Worse than that. Some luxury brands don't want unsold items to hit secondary market, feeling it will devalue their brand. They consciously buy the unsold back from the retailer and destroy them, instead.

Here! Here! I'm glad my TV has a Filmmaker Mode. Which is pretty much "Don't F With Me" Mode. I do feel most TVs ship with defaults to make things look better for sports.

Now if they'd only stop quickly settling out of court, too

And now a new worry. If they can get us to talk for just a few seconds, they can feed the recording to AI. Now they can make any message they want, sounding just like us.

Why would China (or India) struggle with a shrinking population? That, in and of itself, should also be a reprieve! I could understand an aging population (like Japan).

Once worked with a vendor named NOMBAS. I thought it was an amalgam of the founders' initials. But when I asked, was told it means "NO MBAs! Because I'm never hiring an MBA, again, as long as I live!"

But the imagine the huge white "dandelion" puff when scoring a direct hit.

Even to this day, sounds to me like

Dir-ty Deeds
Thun-der Cheeks

The Zelle scams I've heard about is in the opposite direction. You sell something, like on say, Facebook Marketplace.

• Scammer sends you money
• Zelle gives you the money into your account
• Scammer picks up the agreed upon goods
• Scammer lies to Zelle, claiming they never received the goods
• Zelle takes the money back out of your account
• Zelle refunds the money to Scammer
• Scammer never returns you the goods

It is a business move. But you know what else is? Exorbitant fees for a college degree.

It's no wonder Yahoo became irrelevant

If we cool Earth, one unexpected volcanic eruption can compound the cooling and overshoot in the other direction. See: Snowpiercer

Google Maps needs something like this. Stop making the street names on the roads static like it's still a paper map. You're a dynamic screen, dammit. For every road you display, tell me the name of the road. Stop making me scroll 20 screen lengths just to find the name ... and then I have to scroll 20 more to get back to where I was!

If you kill 10 people, you're a mass murderer. Kill 10,000, and you're a conqueror.

Google Books, YouTube, and AI prove copyright infringement is OK, as long as done en masse.

Magnitude 4.5 quake from a concert: https://www.independent.co.uk/...

My favorite Weekly World News tabloid story was about Chinese villages orchestrating jumps to bring destruction to America. Thankfully, they keep getting thwarted by a group of dedicated fat guys in Jersey carrying out "well-timed counter-jumps"