It feels like this could be nothing much more than a new-fangled form letter. Boilerplate legal documents have been around for decades, where you only filled in the particulars like names, addresses, and amounts. A little better if it warns you that the amount you are asking for is too much or too little for the particular court.

Of course, adding "AI" to the description makes it nice and trendy, but there were firms that filled out generic forms and letters for fighting traffic and parking tickets for years as well, before "AI" got tacked on.

Good Memory:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0...

The biggest problem is that sound on most TVs sucks. Someone decided that tiny bezels all around was more important than decent speakers aiming towards the viewer. I guess that's great if you are in the soundbar business, but seems silly to have an 80" 8K screen with crappy speakers mashed against the wall it's mounted to.

Multichannel sound is great. There's a separate dialog channel in the center that could be adjusted independent of the others. Good mixing also can make sure that channel is not swamped by the others. Then all those channels get mixed down to 2 at the TV so even a good mix can be turned to crap at the TV, so even good original mixing doesn't help.

It reminds me of homeopathy. Wild claims are made for the effect of compounds impossible or near impossible to detect. It seems that every study regarding microplastics has dire warnings only to mention at the end "we don't know if there's any effect, we need to study more". This sounds to me that the ability to detect minuscule amounts of a substance has outdistanced the ability to determine what those amounts mean.

There may very well be dangers due to microplastics, but most of these studies sound to me like loud warnings intended to get additional funding. All the results might be completely accurate, but the sensational warnings always are followed by "We just don't know,".

It also reminds me of wild claims about other studies, where you have to dig deep to find that the conclusions were only made "on mice."

The cycler just seems to make lots of sense. I'm surprised it hasn't been attempted as a method to move probes and other unmanned craft to Mars and back. Or on a smaller scale, a lunar cycler. The propulsion needs for interplanetary travel are different than the needs for takeoff and landing. Separating them into two different craft just seems like a good idea to try.

Nice try. Some close relative will give their sample to a less private place, dump all their info on several other sites and any semblance of privacy you thought you had is gone.

The system doesn't do anything for your privacy if close relatives aren't as careful as you are.

I didn't give them mine, but relatives did. So that eroded my privacy. They also jumped on to Ancestry and others, so the only way to get a little distance from these companies is to be an only child orphan of only child orphans.

Bigfoot
Chupacabra
Nessie

Hair Club for Mice

That name would have been enough for me to look for another testing company.

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https://f6ffb3fa-34ce-43c1-939d-77e64deb3c0c.atarimworker.io/story/24/...

The ants also had dozens standing around and not participating in the moving of the "T" where the humans didn't. That obviously made it a union operation which is why they succeeded. Maybe layers of middle management got it done quicker.

Then again, if you take the time it took and multiple by *all* of the ants/people present, then it took fewer ant/person hours for the humans.

While for human eyes and not programming, for decades I have used DD / MMM / YYYY where MMM is alpha, so 31DEC2024. No matter where you are from it's unambiguous. It might be that the alpha for the month varies by language, but it can be decoded without asking me what comes first

And buses. Tasers might not be a bad idea. Once rendered unconscious some people get the hint.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

He got the hint: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

I pay for a PO box. They accept all package deliveries, so everything delivered there is signed for and secure. If something is especially bulky, and I can make sure delivery is on a day when I am home, then I have items ordered online delivered here.

Amazon has dabbled with having things delivered inside your garage door or the trunk of your car. What's really needed is a universal parcel locker for homes. There were a few companies that tried to get that going a while back, but not sure why they didn't make it. A locker that accepted packages to be deposited but not removed without a key might be a solution.

Whomever thought that having three new iPhones dropped off on release day on a porch with no one home was a good idea is an idiot.