> "Sending four humans 250,000 miles away is a herculean effort, and we are now just realising the gravity of that."

As a kid I remember watching grainy images of Neil Armstrong et al bouncing around on the moon. How did that happen? Teleport much?

His grimy little hands are everywhere.

Bluesky is already a collection of bubbles, with their advanced filters and blocking mechanisms. It's impossible to have a conversation with any kind of opposing views over there.

So now you can automate your isolation into a LLM generated bubble?

Did I get this right?

What I would like to see is (paid) service which uses an LLM or whatever to generate a custom RSS feed from across the web, FB, X, Bluesky etc per a topic of my specification.

What could be more non-primary than an LLM?

It's the lack of common sense that I'm pointing out. It's the border equivalent of Starbucks asking you the same silly questions by rote - "process" - or McDonald's asking you "you wan fries with dat?"

Your immigration guys are Starbucks employee material.

Hmm. That makes sense.

The Schengen countries don't do this. I noticed that if you entered Germany and your final destination was Sweden (for example) they wouldn't even look at your face. No wonder they have a "refugee" problem now.

I traveled to the US at least 2 times a year, usually 4 times a year, and a few years every 6 weeks. Did this for 30+ years. Not any more.

Every time I stayed for a week, arriving on a Sunday evening, and left on Friday night. Except a few times when I left on a Thursday night.

But each time, the border guy would ask the same set of questions, like a rude robot, which made me doubt the existence of common sense: you can see the travel data, you don't need Palantir.

That was pre and post 9/11.

Not going to risk Trump's minions.

This.

As for Dorsey, his management of Twitter, his poor "optics" during the various hearings, appearing in public with various undesirables, and subsequent sale of Twitter all demonstrate his lack of judgment.

We have both systems - bank cards which you scan, and/or tap. BTW, the new terminals can also announce the payment made via card.

Which can be a privacy thing if you don't like people know how much you just blew in the comic book store.

It's an efficiency and convenience thing.

When this UPI system was launched, vendors had to continuously check their mobile to see if the payment had actually been received.

Now they just listen for the acknowledgement while multitasking.

Can't remember it before Trump 2.0

It would racist if the rules said "Chinese engineers," but it says "Chinese companies."

Nothing stops those companies from relocating to say Singapore.

I saw Star Wars the day it came out. I have the originals on VHS, DVD, Blu-ray. (Han did fire first, BTW)

While I remember dialogue from the original trilogy, and I vaguely know the plot lines of the prequels, I have absolutely no idea what happens in the last three episodes of the series. It's a blank.

I don't understand why someone who "performs" on the internet would need to travel unless it was to "perform" in person with someone under the influence or a RealFan(tm).

I attempted to answer some questions in which I happened to have some domain knowledge, but didn't have the time or the inclination to meet their requirements.

In many ways, they were like Wikipedia.