The answer is yes

Is hummingbird poop even perceptible?

And don't forget that this is not a fully automated system, someone is still scanning and bagging the items, it's just you instead of someone they paid, all of us are also paying for these self-checkout systems with our labor

It’s pretty interesting to compare Easter messages from political leaders and then consider which ones the media treats as being out of the mainstream or dangerous

“Praise be to Allah”

—President DONALD J TRUMP, Easter morning 2026

A guy blocked me because I pointed out some faulty data and assumptions, this must be what being a science influencer feels like

Yes. I'll use self checkout for small purchases, but if a store forces me to do self checkout on a whole week's worth of groceries, I'm probably not returning there

So you're telling me, the company that sells self-checkout said consumers prefer self-checkout? OMG I MUST BELIEVE THEIR STUDY...this is so sad...

No, I actually know plenty, but I also know plenty (me included) that hate it...your assumption is actually a very basic phallacy and the reason why I'm asking for data

Where's the data for the self checkout preference? Or are you talking about your experience?

We have also done this...and the newer version of crying because I love our daughter, which makes her cry, which makes me cry more...but I'm happy to report a 4 month old doesn't seem to understand what's happening while we're in our cry loop

I so wanna get hyped about Daredevil beating up the ICE agent stand-ins, but I also can't

"Fisk has people in here. Not just vigilantes" It's so hard to reconcile Disney putting out a show that's so obviously anti ICE (in a very moderate way, we still love the good cops, kind of way), and then turn around and be...well all the other things...

Coop from Interstellar piloting a spaceship and saying "This little maneuver is gonna cost us 51 years"

your grandparents voting for reagan

A lot of the medical system is still using fax (prior authorization anyone?) and it's either evil (tactic to limit who is willing to do it and how many requests they get) or plain old industry-wide incompetence...either way we're fucked

Slept in my Pink Floyd shirt and woke up comfortably numb

(Had to be done)

Screenshot from Tech Brew: What happened: Yesterday, a federal judge in California blocked the government from enforcing its blacklist of Anthropic using a supply chain risk label—at least for now. Judge Rita Lin wrote in her order that “nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the US for expressing disagreement with the government.”

You know you're in trouble when a judge refers to something the government did as Orwellian

The US President casually announcing his intention to commit war crimes on social media. That's where you're at, America.

A thing that’s fun to think about is that when it happens it will be a GLOBAL celebration. Like there will be video from around the world of people dancing and laughing and singing

Who is still saying based?

Venezuela wins the World Baseball Classic

These Fox Nation shows are literally all Teenjus

Also I mean specifically LLMs and the intention to bring on generalized intelligence (a stupid concept)...there are other forms of AI that the general public doesn't really think about, that I'm very ok with

I've been wondering for years what's the thing that, beyond physical appearance, is going to make me sound like an old fart, and I think it's my opinions on AI... especially being in the tech industry, I really do feel like a dinosaur... it's not that I don't understand it, I just profoundly hate it

I'm Mexican, my (white) in-laws have called my cooking spicy multiple times, even though I made it with just black pepper specially for them

Absolutely embarrassing to release an Alexa rip-off in 2026

It should be skating and Alysa, our queen

Someone cancelled his access to pussy many years ago and he's been bitter ever since

I'm sitting at the table politely pretending to sip the KoolAid

I live in the stupid Bay Area and I can't begin to express how profoundly blinded by AI these people are, it's a disease that has infected at least 90% of Silicon Valley