They had to write something, and stating the reason as "Stalking my ex" wouldn't look good

... it would make sense for charging stand providers to price those last 20% higher. Would discourage charger stand hogging, thus freeing up the equipment for customers who buy kWh at a higher rate. A simple way to implement this would be a fee per minute connected in addition to the price per kWh.

Now I just need an AI copy of myself to handle initial talks with recruiters, and alert me whenever a recruiter is actually correct in their assertion that what they're recruiting for is an "exciting opportunity" and politely turn down the rest. Would save me a fair bit of time, having an AI assistant to chat with other AI's

If you paid $1000 for a website and a server six years ago and haven't done any maintenance since then you don't really care what LTS means. Also, you'd probably be better off with a cheap web host, which would most likely cost less than the electricity your server consumes

The consumer friendly approach is that listed price includes all fees. I don't care whether the product or service I'm buying costs $1 + $19 in mandatory fees, or $19 + $1 in mandatory fees. I care only that I end up paying $20 and any advertisement where $20 is not the most prominently displayed number is an attempt at deceit.

Given that these models were initially trained on the collective textual/visual/whatever output of the internet connected part of the human race one could argue that the input data wasn't exactly stellar to begin with. Still, that hasn't stopped our species from finding real world uses for what might best be described as "Artificial Mediocrity"

... they'll add this video to the in-flight entertainment selection

I'm lucky if I get two hours of sleep on a 12 hour flight, and I don't fly long haul often enough to justify paying extra for a laptop with 10 hours of battery life. So I welcome anything that distracts me from the misery that is flying