@Mik said in Back from Detroit:

Jim's was still excellent in 2010.

I'm glad to hear that.

Big Al

Those are great. The black dog with the ladybug is super.

I remember signs like that on gas stations when we traveled around the country on family vacations in the 60s.

Another one that got our attention when it got to be the end of day and we were looking for a place to stay - air conditioned and has a swimming pool!

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@pique said in Society is Doomed, Scientists Say:

I feel comforted that even if human society is doomed, the planet will recover without us.

No kidding.

https://www.popsci.com/science/earth-without-humans/?utm_placement=newsletter

I know. I was totally amazed by what they did.

@Daniel
I was in a local jewellers a fortnight ago and was shown a fabulous tanzanite ring. £13,000
I kid you not, stunning rich blue, large of course.
It's gone
(no not me😇)
but they still have some earrings...

https://bradleysthejewellers.com/search?q=tanzanite*&type=product

Thank you

Amusing, I think. Especially the part where Musk and Ramswarthy scratch such others’ eyes out.

I intend to point and laugh.

Terrific article that makes me want to see the whole collection.

Thanks, Jon. That is heartening in an otherwise bleak landscape. It does fit a pattern of Montanans voting both ways at the same time. The same Montana voters who adore Trump also love our Liberian refugee black mayor who is a total liberal. Politics is very personal here. We lost one of the best Senators in Montana history--Jon Tester--voting instead for a Trumpist carpetbagger who insults Indians and wants to privatize public lands and ban all abortion--while at the same time passing a ballot initiative that gives a constitutional right to abortion. Go figure. I can't.

Thank you. '
Printing that one.

Interesting.

Salmon behavior is amazing. Watched salmon fighting their way up tiny creeks I could straddle near a campground in Alaska.
They also taste great.

A student in America asked an artificial intelligence program to help with her homework. In response, the app told her "Please Die." The eerie incident happened when 29-year-old Sumedha Reddy of Michigan sought help from Google’s Gemini chatbot large language model (LLM), New York Post reported.

The program verbally abused her, calling her a “stain on the universe.” Reddy told CBS News that she got scared and started panicking. “I wanted to throw all of my devices out the window. I hadn’t felt panic like that in a long time to be honest,” she said.

The assignment Reddy was working on involved identifying and solving challenges that adults face with age. The program blurted out words that hit the student hard and were akin to bullying

https://www.wionews.com/world/please-die-you-are-a-stain-on-the-universe-ai-chatbot-tells-girl-seeking-help-for-homework-776635

Sounds like Texas.