A Tribble as the Rabbit of Caerbannog.

Janeway: What makes you think she is a Borg?

Seven: Well, she turned me into a drone!

Janeway: A drone?

Seven: I got better.

They took out the “report spam” button. Presumably that’s because Google’s whole business model in 2024 is delivering spam in all its various forms.

Create the problem, sell the solution.

No, no. All the NPCs are supposed to have 7 fingers on each of their three hands. It’s in the lore.

But why pay all those programmers when all they had to do from the beginning was a simple

#include “ai.h”

People are weird about gasoline. They’ll drive around looking for the cheapest option, to save 2 cents/gallon. Even with a huge tank, that’s less than 50 cents of total savings.

So a grocery store can offer, say, 10¢ savings, and it only actually costs them like $1.50-$2.00 per customer. That’s way less than other sales that are harder to advertise and don’t bring in the same amount of business.

Ultimately the psychological benefit for the shopper is more than the financial cost to the store. The others societal costs don’t come in to that equation.

Budget analyst

When you start a new language, you learn “The Rules” first, and wonder why your first language doesn’t have such immutable “Rules.”

Then when you get fluent, you realize there are just as many exceptions as your first language.

A rock with no electricity is just a rock. Meat with no electricity is just a body. Electricity is the only conscious thing there is.

Reminds me of one class I had in high school right after lunch. The teacher was occasionally late getting back to class from the bar.

Backing this up with some history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_version_history

In March 2011, Mozilla presented plans to switch to a faster 16-week development cycle, similar to Google Chrome.

Firefox 1.0 was in 2004, and it took until March 2011 to get to version 4.0. Then by the end of 2011, they were on version 9.

That was a very long way to say electric boats are bad because they’re preferable to sharks.

Don’t worry, though. It’s not in development hell, it’s going to be a AAAAA game, and that takes time.

That was a big talking point a few years ago. Polling companies stubbornly held on to calling landlines for too long, but the only people who had landlines were not representative of the voting population.

They try to correct for things like age, income, race, etc, by weighting the answers to match the wider population, but it’s hard to correct for things like “stubbornly old-fashioned regardless of physical age.”

Also PETA got involved, because they’ve never seen an animal-centric story they couldn’t weasel themselves into.

Bans often rely on the obscenity exception to the 1st Amendment:

https://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment1/first-amendment-limits--obscenity.html

SCOTUS has never given a clear, well-defined, repeatable test to say exactly what “obscenity” even means, so local jurisdictions are free to push the envelope.

If that sounds like a pile of bullshit waiting to be exploited, yes, and that’s exactly why we’re seeing this happening.

Falsification of business records is apparently a “trivial matter” to a certain kind of person with government contracts.

“Corrupt” would almost certainly be a statement of opinion, so not actionable in the US. A lot more detail would be necessary for this to be defamation.

“Judge XXXX has taken millions in shadow bribes and has consistently ruled for the wishes of his/her benefactors. There has been a history of being reversed on appeal proving their bias. Also I watched them kick a puppy.”

Then, obviously, these things would have to be false. Even then, the bar is pretty high. There are exceptions both ways on this, but as a general guideline, if the public knows a person’s name (judge in a high profile case, for example) they are probably classified as a public figure. The rule there is one of “actual malice” which isn’t exactly what it sounds like, but it’s the highest bar for defamation cases.

The speaker would have to say something factually false, knowingly or with no regard for the truth. Giuliani, for one recent example, was found guilty of defaming the Georgia election workers, because he went into great detail about his false claims, and he was told repeatedly that thise claims were false, but he kept going.