Little Things That Irk You IX

[Anpanman]

And even if you're one of those weirdos who're pro-AI (which, so far in my experience, either means you (1) have invested in it or (2) you post online in a manner that suggests an artist was mean to you once) it's so clearly far from the prime-time that it's comical.

Google is pushing "gemini" results for every search, you can't turn them off and they are frequently wrong! Like literally every other search they're demonstrably wrong, and even if they're right, I still have to check a source anyway because I obviously can't trust the AI because no-one can!

God I can't wait for this bubble to burst.

You can turn it off - at least on a PC, I've done it.
tenbluelinks.org/

Just tried google for the first time in months (I use duck duck go) and I’m not seeing ai answers. Wonder if my adblocker blocks it (Ad Guard).

I used DDG for a few years, nice to get away from Google but I came back as I kept getting too many US search results even though I set everything to UK.

[QualityChimp]

I prefer it when people are posting in the smile thread, but that whole thing about Katy Perry going into space is doing my nut in.

• It was an 11 minute flight that needed as much prep for her as listening to the flight attendant blow on the lifebelt whistle.
• Everyone was talking about Kay Perry, but she wasn't the only one in the flight, there were actual astronauts.
• Then even that is undermined because Bezos put his fiancé on the flight too.
• Bezos. He probably paid for the while flippin' rocket into space with money he saved on paying his taxes.
• I'm busy washing my yoghurt pots to save the planet. I wonder how many yoghurt pots I'd have to recycle to offset the carbon footprint of sending a rocket on a jolly?
• Perry was all like “it’s an important moment for the future of commercial space travel, for humanity in general, and for women” - how? HOW?
• It cost an approximate $167 MILLION dollars. What good could that have achieved, or bare minimum, paid Amazon staff properly?
• Bezos will spend millions to send his missus into space and donate to the Trump campaign.
• The whole feminism angle stinks when Bezos donates to Trump and his clampdown on abortion rights.
• Katy Perry singing "It's a Wonderful World" in front of Amanda Nguyen, a sexual assault victim and campaigner against unfair police practices to assault.
• Bezos sends some women "tourists" into space, meanwhile over at NASA, the website had been scrubbed and changed to remove references to inclusion, diversity, gender and minorities, among other terms.
• NASA completely deleted one article about geologist, Dr. Wendy Bohon.

->Open Spoiler<-

[Neon Ignition]

Bezos has no idea what he's doing and his whole space programme is headed to the scrap yard. This was apparently his 31st flight compared to SpaceX which is now somewhere in the 400+ flights and has Trump nuzzled into its chest. The laugh is, it's a lot of PR for ultimately nothing, it's not like the public can start buying seats on it. Essentially, having had Trump burn millions off Amazons value, Bezos just cost himself another bunch of cash for nothing.

[wakka]

How pathetic we are as a society that we allow these parasites to control our resources.

Make Billionaires Illegal

[QualityChimp]

Heavy Red Dwarf vibes from their pointless space war:

"For anyone living on Earth the result would be mindfizzlingly spectacular. One hundred and twenty-eight stars would appear to go supernova simultaneously, burning with such ferocity they would be visible even in daylight.

And the hundred and twenty-eight supernovae would spell out a message.

And this would be the message:

‘COKE ADDS LIFE!’

For five whole weeks, wherever you were on Earth, the huge tattoo would be branded across the day and night skies. Honeymooners in Hawaii would stand on the peak of Mauna Koa, gazing at sunsets stamped with the slogan. Commuters in London, stuck in traffic jams, would peer through the grey drizzle and gape at the Cola constellation. The few primitive tribes still untouched by civilization in the jungles of South America would look up at the heavens, and certainly not think about drinking Pepsi.

The cost of this single, three-word ad in star writing across the universe would amount to the entire military budget of the USA for the whole of history.

So, ridiculous though it was, it was still a marginally more sensible way of blowing trillions of Dollarpounds.

And, the Coke executives were assured by the advertising executives at Saachi, Saachi, Saachi, Saachi, Saachi and Saachi, it would put an end to the Cola war forever. Guaranteed.

Pepsi would be buried."

[Dogg Thang]

It's this...

[fishbowlhead]

It's this...

It’s unbelievably sad & true this.

I worry about the world I’ve brought my daughter into every day, the state of everything, just so a few can rape the planet dry for a bit of shareholder value, it’s just sad.