Chat GPT can only mimic, like a parrot or mockingbird. It doesn't know what those words mean.
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Chat GPT can only mimic, like a parrot or mockingbird. It doesn't know what those words mean.
It's the same impulse as driving down the highway and pointing out the cows in the pasture.
"Vultures, vultures everywhere." Movie fans should recognize that line.
No doubt they will use the reparations and official apologies issued to the victims of the World War 2 Japanese American concentration camps as precedent. That would be wrong because the January 6 felons ALL got due process, while the Japanese Americans did not.
Giving a standing order to destroy all of the hard drives and other storage media, especially the ones that look like ginger mints.
He is a lawyer. They are trained to make arguments for either side of any question, and find evidence for their argument. This won't fly in the scientific world. In the scientific method, one takes ALL of the evidence and makes conclusions based on them.
Fascinating. I judge them by their actions, not their identities.
Young women working, getting educated, doing housework, and taking care of families don't have the time to sit and bitch about life on 4-chan or Discord. They just get shit done.
We have nothing like her on the East Coast, but I grew up in Redding and never got tired of looking at her. My grandfather climbed her in 1924.
Because I worked at the Westin Hotel 1981-1983, when the one round tower became two towers, I went to Pike Place Markets frequently. My very proper and wealthy older sister was horrified I shopped at such a run-down, vagrant-filled space. I still love the place.
Thank you.
In the 1920s, my grandmother lost her mother to breast cancer. In the 1990s, her daughter survived the same disease. This is how far we have come in the lifetime of one individual.
I am not familiar with VRA.
Yes
If you want to support local law enforcement, provide that $1,000,000 per day this is costing to LE, Fire, and public services.
I don't think you are going back far enough, because some of what they are trying to end was created during FDR's New Deal. Project 2025 should have been called Project 1925.
Perfection!
If you are a certain age, you may remember the endless reports on Generalissimo Franco. And Chevy Chase's line on SNL.
That scene will honestly pull you into thinking that nationalism isn't a bad thing at all, that the future will be brighter. Then you realize the future their movement and their devotion brought. The one very old man, who scratches his head and looks away, he is us. He knows the evil.
I think we would be happier if we followed the Confucius variation of the Golden Rule: Do not do to other people that which you do do not want done to you. IOW: leave other people alone.
A big part of the problem is the uniform. Painting him in his gray uniform was a provocation, because the painter must have known where the painting would hang and who paid for it.
I thought they needed those weapons in case a tyrant took over the government.
I would take that class.
I believe the motivations for gun violence, whether from school shootings or attempted assassinations, derive from a basic philosophy that all problems can be solved by guns. That solution is clearly championed by one political party.
Totally agree with this. There is precedent for this.
Giant images of the leader's face are the guarantee that you are living in a totalitarian state. Full stop.
It was only dark to those historians who privileged written sources.
Yup, I'm raging.
Medical ARTS. Medical ARTS. Medical ARTS. Ask most physicians. They can't just "Sherlock Holmes" their way to a diagnosis. They can't simply rely on the last study. Just because a certain side effect occurs in only 2% of cases does not guarantee it will never happen.
Get it, because I have seen someone with shingles, and they were suffering. However, the vaccine is in two doses, and each dose can make you feel rotten for a couple of days. It is worth it.
Is this because the VP and Pee Wee German went there to get a sandwich, and instead got their fee-fees hurt?
They don't know what is in it either.
In a game of "perfect job," I was given the job title of "packing Batman's utility belt." People are shocked when I don't have the exact thing they need in my backpack.
Soviet era joke: a man goes to an auto parts store, and he asks the clerk: "How about a gas cap for a Trabant?" The clerk thinks for a moment, then says:" That sounds like a fair trade "
Not just strong accents; the closed captions are the first line of defense when sound editors think we want muffled dialogue and explosions within milliseconds of each other.
Deep down, they are all the same--parasitic.
Now available for weddings, bar mitzvahs, and after-golf cocktails.
A view only a South Floridian could love.
Sounds heavenly.
Forgot Knoxball and Waldoball.
And Bezaball.
The caffeine rush you so desperately needed at 3:30 pm will always return to haunt you later that evening.
I guess they are like zombies in the movies: they travel in packs for some reason.
She has been found guilty of perjury, twice. But they want us to think she is telling the truth this time
But that doesn't explain why suburban women voted for him. My hypothesis is daddy issues, or for the classicist in the feed, an Electra Complex
I don't put my husband in that category, because he had a career before this endeavor. But I was not all that impressed with the coursework.
My husband earned an MBA. He learned about marketing, about pricing,about creating brands. You can guess what he was not taught: how to make a better product.
It's not like the Government holds all of the company.
I have seen and enjoyed so many satires of the new Cracker Barrel logo, but I have not seen what the new logo actually looks like.
Marco Rubio?
Today is the anniversary of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia on 21 August 1968. Just as in Ukraine in 2023, 7000 tanks, paratroopers, and a quarter of a million troops invaded without warning. Unlike Ukraine, the people reacted with non-violent resistance. Photo: Libor Hajsky / Reuters
He won't be allowed to get out of The Beast. On the upside: maybe they can find a 24 hour McDonald's drive through. "Gimme 30 Big Macs, 10 fries, and a large Diet Coke." "Second Window. Nice of you to pick up the usual order yourself, Mr. President."
When I was a wildland firefighter, we were given training on using the breathing apparatus, but it was kept for house fires. We were encouraged to wear a cotton bandana over our mouth and nose while in fires.
The best conversations happen accidentally over coffee. That was where I crystalized my dissertation topic. If the student is presenting, watch out for the jaded expert in the audience who is gunning for young scholars. Be prepared for every possible challenge.
Brian Glenn is the one asking questions about Zelensky's suit. Both he and MTG need to sit down and shut up.
That is all this regime is capable of creating.
Those round pink mints than have the texture of compressed chalk.
Horehound drops. Hard to find. My grandfather loved them but modern ones are made sweeter than the older ones.
Salted licorice is the GOAT.
It's like negotiating over a new car, and the sales person has to run the numbers past his sales manager.
Look at the vehicle--there seems to be a semi-transparent box around it. The flags are attached to the box. The Russian flag is waving in a different way than the US flag, which is waving as if it were made out of cardboard. This is an AI image. IT was made to get a rise out of us.
My mantra remains: I still have a job, I still have a job, I still have a job... You can always tell the folks who came of age during the stagflation of the 1970s. At least our SNL cast was the GOAT.
Small, petty men need big gestures to make them feel important. Legends don't need red carpets and fly overs.
I taught the summer semester, which ended last Monday. The Fall semester starts next Monday. I feel your pain.
Any moron can purchase and fly the American flag and call themselves patriots. Look at the Trump supporters who used the flag and the flag poles to beat cops bloody on January 6. They are seditious in my book. Also, it is a fake image.
Oh yes, definitely propaganda. I just want to make sure we understand that it was manufactured.
Ouch. But it is a nice shot.
Demonstrably AI generated. The flags don't wave in the same manner, and it is questionable whether Russia still has military vehicles that can travel at that speed.
But straw men are so much easier to knock down than real people.
The Trump administration will be nicknamed the Pro-Pederasty Presidency by future historians.
Why is the Russian flag rippling, while the US flag behaves as if it is made of cardboard?
It is AI. Why else would the US flag stop waving a few seconds into the video, but the Russian flag continues to wave?
Because it is a rainy Monday morning, which is one of the most dangerous times to drive to D.C. ?
We keep forgetting that Trump is so utterly bereft of scruples and morals that he believes the last person that talked to him, and holds firmly to that conviction until someone else talks to him.
But many of those houses rent by the week. Seadrift Reality manages the houses that the owners want to rent out. This is a cash cow in a tourist town. The weekend visitors to the state beach don't spend anything near what the weekly rentals do.
The county road leads to a gated community, yes, but there are hundreds of houses not in the gated community that are served by that road, too. And many of those homes inside and outside of the gates are weekly rentals. Those tourists keep Stinson afloat, not the weekenders.
I would say this was too far except that Trump and his sycophants do not acknowledge or care about the harm real people suffered on that day. They were just over the moon about the photo op.
OMG, it's an international intervention.
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Oh, woe, betides.
It is such a shame they make that old man climb all those stairs. If he flew on a normal plane, he could walk on a jetway. He could even have a nice person push him to the gate in a wheelchair, or ride in a golf cart. He would like that.
IT's all Biden's fault for making the competent people working in the government quit or get fired. Thus Trump had no choice but to employ incompetent boobs.
Look at that smirk on Putin's face. He knows he owns that old man.
Ha
George Mason University has no varsity football, only intramural. Many of the alumni want a football team.
My parents and grandparents lived where summers were routinely between 35 to 45 degrees Celsius. They would get their bedsheets wet, wring them out, then lay under the sheets as the water evaporated.
I married him? I worked as a theater tech, & I quit to go back to school? I live on the East Coast? My stupid knee still hurts? I found an all-you-can eat sushi place? We lived as ex-pats in Prague? We went to Australia? I teach college? We made historical docs? I can wear a hat anytime I want?
St. Cyril and St. Methodius would like to have a word with this talking head.
I have done it before, lived off the grid, that is.
I am secretly crossing my fingers that this is the big one that will melt all digital equipment, and we will be free of AI for a couple of decades.
The British East Indian Company was there for the tea. And curry.
We know exactly how wide Roman chariots were thanks to a volcanic eruption.
And their teeth were rotten.
And Brutus was an honorable man.
Personal firearms did not appear until 1500.
The Roman Empire had disappeared in 410 CE but re-appeared on Christmas Day, 800 CE.
Yes. I donate my blood, otherwise I do not think I would know
I teach World History because I knew in US history I was not free to put words to my deepest thoughts even in good times.
The spices aisle at my Walmart carries bottles of all of Taco Bell's sauces. They also have decent hot sauces, too
Just as I supposed. Way to go, my Chico friends.