Watching that show always made me sleepy. It was no Fireball XL5.
04.08.2025 22:41 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@ggunhouse.bsky.social
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Watching that show always made me sleepy. It was no Fireball XL5.
04.08.2025 22:41 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I just encountered "les estuves" in searching for the etymology of "stew," which brought up a lot of info on baths. For example: www.etymonline.com/word/stew
04.08.2025 02:01 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0I was reminded of the later Lumbermen's Arch by a news story about the destruction of a beloved log on Kitsilano Beach:
vancouversun.com/news/iconic-...
The original "Lumbermen's Arch" in Vancouver, constructed as one of several parade arches for the visit of the Duke of Connaught in 1912.
vancouversun.com/news/local-n...
"The only way to win is not to play" = Wargames. There's a similar scenario in Colossus, but it is resolved in a different and more pessimistic way.
29.07.2025 18:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I just learned that Elon Musk called his supercomputer "Colossus," which is weird because the computer named "Colossus" in the 1970 science-fiction film was the villain of the movie.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0064...
I get apoplectic when I see a movie set in the late 18th century, but people are wearing eyeglasses from the 1860s.
27.07.2025 20:42 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Where can I find your review?
27.07.2025 16:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Image from the link above:
22.07.2025 14:38 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0In the real world, you could have a look at the Ste. Chapelle in Paris. thirdeyetraveller.com/wp-content/u...
22.07.2025 14:37 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Finally, a good example for others.
17.07.2025 02:15 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I think in Thomas Paine's day, that building was a pizza joint.
15.07.2025 15:22 β π 92 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0As others have pointed out, Isaiah 10:1-2 (just a few verses later) reads: "Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless."
11.07.2025 18:48 β π 10 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Google's "AI Overview" (which I do not want to see but cannot get rid of) just justified one of its statements by pointing me to a source that was itself entirely AI-generated.
10.07.2025 15:33 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You are right to ask this question. The post should have said, "He claimed to have deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs, but in fact he had not."
09.07.2025 13:36 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0See also Matthew 7:21-23.
05.07.2025 19:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0That's pretty colorful grisaille.
02.07.2025 13:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Expelling people from their home country as punishment for a crime is called "exile." It was common in ancient Rome. Here's an article advocating it for the U.S.A., published in 2018: thehill.com/opinion/crim...
02.07.2025 12:34 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I think at least some of what you're seeing can be attributed to the intervention of the food stylist.
02.07.2025 12:12 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Is-it-AI image detectors are not reliable. I've tested them by submitting real and AI images made by me, and they often returned the wrong answer.
02.07.2025 02:48 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The image is published with credit to a real-world photographer and food stylist. You think the credit line is a lie?
02.07.2025 02:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0No.
01.07.2025 20:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0You maybe should run your comments through one of the AI "humanizers."
26.06.2025 14:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm dying to find out the correct answer to all the questions that have perplexed humanity for thousands of years, not to mention learning what all the "missing information" might be.
21.06.2025 18:22 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It appeared in a blog entry published in 2021: techworkerscoalition.org/blog/2021/06...
20.06.2025 20:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I was deported by the U.S. for reporting on the Columbia University student protests.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Since you seem to understand him, perhaps you can answer the question of what he means by "a unique tenet of U.S. law." It seems an odd use of the word "unique."
18.06.2025 23:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Yes, it's hardly unique to the U.S.A. Wikipedia gets it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presump...
18.06.2025 18:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 1Here's another version. This one still has the Grok watermark at the lower right. scontent-atl3-3.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-...
17.06.2025 16:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The American Revolution, according to Paine, would decide the question of "whether the king, the greatest enemy this continent hath, or can have, shall tell us 'there shall be no laws but such as I like.'"
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