"they had to - otherwise, nothing would be done"

I saw the words "Toilet" and "End-To-End Encrypted" and knew that the jokes would write themselves.

"... that it stop recommending your watched videos."

I get surprised by the number of recently watched vids it displays (once or twice a session or so). But whatever, it doesn't affect my flow.

And actually I like when an old favorite occasionally scrolls across. I expect in thirty years all the old 'tubers will be watching favorite AI curated videos of their youth, and enjoying it "because it's not like the crap the new generation is putting out".

Good 1!

I remember a lot of questions floating around back then as to why the Sochi Winter Olympics were $50 billion or so. People shrugged and said "must be corruption, not a surprise." Questions about why winter sports in a southerly port town.

Two years later they invade Sochi and Crimea, and people started putting two and two together. Putin had hidden his international corruption behind normal everyday Russian corruption.

"And then there's that committee that meets in the printer room when me and the other member happen to be printing at the same time."

What's the per diem for something like that? Asking for a friend.

Simply ask the chatbot which results to ignore.

Can't take one either. Ten minutes ago, after Siri bungled a request, I just chuckled and said "Siri you're funny". It responded with "If you think it could be serious, ask me to call Emergency Services or someone you trust."

Pretty much.

My son says Apple does this every year around Christmastime, to get people to think they need to buy new, faster, "better" phones.

In this case perhaps I can answer, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

What if it's a girl, my Lord, in a flat-bed Ford?

So I had a misspelling, oops, I am writing this on an old tablet a Samsung galaxy tab s2 lol. Anyhow it was several years ago and I worked out of the 40 Media Drive, Queensbury, NY office and also at one of the datacenters originally doing network monitoring aka netmon way back when while we had lot of different software one of the open source solutions we used in the netmon dept was Nagios which used to be Netsaint. And yes nobody should really trust those ratings numbers anyhow. I've got old emails and group chats where not just me but many times numbers got fudged.

Sounds about right. It would take a couple of years to setup and execute a plan to finance the "corruption" of the '12 Olympics, which in turn prepared for their Crimean invasion in '14.

I liked this part: "...work proceeded in 1964 when a general envisioned a scheme to incapacitate an entire trawler with aerosolized BZ; this effort was dubbed Project DORK.[17]"

Traditionalists prefer "War Profiteers".

...and sell them a tool to remove jammed quarters.