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When people bring back a screenshot of a post from Twitter that's like "get a look at this amazing new type of dumb guy" and it turns out the post was a parody it's like when gold rush prospectors would return to town flashing a big nugget and buy drinks on the house and it turns out to be pyrite

Considering the demographics of TSA workers it seems likely the ICE agents will spend a lot of the time trying to arrest or at least report their own coworkers

I like how one style of architecture is named "craftsman" subtly implying every other kind of house is built by people who don't know what they're doing

I might suggest Fritz Haber. Although he did actually invent something really useful to begin with before developing chemical weapons and Zyklon A (yeah the precursor of that)

That's all right. I pray the same thing more or less whenever a pastor exhorts us to be the bigger person or whatever and pray for Trump, so I think it all cancels out

I probably should have asked this earlier but would anyone recommend or recommend against any emergency rooms in the Anaheim area? The one I am in I'm a little nervous about the quality of. It's not for me it's a family member. We're traveling

The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.

I don't know how serious the Firefly backlash is but if it's for real then it validates my longtime hater strategy which is to just seethe quietly and do nothing at all and at some point Everyone Will See. They'll All See

Sorry had to get it out of my system

Didn't someone do a thing a while back where they were like "Cliffs Notes are too long and complicated to read. Let AI summarize the Cliffs Notes for you" or was that a bad dream from when I had a fever

I'm actually not sure if I would gain slightly more or less respect for the franchise if it was Glup Shitto. I guess it really depends how they do it. You could do it well with a light touch or you could do the Elon Musk thing where you beat the meme into the ground and look around for approval

It's great that America is being run by people who thought that we tried to keep peace with other countries out of like charity or politeness or something and not like straightforward cold blooded self interest

As someone who grew up a religious conservative I can tell you when a non Christian "cleverly" uses bible quotes to argue with a religious conservative it's water off a duck's back because they know you don't believe it and are just playing word games. It hits different from someone who believes

As someone who isn't a military knower and assumed most people in it were pretty young I was kind of surprised at the ages. Even more so with names further down thread

A lot of people don't know this but mines disappear if you destroy the boat that put them down, just like if you kill the original vampire, all the vampires he made will die

So as someone who hates crowds and social interaction generally I get the urge to avoid dealing with other people which I think covid made a lot of us even worse about. But like sometimes indulging your urges is unhealthy and you need to brave discomfort and maintain human connections to stay human

The shoes thing is funny but I'm hesitant on how much it matters until I see concrete and material impacts for ordinary people like if it makes Rubio or Vance trip and fall out a window, flailing and clutching at a nearby president in an ultimately futile attempt to halt their fall

Hey random question, do sea mines have the same problem as land mines where even the country that put them down can't guarantee they found all of them when they want to get rid of them later

Mario Day always makes me nervous because on Mar 10 (1) my son broke his arm 5 years ago and (2) my other son broke his tooth last year

In the middle of a podcast series on the French Revolution and there are a lot of surprises for me since I only knew the popular tldr but one is that as a cold war kid I was taught all that 1984 and Animal Farm stuff is specific to communism but the French are doing it here before Marx was invented

Kind of thinking of a theory that skepticism is a satiable appetite. So like if you fill up on being skeptical of doctors and experts and big pharma, you'll feel like oh that's plenty for now and put the skepticism away when people try to sell you on crystals and beef tallow

The part of the Matrix that was supposed to be mind blowing (world an illusion, reality controlled by your belief) didn't really do anything for me but the thing in the sequel about how the first few matrixes didn't work because humans can't believe in a reality that isn't shitty, sticks with me

Why would you call that a "mistake"??

Behind a lot of online resentment towards people in media (not like TV news faces and op-ed writers, just people who write things online, in the less flashy parts of newspapers, etc) is based on the conception they are elites living it up and laughing at you when most are barely scraping by

Hmm in my limited experience when the board demotes the CEO to CTO/CIO and puts in their own CEO that's usually bad. But admittedly I don't have that much experience

You know what's really horrifying is that this happens to people sometimes, like the wrong patient gets wheeled into the operating room and gets their leg amputated. That's why they made it so the nurse/doctor always asks you for your last name and date of birth every time they come into the room

I am an irony enjoyer myself but there's a real danger of irony turning into non-irony that is inevitable if you overdo it, like it's fine to eat weird food additives in the low doses they expect people to eat them at and things go wrong because they didn't think a person would eat 8000 of the thing

I always get excited when I see a headline that says Trump is underwater and then I keep reading and it says "in polls." That's just mean

My reasons for not doing short form video are threefold (1) I have a visceral distaste for the format because it is lossy and difficult to index, and just personal bias, (2) I don't really care about reaching people or growing an audience, and most importantly (3) not hot enough

Oh I just remembered the bizarre "ethnnically ambigaus (sic)" prompt injection people were finding in DALL-E a while back where it would come up in the metadata and even sometimes surface in misspelled generated speech bubbles, even if the user didn't mention it knowyourmeme.com/memes/events...

I feel really uncomfortable with the fact that it seems like a disproportionate amount of AI artists seem to be prompting with some form of "Asian, huge honkers, exotic, oriental bazongas"

I'm not necessarily saying we should bring back stocks and pillories as there are some very valid concerns but I think we should not be afraid to have a healthy debate about the possibility and give fair hearing to all sides in op eds

I think it's another case of people getting their ideas of AI from movies where one AI can do a complex task from beginning to end (which they're trying to sell with "agent" demos) but currently they're pretty single-purpose and a human is shuttling the results from one single-task AI to the next

Conservatives are always going on and on about "political correctness" and how those woke libs can never straightforwardly call a thing a thing, and then when it comes to war all they can talk in is goofy HR euphemisms

My strongest opinion about Elizabeth Shue is that if the immigration officials or whoever had spelled my family name (Hsu) that way then almost everyone would pronounce it more or less correctly instead of me hearing every insane possible and impossible pronunciation thrown at me while growing up

I don't think it's against the terms of service to say someone should go to hell right. I don't have any control over that and most people here don't think hell is real anyway. This is another case of someone following the rules and going to an immigration appointment www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea...

I think most of the people responding to this don't know it's a play on the "you can just do things" tech community catchphrase

Isn't this the kind of phrasing you use to mock an enemy you just defeated

OpenAI has a robotics department?

I knew it

I was listening to a Radiolab about a theory that the asteroid killed the dinosaurs by superheating the atmosphere to glass-melting temperatures, and to make it folksy they narrated it like "imagine you were just a regular dinosaur mom" and I was like "oh no they had to watch their babies die =("

Everything is just tv to him. "Haha you can't talk about the war show on the sports show". He keeps rambling about ratings and crowds all the time assuming that's also everyone else's primary goal and measure of success. Like The Apprentice, none of the events in his shows are real to him or matter

Every lengthy write-up on "lessons learned" after someone lets an AI process delete their database or all their emails reads like this to me

Good thing is becoming more and more

I think there's a non zero chance you could get him to tank his hearing by convincing him part of the duties of the job is to sleep with Corey Lewandowski. Yeah you didn't have to under Biden, it's a new thing

I didn't watch enough Firefly or remember what it's about so that's not why I don't like it, it's because I don't like shows where you can see the writer keep turning to look at the camera and going "pretty clever huh, I bet you didn't expect that. really blew your mind huh"

I wish things worked like in the Phoenix Wright universe where if you have enough evidence you can end up convicting someone at someone else's trial, so like during Markwayne Mullin's confirmation hearing you could end up voting to put Stephen Miller in jail

A lot of people say it's dysmorphia and maybe, you can never read a person's mind. But even if you can't be sure of any individual, it happens so often that statistically some of the transformations must be to conform to the preferences of Republican men for career reasons which is somehow creepier