And nobody dares let Pinkie Pie know there's a car problem in the first place because she'd insist on getting involved somehow.

She might solve it, but the next mechanic to look inside will have an aneurysm.

If you're unpaid then why are you doing it?

I'm happy. AI is doing all the crappy drudge work, leaving me with all the fun parts of coming up with ideas and planning out their implementation. And I can ask it questions and make suggestions that turn out to be dumb without any fear it'll think less of me. If they turn out to be sufficiently epically embarrassing I can literally wipe its memory of me having said that.

Global warming can't drown that place fast enough.

I'd want to get Applejack's opinion on this one. Twilight would no doubt have an encyclopedic knowledge of what the manuals say, but Applejack's got the first-hoof knowledge that comes from keeping one of these things running way past its expected lifetime under harsh orchard conditions.

That's what's balanced against "when it gets too expensive." This is basic economics. When one approach is too expensive you move to a less expensive one, then if the prices change and you're once again on the expensive one you move back again. The point is to have competition so that neither option can simply jack their prices up arbitrarily.

Yeah, this headline keeps coming up and the angry reactions are just silly.

Google's not offering a product that the schools want. Okay, Google's loss. The schools can use a different provider.

I genuinely think Trump might choose Remembrance Day to drop a nuke purely to make it more "historic".

Finally I'm justified in doing everything via a GUI.

Basically just a tour group!

Back in the before times, in the long-long ago when work-from-home wasn't a thing, I had a job in an office and often we would have meetings about stuff. Whenever I was the first person to arrive in the meeting room I wouldn't bother turning the lights on, I'd just go and sit at the table and wait for whoever was next to turn the lights on. Why would I need lights while I was waiting? Nobody else was there, there was nothing to see or interact with.

For some reason people found it weird and creepy when they'd be the next to arrive, turn on the lights, and see that I was already sitting at the table. But then they started to get it and go along with it. I remember at one point each subsequent person also decided not to turn the lights on when they arrived, and we ended up having the meeting in darkness.

Yeah. This is the abusive drunk standing outside the door declaring "I haven't had a drink all day, I've changed, baby!" And begging to be let back in.

Good on you for spending the day sober. I hope it's the start of a new life and fervently wish you well. Still not letting you back in.