LovableSidekick

A rear door is handy for throwing shit in the back tho - I wouldn't even buy a car without a hatchback for that very reason.

The engine compartment of a really old car, say pre-1970s, is almost comically empty. Anything newer has so many ducts and hoses you can't see the ground.

Zenith Space Command remote.

The button pressed a spring-loaded thing that struck a piece of metal, almost like a wind chime, emitting an ultrasonic note. I discovered by accident that I could make my parents' stereo change channels by clinking coins together.

Those remotes used little spring-loaded mechanical chimes that emitted ultrasonic notes. As a kid I discovered my parents' big Magnavox console stereo would change channels if I clinked a handful of coins.

I think a lot of old school products worked better than modern equivalents. Take toasters - when I was a kid our toaster consistently made toast with the same degree of doneness. I've had modern ones that said "microprocessor controlled" on them that couldn't make consecutive pieces the same. Also flashlights. Simple metal flashlights just worked. My new sophisticated one cycles through multiple levels of brightness and then strobing (so I can what, have my own rave?) but sudden motions make it spontaneously turn off. I mean how hard is an ON/OFF switch?

And what's the deal with airline food? I'm thinkin' hey!

Same here. And speaking of bubbles I haven't seen anything about NFTs in quite a while. I don't think that bubble burst tho, it just sort of shriveled up and blew away.

LOL the first trick is my go to. I regularly read Washington Post articles in notepad.

Yep, that's what I heard. They also do overnight backups so it needs downtime, kind of like people.

The AI bubble might be the 2020s' dotcom bubble.

So they're more worried about misinformation about the results than misinformation that influences the actual voting. Well alrighty.

Unrelated, I can't help noticing how much Altman reminds me of Luke Dunphy from Modern Family.