Robert Brydon

Funny, seems to be a very specific idea of which children should be protected. And a biracial teen is someone "the children" need protection from. I wonder if there is some qualifier to "the children" that's being left unspoken...

(although they don't give an f- about trans white kids either)

I mean, there are people I believe when they say "I didn't call the police, I didn't want to be responsible for someone getting shot 'resisting arrest'"

But it ain't this guy.

It's a movie that got far better performances out of everyone than the material or the message deserved.

That's the "problem" when you cast someone as genuinely charming as Terry Crews to play a one-dimensional joke of a character.

Dude decided to follow me after only a few posts of banter, and I figure it's not worth finding out why, blocked like I should have in the first place.

The best thing is, it's equally valid logic six months later when you're looking at the next purchase!

I mean, I don't know, if the complaint is inconsistent and she can't be trusted, you have to say that those WhatsApp messages are part of her overall inconsistency. I wonder why that is the *one* thing she said that clearly was the absolute truth.

I forget, are priors a thing you confirm?

I really like that her statements are reliable and incontrovertible in a WhatsApp message where she was telling her employer what they wanted to hear.

But once she is filing documents with the courts (where obviously lying would be consequence free) her word is worth nothing.

Assuming that there are one or more you have your eye on, I have it on good authority that adding them will still be just under the line of "too many", and at that point you will no longer be tempted by more. So really, it's in your best interest to get it/them.

Honestly I think Moonman/Majohn came out looking better -- while companies turn out actual counterfeits of more famous brands, Moonman doesn't label or mark their pens misleadingly. And even their most "copycat" designs can provide new options -- I prefer the body of their A1/A2 to actual Pilot VPs.

In my opinion as a layperson (not a lawyer nor trademark specialist), this was a petty and blatant retaliation, as Kaweco hadn't been, and still isn't doing anything to use the "Moonman" name, and the confusion and difficulty caused to Moonman/Majohn was the point of it.

Kaweco (Germany) claimed some Moonman pens were copying theirs (specifically use of octagonal caps). Regardless of how one feels about copycat designs, it wasn't legally actionable. But Kaweco decided to trademark "Moonman" in Europe, which meant Moonman/Majohn couldn't keep selling under that name.

And my wife, Morgan Fairchild, yeah!

Which does make sense, given that one retroactively sent message, when being pressured to say something exculpatory by someone paying you, and in contradiction to many other statements and testimony does not automatically disprove them.

Given that many people are not persuaded by that, it does seem, defintionally, to be unpersuasive.

If they try to come after Respect for Marriage Acr with some theory that the Constitution's Full Faith and Credit clause doesn't apply to same sex or interracial marriage because the founders wouldn't have considered those legitimate public records by states, that's the Alito/Thomas-bait I fear.

If the state of Kentucky were suing saying federalism and originalism meant the US can't require them to provide same sex marriages, I'd be a lot more worried. But it is hard to pivot her complaint to a "leave it up to the states" because her state isn't even aying they'd agree with her.

I'm not a lawyer, nor an expert, but it makes sense to me -- they have avoided explicitly saying "the law needs to change because this version of Christianity demands it", and that's the only way the public could understand a reversal with this vehicle.

At least it generates text suggesting absolute certainty and authoritativeness. The confident, almost patronizing voice is dialed in.

Someone less kind might wonder what "AI" leaders think is the most important part of communication, conveying information, or being thought to have conveyed it.

Without doing any research on the history of the term, nor with any particular expertise on the subject, I will jump in as a man to say with 100% authoritative confidence that one does not need to be correct to be mansplaining.

Yeah, it's an impressive technical achievement to be able to construct such a cromulant explanation of utter nonsense. But examples like this make it so clear it built to deliver text that is shaped like an authoritative explanation of facts, and not to deliver actual facts or reasoning.

Hard to rhyme and/or figure out the meter for words that appear to the digital art equivalent of an ink stain as the middle syllable.

SondheimGPT starts rapping:

Brains, brains, nothing but brains
Rib cage, stomach, irestines and digestve and
Recatiners and urtestines and
Pectoes alðainnis

...

But I'm telling you the same
I tell kings and thanes
Don't ever never ever
Mess around with my brains!
Especially the... Clamium(?)

Like, when I'm calibrating a scale with reference weights, I'm not doing it because I want to find out if my 50 gram weight is actually still 50 grams, it's because I want to find out if the scale works.

If it can't be trusted when I know the answer already, there's no point asking new questions.

It's a defense that misses a big part of the point, in my opinion. While the text generated is obviously and trivially incorrect it is presented with such an authoritative voice.

Who reads that and thinks, "But when the question is one I don't know the answer to already, that's when I trust it!"

It's so terrible but something just comes across as extra hilarious to me when it just sputters out of anatomical terms to mangle and the last few labels just say "Nerves" one after the other.

I assume any gross food prep thing is actually a fetish video.

Whether that's someone genuinely thinking other people will enjoy the thing they do, or if the fetish is making a significant portion of the Internet watch and share them doing it, who can say?

Um... I think you may need to show your work there.

The outcome of any genetically engineered lifeform is still, well, a lifeform, and most of the solar system is pretty intrinsically not suited for life as we know it, period.

Big if true!

Doesn't hurt that it's objectively* the best paper out there too.

* In my subjective opinion, of course.