Well, a majority of their voters voted for Brexit, so this tracks.

How about giving me the ability to move the taskbar? Why does it have to be on the bottom? Why?!? Who's the dips**t who decided I should have less UI choice with Windows 11 than 10? Why can't I move the taskbar to the side of my landscape monitor in my chaotic neutral setup? Why do you hate me, M$, why?

No one. This is total marketing B.S. There is no way that Bezos & Co. can ever launch satellites at that rate. The FCC license gives Amazon the legal ability to put that many satellites in orbit, but it doesn't give it the capacity to do so. I hope that I'm wrong, but "news" stories rehashing corporate blog posts about the future should be treated with a healthy dose of skepticism.

This would have been a great story before the watches sold out. I would have worn the s**t out of one of these. Sigh.

I'm finally excited about a bumper sticker.

"All we are is dust in the wind, dude." -- Ted "Theodore" Logan

Reading this in an incognito window on Chrome (instead of Firefox) with all of my extensions turned off, and I still got a warning pop-up.

If you've never had the service, there are some pretty good series to binge. I would start with Slow Horses and/or Ted Lasso, but For All Mankind is really good, too.

"A Michigan college student writing about the elderly . . . ." If this student is writing about the elderly, why is he using an AI chatbot? What happened to actually doing the research yourself and then writing a paper? Obviously, this is a really weird output to get from a chatbot, but the elephant in the room is that you have college students using AI tools to avoid learning anything. I wonder how close we are to the world of Idiocracy.

July 2, 2025, is only 230 days away!

It's sad but predictable. Two words: cost plus.

Imagine how kids are going to roll their eyes when we try to tell them of the bad old days of trying to cancel your Optimum FKA Altice FKA Suddenlink and having the rep tell you that they while you have already been charged for the rest of the month and cannot get a partial refund on the 3 1/2 weeks which you are not going to use tell you that you agreed to this "when you signed the contract" on the cable subscription you set up without ever signing anything.

I wonder how many people would buy the newest, "best" phones if they couldn't buy them on installment plans? My guess is fewer than today.

Will AI do a better job of finding what I want that I can? I find navigating Amazon's website to be quite a slog, especially with sponsored products that usually are not a 100% match for my search. If you use an AI agent, can you assume that the sponsored links will not end up in any of the preferences? How will the advertisers react? I will only try this if it cannot actually make a purchase. Now, what would be awesome is to be able to tell a system to purchase a particular item that Amazon lists for sale on Cyber Monday or something that sells out in about 30 seconds. I missed one of those a couple of years ago because the deal went live during my morning commute. If I can tell it to purchase a particular model at a particular price around a particular time from a particular vendor, then maybe I would try it.

Wine sold in the U.S. doesn't have an ingredient label, and wine can be full of all kinds of harmful chemical additives that people wouldn't tolerate being added to food. The whole industry is built on lies.