While the "Back to the Future" trilogy was generally brilliant, its ending was a sentimental, illogical cop-out. Train smashes into car, destroying it -- AND DOESN'T STOP? Doc in the past uses steam to generate the required power for another time vehicle using only the resources available then? The list goes on and on, though frankly, the train not stopping has always been the big blocker for me at that point.
Saw data showing how rapidly EV batteries degrade in environments with more than four 80F or higher days a year and I couldn't stop laughing for two minutes.
The EV charging problem is enormous. So many people can't charge at home. And even if they find public chargers that are available and actually working, and have the time to wait around while they're charging, the COST at those chargers is usually far higher than home charging would have been. Just doesn't make sense.
#Google will pay millions annually to FOX "News" owner News Corp for new AI content to be featured by Google. With this move, Google firmly embraces the dangerous disinformation propaganda pushed by News Corp. Horrible. Ethics out the window, eh Sundar?
TRYING TO TURN OFF GOOGLE AI OVERVIEWS IN SEARCH? GOOD LUCK! (And yes, I'm upset.)
I want to turn off the misleading, useless, and potentially dangerous AI Overviews that #Google is now stuffing down our throats at the top of (apparently) most search results. They are frequently simplistic or just plain wrong, and often so voluminous that you need to scroll way down to find the sites where #Google is lifting the data from (who were offering correct answers before Google AI mangled them), while crushing those sites by drastically reducing user click throughs. Yeah, great for Google, a disaster for the rest of the Internet. How far Google has fallen. Follow the money!
I want to turn off those overviews on all devices. There is a page in the Google Search Help center that claims to provide a rather convoluted procedure to do this. So far, at least on my Desktop, I have been unable to make this work. I can't even locate the claimed option. Perhaps that's the whole idea.
If you have found a way to disable Google's Search Generative Experience AI overviews in search, please let me know and I'll pass this along to the MANY people who have contacted me trying to do this.
As it stands, for the first time in decades, this garbage may push me away from Google Search. Whether I can find a search engine (don't bother replying about them; I know which ones exist) that isn't ultimately going down the "AI disinformation and suck Internet sites dry route" is a different question entirely.
And if it sounds like I'm REALLY upset with Google about what they're doing, yeah, you're right. -L
@DavBot@engarneering I'm uninterested in hacks. They are useless to most people. I need to be able to tell nontechie folks how to turn off this garbage natively.
Trump, whose admin, and until recently himself, wanted to ban TikTok, is now squarely blaming Biden for the TikTok ban -- and Trump will probably get the vote of many people who depend on TikTok for their livelihoods as a result. A totally unforced error by Biden, even if courts ultimately find the TikTok ban unconstitutional (as they should).
The U.S. government should not be in the business of shutting down social media firms on the basis of China-hate. TikTok is no worse (and in fact seems to be far better) than various social media apps from U.S.-based firms. There's a lot of be upset with China about, but TikTok (and drone leader DJI, which also has bipartisan China-hate trying to ban it) are not where Congress should be getting involved. If Congress passes such bans and Biden signs them, there will be major court battles and courts should strike the bans down.
@CaptMorgan I consider Zuckerberg and Musk to be vastly more dangerous in terms of security and privacy risks than TikTok. If China wants data on U.S. citizens, right down to detailed PII, all they have to do is buy it (even if through third parties) from the U.S. data brokers that Congress refuses to control. China doesn't need to screw around with social media apps and drones to do it. It's all utter nonsense.
Even though the Trump NY trial won't be televised, it will be covered and reported in depth in real time by reporters attending. Anyone who didn't live through the OJ trial really has no idea what's in store for the next maybe 6 to 8 weeks.
Why does the U.S.S. Enterprise in the first Trek film "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" (1979) - ST:TMP - have silly ROUND screens on the consoles?
In a way, you can sort of blame me. Or at least, blame bad timing on my part.
When I was working on this film I saw production drawings showing the round screens, which I found ludicrous. I brought this up with the powers-that-be. I pointed out that the Enterprise displays should not emulate 1950s TV sets, and that round screens wasted display space unnecessarily. I also suggested that by the time of the film, displays would probably be holographic (the franchise eventually caught up to this idea in the more recent productions).
My criticism was taken seriously. It was agreed that the round screens would go and that rectangular screens would replace them. Mission accomplished!
Except ... a few days later, I was pulled aside and told that, unfortunately, the round screens would stay. Why? It turned out that they had already been cast in fiberglass by the Paramount set crews, and there wasn't sufficient budget to redo them. So the silly round screens are what you see in the film today.
If I had been able to move on this a bit earlier, this probably would have turned out differently. But I did try.
I'm still amused by that supplement that said it helped your memory that used the image of Einstein in their ads, with the slogan "get your Einstein on" with people literally changing into versions of Einstein.
What's so wonderful about this is that Einstein had a notoriously poor memory.