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You know, I'm just the opposite. I read the Pern books but felt once was enough. Read her Crystal Singer books a few times as a teen and enjoyed McCaffrey until I turned 25 or so, then lost interest. Couldn't get into Niven, either. Oh, and Dune...please don't spear me, but I just can not get...

My partner bought me chocolate! 🤗

I won't lie, @SuperDave. I know you mean 7:30 pm, but now I got this image in my head of you dressed in a trench coat and fedora, something out of a Raymond Chandler novel, a detective in 1930 going for an MRI in the hard-bitten core of Philadelphia. "The joint was all chrome smiles and quiet...

<pfft> Ethics. Where's the profit in that?

An appropriate personality. Like, say, an Igor.

I can just see it in 5, 10 years. "I asked GeneGPT for the genetic blueprints for a pair of violet-coloured eyes. When I ran it I didn't expect to find them growing in my arm!"

"According to Mission Leader Red Green, all they needed was some spare sheeting, a couple cans of carbonated beverage for propulsion, and the handyman's secret weapon, duct tape. And lots of it."

Well, that's just shitty of the assholes. They can't just take it day bidet, can they?

Oh, good. So the onboard AI can now hallucinate that the driver is a threat, locking them out of the car they own and need to use? Or - this being Microsoft with their current testing strategies - will the AI determine it needs a security update right bleedin' now and decide to apply it at...

Coming from Google, "We will never retain your photos for training purposes." reads a lot like "We will retain every other possible piece of data related to your transaction with the image generation facility that is not explicitly denied to us by law and most data that can't be proven we've...

That's only on basic commodes.

Look, everyone knows that heads on board a ship use Commodore BASIC for the deployment pipeline.

Good lord and lady, whoisit, but why would you ever ask for the Big Mac?

All of them? At least, according to my kids.

Nope. And luckily, it's only getting down to -8C today instead of the forecasted-yesterday -12C, with tomorrow being only -5C, then +22C by Tuesday, apparently.

I think if Mr. Rogers was alive today, he'd be very disappointed in all of us.

Maybe not hugely rare, but I have an original TRS-80, a Vic-20 (with tape drive) in-box with the Programmer's Cartridge (3K extra RAM!) and Radar Rat Race, and a Colecovision Time Pilot cartridge. D&D Second edition Player's Guide and Dungeon Master's guide that a cousin of mine dropped off 25...

Oh, it benefits some Windows users...abusive, controlling spouses, abusive, controlling parents, employers wanting to track worker's activity to the minute...there's a whole audience just waiting for Recall to become a standard feature.

Before or after it opens fire following a failed Hack attempt?

Crabgrass should be barred; the little pincers hurt when they pinch your toes as you're walking across a lawn full of crabgrass.