still sucks the big one to Hell and back. Employees just eventually get used to its many oddities and flaws and learn to work around them.

The only reason so many shops use this P.O.S. is that MS bundles it with all the other MSware, making it a "really terrific deal". It couldn't survive in the market as a single product, even if open-sourced.

But the bundle "deal" is penny-wise-pound-foolish, because the total labor wasted dealing with its f$ckage is much more than the bundle savings. PHB's don't weight the labor waste into the judgement because it's not taken directly out of their own budget.

SharePoint is in a similar boat.

That stuff's not even the most pressing problem with YouTube's content censorship. The larger issue is that content that directly crosses the CCP's party line, keeps getting flagged in all kinds of objectively counterfactual ways. Nobody with more than a couple hundred subscribers can talk about the history or culture of Tibet, for example, without running afoul of this.

Must ... Resist ... Trump ... Jokes

We should give amnesty to established illegal immigrants, otherwise we may end up with similar problems. Our fat national budget deficit couldn't handle a population decline, for one.

Brooks [is 98]. Does anyone really think that this will get done?

I'm sure he has an eager and creative staff; who wouldn't want a shot at such an opportunity? I'd probably do it for free! [1]

Mel merely has to provide guidance and let others do the details. And if by chance he beams up [2] to the Great Comedy Stage in the Sky, they'll carry on to finish it.

[1] I do have savings, but I imagine many in Hollywood are barely scraping by, it's not a well-paying industry for most.

[2] I hope he does a Wesley Crusher vs. Jar Jar fight scene. It can end with them having make-up sex, and then Jar Jar giving birth to an ugly hybrid human/gungan, who then dances to Gangnam Style.

shot first" scene whereby Han and Greedo realize their first shot didn't do the job so take a second, and then a third, and getting frustrated both start mass repeat firing.

Smoke eventually obscures our view, and after several seconds the firing stops. The dust clears, and we see an exhausted & wobbly Han and Greedo barely standing among the ruins of a completely demolished cantina.

Realizing their guns are too hot to both hold & function, they toss them aside, and catch a breath. Then Greedo points to Han and says, "You shot first!". Han replies, "No I didn't, you did!", They then start a shouting match as the camera backs away from the flattened cantina to reveal the desert with nothing but their echoing arguments.

products, it's not news. Anybody who relies on Google for a stable platform needs their head examined.

Move Fast And Break Customers...while being evil.

> It will convince the same morons that think AI is sentient

Many human morons are not sentient, they just echo their cult leader.

Eh. The people who actually like Google's horrible AI-generated garbage, were already using Google anyway. No change there.

Whereas, I have entirely *stopped* using Google's main site, and my usage of Wikipedia has increased, because I'm now using it (plus the browser's in-page search feature) for quick lookup of things that, six months ago, I could more quickly find on Google, but now I can't. Other things I find using ddg or startpage, and still others I now have to resort to older, pre-internet methods, like manually punching a bunch of individually-looked-up numbers into spreadsheets in order to calculate what I actually want to know, like it's 1992, because nobody who still indexes most of the internet, can figure out how to do decent relevancy ranking.

I do still use some of Google's other sites, e.g., Google Maps. Though who knows how long that will continue to be useful, given the direction the company is heading.

...something similar? I believe they had too many compatibility issues such that they abandoned it, or at least scaled down to niche use. Some suggest MS sabotaged it by spreading F.U.D.

Don't give conspiracists & crazies more ideas, they've been gaining too much power of late.

Considering how complicated it was to fold and unfold the sprawling structure, cost overruns are par for the course. Doing something new and unique is very hard to budget. Perhaps they should have pulled a Scotty and multiplied the estimate by four.

Either way, it seems to be worth it, because it's seeing things that no other scope currently can. And making revolutionary discoveries, such as early galaxies seem more mature and plentiful than expected. The birth textbook will have to be rewritten.

Some even suspect our universe is connected to another, and those allegedly early galaxies are simply leakage from the neighbor universe(s). I hope they don't have a Rottweiler.