OP is just a cranky a C coder who needs to feel superior to entire swaths of colleagues. Which is ridiculous because we Assembly coders know that C isn't even a real programming language.

I can't speak for everyone else but when someone asks me how much water I use I don't include "offsite water usage".

Um no. A 33x reduction means it's now 3% of the original. This is how everybody uses it.

M-O-O-N that spells Tom Cullen. And Dingleberry.

If it helps, gasoline fires from ICE cars are more common.

Cut to him bragging about having the tallest building just hours after 9/11. (Which it wasn't)

I'm guessing that's not really true since I'm in Asia and I see rice imported from USA in the supermarkets here.

US energy prices have always been heavily subsidized, but by all means...

The use case for stablecoins? It's mostly for traders who anticipate a market downturn and want to move to cash without "cashing out".

Maybe because you think they're using Bitcoin? (They're being issued on Proof of Stake chains).

When I was a kid we had a phone (landline) bill and a cable bill. If you had told me then that someday I would have neither of those but I would have an AI bill, I wouldn't know what to make of it.

They were boycotted by country music fans for not supporting the Iraq war of all things. It's hard to even imagine anybody still having strong pro-Iraq war sentiment, but who even knows what those hillbillies think like.

Don't blame Walmart, they don't set the minimum wage. And they're just participating in the free market the same as everyone else.

I asked Gemini for you, but it's a little ironic that you need other people to figure these things out for you:

Tired of Google's AI Overviews cluttering your search results? While there's no official "off" switch, you can force Google to serve you plain web results by creating a custom search engine in Chrome. This effectively brings back the classic search experience.

Here’s the step-by-step:

1. Go to Chrome Settings > Search engine > Manage search engines and site search.

2. Under "Site search," click the "Add" button.

3. In the dialog box, enter the following:

• Name: Google (Web)
• Shortcut: :g
• URL with %s in place of query: {google:baseURL}search?q=%s&udm=14

4. After adding it, find your new "Google (Web)" entry in the list of site search shortcuts, click the three-dot menu next to it, and select "Make default".

Now, your searches from the address bar will default to the "Web" filter, bypassing the AI-generated answers. The key is the "udm=14" parameter in the URL, which tells Google to show only web results.

Hmm, you agree that the brain activity comes first, right? You're not "willing" your neurons into firing, in other words.