I've also been involved with projects that were retro-activly renamed to AI. Implemented a new oldskool search algorithm? That's AI now! Simple decision tree with static weights? AI!

Nobody wants investors or customers to think you're doing a bad job not putting AI in stuff, even if it doesn't really help or isn't a use case for anything related to AI.

Wait? You guys have intelligence?

If it works and it's stupid - It's still stupid but damn those make for good pictures on the internet

Brighter? Thank god Bandai Namco fixed their logo for Elden Ring, that flashbang can give you eye damage.

We always put a couple of bells on the bottom of the tree. Because they are shiny and round, the cats always go for them first. This alerts us and we can verbally berate them for messing with the tree. This works most of the time to keep them in check. Even when I'm upstairs and I hear the bells I call down: "I know what you are doing" and they slink off. Sometimes they just ignore me and play with the tree anyways, which is fine because the bottom row is all plastic balls they can play with as much as they like.

I remember the first time one of our cats saw a Christmas tree, when he was a little kitten. I turned around for 10 secs, looked back and he was sitting proud on top of the tree. I laughed my ass off, until he realized he had no real way of getting down. So I laughed some more and fetched him off the tree. Good to get it out of the system I think, because he didn't try that again.

And when you try to stand back up you make this involuntarily grunt sound that alerts everyone as well

AKSHUALLY, LaForge doesn't view through the visor with his eyes, he has special implants that connect directly to his nervous system. It was these implants that allowed the Romulans to subvert him. Because Wesley does not have these implants, *nerd snort* this meme is factually incorrect and makes no sense

Because instead of just growing your beard out for a couple of days and trim it to be like Will Rikers, you plaster on some fake sideburns and hope nobody notices. Perfect strategy, I don't know how that would ever not work perfectly.

I always feel like Microsoft is watching meeeeeee! And I have no product key woo ooo ooo

It's kinda funny, most Vulcans in the time of ENT think humans are just barely coherent monkeys. They basically think humans have cooties and if they interact too much with them they get the cooties as well. Then they send along T'Pol to be their nanny and Soval to watch over them. But as they interact more with humans, their values rub off on them and both become "corrupted" from a Vulcan point of view. I can just imagine all the other Vulcans going like: See! I told you interacting with humans makes your mind go to mush! And they smell bad too!

I dug around in old boxes and found the book!

We used to have a fancy ass fire alarm system in the 90s and early 2000s. At a couple of points in the house there were detectors, each with a battery, power connected and connected to each other. If one of them detected smoke or heat, they would all start beeping. They would flash every 10 secs to let you know it is in sync, but they would also emit a small beep every 10 mins or so. They never ran out of power since they were connected to mains voltage with a battery backup. The battery was rated to be replaced every 10 years, but I think it was one of those that basically went on forever.

I got used to it after a while, but every now and again I would start noticing the beeps and could not stop noticing them. My dad was proud of them, he paid a lot of money to get them and get them installed.