It says not to sit. Cat isn’t sitting. All good.

You don’t have to use fossil fuels. Just pointing out.

Lots of bests, but here’s some I didn’t see.

The Expanse.

Babylon 5, especially season 3(?) change with “It failed.”

Old school original Battlestar Galactica.

Knightrider and Airwolf.

Worst? If you can’t remember them, they must be bad.

The series went to shit, but the intros got me hooked from the very beginning (like, holy hell, what is this?) and I never skipped a single one, even at the end when I was pretty much done with it all.

Also, remember the single episode that just started with the Hound? That was a trip, when you expect the music and map.

“You’re dead to me” is what a bad parent would say. To do it over political ideology is even worse.

We may be long past “things you don’t say and do if you don’t want war”. The only saving grace so far is that the rest of the world doesn’t want a conflict, so they’re playing it out and hoping something internally happens to avoid a mess.

They’re going to try and plant a flag.

Girls can like digging holes too. Sounds to me like someone is looking for something to hate, and really reaching here, unless there’s something more subtle to this game (I doubt it).

Does Tolkien have any writings about what happened when the dwarves dug too deep, or is that just a side note mentioned to explain why things are found that way? Gandalf had heard some rumors, but wasn’t sure if they were true. That would have been an interesting documentary of first hand “oh shit! RUN!”

Still is. Maybe even more, even though the pandemic was a perfect example to show its relevance to reality.

Dodged a bullet. You don’t want anyone with that kind of personality. Sure, other girls might think that internally, but for her to say it out loud to her friends, while you’re within earshot…she ain’t worth shit.

I stopped at speech recognition. That’s the only important part of this that needs to involve any complex AI. The rest is basic programming and doesn’t need a neural net at all. Think of a modern phone tree. There’s some things that will get recognized as menu items, and anything beyond gets dumped to the human still monitoring the activity.

Good luck with the first part though. Having worked drive thru in my days (long ago, but nothing much has changed) the noise level on the input is all over the place. The human ear is very good at picking out things, so usually you can piece together what the order was, but even today’s phone trees that I mentioned or even a smartphone that’s tied to Google/Siri in real time can screw basic words up, and that’s from an algorithm that learns the user’s voice, not a different person with a different accent/ volume, car sound, etc. each time.

Also let me add - even though the human ear is far superior at picking out nuances in a high noise environment, many people working the drive thru still suck at understanding even clear speech. To get AI/LLM/whatever past even the basic incompetent human order taker will be a monumental accomplishment that could filter into so many other things. Read that as sarcastic - it hasn’t happened yet, it won’t happen via a drive thru cost replacement to increase bottom line profits.

My question would be why the images are so large? Overexposure I would assume, or maybe enhancement to show what are actually just dots, but the article doesn’t mention what distances the planets might be from the star. Even if it’s a close system, we’re probably looking at a number of AUs in width in this picture, at least. Any closer and gas giant gravities would affect each other’s orbit stability.

ACA was a compromise to get something changed. It was never supposed to be the final result. Republicans turned it into a boogeyman that had to be undone instead of doing the right thing for their constituents and proposing a better solution. It was always funny to see red states quote the soundbite that they hated Obamacare, then say they didn’t need it as long as they had their ACA.

Agreed, but some people drive that way. It’s their road, get out of the way. I had a 1996 Dodge dually long ago for pulling a trailer, and its visibility wasn’t very bad, except for around the damn side columns. I got into the habit of leaning forward and back as I would turn so that I had some idea of what was being blocked. At one point we had considered upgrading to the big trucks like the F-450/F550, and I got into one to see what it was like. I could see EVERYTHING. I was like, holy shit, this is luxury.

“Like and respect” means that he sees ways that he himself can benefit. And perhaps that he actually agrees with the insane ideas, but self-benefit is always there regardless.

They’re called “Stablecoins”, what could go wrong?

I think it’s even worse. They didn’t tell us what was and wasn’t recyclable. They used symbols very similar to the recycling logo to stamp on various types of plastics to classify them. Most of the types used are one time use, they never were meant to imply recycling, that’s just the symbol appearance.

There’s diagrams that show the visual impairments such trucks have. They are worse than semi trucks and even an Abrams tank.

Recycling started off as the third R and last resort, the first two were Reduce and Reuse. Those were not compatible with an economy based on consumerism and growth, so Recycling became the focus, creating an industry to pick through the few things that could be recycled and trashing the rest, and encouraging the public to buy more because it’s not a problem as long as you participate.

And if you don’t participate, all the problems are your fault. Not the companies making the stuff, they’re just doing what you want.