Imo this is not so much infuriating as it is just straight up ridiculous.
Don’t bloody buy smart appliances. If you happen to have one, switch off its connectivity. If you insist on local connectivity, isolate it from the web. If you insist on using the internet connectivity of your home appliance then you deserve every bit of the nonsense that is thrown at you

Just wait until they fine you for noncompliance

Sounds like the opening scene of an Austin Powers movie

Got a few that come to mind:

Three young guys, I would guess in their early twenties, were being obnoxious in a silence compartment. Other people noticed but nobody went beyond casting disapproving looks. One of the boys defiantly started asking the other passengers one by one if they found the boys annoying. The first few people cowardly denied annoyance until one of them simply and firmly responded ‘yes’. The boys had not expected this and just packed up and left. It was hilarious to see their faces, they had not expected that haha

In Spain, a ticket inspector addressed me in Spanish, which I don’t speak. I tried communicating in English. Unfortunately the ticket inspector thought that I would magically start understanding Spanish if he increased his speaking volume. After a few rounds of this he was practically shouting at me. Luckily at that point another passenger joined in to translate and we managed to sort things out.

On the train from London to Edinburgh, an obligatory drunk randomly shouting Scotsman

I use them as a sort of bookmark cache. Stuff I’m unlikely to want to keep for long but also not stuff I want to discard immediately. I use the tree style tabs plugin in ff, works beautifully

Her

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Heh, would be funny if this pops the bubble

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Be very very careful about conception. The wealth imbalance is huge and the incentives are going to change once children get involved. Don’t be naive.

Including deliberate and unnecessary performance decreasing updates
Edit: source

I was under the impression that something along these lines was already accepted from the perspective of information theory. I.e. a machine that could simulate the universe must at least be composed of as much information as the universe itself. Given the vastness and complexity of the universe, this would make it rather unlikely that the universe is simulated. Unless you want to view the universe itself as a machine that calculates it’s own progression. But that is a bit of a semantic point.

Disclaimer: this is not my area of expertise and I probably got some terms or concepts wrong. I am basing this off of ‘The information’ by James Gleick

Is degoogle the second verb that google will have caused?

It’s flat all across the globe

If you have the funds, consider buying noise cancelling headphones. Then go to your boss. Make sure to show them that you want to be respectful and considerate.
Avoid giving off the impression that you are sewing discontent among your colleagues. Chances are that managers will not help you if they get the impression that you are being excessively fussy, or worse, that you are orchestrating discontent among your colleagues.

I wonder what happened to that drum kit

Austin Powers sketch

Who is Fading Labubu

I ran vista from release, never had any probmems with it. Admittedly it did help that I ran it on a brand new pc. Does show that the problem wasn’t the os but rather their aggressive push to get it on PCs that weren’t suitable

Pure speculation on my part:
I wouldn’t be surprised if the crypto and ai bubbles will take each other down. I wonder which order would have the biggest effect; crypto followed by ai or ai followed by crypto