Stayed at a rental in Omaha... Beautiful neighborhood and a very nice house. From a glance. Great location. But the lawn wasn't great. Leaves needed raked, basically they did the bare minimum mowing. The trash was heaped up and overflowing. Did anyone show up and put the trash cans on the curb? The deck was getting a bit old, the grill seemed like a toss aside charcoal grill that wasn't super safe. (You couldn't kill the airflow when you were done to quickly drop the temps. I grill/smoke on charcoal a lot and would've thrown it away.) The inside was not great. Furniture was an odd ball mix of things from who knows where. Basement was very dank/musty/stinky. Other clues like that too. Basically this house should've just been sold off to a family that could love it and take care of it and make it a home. Very sad. Basically had all these clues that the owner/manager was doing the very minimum they could get away with. But hey, let's worry about what the renter should/shouldn't do...

I see it a lot in financial news.
It usually looks like an attempt to imply a causal link between events without actually committing to saying it explicitly because it's impossible to prove.

I want to share my little perspective. I worked at a McDonalds about 26 years ago. For several years while in high school and a bit in college. It was near the Interstate, in Mitchell South Dakota. This means we were quite busy, quite a bit of the time. If a bus came through, and they certainly did, one of if not the most likely place it would stop is there. We were paid near eight dollars an hour which inflation adjusted is probably the same now. As a high schooler, we worked pretty hard. There were two or three kids faster than me but I certainly held my own. And I took personal pride in assembling a nice, neat burger, and not smashing it all to hell wrapping it up. When I go to most fast food restaurants now, its shocking how slower they are. In the years I worked there I saw the "quality" and freshness of food slip every year. The eggs not cracked and mixed, more things pre cooked, etc. We certainly didn't play pricing games then either so if you were busy, you just buckled down and got the food out as quick as you could. The best part is it taught me to do dishes and not grumble. Cooking got easier, and now I'm happy to rarely eat out. I go to a bbq joint, or whatever and almost always think to myself that this could've been better if we made it at home. Anyways, learn to cook. Make your own baked beans, bread, lamb burgers, whatever. It is worth the time and effort to learn. And get a smoker and a charcoal grill if you can. I'm still glad I had that experience; they were mostly all good people. But it certainly should've paid better.

By telling the catering company what to put on the menu.

Since Twitch is mainly about streaming gameplay, is this just a pretext to train generative AI on content from games that the streamers can't give permission to train on in the first place?
Or are they filtering that out and are just getting really good at generating images of people sitting in chairs?

Dude!! Think about what happened in February - that has to be the most inconsequential and incomplete state of the union speech I can possibly imagine. Within days he attacks Iran and just destroys everything of substance a real state of the union would've covered. All the low fuel prices, great economy, poof. Gone. I'm not very old, but I can't remember a bigger waste of time SotU speech than this one in 2026.
Anyways back on topic I agree w/ sibling AC, nothing Trump/MAGA idiots can say has merit as long as right wing AM talk radio is the most biased ridiculous thing to possibly exist soaking up the "public" air waves. And further, the main stream media IS NOT something of or from the left at all. It's maybe centrist and maybe right wing/corporate. But it's not left.
I realized I wasn't a Republican when I'd listen to right wing talk radio and just get fuming mad at the utter stupidity I'd hear during the Bush and early Obama years. I moved on and listened to NPR. They're dumb too and say stupid things, but I would get less angry at the radio. And there were less advertisements. I'm still not a Democrat yet, but man, Trump is sure pushing me closer. Where's the fiscal conservatives at? Where's the I-hate-Hunter-Biden anti corruption Republicans at? It's dire.

When, or perhaps if, AI "falters" do you think Republicans will have an ounce of self reflection after all the screaming they've just "performed" about Socialism and Communism? Trump has already taken public ownership of companies and would surely use it as an excuse to take more when he bails them out. I'm sure he'll frame it as the only rational thing to do and a good deal. We should all hope and pray it crumbles in 2028 before the election so it'll feel like 2008 again.

The Gold tier will include pre-approved pardons.

Maybe it's just me but when I think of Samsung I don't think of a brand that has an eco-system, I just think of a generic company that usually makes decent quality hardware. I don't want to use their app store, or their attempt at a personal AI assistant, or their password manager. I don't expect innovation, I don't care about their flagship products, I'm just content with using their hardware with no interaction with the company whatsoever.

I managed to get Facebook to behave almost the way I want it to using the Social Fixer extension.
Chronological order, no ads, only posts from people and pages I'm actually following, no autoplay, no stories. But as a side effect it seems to reload the page multiple times and sometimes stalls for a while, so it ends up too much of a hassle to check it more than a couple times a day anyway.

I actually built a basic versioning system using Photoshop scripting for our animation studio's 2D department like a decade ago because we had a lot of 2D artists for a new project after a couple of years of me being the only 2D artist in the studio.
We already had pretty beefy and fast storage servers because the render farm needed to have access to all the 3D data anyway.
So I basically wrote a UI panel in Photoshop that allowed you to navigate to a specific asset in the show's hierarchy and commit a version with data like timestamp, username, comments, thumbnail, etc, and send an update to the producer.
On later projects we didn't really need to deal with much 2D production because it came from the clients, but the 3D pipeline was pretty complex, with automatic scene assembly, switching assets, rendering, syncing between physical locations, updating project management services, etc.

Personally, these days I use Prism Pipeline to keep my personal 3D projects organized. I never really used it for 2D but it does support Photoshop and some texturing software.

I don't think lack of originality is the main issue. The earlier phases of the MCU were pretty well received and most of them weren't particularly innovative in plot structure.
More recent iterations are making less money so following the established formula isn't helping with the general audience.

A decade ago I thought Disney was going to monopolize popular culture by buying up all the major franchises like collecting the infinity stones.
But now all they seem to produce is the narrative equivalent of pink slime that just gives everyone fatigue.

If they write a script for searching and trying to solve mathematical problems, they should call it Math Daemon.

will it run off after a rabbit and give you an hour of exercise? Get a real dog people! They clean up all the food you drop. Help you remember countless things, like, what food they can and cannot eat. How much you should feed them. They get you out for walks, see nature, keep your vitamin D dosage up. They help you socialize with other people that have dogs and give you something to talk about instead of awkwardly avoiding politics and just talking about the weather. For bonus points you can get a proper hunting dog and really have fun.