They expect to migrate to paid search because they see the writing on the wall when it comes to AI search.

Surely, this will help their catastrophically declining birth rate.

I have to point this out because I know a lot of people are going to look at the "Smart Window" feature as, "Ew! AI bad!"

Look at that screenshot showing the eSIM prompt result. It has no ads! That feature just bypassed Google's entire ad revenue business (not counting "ads by Google" that show up on non-Google sites). It searched on the user's behalf.

This is why I've been saying for over a year now that AI is going to kill free search engines. Yet I got pretty consistently downvoted for it.

Well, here you go: This is the beginning of the end.

Right now that feature uses a back end out on the Internet, but if you have a GPU with enough RAM, there's nothing stopping you from using local AI to perform the same function.

Eventually, PC hardware prices will drop again and this sort of searching will become normal. It's what everyone will use because it's vastly superior to typing something into a search engine.

expensive rents and unaffordable house prices.

Fix this, and I bet a lot of the other issues will improve considerably.

They obviously wished for fame and the tree obliged.

This just means they really are a stone's throw away from us in the tree of evolution.

It rubs the Costco on its skin.

If this was real, I'd be so impressed! The impossible geometry clearly indicates... Well, who wouldn't want a non-euclidean bed‽

I dislike that phrase, "at all costs."

Ok: To protect these two women, you must murder millions of people.

According to the phrase, that's just the cost.

To be fair, bestiality isn't something the FBI typically investigates. Unless the animal crosses state lines, then they end up investigating people like Stormy Daniels for fucking Trump.

Who knows, maybe these new bestiality people will be able to help the FBI agents who can be regularly heard shouting, "fucking Trump!"

So... Students getting paid for extracurricular activities is wrong because money ruins everything. OK.

By extension, students paying money to attend college is ruining college.

For a logical conclusion: Colleges getting paid for their students extracurricular work (college sports) is also ruining college.

When my Plott Hound wants attention and she sees me on my phone, she somehow figured out that if she shoves her nose into the bottom of the screen and swipes it up, that makes the app I'm looking at go away. It's ridiculous!

It started because she wanted to send the whole phone away so she could get attention from my hands. Turns out that motion is all it takes and I'm forced to stop what I'm doing and deal with her (by giving attention, of course 😁).