T156 @ T156 @lemmy.world

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"This is I, when the attractive biochemistry student tickles me in the stomach. Unbeknownst to me, I will be later killed by her as part of her research."

Usually, if the mouse is infected or mutated in a given manner, its innards would need to be removed and studied, to determine what effects the mutation/infection had on them. This kills the mouse.

It was bound to happen. The model wasn't that reliable, and Amazon was basically paying so many people to double-check the model, they may as well have staffed the store the traditional way, with a self-checkout.

Plus, in the eyes of much of the public, those people they hired to double-check the model were instead hired to act as traditional cashiers working remotely behind an impersonal, semi-friendly dystopian interface.

I'm reminded of back in the day, when people made similar promises of the personal computer back in the late 1900s. You could have the computer in your living-room, and it would check your stocks, write your letters, and do your shopping for you, without you having to lift a finger.

There's also an argument that if the business was that reliant on free things to start with, then it shouldn't be a business.

No-one would bat their eyes if the CEO of a real estate company was sobbing that it's the end of the rental market, because the company is no longer allowed to get houses for free.

They'd basically already be doing that for the touch screen, and may well be using similar controls under the hood, where the physical buttons send a command to the computer to do a thing, in lieu of a mechanical connection.

Not just the search engines, but the websites themselves as well. Gaming the search engines is now an entire profitable industry, not just people putting links to their friends' websites at the bottom of their webpage, or making a webring.

It's just been a race to the bottom. The search engines get worse, as do the websites, and the whole thing is exacerbated by people today being able to churn out entire websites by the hundreds. Anyone trying to do things without playing the game simply ends up buried under layers of rubbish.

They didn't learn from all the previous times someone tried to train a bot on the internet.

They're not joking about a hypothetical. It was a real thing that happened.

All serving as equals with an American, during the Cold War, no less.

He wanted the whole show to be like that, seeing as he also wanted to put an LGBT character in TOS. He just got vetoed, and it ended before then.

This seems like the kind of thing you'd need either a dishwasher, or one of those cafe rinsers that spray water up into the thing to clean.

You'd never be able to get your hand into the corners.

Does the gravity field/planet mass count? It'd take a huge movement for us to notice any shift in Earth's inertia.

It'd be a Reactor Pro Max these days.

He skimmed too much off the top, since he kept billing his expenses to the casino, and then they collapsed.

She was in the Navy, no less. You'd think that she'd have gun safety drilled into her.

Fair play, Q had had developed expectations from Picard. If Picard had punched Q when he first saw him, humanity would have been snapped to the soup age. The Q didn't have the greatest of attitudes towards humans as it was.

The manager was generous enough to let her carry her child while working, but not generous enough to pay her enough to get childcare, or provide it themselves?

It reminds me a bit of the story of a mother going in for a job interview, and shortly after, being arrested for child negligence/endangerment, because she'd left her child unattended (in the same area) while attending said interview. This situation feels like it's setting up for that kind of thing.

Easier and/or less moderated. They would be much more difficult for a moderator to track down if you're talking with them on another platform.