I remember wanting one of these. Can’t remember why I didn’t get one, but I do remember thinking it was a breath of fresh air as far as car stereos go.

Uninstalled.

Luckily I/people I interact with never used it much.

Like others have pointed out, It was indeed very much tongue-in-cheek.

Just what we needed, more surveillance /s

These days, most companies that work with web based products are under pressure from upper management to “use AI”, as there’s a fear of missing out if they don’t. Now, management doesn’t necessarily have any idea what they should use it for, so they leave that to product managers and such. They don’t have any idea, either, and so they look at what features others have built and find a way to adapt one or more of those to fit their own products.

Slap on back, job well done, clueless upper management happy, even though money and time have been spent and the revenue remains the same.

I said “jesus christ” to a teacher (3rd grade’ish), why I can’t remember but probably because I was asked to do something I felt was silly. Turned out the teacher was very religious and accused me of blasphemy, and was really up in arms about it. He invited my mom to a meeting to discuss the issue but, according to my mom, quickly dropped the whole thing when my mom had said “jesus christ” 5 times in the same amount of minutes.

I guess I know who taught me to use that phrase.

I dreamt I visited Jurassic Park with my class from elementary school. Everyone got eaten except me.

I hope there’s a future where providing the blueprints for wear parts is a common thing to do. It could make it easy to extend the life of a great many things, I reckon.

The US embassy in Norway sent a letter to their electricity and heat provider (Hafslund), demanding that they stop any DEI type activities within the company.

Hafslunds’ response was, in short, “we can stop providing power and heat, no problem”.

Except where trams are involved. Those have a license to kill.

Me neither. It was just ridiculous. When it got to the point where the floor board on the Eclipse mysteriously fell out it was just too all too much, for me. How people who know and love cars ever could think that movie was great is beyond me.

I saw one of the later movies in the cinema, since my date wanted to see it. I felt it was some of the worst goo I’d ever seen, while my date thought it was “fantastic”. I remember thinking “this isn’t going to work out…”, hehe.

Harald Fairhair would probably be amazed at the lack of bloodshed during political discussions.

They just know that trying to appease, or make a deal with, a country where a blabbering idiot is behind the wheel is pointless.

Ah, I forgot to mention that I live in Norway, and over here debit cards started taking over from check use in the 80s.

I last remember seeing my mom write one in the mid 80s. Personally I’ve never used one, and I’m pushing 50.

Add to that how most poor people in the US are in that situation because they live in a every-man-for-himself society, created and maintained by the rich because infighting among the populace keeps them from looking higher and wider to solve their problems.

I’m so sorry, I meant to say except Bernie - the man is a legend.

Seems all the doers over there are busy sending the country, and indeed the world, down the crapper.

It may well be just the picture painted by the publications I tend to read, but it’s easy to get the impression that the democrats have fallen more or less silent (Bernie excluded), while the republicans are spewing shit from mountain tops all day long. Is that how you American folks feel, too, or is it just my news sources that are failing me?

Edit: I meant to say Bernie not included!

I never considered how devastating the collapse of the Berlin wall must’ve been to some Americans. /s

love America because it doesn’t have kings

I’m not convinced a president who can act with greater impunity than a king in any modern monarchy is better.

I read that a lot, “we don’t have a king, thank cod”. Is it because you’ve seen what a hell hole e.g. the Scandinavian countries are? /s

A king in a modern monarchy is nothing more than a representative of the country. He cuts ribbons and holds encouraging speeches on New Year’s. That’s pretty much it.