To look rich to your shallow friends.

I thought that was Orangelini?

I trust bots somewhat more at that task.

What's your favorite Bible search engine?

Remember - the Federation reserved the Death Penalty for making AI Androids.

Noonian Soong had to exile himself to a remote planet outside Federation control to work on Data and Lore (and his sexbot...).

They needed people to be able to have jobs *that* badly.

Which ... stop sending redshirts outside the ship with magnetic boots in a radiation storm, OK? They could have at least had some astromech droids. Sheesh!

I recently got a "plastic" target that changes color and the holes mostly self-heal if you don't use a hollow-point.

Good for plinking but they do wear out eventually.

I didn't even know this material existed before a buddy told me they were on Amazon. Amazing times, for sure.

Heck, I picked up some 100-lb test fishing line the other day that is some sort of braided heavy-chain polyethylene that is 11 times stronger than steel wire at the same size. The company made mechanical spinnerets to mimic spiders' to get it to work.

Again, I had no idea until a buddy told me it was $20 on Amazon.

Wild.

Back in the day we'd install wild boards that would upgrade the Mac CPU's by a generation or two, add FPU's, etc.

All of this depended on the systems being too expensive to replace or buy new except once in a blue moon.

At $600 which is probably $200 in 1986 money, it's a bit harder to be mad.

Those systems were probably $10K in 2025 dollars. Heck, a few were $10K in 1986 dollars.

Dude, gitta real girlfriend.

The Chinese gov't artificially keeps wages low and local consumer choice down for multiple reasons. If citizens had real power they'd remove such barriers so they could buy lots of stuff like Americans do.

Who is using AI for religion? A glorified E-Meter?

Prior complaints were about company executive decisions, this is about Presidential bullying.

When they foul up and roll on the ground, the vehicle then qualifies as a wheel, and thus passes car certification. Chinese are clever.

"Shit, they crash better! Tesla & Space-X must make up the crash gap or forever fall behind!"

They should be computer controlled, as I don't trust human drivers up above my house.

but too much booze just makes them monkey around all day.