@coreyspowell you could build a whole lot of Superconducting Super Colliders and JWSTs for the cost of one gigantic "AI" fraud company.

@EnfysBook (2) The one company with a suitable size product cannot manage to ship it without literal weeks of delay, or answer the specific questions I send them about the shipment, or find my address once they finally do. But somebody in Sevilla, 400 km away in a different country, apparently has a nice new blanket now. 6 weeks in after the second order failed because the shipping company could not find my address (down to the building by zip code) or contact me to ask about it, I gave up.

@EnfysBook I've been trying for 4 months to get a 230x240 cm blanket that's actually sized to my mattress, instead of the 240x270 that drapes to the floor and confuses poor Xiulan, the robovac.

(1) Amazon.es search for '230x240 cm blanket' and anything similar returns about 100x as many completely incorrectly sized products as what I specifically asked for. Their search took another precipitous dive into the Abyss after "AI".

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@stux it seems like a natural evolution from this to Shaolin pole fighting: https://shaolinkungfulibrary.com/pages/72-arts-of-shaolin-28-poles-of-plum-bloom