One of the ways I'm picky is that I won't spend 72 dollars for a towel or 600 for a pair of slippers.

I need that money for books, for one thing.

How could you give away that super secret twist!

Text from a manual, reading, in part, "For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal."

Again, the illegality of firing on shipwrecked mariners is so absurdly well established that it is used in the manual training material as the example of an order *so obviously illegal* that no further information would be required for a servicemember to be obligated to refuse it.

Blowing them up would be more in genre... 🤔

Yes capture a younger viewership using a TV show from the mid 80s 😄

Be kind, hooded robe makers also need to know what exact fabric to buy.

Warbler in picture looks like friend. Warbler in photo looks like drunk friend who's about to pick a fight.

Something about the head tilt

I think we should all take a moment to appreciate just how incompetent you have to be as an administration to be screw up tricking the modern US into a war.

Wow in front of a bus even proving there is no driver worried they might just be crushed

YouTube video by Old Growth Boreal Ballad of Tom Bombadil

Well, someone went out and made the song, and it is *chef's kiss* www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbGw...

The only proper revenge is to answer that question in long form with proper citations from his letters and notes and do not permit an intermission during the presentation.

The nature of orcs is after all a pretty important question which Tolkien himself approached differently at different times.

They bring worthwhile conversation so Jesus doesn't get bored.

Some day there will be a Bird and Moon / False Knees crossover where snarky birds are drawn so accurately that real birds learn to snark from them.

They're an infinite stack of scorpions each one stinging the one below and the one at the top stinging itself just to make sure.

The key is that you misspelled it with vigorous confidence as befits your station.

I know it's plus five but it made Kragar donate half his loot to the orphans his looting created...

And it's not like it's vorpal anyway.

There's only one more really unsurprising development to go in this arc.

I wonder if driving all your billionaires out of state is even net negative. Because you lose some recurring tax revenue but they go ask a different state legislature for kickbacks for their projects and stop warping your politics. Could be budget neutral in the end.

@rosemarymosco.com wrote a whole book about pigeons and would know

Fluffy murderfeets

"everything getting blent idgaf" words to live by

If you said this a month ago about Charlie Kirk, Trump's FCC would move to remove your broadcast license and every right winger in America would be calling your boss to get you fired.

I've written about "disordered counterpublics" groups that reinforce shared delusions Here, the LLM becomes a 1 person counterpublic. It mirrors assumptions, absorbs contradictions, & provides the sense of a responsive, confirming audience.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.

That was a great article, thanks.

I've read some of those posted excerpts and I don't think someone is ready for them until at least 3 weeks after their last surgical followup visit.

If it actually texts like Jesus it's gonna get low ratings for being too woke.

The words "FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE" placed over David Lynch's face (a still from TWIN PEAKS THE RETURN).

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

You tease

Well Radagast respects that this is a story about your Companions.

Saruman knows that all stories are about him.

Is there a frame in the supplement to play that as a rom-com? Or maybe as Austen?

Saruman enters, his countenance stormy.

Leticia Underbuck, Hobbit Adventuress: "Isn't he wonderful?"