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When I was in college, every year the English department planned a picnic for Shakespeare's (approximate) birthday, and every year it snowed that day.

It used to be true that lesser cuts and organ meats were cheap. (I ate a lot of beef heart stew on noodles as a kid.) It's very far from true now.

Whitetail lights?

Yeah, I know people who've been directly billed by FedEx and other carriers for those tariffs. MAAAAYBE those people who actually paid a bill (or a bill with a line item) saying TARIFF on it could IN THEORY get some money back someday? But if you just paid a higher price, pffft, never happening.

Presumably you didn't back into the deer at high speed? :)

The alcohol industry would be tits-up if non-voters couldn’t drink.

Lakeside School in Seattle (private prep) started doing this a while back. They also have a sort of walled-garden private AI system that they swear uses their own (renewable) power, etc.

Ironically, that sounds like exactly the sort of busywork a computer could do for you. But an LLM would probably fake the comparison work.

Banquet turkey pot pies. Nutty Buddies.

How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…

Or a Segway.

Why is he nailing them up and not gluing them?

Tangent (as it were): they sell special hip curve rulers. I got one from a free pile because it was cool and of course have yet to use it. It lives magneted to my fridge.

Last I saw it was over $600K.

Boson 8-pack on Amazon (spit) is $19 something right now. So about $2.50 per, plus tax and shipping.

It's Block History month

crickets from the free speech crowd, of course

Beatrix Potter and her brother Bertram (I am not making this up) used to do this kind of thing. IIRC they boiled a fox and articulated its bones.

Spit? Is that an euphemism?

Screenshot of US Department of Justice page with a button saying "I am not a robot"

Why, there's an obvious joke about Asimov right at the link...

Those were old-fashioned *when I was a kid*, which was, erm, some time ago.

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And some of it (I am agreeing with you, not contradicting anything you said) was white male privilege, as well. Lots of people over centuries worked to build and maintain the system favoring white men. No "luck" or "chance" about that at all (apart from it being chance to be born white/male).

Yup. Genes, schmenes. For pete's sake, most of us are RELATED to MAGA folk. I say it's eugenics, and I say the hell with it.

if Murkowski is on something it means the numbers say it's safe for her to be on it without actually risking anything, and that fact is of great interest to me

People are 3D-printing "ghost whistles" with no permits

Uprising in the Trump concentration camp in Dilley, TX

Before Kent State, there was the Orangeburg Massacre at South Carolina State.

We're not trying to one-up you. We're demanding that you put the pieces of the puzzle together.

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