Good to know if your phone is lost/stolen/damaged you are shit out of luck.

Depending on jurisdiction, establishments are sometimes being forced to accept cash, to not exclude the under banked.
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I still use cash from time to time, and I am not under banked. In fact, I used cash on Saturday to buy gas for my mower, and I always use cash to buy gas for my car. Never have to worry about my card being compromised. Or anyone knowing what I'm buying when I use cash.

situations where lupus is mistaken for rheumatoid arthritis,

It's never lupus.* Until it is.

* I wanted to post a video of House saying it's not lupus, but for some reason YT is now requiring me to sign to confirm I'm not a bot. Sorry for not posting the reference.

I always tell people when setting up their 2FA not to use Authenticator. First, it does not reliably work. Second, it's from Microsoft which means they can stop it working or make changes to it at will.

Instead, I tell people to select the Text or Phone option. Text is preferred as it will always go through unless they're in a cave.

So when Lindsey starts reading from her AmEx-approved script, callers are infuriated by what they perceive to be another machine.

If she's accurately executing the programmers' script, I'd say she is a machine. Somebody port Doom to her!

This is a fuckin' awesome idea, but there's an easy improvement over the red rectangle and block symbol. Seriously, dude, you gotta use the sign images from They Live (1988). You know you want to.

If people don't have a government-granted monopoly on their features, they'll have no incentive to have any features at all.

Military bases overseas are not considered U.S. soil for citizenship purposes. Been that way for quite a while...

Which apparently changed in 2020.

How are people being "exploited" if they're being paid and have a place to stay? Since Americans are too lazy to do these jobs, someone has to.

We never needed "AI" or LLMs to think we're nothing more than machines.

Essentially, yes. Visualizing where to go works better for me than being told to turn right in 300 feet. Since I've already looked over the route and figured out where I need to go, it stays with me.

Similar to what this article is saying that doing your research makes the subject stick better than having it spit out to you.

Tabs in Notepad is not something people wanted. Nor any AI. Nor anything else. Notepad is on the verge of becoming WordPad with all the doodads Microsoft keeps adding to it.

As a rule, I use Google maps to scout where I'm going. From there, it's all from memory, unless it's a long trip in which case I write down the squirrely parts.

Visualization seems to be the key.

Sounds like they are just tiny iron and copper beads, and calling them "robots" really stretches the definition of "robot" beyond recognition. If that's a robot, then a rock is an analog computer that computes the acceleration due to gravity whenever you drop it.

Very important to only use distilled water for this, using tap water contaminated with brain-eating amoeba routinely kills people. There was a case a few weeks ago that made the national news.