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The Dahl revisions are weird and I'm not sure how I feel about it. Luckily I am here to tell you how you should feel: You should reject these stupid revisions. At the same time, here's what the inestimable Maurice Sendak had to say: Roald Dahl: "The cruelty in his books is off-putting. Scary g...

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This is not morning... Yet.
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I'm curious what the going rate is and how it arrives: per monthly subscription, per subscriber level, per hour, year???

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Okay my cognizer is working slightly but not fully better today. I have this question: What makes you win? Like is it your goal to gather everybody else's cards? At some point that will be impossible, so ... Are you trying to earn a certain number of points on the bid until you reach a winning numbe...

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This is really what you called your OnlyFans?! That doesn't even make sense - short cello?

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Here's an interesting tangentially related news: A court issued an important ruling on whether AI art is copyrightable, which presumably extends to pieces of writing and anything else. The court heavily emphasized the need for human production to qualify as a copyrightable work, and in doing so they...

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I read it and now have disturbing doubts about my cognitive wellness. I'll try again tomorrow and if it makes sense then... Ok.

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Do you have some type of camera in my home?! If so, you will recall the Capri Sun "incident" from a few days ago. Eerie.

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I have no interest in winning, I was just here for the Welsh lyrics and now there's no point. Chat GPT had just explained to me all kinds of complex things about how enzymes function on different levels and then through a failure of cut and paste I lost that particular response. Boo.

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Correction: the example of the family was actually the plaintiff in one of the cases.

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People, we need to do something about this. I can't do anything about it until Wednesday So I'm trying not to forget by posting this.

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Morning when you get confused about whether your dog's joint pill is your vitamin. I have successfully not taken the dog medicine, but just barely.

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This is that time of life when we get ready for the monotony of the nursing home. We're all performing this service.

I remember the drift cars because I didn't know what it was and I ended up going down the rabbit hole and let's be honest, drift car racing is really f****** cool.

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When the public school celebrates Mardi gras but not Ash Wednesday/maundy Thursday/good Friday/easter Sunday. Sigh.

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Apparently the Supreme Court is hearing a challenge on this and nobody really knows what the justices think or might do. This is the portion of the communications decency act (?? I think) shielding internet providers from lawsuits if they platform objectionable content that might otherwise get them ...

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Speechless!

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People I just showed a picture of an attractive potential table and chair set to my marital partner and he said to me this One Word In Reply: HOBBITS! He spat it out like Smeagol! HOBBITSES! Wtf kind of answer is that when I show you a table, what does that even mean???!!! It means, apparently, a ta...

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I don't know how we've reached this place.

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I realize I'm late to this game and this has been going on for like a decade probably, but it seems the go-to insult for fat people at the moment has something to do with diabetes. I guess this was the fruit someone began plucking in response to cheerful attempts at body positivity or defense of fat...

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Over 46,000 dead now they say.

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Dreaming that I keep doing Google flight searches for an airline reservation I need to make, and the price keeps going up every time I search, So I'm trying to outwit the engine by searching for all kinds of different things and then circling back around to the flights I like best. The numbers are g...

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Everyone is wanting to watch The Lord of the rings now that it's on the free streaming or whatever, so by chance I witnessed the scene where Sam calls (at that point Strider) longshanks! It just was so much funnier this time around. I'm going to start calling all the tall people in my life long shan...

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You say that like his Welsh song was a basketball and you just popped it right back up out of the net. Geez.

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Reading about Jimmy Carter going into hospice now, very sad. What a human being.

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Oh I was going to mention that in the process of reading about what people are doing with the AI, I came across these people making illustrated books by going back and forth between AI image generators and the chat GPT. They were already very experienced at putting in complex prompts to get differen...

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Hah, today I drove 17 miles in about 15 minutes! Way faster car.

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It's imo a really wonderful and fascinating mimesis machine, but you know, it spits out what gets put in, however distantly and strangely reconstituted that might be. Maybe we're not so different than that, but it's weird to see all these articles being published in the news that essentially report ...

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Lol he's doing a whole pied Piper thing with the "bus"/van, kids just walking right on! A more innocent time I guess.

poorpete wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 5:50 pm He also produced "Fancy Like" which is way way better.

I read this as fancy like the Iggy azalea fancy and was lost in the wilderness for a time.

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Watched Missy Elliott's "Gossip Folks" for the nth time and looked up on genius the origins of the schoolyard slang in the chorus, which comes from this, which wow. Both awesome and silly, it's like a blueprint for "Uptown Funk" he should get some royalties. I am slain!!!!!!!!!!...

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OMG, what would Dwyn think?! It depends whether she would agree he gets a bad rap without doing much wrong, or thinks he really does a lot of wrong doing? When I see her next I'm going to ask. She probably off having a baby and setting the crib out in the snow for Naptime like they do in the Cold p...

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Separate issue: The collective panic over kids cheating on tests. I get that it becomes a serious problem when you're talking about credentialing exams like for doctors or lawyers or whoever has to prove they know something to be let loose on the world. But for teachers? How is this an issue that go...

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I would be interested in hearing people's takes on this. I joke about my phone being intelligent... Meaning that whatever I'm interacting with in the Google Hive mind is behind that? But I think it's an obvious mistake to try to understand computer AI in any terms like a human mind or intellect. The...

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Dianne Feinstein is one of the many reasons I'm not a Democrat, but I think it's horrible the way people are attacking her as being mentally incompetent, including fellow Democrats. And the attacks on her for having a face we would all be so lucky to have at that age! You might think that old ladies...

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Not a great lover of Nikki Haley but much prefer her to other options, ahem. I would like to see Tim Scott get in the race. Really just anybody I might disagree with on policy grounds but who seems like a sane and functional human being who respects democracy. We are setting the bar low but that's w...

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Is it based in the reality of this particular pandemic we've had or is it a fictional pandemic?

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Yeah, might not be easy to do in all cases but why not, when it's such an easy small change? I don't watch any news on TV and this is one situation where I'm not sorry to be missing it, having read so many stories about the earthquake and recovery. The whole thing is so horrible. It seems like the d...

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It's true, Suh is not popular. He is disliked! And yet... Phoebe's favorite player. She loves him exactly as he is, unconditionally. It's a pure love! Perhaps this is because she considers him wrongly accused at times, or wrongly fined for wrongs, or disliked due to his active rejection of the gener...

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Tahlvin wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 9:35 am On the other hand, I can't stand Ndominic Suh, who has been a dirty player since his days on the Detroit Lions

Ahhh, by chance... you aren't a Packers fan maybe, are you? Lol everyone dislikes Ndamukong Suh... EXCEPT PHOEBE! He is Phoebe's favorite.

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Lol, alas the enemy (Ron) of my enemy (AP classes and the SAT) is not thereby my friend. Wish somebody else had thought of that first but you get what you get.

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Every type of work probably has its frustrations and I've been glad to have such minimal ones over the years. Usually if I did, they were challenges I chose to take on in order to accomplish something specific. There were always off ramps that could have made life easier. But lately it's very much n...

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I wish the bodycam from the arrest of the reporter in E Palestine OH would be a widely viewed national story. It shows yet another example of widespread phenomena: The police claiming someone resisted arrest or was the source of the problem when in fact the tape shows the person was the victim of ot...

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Yep, you can hear the singing. I like both teams in terms of the players, though. At the end series I felt it was pathetic they deliberately didn't score the touchdown and instead took the chance on a FG and gaming the clock. It's a strategy but I just don't like that approach to the game. It's less...

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The algorithms have started showing me ads for cremation services and I want to know what the f*** they know that I don't? Monstrous.

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Tahlvin wrote: ↑Sat Feb 11, 2023 4:36 am A good night's sleep and a 13.1 mile run, and I feel like a new man.

You should start a company where you put your bacteria into pills and sell it. I'm not even joking! People would pay for that. I was going to say people would pay for that s*** but it seemed like too much. But they would?

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Hmmmmmm I will take the Lizzo version - I love that SZA Is unique and creative but we are going UP over here! You can't give your special away. It's like sourdough, it's just going to keep making fuel. But I also like that Lizzo acknowledges the negative along with her positives... It's not just pla...

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Found another show to watch: It is on Netflix and called Cunk on Earth, and apparently it comes from some other British show. Anyway, when I started watching I did not find it funny for quite some time. I said to myself, this is mildly funny but not really? There are jokes but they're not good jokes...

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She ends up with the guy who gives her daisies y'all. Daisies. He watches and learns. At a more advanced and sophisticated level he starts giving her a package of frozen salmon fillets, as if she were a cat. Last night at 10:00 my kid burst into my room to announce that this song exists. Still tryin...

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OMG that is too much! But great that you can actually get the medication for it now. Let's hope it's over soon!

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There is a place in Colorado called Beaver Creek. In Beaver Creek is a liquor store. It is named after both its place and function, as all good stores are. The place, is first, as you would expect. And shortened so that it it is easy to remember. The function, as you expect, is second, again shorte...

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