But this year, there have been more than a few complaints that the long-awaited year-end data dump was surprisingly "boring," and reeking of AI.

By Day 7, even with the backyard reeking like an industrial accident at a toothpaste factory, the tiny trio of terrorists was back in full force.

Protests arose, but were violently put down by police; a night or two of being crammed into a reeking jail cell discouraged turning out a second time.

Nearby, a visitor unloaded a carload of excited children and shrugged her shoulders at the reeking piles of trash.

Just over a month later, the little boy was dead, in a once-more squalid house, reeking of cannabis.