Really, no joke. This story seemed ripe enough, though I admit I can't think of any low-hanging without racist taint.

Only joke out of 200+ comments. Slashdot used to have a better batting percentage for Funny.

And I'm not even sure if the joke works. It might not affect the price significantly, depending on how much competition there is from "dumb" refrigerators...

Story seemed to have lots of potential. Maybe humorous people don't use Gemini, so no jokes?

I think the FP was supposed to be a joke or setting the stage for a joke, but yours appears to be the first attempt to actually answer the question at a non-superficial level.

However my answer was just a superficial joke: "Don't be evil" => "Be as EVIL as possible".

(Also, "All your attentions is belong to we googlers.")

Better of the weak jokes on the story, but don't see much potential for humor.

However I have a couple of personal anecdotes and the first can be fit into your Subject if the "basket" is a building. The building in question is on prime real estate close to Shibuya Station, which is a kind of "King Youth" neighborhood. I visited the building a number of times as construction was being completed and before the security was tightened against such tourists. I think I even met Masayoshi's brother, who was supposed to be in charge of the innovations. That's "met" in the sense of I saw a honcho and someone told me about him. Not sure, but that building may be the "physical home" of the so-called "Vision Fund" and some of the fired folks were probably working there...

On your [Mr Dollar Ton's] joke, I have met a number of those VCs over the years, mostly at a "Venture Cafe" near Toronomon that one of them runs. I have definitely met the bigwig there and we had at least one interesting little chat. But mostly I remember talking with another VC who was complaining about not being able to find enough projects to throw money at. He understood that most of the projects are going to fail and he won't make any profit from them, but he has so much money that he doesn't know what else to do with it except roll the dice for more winners. Not sure how much of that was true or perhaps just a compulsive gambler's bravado, but it got me to thinking...

If you have to feed the troll, can't you at least think of a substantive Subject?

But is there any Funny in the discussion of the story?

ACK on the belated comment--and the story never got any Funny.

Above is the title of a rant I'm working on. Summary will be something like 'not with a flash-bank of orange BS, but with whimpers (for money from the Democrats), cowardice (of the Republican politicians), and burps (from the insanely greedy bastards who have taken over the world).

Not sure what part confused you.

Maybe the attempted mix of "common sense" philosophy and comedy via cultural references? The main place I see for potential confusion is in the references to the WH occupant, but on principle I refuse to use that brand name. The YOB clearly believes there is no such thing as bad publicity and welcomes every mention, anything to keep the spotlight on him, but at least I feel a tiny bit of satisfaction in not mentioned the mal-brand.

There's a chain with stores in Idaho, Texas, Tennessee, and most states in between that rents, sells, and buys DVDs, Blu-rays, and more.

Active "discussion", but no funny? Okay, I admit that all the jokes I can think of sound cheesy.

"Buy more cheese!" said the refrigerator. "I'm really good at storing cheese."

It's not funny because the big-cheese companies will just pay/bribe Samsung to send those messages.

When humor is outlawed, only outlaws will laugh?

Actually, perhaps liberals need to realize that defending barbarians, and inviting barbarians into your living room, is not a path to success.

Speaking as a European, the influx of people from Islamic countries has amply demonstrated that these cultures are incompatible with Western values. These cultures do not deserve tolerance.

Yes, I have tried to encourage the genAIs to ask questions a number of times in various ways, but with no significant success that I can recall.

I can definitely recall the results of my last paired experiments. I prepared a short software specification and gave that text to DeepSeek and ChatGPT.

The DeepSeek result was better in terms of how I described the desired appearance, but one of the four results was wrong. DeepSeek had clearly misunderstood that part of the problem and did NOT ask for clarification. But I admit that I didn't notice the error until I compared it with the results from ChatGPT's second attempt.

ChatGPT failed completely in its first attempt, but its second attempt apparently threw out the appearance parts and produced the right numbers. When I asked ChatGPT about the failure of the first version, its first (verbose) response was useless, but a later response sounded like it was trying to do the right thing--but I still have no idea why it failed so badly. The second version from ChatGPT only required about 70 lines of code, which I then annotated extensively for an acceptable result.

My main problem with the verbosity is that I wind up skimming thought lots of irrelevant stuff hoping to find something that is significant...

Well I can report that just telling the genAIs to be less verbose doesn't help, though I recall DeepSeek promising to try.