It was a toxic garbage heap way before 2016. I remember creating an account to try building karma there back in about 2011 when doing that was seen as a good way to land senior job roles. Gave up very quickly.

The whole point of StackExchange is that it contained everything that isn’t in the docs.

I’m still slightly wary of them after (mildly) burning a knuckle attempting a whole strip

One thing I find crazy is that at least half of all monitors today are the same res as CRTs from a quarter century ago. I had a $250 no-name brand CRT that handled 1600x1200 quite beautifully in the 1990s.

Never met her but there’s a chance she might genuinely not have known.

My grandparents and great-grandparents thought a lot of family stuff was worth something but they never actually got it professionally valued. One thing that really stuck out was an ornate silver tea set that looked really nice, was in great condition, was a complete set, hallmarked, turned out to be worth fuck all because nobody actually wants silver tea sets in the 21st century, but they were a big thing a hundred years ago so there’s millions of them out there flooding the market.

There was also a minor hoo-hah over inheritance of the family piano, which then turned out to be a mass-produced budget model that was no longer physically able to be tuned to concert pitch without risk of damage. Turns out budget pianos don’t become antique, they just become old and you have to pay someone to take it away.

I defy OP to link me to a source of someone both:

1. unironically making fun of Superman for having a rock as his weakness, and

2. not already being challenged immediately on their statement within that same source

It’s a fucking chatbot. We should be worried when it can’t be persuaded to say mad things.

I’m willing to bet that at least half of these “look at the mad things Grok said” pieces were planted by Elmo’s own media team.