I have account number 13,802 here, which I've never been able to persuade the admins to recover for me. Notice how there's no activity on it. That's because when I created it and saw that user number come up I thought "huh - no point in carrying on here then, how could anyone possible read or make sense of anything with nearly fourteen thousand people on it?".

Since then, the chorus on various sites has become rather larger than merely fourteen thousand. The background noise is incredible. I'm amazed any signal gets through at all vs the constant noise to be honest.

Spirits walk among us.

It should change slightly, I think. It should now include questions to filter out idiots who believe what this Anthropic loon just stated.

My vintage MacBook Pro is now running Linux, so the illuminated apple logo seems to be some kind of false advertising. After all these years it's still my sexiest box. Too bad I don't buy computers for sex? (I would have been willing to go for a dual boot, but Apple made that too difficult, so...)

Funny part is that I regard it as my most secure box and I only use it about once a month for a bit of Internet banking. Rather too bad my banks don't seem to understand much about computer security. Lots of top news stories about online breaches of major companies, including FinTech operations. Am I delusional or naive to hope my physical SIM is still protecting me?

Will I ever buy another Apple? Feels unlikely, but I confess that I am still hoping for Microsoft to go away, so maybe I'll have to?

I hadn't heard the YOB had offered to rename the moon, but one third is only by volume. For mass it's about one sixth and diameter would be around two thirds... (At least that's what the genAI told me, and I can't imagine why it would hallucinate again.)

But I think the seventh dwarf joke was funnier, even though I can't remember the song he must be referencing. I'm guessing it's a Disney thing?

Me? I suppose I prefer my politicians feckless and "mostly harmless" rather than dictatorial profiteering wolves in sheeps' (shills'?) clothing.

Okay joke, but these days we have to take any CDC news with a huge grain of salt. Or dose of penicillin?

Is this coming from an actual scientist or a political appointee who has been parachuted into the CDC?

The actual problem is quite complicated. We want a certain amount of exposure to pathogens to "exercise" our immune systems, but not so much exposure as to start breaking things permanently. It's a different flavor of the youth thing. Young people who recover may even wind up better than ever, mature people may recover fully, while old people are more likely to recover only partway, and quite slowly even for that.

Part of my general age definition joke of the week:

1. Young: Balance of change works out positive.
2. Mature: Changes come out around zero overall.
3. Old age: None of the above, sorry.
4. When the changes stop you're dead, so have a nice day changing.

The other reply had the XKCD about gravity wells, but it's one of ones that's really hard to look at because of size issues...

Well, when you put it that way, it does sound better than the local source, but mostly thanks for the XKCD link. Always appreciated and usually funny, too.

Looks like a truck/pickup body on a regular car platform. What they call a "Ute" Down Under.

Only comment along the lines of my earlier comment, but I forgot to mention that the Chinese government is also too good at keeping secrets. Seems quite possible to me that the Chinese AI we should be worrying about is not public. Especially not in the stock market sense.

Fusion? Where?

Whoops, I meant great-grandparent, but when this gets posted it will be great-great-grandparent. I mean the joke by Junta. That's where I'm suggesting the Funny should go.

That should have been obvious, but it went off my scale in relation to stock prices. A thousandfold drop? Impressive crash.

Mod grandparent very funny.

Why does it need to be quoted against censor mods? What was offensive about your attempted joke? Or who have you offended who has mod points to waste?

In solution terms, I have a stupid idea. How about if they only change things when enough people agree to donate actual money to make the change in question? That means any new feature should be considered rather carefully including the real costs of testing it. They could also collect donations to keep things the same, as in keeping crucial servers running for the next year. Actually, the key stuff should be funded several years in advance. Actually strikes me as a nice thing knowing something will keep working for a certain period of time...

Whole branch needs a bunch of Funny mods, but I think the peak funny was probably the suggestion about the gas giants. We want Helium, not Hydrogen.