My car radio is tuned to the 80s/90s station. When I start my car if a song is playing, I’ll listen. If an ad comes on, I’ll mute it, and usually forget to unmute it again. Sometimes I hear two or three songs in a row before an ad. Sometimes I remember to unmute it, and maybe hear another song.

I could make an effort to have music in the car, but I don’t care that much about it. I’m okay with silence.

I’m at 21 users blocked. Seven of them have also been banned, apparently since I blocked them.

I have no doubt I appear on some users’ block lists too.

I’ve blocked many more communities. Mostly foreign language, plus subjects I have zero interest in, like guns or baking. I’ve blocked a few new communities simply for spamming posts when they start, which is annoying. New mods should be aware of this, don’t spam a bunch of posts when you start just to fill the front page, go slowly, wait a quarter or half an hour between posts. Or, maybe that’s just me.

“Necessary”, no. We’re all fine here on Earth, where we evolved, and all that. We’ve gotten along just fine without leaving the planet.

Desirable? Yes. But, I think we should do it with robots, because humans are too expensive due to being so fragile. Also, what should we do with what we find? Exploiting the resources of the Moon and Mars should not be allowed. Setting up human colonies there seems extravagant at this time.

My mom made egg salad with Miracle Whip and sweet pickle relish, plus a little mustard, salt, and pepper. She grew up on a farm in Michigan.

I don’t eat egg salad anymore, but I would add green olives, I like them.

What’s wrong with the traditional route? A Realtor will list any house. Just empty it out, sweep it clean, and put it on the MLS. If you ask below market it will sell. If the price is right, it will sell the first day on the market. You don’t need to do anything more than clean it. No painting, no staging. You can probably even sell the house as-is, if repairs are needed.

You’ll come out better than with the scam company, even with paying the commission.

I suggest researching your market. No one is offering more than your house is worth, more likely you just don’t realize how much your house is worth at the moment. But, you should also research wherever you want to move to, of course.

I don’t do anything on my phone that I need to hide. I barely use it, and it’s used for mundane things. I don’t have any apps installed, I don’t do banking on it, or shop on it, or use it to pay for anything. I don’t use it for email. My phone doesn’t know very much about me, and that’s how I like it. I also don’t have face unlock set up, I enter my pin every time I use it.

Yes, I know it can track my location, and I know they consolidate everything known about me across all of my accounts, and where I shop and what I buy, etc, but putting the phone in lockdown won’t change that. So, yeah, they know a lot about me, I can’t help that, no one really can, unless they’re born off the grid and live in a cabin somewhere–which sounds pretty good, until you need help.

Man-up and get it waxed.

For every small benefit, there are disastrous mistakes. We shouldn’t discuss one without the other:

https://tech.co/news/list-ai-failures-mistakes-errors

March 2026

• Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says she’s never visited

February 2026

• Health advice given by AI chatbots is frequently wrong, says new study

January 2026

• Study reveals that fixing AI mistakes takes up to 40% of the time that it saves

• An AI tool used by ICE to identify applicants with previous law enforcement experience falsely flagged applicants with no such experience, leading to the placement of unqualified recruits in field offices.

December 2025

• AI mistakes clarinet for gun at Florida school

November 2025

• Google Antigravity deletes entire content of user’s computer drive

• Report finds AI hallucinations in 490 court filings from the past six months

October 2025

• Teenager handcuffed after AI mistakes Doritos packet for gun

• Lawyer submits AI-assisted court filing with fake citations

• Man follows ChatGPT advice over stopping eating salt, develops rare condition. The man was hospitalized, sectioned, and eventually treated for psychosis. He tried to escape the hospital within 24 hours of being admitted.

• ChatGPT-5 jailbroken with 24 hours of release

July 2025

• AI Coding app deletes entire company database

• McDonald’s AI chatbot error exposes data of 64 million job applicants

• AI program is tasked with running a small shop, goes insane, claims to be human

• Apple Intelligence falsely presents BBC headline

… and it just keeps going.