“It is broken. He will make it go.”

I meant the Cyberfuck. Yeah I would have thought everyone knows that EVs in general would not be where they are now without Tesla.

I think maybe the most precise way to phrase the question is: take people who bought the Cyberfuck. If it had not existed, do you think they would have bought some other EV?

I hate these things of course but has anyone ever studied whether they got more EVs into the hands of people who would never have bought them otherwise? That might be the only positive thing about them.

“Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair.”

Again, a fascinating level of ignorance about how many people live with limited social access including just one possible sexual partner in an available proximity, and yet don’t commit violence.

Really, this is worth just 5 minutes of research. This is not like the stupid Samsung fridge you keep in your home. In commercial settings you may have hundreds of refrigeration units to track and manage in order to keep food safe. And it’s quite plainly very efficient to do this with remote management software, and yes this can be deployed locally with a local server to manage everything but it can also be done over the internet to cloud services and that can be much more feasible for someone who is trying to run a grocery and isn’t a network engineer or experienced server administrator.

I know someone will just say come on, it’s not that hard. To which I say fine, but the question here was why would anyone ever do this. There is actually an answer.

You show amazing ignorance about how many people have lived without sex for a whole year without committing assault or any other gross tabboo, even despite having way more opportunities to do so.

All I’m sayin is that as long as you are using it openly for comedic effect it could be a hoot in some ways. I don’t want to comment specifically on SNL which I’m sure people have varying opinions on.

Of course the downside potential is greater than any upside.

I’m cool with having YouTube videos show the right word in huge letters over the speaker when they happen to use a wrong word.

I mean it has some SNL potential but that’s about it.

But think how much easier it will be for the Ministry of Truth to retroactively update all the telescreen feed archives!

I hope it’s granted. That would at least bring one kind of limitation for this into the world.

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And BAM, just like that, the term “Butlerian Humanist” was born.

Don’t worry, they have all the data on that, and I’m pretty sure they thought of it.

Fact is that most visits from search engines don’t go very deep anyway. They are allowing a brief glimpse at one page before they start prompting you to log in, and that is likely driving logins while barely shortening those SEO visits, which are not of great value in the first place.

It may come as a surprise but websites often have traffic they don’t want. I recall once my boss noticed there was a non-negligible amount of traffic from parts of the world none of our advertisers care about. He built an endless revolving door of promo offers and directed this traffic into it. It didn’t generate much money but it made the rest of our traffic look higher quality right away.

Shhh everyone’s trying to have a two-for-one here where they hate on AI and the US as the same time. Don’t ruin it with facts!!

I just tried it from the US and it told me unequivocally that Joe Biden won.

However it didn’t automatically show the “AI mode” result when I searched. It sometimes does and other times doesn’t, depending on the search. But when I tapped “AI mode” I got a straight answer. Not even a mention of fraud allegations.

When I was in college I had a Shakespeare course that required me to get through about one play per week and I was falling behind on the reading. However I learned that the campus AV room had tapes of Royal Shakespeare Company productions which you could check out. There’s not always a Hollywood movie of every Shakespeare play and not all the movies stick to the text. But the RSC ones did 100% and they were well made. They weren’t captures from live performances with an audience, more like soap-opera level of production values.

But guess who was in all of them.

Patrick Stewart got me through college.

It’s not the difficulty of the thing. It’s the fact that it’s thing 1,000,001 for me to remember to do in my very busy life. We can’t all be like you, sitting around with nothing better to do than keep track of shit like this.