Yeah seems like a transparent excuse to fuck with Muslim immigrants to me
Brendan WattThe "if it was true, would you stop buying it?"
"...no" line was good, but that's it
Reference for the poor saps who don't get it:
How could Jeremy Corbyn do this
they're gonna desecrate it's danged corpseGuess it's that time of year to dust off the "wet bulb" wiki page
I remember the Biden 2020 campaign offices in California were chained closed a week before super Tuesday. I remember Biden not winning a single county in Nevada, but still taking 25% of the state's delegates. I remember "Iowa you have shocked the nation" and a full day of news pretending Mayonnaise Peter didn't lose to Bernie.
Turns out there's nothing wrong with the chip, but the patient missed his most recent payment so they hit the "auto repossess" button and it withdrew the fibers from his brain
Tldr, it's clickbait, probably written by ai. The chip lost some connections and musklink claims they've fixed it. The human guinea pig seems ok.
Article:
spoiler
NEWSLINE PAPER,- The first Neuralink brain implant in the human headly did not work smoothly, in which damage occurred to parts of the implant's ulto-thin electrode system.
The brain chip called "telepathy" implanted in the head of a 29-year-old man named Noland Arbaugh through surgery in early 2024 suffered damage. Damage occurred to part of the chip system.
This brain chip was created by Elon Musk's biotechnology company, Neuralink, with the aim of creating a brain-computer interface that allows humans to control a device with only a mind.
The implant consists of over 1,000 electrodes that are combined into 64 super-small, thinner-sized "strands" of human hair designed to channel signals from neurons. These flexible strands are mounted through robotic surgery into the motor cortex of the brain, the brain area involved in movement. This is the part that's in trouble.
"In the weeks following surgery, a number of strands were pulled from the brain, resulting in a decrease in the number of effective electrodes," Neuralink said in a blog post.
As a result, the task of controlling the computer's cursor with the mind is experiencing little trouble, especially in terms of speed and accuracy measured in bits per second. (BPS).
Although the Wall Street Journal that Neuralink is considering removing the implant, the fact is that the company now claims to have addressed the problem by making changes to the algorithms involved in recording the nerve signals, and how these signals are then translated into cursor movements.
According to Neuralink, these changes have successfully fixed the BPS so that Noland can control the device even better than when the implants were first installed.
As for the brain chip capabilities, they were first shown to the public in early March 2024 through a video upload on the social media X. The video uploaded to the Neuralink account shows how Noland, who is paralyzed from shoulder to shoulde, is able to control a computer cursor to play chess.
"I love playing chess, so this is one of the things that allows me to do it. I haven't been able to yield much fruit in the last few years, much less like this—chess game," said Noland. "I have to use my mouth—to control the rank—but now everything is done with my brain."
Hey, primary season 2020 looked impossible too. Remember when I didn't win a single county in Nevada? some timely phonecalls from my VP Raprock O'bama put me on the Comeback Kid path. We've got plenty of ways to make sure you fall in line
These bronx-style parents need to make sure they have the record player on at night
"the corporation" is a little old now (early 2000s) but it covers neoliberalism, globalization, and privatization pretty well
"hey worker, is something bothering you?"
"Uh no, I'm fine"
"Okay good, here's a mountain of tasks I need you to do"
"Well now something's bothering me"
Seems hard to imagine. The few years of social media saturation has pushed people further apart, subdividing is into fractured enclaves of true believers. A popular leader or organization who can pull together these threads of movements into a cohesive rope is needed. Bernie was the best I've seen for that in this country. He had Civil Rights cred, decades of sticking to message, a popular platform (universal health care) and the most campaign contributions by orders of magnitude more than other candidates, pulling votes from disparate communities. And look where that got him. Licking Joe Bidet's boots and thankful for the opportunity.
As things get worse, people will need to rely on each other to get by. Maybe that will be when we build community...
I'm looking over a new pair of shoes I recently bought. My feet hurt after walking a few miles in them, so I inspected the insole area, and it was the cheapest 5mm foam imaginable with no other structural support. Below that is basically just the rubber sole. This shit cost $100.
This isn't my first rodeo with overpriced, shitty shoes, so I always have a set of superfeet inserts on standby. Huge improvement, but fuck, why does everything have to be a rip off? Those inserts are $50 for some nicer foam and a simple sliver of molded plastic.
This brings me to the thread title: When was the last time you felt like you got your money's worth for an item?
It’s fast food’s greatest David and Goliath story. You can’t get a Frosty in Europe, thanks (or no thanks) to this Dutch hole-in-the-wall.
>This is what Wendy’s looks like in Europe: A hole-in-the-wall chippie run by some brute Dutch sailors with a serious case of stick-it-to-the-man-itis. It’s the reason a certain billion-dollar, red-headed American fast food chain has been kicked off the continent.
Overall a fun read that I stumbled across while researching access to hot cheetos in Europe.
I especially liked the bit about angry reviews the Dutch Wendy's received from Treat Enjoyers:
>“I would like to order a triple in the Netherlands on YOU that is not possible?!? Seriously?!! I appreciate the fact that you use the name of your daughter but also give progress a place, please. I have nothing to do with Wendy's but what you do is selfish. Simple. If you can put out something similar to Wendy's, please go ahead. Until you can put a decent American hamburger on my table, just please sit on the side. Please go find a hobby or something like that.”
Critical support to hot cheetos smugglers and anticorporate snack peddlers !rat-salute
