Thanks for posting this. I love this painting. I have a 10,000 piece puzzle of this on my wall that my father put together. It is pretty amazing and large, but that helps make it easier to see the zany scenes.

Not sure how all that can be separated out meaningfully as it is the platform being used and advertisers have expectations based on whatever agreement has been struck between them. Maybe I misunderstood. Perhaps the difference in your example is a user acting versus a bot? Intent probably comes up somewhere as well, but I am not a lawologist. 🤷‍♂️

My understanding is that the contractual agreement with advertisers is that they pay to reach ears. The ads did not reach any ears as promised which could be equated to fraud.

To be clear to those just reading your comment without clicking through to your reference, the engine is not plastic. The block is still metal, as are the internal parts, but there are a lot of plastic bits all over joining things together (cheaper and perhaps planned obsolescence). Too many parts on the engine being plastic obviously makes for reliability issues (as your link describes).

Yes. Especially the monkey. It looked so cool I use that one as an avatar in some games.

Reminds me of the anti-smoking campaign using animals. They did look cooler.

I sail the high seas these days, so that's something! ;)

As it is with many teens, I had quite a difficult time with anyone telling me hwat to do. The military is all about that. Hard pass.

I scored very high (I peaked in high school). The Navy was at my house a short time later offering me a job as a nuclear tech in a submarine. Sit in a sub for months on end? It was a hot and quick "no" from me.

TIL about the Darth Valley Challenge. Thanks for that!

Boeing whistleblower. Worked there 30-years and was on travel giving depositions and showed up dead in the carpark. Initial report is a "self-inflicted" wound, but even if Boeing didn't kill him, it doesn't look good.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703

I've used this joke IRL with our cats. There's another one for dogs:

A guy and a dog walk into a bar. The bartender says, "hey, you can't bring a dog in here."

The guy says, "this is no ordinary dog. He's a talking dog."

Bartender says, "yeah? Prove it." The guy turns to the dog and says, "What's on top of the building?" And the dog says "Roof! Roof!"

Then the guy says, "How does a brick feel?" The dog says "Rough! Rough!"

The guy then says, "Who was the greatest ballplayer of all time?" The dog says "Ruth! Ruth!"

They are thrown out of the bar.

When they're out on the street, the dog turns to the man and says, "So, you think I should have said DiMaggio?"

When I was a yout, they had trucks with a huge tank and a sprayer on the back. The truck would drive all the country roads spraying the dirt with waste oils. This was done to keep the dust down. Smelled terrible. Miles and miles of dirt roads that ran all around by rivers and lakes.

It is crazy to think about that now.