"Too Many Cooks"
OR
"One toque over the line"

I don't know offhand but I strongly suspect everything related to AI is defaulted to on/show.

DDG's description of that feature:

If you don't want AI-generated images to show up in DuckDuckGo image search results, you can filter them out a few different ways:

1. Anytime you’re viewing image search results in the Images tab on DuckDuckGo search, you can click the AI images filter and select Hide to reload results without AI-generated content.
2. Alternatively, open Search Settings > General or Search Settings > AI Features and turn on Hide AI-Generated Images.
3. Finally, if you want a search experience without AI-generated images, without Search Assist answers, and without Duck.ai prompts and entry points, start your searches on noai.duckduckgo.com instead of duckduckgo.com.

How does DuckDuckGo filter out AI-generated images in search results?

We rely on publicly available lists to filter out AI-generated content, like those provided by uBlockOrigin & uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist, an open-source blocklist, manually curated by project contributors.

These lists are not exhaustive, but our aim with the “AI images” filter is to filter out as much AI-generated content as possible.

I run Firefox on Linux Mint with uBlockOrigin and uMatrix addons (with modified settings) so I can't speak to the universality of my results, but it seems like DDG is pretty loose with how it categorizes and displays info.

1. With AI images set to hide on first search for "morse code chart" I get the following: Hide

2. Toggling the AI image setting to show instantly changes the results and displays these: Show (instant)

3. Without additional changes, just clicking the search button again slightly changes the results: show (re-search)

4. Toggling the AI image setting back to hide again instantly changes the results to: Hide (instant)

5. Re-running the search as is returns the same results as #1.

I've also previously had horrible luck getting the date filters to work when trying to use a bookmarklet style shortcut to add the dates as parameters in the address bar (they're just completely ignored when a search is run that way for me), and as of ~2 days ago the date range just didn't seem to work at all. I was trying to find a human authored post/article about the difference between opossums and possums and using a date range of 1950--2015 was still ONLY returning results post-2023 and they were all wordy slop.

Most important error is that you have AI results set to show instead of hide.

I'm really bad about even consistently playing VR games for fun, let alone for exercise. But once I finally make space, boot up the gaming pc and reconnect the VR kit, it's almost always worth the effort and I kick myself a bit for not playing more often. I do have fairly annoying stick drift on my (Index) controllers though, so that strongly dissuades/prevents me from playing games that are designed around using them.

It's been a couple years since I've really played any Beat Saber, but I think my favorite custom map just for fun was "Happy" by C2C (YouTube vid [not mine])

If you want to work out your legs you might want to check out Pistol Whip.

Probably Fundamental attribution error. Basically, that we judge others by their actions but ourselves by our intentions.

In 20 years the only people who will remember you worked late will be your kids.
Your job posting will be up before your obituary.

Even aside from the soap opera-like conversation, the timestamps seem pretty suspect to me. Even assuming STT input it seems unlikely both sides (especially with one being ostensibly emotionally distraught) would be reading and responding within a minute each time.

Just remember laws evidently don't hold any real weight anymore so nothing is settled until it's settled. Here's one of many articles about intentions to block back pay: https://apnews.com/article/trump-federal-workers-back-bay-shutdown-785eb776d2312d1f68f7e91961d0a93a

Johnson, a lawyer, said he hadn’t fully read the memo but “there are some legal analysts who are saying” that it may not be necessary or appropriate to repay the federal workers.

That website is loaded with ads (of course), has no information about itself/staff, and most of the links in the whole "digital chew" footer don't resolve to anything.

Saved this comment from somewhere, probably Reddit:

I've actually been using the cars analogy for a couple months now and I think it's very fitting. Imagine if you were a mechanic who owned an auto shop and your average customer call went something like this:

Customer: My car isn't working and I need you to fix it immediately, this is an emergency
Mechanic: Alright sir what seems to be the problem?
Customer: I don't know, I tried to use my car on friday and it didn't work, now it's monday and I need to get to work and I can't and this needs to be fixed right now.
Mechanic: Can you start the car? Can you even get into your car? Does it make any sounds when you try to start it? Are all 4 tires there?
Customer: I don't know, I don't know what any of that stuff means, I tried to get to work and it wouldn't let me and you need to fix it now because you changed my oil 6 months ago.
Mechanic: Alright well what kind of car are you driving?
Customer: I don't know, a green one, why does that matter?
Mechanic: Please take a look at the back of your car and see if there are any letters or numbers that would indicate a vehicle model or manufacturer
Customer: Ok, my car is a SV2 87K.
Mechanic: No sir that's your license plate. My records indicate that you drive a Nissan Altima, can you confirm that the key you're using to try and get into this car says Nissan on it?
Customer: My key says Lexus but I don't see how that makes a difference, I've been using this key on this car for years and it's always worked, what did you do to my car?