I’m assuming it’s non-alcoholic? Alcohol’s freezing point is -10F / -23C, which sounds uncomfortably cold to eat.

They’re very distinctive calls. It stands out whenever some sound designer adds one of them to a jungle scene or somewhere else it doesn’t belong just to make it sound “wild.”

Apple is generally allowed to do business, or not to do business, with whomever they want. If they were promoting their own AI over an outside competitor’s, they may be subject to an anti competition lawsuit, but if you’re saying OpenAI is paying Apple to promote ChatGPT, then your complaint would be against OpenAI. If you’re saying Apple is recommending ChatGPT on their own volition, well, then, that’s their First Amendment right.

Can’t believe I’m defending Apple promoting ChatGPT, but, really, I’m saying Musk probably has a baseless case that’s going to do nothing but make the lawyers rich.

Looks kind of like Mickey Mouse from Fantasia, a red robe and a blue wizard hat with white stars.

I’d ask if this is the Amtrak bridge, but Cleveland only gets Amtrak service at o’ dark thirty.

Yeah. Line 3 used different rolling stock than the other three lines, unusual linear induction motor powered equipment, which was reaching the end of its service life. The plan was to shut it down in November 2023 and temporarily replace it with bus service while they built a Line 2 extension to serve the neighborhoods Line 3 used to. Unfortunately, a train derailed in July 2023, which resulted in the system shutting down four months sooner than expected.

The Line 2 extension is going to take a different route to eventually arrive at Line 3’s old terminus. I think there’s plans to covert the old line 3 viaduct into a Bus Rapid Transit guideway.

You say goth, I see a tower of Star Trek: TNG uniforms.

As if increasing bicycle throughput isn’t increasing vehicle throughput. They’re vehicles, and can probably achieve a higher passenger density than individual cars can on a city street.

Molly Burke, a blind YouTuber, did a video on it recently.

Sea otters exhibit this behavior. They keep their favorite rock in their pouches and use them to crack open shellfish.

It’s only in the last 150 years that information could travel any faster than a currier ship or rider. Before the telegraph and the radio, information traveled at roughly the same speed as goods or soldiers.

For 3.5” floppy, an infrared LED and light sensor is used. If write protect slider is in the closed position, the light is blocked, and you can write to the disk. If the slider is in the open position, light passes through, and the disk is read-only. For floppies that were manufactured specifically to distribute software, they’d sometimes not have a slider at all, so you could never accidentally overwrite the disk. (At least, not without taping over the write protect hole.)

Later 3.5” floppies would have two holes, on either side of the label. One was the write protect hole, and the other identified the disk to the drive as a 1.4 MB high density disk, as opposed to the earlier 800KB disks.

If they did so, they’d also require Zamboni drivers to do their circuits in the opposite direction, counterclockwise instead of clockwise. They like to drive along the boards on the driver’s side so they can tuck up against the wall gently & see just how close they’re getting.

It’s like the military: a three star general is a Lieutenant General, a four star is just a General.

I don’t know if Mr Rodger’s was shot on film or video, but either way, the flame was glowing in a wavelength the camera couldn’t pick up. Either it was a color that the chemicals in the film don’t react too or it’s not something the electronic sensors were sensitive too. Probably a high frequency violet bordering on ultraviolet. TV cameras are optimized to record the frequencies of light the human eye can see, making allowances for cost & technological capabilities. They may not work the way you’d expect as red fades to infrared or violet goes towards ultraviolet, especially when using 70’s or 80’s TV cameras in the price range of PBS.

I’m hearing Unchained Melody by The Righteous Brothers in my head for this one.

Sadly, I’m not even joking.

* Kate Bush music intensifies *

Jack Black stared in a movie this year with exactly this plot.

They did a remake on the 3DS, but I’d love one for the Switch or Switch 2. Rationalize the controls for modern gamepads (two joysticks, but only 4 face buttons), update the graphics, but keep the gameplay. Nintendo being Nintendo, they’ll feel obligated to add Amiibo integration, but at least that’s always optional.