I thought about that too, but then decided to go with Bender because he’s a robot built by an ominous megacorp. Plus he has an attitude that pretty much sums it all up.

Wow, that’s rich!

Well, there is not too much on a global scale besides SAP.

Depends on the data they are trained on.

“It’s going to be huge, folks, huge…These particles, they’re like the employees of the future, always on the job…So, in conclusion, nuclear power, it’s fantastic, it’s tremendous, it’s going to make America great again.” Gold!

But it would be the greatest chatbot, tremendous, the best…

That’s a smart move 👍

Yes, exactly. I suppose the Electronic Ensemble would have been compensated as well if there were more similarities. Still, the song may have been an inspiration. Just like the song Taurus by the band Spirit is in parts kind of reminiscent of Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to heaven (Spirit could not claim intellectual property rights in court).

The Wikipedia article only says that an undisclosed sum was paid for the use of the Lazy Jones sample.

TIL This is even older. Lazy Jones was released in 1984.

Unfortunately, the Xperia 5 V no longer has a notification LED. Source.

These are some smartphones with notification LED. There is also an Android app called aodNotify (haven’t tried that myself).

Yes, that is true. Just like the USA in Afghanistan, Russia in Ukraine and so on. That is precisely why it is all the more important to create an understanding that war cannot be the means to resolve these conflicts. Especially in the Israel-Gaza conflict, I think this should be obvious by now. After all, it’s not as if Israel didn’t try to force a solution with its military superiority during the last Intifada. Was that successful? I don’t think so. On the contrary. What has been achieved is nothing but a spiral of hatred, violence and misery. But hey, the arms industry is happy.

That is the problem with a so-called “war against terrorists”: Those who wage such a war can always claim that they suspected they were firing on terrorists disguised as members of the press, civilians, doctors, aid workers or whomever. That way, you always have an excuse - no matter how flimsy it is.

Banning UN officials from visiting the country? Isn’t that usually the first thing the so called villains do in times of war?

“Bug me not and get to work, Mr. Samsa.”

Yes, that’s true. But on the other hand, most of my sapphire laserdiscs still work fine.

Damn, just like my platinum fax machine.

I met a very nice older Scotsman named William Wallace the other day. He told me at our hotel bar that he had a court date the next day for allegedly beating an Englishman with his cane, who had apparently insulted his wife. Not quite sure how he handles questions about his name, but he certainly seems to have some things in common with his famous namesake.