Indeed. Antarctic sea ice extent is at record-breaking lows.

Who wants a generic old waterfall photo that you can find hundreds of pictures of on the web, when you can have a waterfall and Borker photo that’s completely unique?

It’s a heat/cold powered cycle … once the temp regulates the same everywhere, there is no more cycle.

I love my clickety clack. It’s so satisfying.

the value seems to be entirely in the packaging.

How true and how ridiculous is that?! At least my Pop Vinyls & Star Trek Hot-wheels collectibles are still functional toys if they are ever removed from their packaging.

They say they are expected to accept contracts that were designed for the old business model while the industry structure and technologies have changed. Here’s some video of the speeches & demonstrations.

I think a time will come in our dystopian future where it will be trendy to have a performance by a real actor or a traditional painting created by a real artist … that will be the gimmick, so to say.

Give 'em an inch and they’ll take a mile.

Adding the /s is like saying “I just told a joke.” … with sarcasm, well it’s kinda like saying the punchline.

I’m also noticing a satisfying lack of the /s tag.

Yes, that was my take too. I wish Australia would start moving on some of these sort of laws already. We still have very lax data privacy/retention laws and such … our pollies definitely ain’t thinking about protecting the public from AI chat bots!

Is it actually some kind of switch to activate the bot account, or is that setting just for transparency sake?