Remember, though: Microsoft invented the slop factory when they created Microsoft Office.

Sending useless documents back and forth via Outlook predates AI by decades.

I thought they admitted defeat, embracing the uselessness and futility of nearly all office work when they released SharePoint, but I guess they're still just getting started 🤷

It ain't much, but it's dishonest work.

You're just now figuring out that Dr Oz is grossly incompetent‽

Do you think Trump ever appoints competent people‽ He picks people based on loyalty and how much they appear on TV!

Probably not shitty parents. There's a zillion causes for suicidal thoughts that have nothing at all to do with parenting.

If they were super religious and/or super conservative though... Those are actual causes of teen suicide. It's not the religion, it's the lack of acceptance of the child (for whatever reason, such a LGBTQ+ status).

Basically, parenting is only a factor if they're not supportive, resulting in the child feeling rejected/isolated. Other than that, you could be model parents and your child may still commit suicide.

I hate Microsoft and Excel but that date thing is exactly the kind of stuff that AI would be great at.

Just not the kind of AI Microsoft probably plans to put in Excel 🤷

It's green! Those babies were upcycled!

Apparently billionaires do give a shit. A lot of it. An entire island of shit... Trickling down to the next layer down of ~~hell~~ rich people.

1 year for every book seems an appropriate sentence

No! An appropriate sentence would end in a period, question mark, or exclamation point!

For a history of Dumb Restrictions on Media (aka DRM):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management

This fight goes way, way back. Microsoft worked with the media industry in the early 2000s to create a fully-encrypted media input/output pipeline for PCs in order to combat Linux adoption. Microsoft knew that it would be impossible for open source software to decrypt the media streams without making the encryption keys available so they went way out of their way to make sure things like HDCP would "protect" the media being played back on a PC from "illegal" copying.

It starts with the TPM module in your motherboard/processor and continues outward all the way though to your HDMI monitor (which has to have the hardware keys necessary to decrypt the content).

BTW: The keys for HDMI HDCP have long since been leaked so you can now cheaply and easily buy all sorts of HDMI capture devices on the cheap from places like AliExpress (they don't ask any questions). Get one of those and your PC won't even know that you're capturing screenshots.

"With your powers dispersed, I can go back to playing games on my NES!"

Where I come from we call these, "up only" stairs. Kind of like how Perl is a write-only language.

So... Harmless: No bite.