Ben Wright

The government is shooting priests in the head with pepper balls. I feel like this is a kitchen table issue.

Not paying furloughed federal employees definitely won't come to bite anyone in the ass in the midterms.

ChatGPT struggles with basic tasks

I needed an updated graphic to promote an event. I had the logo but with last year's date. I told ChatGPT to change 2024 to 2025. It did. And it changed all of the colors in the white and blue logo. I did 6 rounds of revisions and gave up without a working logo.

I lived in Mt. Uniacke for two years. The trees were probably the highlight.

This. The point isn't to arrest people. It's to give the impression that they're watching everyone, and that will be enough to silence a whole lot of people.

But were the trial.participants happy with their improved levels of social impairment?

"Hell is other people." -Sartre

I read comments on the Facebook page for an East Cobb megachurch. There were a lot of complaints that the church didn't say enough to honor Kirk or address the shooting.

But not all of the states represented by 2 Democratic senators because he doesn't have the nerve to go after Georgia.

Today is the last day for NBA Digital-Turner Sports, which has been managing the NBA website for almost two decades.

It employed about 80 people in Atlanta including some former colleagues and friends of mine.

Best of luck to everyone looking for their next landing spot.

That thing is literally older than the commercial sale of sliced bread.

Bags of ketchup flavored lattice potato chips in Traders Joe's.

Normalize selling ketchup flavoured potato chips in America.

These ones aren't great, but it's a start.

No question there. The treatment of Kirk alone would get them excommunicated in plenty of eras.

An Autistic Academic — Mask Off Experiencing a day at work with and without masking as an autistic academic has made me realize how much energy it takes to keep that…

My former colleague @schulzscience.bsky.social wrote a great Medium piece about going mask off as a postdoc.

medium.com/@SchulzScien...

Mormons aren't Christians is a much easier argument to make from a doctrinal/theological standpoint.

Spend 10 minutes on this page and you'll see some pretty big differences between Mormonism and mainstream Christian beliefs.

www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual...

"Mormons aren't Christians" is still very much a common mainstream protestant stance.

So colse. 8 out of 9 played for the Thrashers. There was no goalie option for Minnesota that played in Atlanta.

My Christian college had a puppet ministry team and they were exactly the kind of people you would expect to be part of a college puppet ministry team.

We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes.

That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.

Hopefully your Tim Horton's experience wasn't as big of a letdown as this game, but I'm not holding my breath.

Never underestimate what people went through to move to America, or what motivated them to do it.

20 years agio this week I moved to Atlanta as an immigrant. As an English-speaking white male with an American graduate degree the deck was stacked in my favor, and it was still a hard, lengthy, and expensive process to get a green card and eventually citizenship.

Back in the day when I worked at the KMart on University Avenue there would be a bunch of Monte Carlos parked handy Burger King on Friday and Saturday nights, all lined up window to window so they could chat without getting out. They weren't from town but I can't recall where they drove in from.

Hell shake down some of the bigger corporations for "donations" to his library and they'll get waivers.

Seems kind of extortiony.

And Belgian fries.

I joined a gym a year ago and it's one of the best communities I've ever been a part of. My mother-in-law passed recently and more people from my gym asked how I was doing than people from my church ( the same church my mother-in-law attended).

Also, I hit a deadlift PR today. Join a gym.

It means you have a refined palate.

Pizza from RaceTrac. Warm soft pretzels from BP.

Dances are dying. Homecoming the kids get dressed up, take pictures, go to dinner and a party. They don't care about the dance. And the groups are often segregated by gender.