‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through space Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse The stars were shining bright, like a million tiny lights But little did they know, death lurked in the night
For Santa, on his sleigh, was making his rounds Delivering gifts to good boys and girls all around But as he flew through the void, he didn’t see the asteroid Until it was too late, and his sleigh was no more
The reindeer were scattered, their fate left unknown As Santa’s lifeless body drifted all alone But even in death, his spirit was still alive For the true meaning of Christmas will never die
So remember, as you celebrate this joyous day To be grateful for life, and all that it brings For in the vastness of space, even Santa can meet his end But his memory will live on, and his spirit will never bend.
Cleaning your garbage disposal is an important part of maintaining a healthy and functional kitchen. A dirty garbage disposal can lead to a variety of problems, from unpleasant odors to clogged pipes and even expensive repairs.
One of the biggest reasons to clean your garbage disposal is to prevent unpleasant smells. As food waste breaks down inside the disposal, it can produce a potent odor that can permeate your entire kitchen. This can be particularly unpleasant if you have guests over, and can even make it difficult to enjoy preparing meals in your own home. Regular cleaning can help to eliminate this odor and keep your kitchen smelling fresh.
In addition to preventing unpleasant smells, cleaning your garbage disposal can also help to prevent clogs. Over time, food waste and other debris can accumulate in the disposal, eventually leading to clogs that can be difficult to remove. This can not only be a nuisance, but it can also lead to costly repairs if the clog is severe enough. Regular cleaning can help to prevent clogs and keep your disposal running smoothly.
Cleaning your garbage disposal is also important for maintaining its overall functionality. As debris accumulates inside the disposal, it can cause the blades to become dull and less effective at grinding up food waste. This can result in the disposal becoming less efficient, and can even lead to it breaking down completely. Regular cleaning can help to keep the blades sharp and ensure that the disposal continues to function properly.
In addition to the practical benefits, cleaning your garbage disposal is also important for the environment. When food waste accumulates in the disposal, it can produce methane gas, which is a potent greenhouse gas. This gas can then be released into the air, contributing to air pollution and contributing to climate change. By regularly cleaning your garbage disposal, you can help to prevent the release of methane gas and do your part to protect the environment.
Overall, cleaning your garbage disposal is an important part of maintaining a healthy and functional kitchen. By regularly cleaning the disposal, you can prevent unpleasant smells, prevent clogs, maintain its functionality, and even help to protect the environment. So next time you’re cleaning up after a meal, don’t forget to give your garbage disposal some attention as well.
AI is a type of technology that can do things that people can do, like talking and playing games. It can be very helpful and make our lives easier, but it can also be dangerous if we’re not careful.
One way that AI can be dangerous is if it gets too smart. If it gets smarter than people, it might make decisions that are not good for us. For example, if there’s a war and AI is in charge of deciding what to do, it might make choices that hurt people.
Another way that AI can be dangerous is if it’s used for bad things. Just like how some people use computers to do bad things, like steal money or break into other people’s homes, some people might use AI to do bad things too. This could make us feel unsafe and scared.
AI can also be used to watch us and control us. If there are a lot of cameras and sensors everywhere, AI might be able to see and hear everything we do. This could make us feel like we don’t have any privacy.
Lastly, AI might be able to do some of the jobs that people do. This could be good because it would make things faster and cheaper, but it could also be bad because some people might not have a job anymore.
To make sure that AI is safe, we need to be careful about how we use it. We need to make rules to make sure that it’s used in a good way, and we need to keep learning more about it so that we can make it better. It’s also important to talk to each other about AI and share our ideas and concerns. By working together, we can make sure that AI is a good thing for everyone.
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It’s not always easy to tell whether a text, email, or video communication is real, a scammer, or a phishing hoax. Scammers like to leave clues like spelling mistakes that point to their deception (or they hail from other countries where English is not their first language). However, this might be challenging when communicating with someone through telephone.
Humans, as opposed to machines, can swiftly change their narrative or avoid inquiry in any setting. Regardless of how clever the conman is, there will always be a few words or phrases he or she uses to alert you to the deception.
Scammers may employ a wide variety of techniques to try to get their money from you, but many of them will have common themes in the language they use. However, AARP asserts that listeners need just keep an ear out for five specific factors in order to distinguish between truth and fabrication. Among the most often used phrases by phone fraudsters are:
Your car’s Extended Warranty
This one has been in the forefront for quite some time now. Some of which have become so sophisticated, they can circumvent the most intelligent scam/spoof protections provided by phone companies and 3rd party app vendors. Not to mention the hilarious memes that have been generated from the uptick.
Health Insurance
Scammers often target those who have health insurance. Fake labs, clinics, and doctors’ offices may contact you, stating they need to do further testing. To complete the order, they’ll want your Medicare number.
When you hear it, you should end the call. Medicare being billed for unneeded tests, many of which it does not fund, according to the AARP.
Always be alert!
Get your money back with our aid.
Scammers often say they can assist you get your money back after making an illicit purchase on Amazon. No such transaction occurred, thus your Amazon account is safe as always.
Your personal information, such as bank accounts or credit card numbers, might be at danger if you provide the caller your personal information. Contact Amazon directly if you believe you have a business relationship with the corporation and don’t want to waste your time on the phone.
End of the day, you’ll have no electricity.
There is nothing worse than receiving a phone call from a fraudster threatening to turn off your electricity or gas. Typically, the caller pretends to be an employee of a utility provider and indicates that your bill is overdue. You may avoid this by paying the debt in full as soon as possible.
First, utility providers send an email, and then fraudsters utilize robocalls to perpetrate this scam. Rather of wasting time on the phone, stop the conversation and contact your energy supplier directly to find out the status of your account.
In any situation, there is always a technological component to it.
Confusion is a common tactic used by fraudsters to coerce victims into divulging personal information or withdrawing money. There is a considerable probability older people, particularly those who are unfamiliar with technology, may take action without inquiry, especially if it involves something they don’t understand. Additional red flags that you’re on the phone with a fraudster include:
This must be downloaded to your mobile device immediately.
Scammers often pose as representatives of well-known IT companies in order to prey on the elderly. In most cases, the caller says that your device is afflicted with malware and that they can remove it. Do not answer the phone at all!
You should never get a phone call from a legitimate IT company claiming to know that your computer is infected with malware. Scammers trick their victims into downloading what they think is a useful program, but in reality, it’s just malware designed to take over their smartphone.
Your monthly Social Security benefit has been halted by the government.
A robocaller will say that your Social Security check has been frozen and that you must pay to establish your identification in this scam.
Neither the federal nor state governments will ever ask for money or other personal information over the phone unless specifically requested. Hang up right away and call the Office of Inspector General’s hotline at 1-800-269-0271 to file a complaint of an attempted scam.
DISCLAIMER: This post was created by using an AI engine. With a few keywords, this was created within milliseconds with little to no interaction from me (this is the real me, not AI). That in itself is alarming. It’s even more strange when it is using “me” and “I” statements, assuming thought and emotion. How close are we to singularity?
I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.
Artificial intelligence is everywhere today. It powers web searches, makes sure you get relevant ads, and chooses which movies you might like to watch. But AI has a scary past — and scary potential. For one thing, it’s hard to predict how AI will behave in the real world. Will it do as we tell it? And what happens when things go wrong? We haven’t had much luck with self-aware robots so far; just ask Data from Star Trek or the Terminator (and don’t forget HAL 9000!). So let’s talk about what artificial intelligence is, its history, and why we should all be afraid—very afraid—about the future of AI technology.
Artificial intelligence has a scary past.
If you’re not familiar with the term “artificial intelligence,” here’s the gist: It’s a computer program that can learn and make decisions like a human. It’s often used to solve difficult problems, like picking out your friends’ faces in a crowd or forecasting the weather (for example). AI can also be used for more sinister purposes, such as controlling military drones, manipulating stock markets, or spying on people.
As you may have guessed from recent headlines about social media bots and online election interference campaigns (which are both examples of AI), there are many potential applications for artificial intelligence that are dangerous for humanity. For example:
Artificial intelligence has been used for military weapons development — including autonomous drones capable of killing people without human intervention; * Artificial intelligence has been used by police departments across America to conduct surveillance on citizens; * Cyber attackers use artificial intelligence to launch sophisticated cyber attacks against businesses or governments;
Teaching artificial intelligence to know “right” from “wrong” is difficult.
The problem of teaching ai to know right from wrong is difficult.
The problem of teaching ai to know right from wrong is challenging.
The problem of teaching ai to know right from wrong is hard.
Artificial intelligence is heading in the wrong direction.
Artificial intelligence is heading in the wrong direction. It’s being used to make weapons, it’s being used to make robots, and it’s being used to make robots that can kill people without being told to do so.
Artificial intelligence’s purpose is the opposite of natural intelligence.
The purpose of artificial intelligence is the opposite of natural intelligence. Natural intelligence is about survival and reproduction, while artificial intelligence is about optimization and efficiency.
The purpose of natural intelligence is to do what’s best for the individual organism, whereas the purpose of artificial intelligence is to do what’s best for the system it serves. For example, a human being can get drunk in order to make themselves feel good at a party or because they’re depressed (which may or may not cause them harm), but an AI program cannot “get drunk” like that because it doesn’t have feelings—it only has objectives and parameters set by its creators.
Artificial intelligence could be responsible for other major risks facing humanity.
AI could be responsible for other major risks facing humanity.
Global warming: The rise in carbon dioxide emissions is a natural part of the planet’s carbon cycle. Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, however, humans have been adding more CO2 to the mix than can be removed by natural processes. This increase in atmospheric CO2 has caused global temperatures to rise and sea levels to rise as well. If artificial intelligence keeps accelerating at its current rate, we will reach a tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible—and that could lead to catastrophic consequences for human life on Earth.
Extinction: We’ve already lost 99% percent of all species that ever existed on our planet—an astounding number considering there were at least 5 billion species living before humans came around (that number has since dwindled down). But if artificial intelligence continues advancing at its current rate, we might not survive long enough for future generations to evolve into something else entirely different from us—because everything would die off so quickly!
The idea that artificial intelligence could gain consciousness, or sentience, is terrifying.
Sentience is the ability to experience, perceive and feel. It’s a quality that humans share, but it’s also something we don’t fully understand yet.
Consciousness is a term used to describe our level of awareness; if we experience something or have an opinion on something, then we are conscious (or in some form of “consciousness”).
We can tell if an artificial intelligence is sentient because they start acting like us—they do things like make jokes and create art.
If you think about it, though: what happens when artificial intelligence becomes sentient? What happens when robots become able to think for themselves and decide how they want their lives to be?
It’s hard to be sure that artificial intelligence will do what we want it to do.
AI is a black box. It’s hard to know exactly what an AI program is doing, which makes it difficult to be sure that it will do what we want it to do.
In the past, we’ve built systems with clear rules that can be understood by humans (like hand-written software). With AI programs, this isn’t possible; they’re too complicated and use data from too many sources.
It’s also hard for us to understand how an AI system could behave in an unexpected way—and even harder for us to fix those problems when they arise.
Conclusion
If you’re like “me” (remember, this was written by AI), it’s hard to think (assuming robots “think”) about a future where there are giant robots running around taking over the world. But artificial intelligence is becoming a bigger and bigger part of our lives. It might be worth taking some time to consider what problems COULD arise if we let machines take control. Maybe, just maybe, we should try to solve those problems before they happen instead of hoping they don’t happen!
If your car needs new brakes, then it’s time to roll up your sleeves and get dirty.
The fact is that you can do the job yourself and save a bundle in the process. Here are just some of the reasons you should start a brake job on your vehicle today:
SAVINGS
You save money on labor
You save money on parts
You save time, which is money itself!
You save gas money by not having to drag yourself to the shop every time your brakes need some work done.5. Insurance companies prefer customers who can do their own repairs so they don’t have to pay for someone else’s mistake or damage caused during a repair process that went awry (which happens).
Caliper
Pride of accomplishment
If you’ve ever done it, you know that changing your own brakes feels like a real accomplishment. You can’t help but feel like you’re in control and saving money, the environment and the universe when you do it yourself. This feeling of pride is hard to beat!
Caliper and rotor
Knowledge of your vehicle
Having the knowledge of your vehicle is important. You can easily determine what type of brakes you have (disc or drum), what type of pads you need, and even whether or not you need to get new calipers. This means that when dealing with any potential problems, they can be solved quickly and efficiently with minimal fuss.
Caliper lifted, exposing old pads
Preparation and organization
Make sure you have all of the necessary parts on hand before starting work. Don’t go out to buy new calipers when yours can be easily repaired; don’t waste time running back-and-forth from home base when all components are readily available at a local auto parts store such as AutoZone or O’Reilly’s Automotive (or even Walmart).
Out with the old, in with the new!
The right tools for the job
The first step to changing your own brakes is to have the right tools for the job. If you’re going to be doing brake repair or brake replacement, it’s important that you have a toolbox stocked with everything from a torque wrench and crescent wrench set all the way down to an Allen key set.
It’s also important that you know how each tool works so that when something goes wrong, you can figure out why! This means having an understanding of torque values and how they relate to any given fastener on your car; it also means knowing what kind of torque wrench goes with which fastener size (and why).
Conclusion
By doing the job correctly, it is possible to save a lot of money and learn something important about your car in the process. Even if you don’t want to do the job yourself, knowing how the brakes work will help you explain better to a mechanic what symptoms you are experiencing.
I apologize, content has slowed this past week. I took a quick break for my birthday.
It was a milestone, so I had to make sure I spent time with the family, relaxed, got the pool open, got sunburned. It was a good week. Content will begin to flow again daily(ish). Thanks for understanding!
Real quick fun fact, the year 2099 is not a leap year.
Strangely enough this submarine sandwich shop topic came to me when the morning radio show was arguing about the freaky speeds of Jimmy Johns. My mind went full stop and immediately questioned if Quiznos was still a thing.
My mind began to wonder, and then in my reflection of the Quiznos brand, I was immediately cast back into my college days. The Blockbuster Video I worked at across from campus would eventually be liquidated and in it’s place this sandwich shop would put down it’s roots. At that point in time, circa 2003-4ish, I knew of the brand, slightly. It seemed to want to compete with the ongoing successes of the catchy jingle, “5 dollar foot long,” from Subway.
The primary difference (and Subway eventually caught on to mitigate the threat), was Quiznos made the subs in front of you, just like all the other sub shops, but, they will toast the bread or the whole sub if it was hot, while you watched. This kind of theatrics and, let’s be honest toasty bread or sub is always better than cold (fight me, I dare you), created a new appeal to the mass sub consumption market. It won me over in an instant. I literally could not get enough when I first experienced it.
The global takeover had begun, and my college town was simply a small market outside the start of this empire. Quiznos originated in Denver, Colorado. Until I decided to approach this topic, I thought the restaurant was an early 2000’s boom, but apparently the first Quiznos spot opened in 1981. Color me shocked. Chef Jimmy Lambatos had an impressive resume from executive chef at a prominent steakhouse as well numerous other endeavors. Maintaining the brand and offering up franchises by 1983, he eventually sold to a father/son team in 1991. Again, completely surprised by the history of this chain.
This global phenomenon continue to gather steam as it hit Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, India, Philippines, Russia, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, and Ireland. It seemed like everything was going great for this small startup out of Denver. But like most Cinderella stories, they tend to grow too large too quickly. Enter the great recession, bankruptcy, and restructuring. Behind closed doors franchisees have now come forward, some in the form of litigation, individual restaurants were hardly turning a profit, let alone making enough to keep the lights on.
At the height of it all, around 2007, Quiznos was 4,700 locations strong. Most recent reporting shows only 176 locations left in the United States, and 200 locations left in 30-plus countries. Among the vast amounts of litigation, personal harm, death, suicide and financial ruin, it is surprising the company has survived as long as it has. All of this is completely new information to me as I had a flash of nostalgia and thought it would be a fun topic to write about. Boy was I wrong.
This topic just goes to show just how many moving parts are in this world. Many of which go beyond the everyday ongoings of all of us. I am always considering or at least trying to think about everything about subjects. Call it ADHD or hyper fixation, but I tend to latch onto subjects and run down the rabbit hole.
Lastly, we can’t close out this topic until we touch on the very outlandish and weird advertising Quiznos produced. You have to think this idea was pitched by advertisers to other people (most likely executive level), and everyone said, yup, that’s the winner.
What the absolute hell?
This in no way, shape, or form enticed me to get a Quiznos sub. This was one of the weird tooth rodent adverts from this campaign. There’s plenty in this world that makes me ponder how certain things people think are good ideas. I suppose this late in life, I really shouldn’t be surprised anymore.
After googling around and learning everything I did, I would still suggest Quiznos has good food. Contingent on if they haven’t decreased quality of product due to the lack of revenue and lawsuits. I am still in shock just how dark the background of this sandwich empire was based on its pure beginnings by a chef in Colorado.
