The Airtags are marketed to the masses who want others to think and do stuff for them. This, of course leads to unintended consequences for the user such as an Airtag alerting the bike thief to it's presence because of the outcome of a boardroom meeting thousands of miles away.

I went to Clowns.com and all I got was "Trump 2024" and a link to donate to the Republican party.

So after I am done chatting with the electronic qwack, what advice would it give me that I couldn't find by searching the web regarding my symptoms? Sometimes a GOOD therapist is simply another human being who feels some empathy for what I am going through, even if it isn't all "nuts and bolts" of the DSM or that person is a qualified therapist. Talking to a machine just doesn't cut it. You can't mechanize handling severe depression and crisis.

I see ChatGPT as being good at creating a very basic framework for code, and maybe some simple working examples. But the programmer still has to fill in all of the details. It can help, but I don't see it replacing a skilled programmer anytime soon.

"Hollywood have been riding it for what feels like a decade now - and it's starting to really show. Bloated budgets, repetitive formula, overburdened with CGI." Make that two. It seems like the current level of pumping out superhero flicks started in the early 2000s.

Except they won't be around in 10 years let alone 100. Is your great, great grandson going to find your digital collectables as opposed to someone today finding a box of bsseball cards from the 1920s? I think not. And even if somehow he did, could he sell them at the kind of value those baseball cards have? No.

If there is one thing I like about AI is that it does not get emotional or upset or vindictive, unless it's explicitly designed to allow that. Nor will it suffer a mental breakdown and come into the office to shoot up my work chums, or me. If they can get the "hallucinations" problem solved, then we don't have to worry about it experiencing mental disabilities either.

Also, it depends on who the landlord/owner of the building itself is, and whether McDonalds corporate's name is on the lease, especially with Mc-D restaurants operating out of office buildings and malls. It's not a fully cut and dry situation. And if the franchise owner's name is on the lease either with or without corporate's name being on that same lease, corporate can't just come in and change the locks.

Even if that's the case, people are squatting inside peoole's homes and those homeowners who had their homes 'stolen' are facing court battles to remove those squatters. Somehow I doubt it's as simple as McDonalds corporate being able to come into the restraunt and change the locks.

That's why I roll my eyes whenever the holiday "season" aporoaches and mutter "not this shit again" under my breath and get into the "let's just get it over with" mindset.

And the poster is acting like McDonalds can come right in and begin changing locks and physically confiscating property over a destroyed Taylor machine. Aside from McDonalds not having any law enforcement powers, a franchise owner would most likely stall this mess by taking McDonakds corporate to court. The only thing corporate can do is maybe void the agreement and tell the franchise owner to stop using the McDonalds name and stop selling their branded products under threat of lawsuit.

OK we have that part. But what about the other part of getting the earning out to the public. Such as (in Amrrica) using the EAS and text message alerts.

Right now it's just a lab experiment, but it seems like the 6G hype machine is already being primed and readied. And when they have it going full steam, we will be bombarded with ads hyping 6G to hell and back, and carriers all over the world will be typing up their notices in advance of how "5G will be switching off at XX/XX/20XX" and hawking the latest, 'greatest' 6G phones so you will still have data or even voice.. And nevermind the never mentioned shortcomings and sudden dead zones that will come to light from this. It's like the phone market had envy for the endless PC upgrade treadmill of the 1990s and 2000s and want to emulate that. And don't forget the 6G snakeoil salesmen that will market '4.5G' or some other weird nonstandard chimera bastard of a service as "6G". And of course at the bottom of the list will be the little riders slapping "6G" on electric toothbrushes and such to get a few extra ducats from the rubes. Let another shit cycle begin.

It's possible that the plane caught enough of the radiation to sustain damage that didn't show itself until it was flying. 2 ECUs and a pump failing seems to be a very unlikely event. I wonder how much more damage from this event will be discovered in the coming weeks.

I'm wondering what kind of warning system we have in place when a highly distruptive, damaging flare is about to hit us with a massive electromagnetic wave. Remember the famous Carrington event that was strong enough to cause telegraph stations to blow up back in the 19th century? I'm thinking we don't have any warning system in place. It was bad enough when the big one struck just as electricity started to come into widespread use, but would be absolutely catastrophic today.. I'm a little nervous right now.