Funny thing is, they were getting lunch from local Indian stalls. Of course they were probably legal UK citizens selling the onion bhajis, but there was a touch of irony. If we forcibly removed all nonwhites our society would undoubtedly collapse. However Illegal immigration is a problem and that rally did little to help solve it.

@jon-nyc Well yeah, the way they got paid before AI hasn't changed. But they get paid royalties when someone uses their work in any substantial way. AI's thieving "masterminds" aren't paying royalites for millions of copyrighted words. They're stealing them.

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Innovative, but not something I would want.

Happy belated birthday, @jon-nyc ! I hope you can relax and do something fun after all your traveling is finished! [image: 61Lvy-X0I6L.jpg]

I was a PC user. I then got heavily involved with Apple education with iPad so eventually got a Mac. It took some time to figure out how to do things on my Mac that I already knew how to do on PC. But once I learned those things, I found I far preferred Mac. Now I have to use Windows at work and I HATE IT. I find it is not as intuitive but also that there are so many things that Mac comes with that it just does better than Windows. For example, Mac’s “preview” program has elements of Adobe Acrobat built in. Stuff that you have to buy Acrobat to access on PC. I fell in love with using Mac by taking a class through Apple to become a trainer on MacBook. But similar courses are available at Apple Stores, and they also have online courses you can take. But until I had direct instruction in my Mac I didn’t realize how many cool things I was missing out on. I was just using it as an Internet machine (as well as using Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, which are included rather than being a separate purchase). Once I actually had someone teach me I became a huge fan.

Apple News drives me a little bonkers in their headlines for this news story. Any time this happens the headline is “French government collapses”. I live in a place where this exact same thing can and has happened and it is a FEATURE of our how government works. It’s actually a good thing that means folks have to cross the aisle to get things done. It’s not a “collapse” of government. Obviously the government in France is currently unstable - but the system is working as it was designed to work. /rant

Not so fast . . . https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-12207811 Astrologers say this shift in where the stars appear to be has no bearing on the "tropical zodiac" system. This is what is typically used for horoscopes in the West, and is based on segments of the sky calculated using the equinoxes on Earth.

@Axtremus aaaAAAAACCCCKKKK!

Yep. Exactly what I said about ten posts up ...

Whoever tells me there is no genocide happening in Gaza and the West Bank is who I believe. * Rolls eyes *

I know who the three people here who are my age. I almost feel guilty about knowing that much. Age doesn't necessarily matter. You're aging gracefully. I'm trying!

This kind of thing could be huge for keeping seniors in their homes.

@Piano-Dad said in The Greatest Movie Villain of all Time: @Mik said in The Greatest Movie Villain of all Time: Mightg be fun to go together if that's possible. The Sphere is pretty cool. I will let you know what our plans are when I know them. My wife may be the only one who goes out for the birth because we don't want to impose on them while they are already very stressed. She plans to stay out there and help out for a few weeks afterward. I would not be staying in any event. Work calls back in Virginia. If we're all out there at the same time we should indeed get together for something. Sphere, dinner, something. We went to the Darren Aronovsky video that inaugurated the Sphere. Pretty impressive, even if I thought that narrative of the film was preachy preachy and shallow. Yeah, that film descended into preachiness when it could have been the coolest sci-fi ever. But the Sphere is cool. My daughter's company did a lot of the exhibits in the lobby. We have a domed theater like that here in the Museum Center, formerly Union Terminal, but about a tenth the size.

Happy Birthday, AdagioM! Many happy returns of the day! Hope you got some brioche in.