But there are indications at Walmart that society is in decline, if you want to know what kind of neighborhood you are entering just visit the local Walmart and take notice of what is now behind locked doors. Locally it is baby food and spray paint, but 50 miles north it includes underwear!

Delivery was never a core competency for Walmart. If they can do that cheaper while using Amazon that's fine.

Their core competency is still the retail stores. Just watch whatever Target is doing and do the opposite and Walmart will be fine.

The first problem is that schools are now mostly administration centers. The second actual problem is that classes are only taught to the lowest common denominator; they only teach to the abilities of the dumbest students. The average student is now under taught and bored while anyone with actual potential is left to rot.

Hey no one left behind, but no one pushed ahead either.

But I actually read things often twice before submitting any payment. Is that not the case for everyone today? Are they buying things through AI or something?

The appliance should include a mounting point and usb power port. Then if you want you could buy a tablet - plug it in and hang it - done. Otherwise it is a waste for everyone because the appliance may still work but all the 'neato electronics' you didn't ask for are long out of date.

Most pages like that are actually curated or assisted by AI. It's hard to read because AI uses a random assembly of grammar. It's long because the AI keeps saying the same thing in a different way.

OP is using AI to ask about an Insurance policy? good luck with that, at least read the citation to make sure it's not just spewing everything wrong again.

Google knows exactly what it is doing, it doesn't make money sending search results to forums and information. It makes money sending you to buy things from their advertisers.

In their view all that matters is that you buy something following their search result.

It brings fingerprints to the screen. The only reason I might care is if somehow my wireless mouse dies and the touchpad is also broken.

I don't see how this is news, my 3 year old cheapie black Friday backup laptop has a touch screen. I've use the touch feature once.

You can't make an AI based on a random number generator. But here we are. The reason is simple, otherwise it would always give the same exact result for a given query.

Hence why your AI has a 'seed' value.

.. I still stole the car. Same thing here.

Is this like dithering of images? Sure you changed the underlying pixels but the general image is still there - and last I checked that doesn't fix copyright violations.

You will have only one button and you will like it.

A few birds singing in the trees is a nice backdrop. But a flock of birds becomes an annoying blast of noise. Then the woodpeckers (spam) show up, game over.

Naming it Twitter was fitting and foreshadowing the inevitable end-state of Social Media.

That's not a knot, it's another fucking adapter.

The replacements for those were significantly superior*. Notably the replacement was often a USB-A port... Which is still more physically robust than a USB-C port.

* Unless you had a Zip drive that once damaged, would destroy any disk you inserted from that point on.

For the same money, either design the things to be assembled on site from smaller road-worthy components.

Or just build a construction shop on-site that will be needed anyway when one of these huge blades inevitably needs to be repaired. Yes that's only practical for larger wind farms but the smaller farms won't have a runway either.