I'm just glad ties are gone. I used to have it in my consulting contract that I would wear a tie for a maximum of x hours for the duration of the project, so choose them well. It used to be a point of negotiation, now nobody cares anymore.

If a tie is uncomfortable, the problem isn't the tie, it's that your shirt doesn't fit.

I'll be impressed when a LLM suggests that I get a 50m hose extension.

We are all fish.

https://paeantosmac.wordpress.com/ This you may appreciate

Let's split the difference and put a brain on a Roomba like in Fallout.

Also, if you bite them after telling them five times "please don't touch me", it's somehow your fault.

I wonder if this can be used to cure or alleviate phantom pain in amputees.

More likely it will be used to brain control the population

"The researchers say that the findings could lead to new understanding of or treatments for conditions where the brain's body maps have gone askew, such as schizophrenia or the sensation of 'phantom limbs' experienced by amputees."

Wish we could put Cave Johnson back in charge. That'd fix it!

Yep. That's the things about exponential curves, it's a graph slowly going up until it's no longer "slowly".

https://www.thefrogdoctrine.com/p/the-29th-day

This can't go up forever. There is only so much mass up there in orbit, and much of it is in low earth orbit so will fall back into the atmosphere quickly as it's trajectory gets knocked off course.