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I mean, let's be honest, is there even going to be a real path to a green card anymore? At all? At this moment I am not sure that it's even possible on paper, and while a lot of that is things being shuffled around, I am not confident the final result isn't going to be a full bureaucratic stall.
Fair enough, thanks. Not great, but.... I honestly wonder if part of it is literally thinking I will never be as funny as I was when I did x, so let's just go the other direction (cue the skinner meme). Like, I can get the fear, but this way leads to real harm.
Yeah, I am guessing from oval, seated, Hegseth will do the majority, and he will be visibly restless/moving/uneasy. Strongly suspect he will not be speaking clearly, either. Drugged to the gills, but not weekend at Bernie's is my wager.
God damnit, I knew about Cleese but it's more than just him? Linehan feels like the Ur case of when someone goes in on transphobia seriously, it starts to just eat away at their entire life. Which I really didn't think was true- at first. But he really seems to have become a very clear example.
Well you see, trump wasn't president in 2020. Apparently. It's really something.
I said to a friend on Saturday that the next time we see him talk to press, he is going to be fucking vibrating. I feel like it's going to be Chicago or something awful about trans people. Outside chance he actually says RFK is getting a minder. Honestly could be about water pressure.
The worst is when they don't quite realize that they can in fact puncture your skin and not retract properly. Because they super don't expect that.
I mean, this would explain what the hell is going on with the children's ages. They never existed at all!
Funny thing is, he might end up being just an awful mayor, or have major other issues that might crop up, or what have you. But what he certainly has is the ability to get attention, message, and campaign, and why the HELL are the dems even more opposed than the Rs to him? It's wild.
It's just some trees in the mist? I would have thought from context there might be something man made in the picture, but...
I was oddly hurt to learn, fairly recently, that he's gay. Just very 'damnit'.
So I know nothing, but is it possible this is being obscured for 'stopping the fast fashion copy houses' by any chance? Since if they guess and get those measurements wrong, it will...certainly not hang correctly.
Occasionally mining comments does reward, who knew
It's also baked in that your token is only even theoretically worth anything if the casino they place there does well. Of course, they aren't actually pretending very hard that anyone they voluntarily (hah) move off at gunpoint will have anything. They don't want them to survive the process.
I think it's just part of their long running project to insist that no, no, having awful toxic views aren't the reasons nobody wants to be around you even though they clearly state that, it's everyone else that is wrong... They're really stretching.
I think ms paint is an actual better data filter These people worry me
Personally I got the mental jump to the Iraqi fighter jet identification but from the Simpsons circa the mid 90s, but your point is well taken.
Honestly I remember this being a thing more than 10 years ago, though there's an upper limit- but if you tried to say you were just a big fan of Jordan you were laughed out of the room ( I tried!).
It's actually been an interesting experience because they don't seem to have anyone on staff anymore who can emulate his rabid posting screeds. Just...they can't seem to do it.
Hmm. This might be a better strategy than the little hooks that have into your wrist that prevent you from placing it down... I mean, I assume most books have those, just because I have never seen them is no excuse for inviting them, every horse kicks, etc
This is about the 3rd one this weekend that I am just convinced he didn't write. The baseball one -did- sound like him, though...
I feel like there is probably a good writer out there who is building a writing process that involves a very bad LLM trying to write something, them screaming 'wrong, wrong, wrong ' and rage-typing for hours straight. So, there are probably worse habits?
I hope one of the animals is keeping you company.
Whenever you post this I think of that very good ad for some internet provider that has a random guy running into a page that said 'you have reacged the end of the internet. Please go back and start again.' That or the bash joke of 'I beat the internet. The end boss was hard.'
I like that you wrote this like velcro is a sub-breed of maine coon. Which, I mean, accurate. I assume she has the hypnoray purr attachment that knocks out people who aren't expecting it?
We really need more media stations saying, explicitly, he wants to kill all vaccines, and it's not to save lives, or help people, it's because he thinks that this will kill acceptable numbers of people of the types he thinks should die. Hint at the last part, but SAY the first part on camera!
I have friends who have kids who have never, in their lives, seen a train in person, forget about getting on one. It's insane, but it's also the situation!
I feel like Beamer probably has Notes, but mostly because I feel like he probably has notes for literally EVERYONE.
I mean, they have axes.
Yeah that press release was full of weird and questionable information.
Business partner I can sort of see. The first paragraph...uh. Also, are we skipping past that we're getting a statement from his head of security, who is...absent from the rest of the story? Honestly, I don't really care what is going on. Certianly seems odd, though.
I mean, would you believe that rich people are basically living on loans that they get tax credits on taken against the properties they earn, so not only is it capital gains (not income), but.... Once you see it, you really can't unsee it. The deck is so stacked it's silly.
I want to buy a house. But what if I can't pay? Well, if I make a company, and it buys mortgages from me, and then I lease back from it, it can have a credit rating, and get a mortgage, and then take out loans based on owned property, and I'm a shareholder but it's an LLC, so then...
Everything about him is incredibly gross and when we phrase it as 'I am not comfortable voting for someone who appears to visibly gain sexual pleasure from going out of his way, unprompted, to hurt homeless people and deny that trans people are human', they act like you're unreasonable.
Honestly, it's funny that 'helping the children' is a vague, hand wavey phrase that can mean any of thousands of things, it has no metrics, and they can retroactively claim it in thousands of ways, and they are somehow still obviously failing to meet it so badly they aren't even pretending victory
I mean it's as close as he got to one! Really just missing perhaps one line of text to take the metaphor to nomenclature.
Adam did nothing wrong! ( I should reread that book...)
It's the second it becomes not the majority opinion that makes them freak out. I think it's sunk cost. 'I had to make myself like all of the standard popular things, nobody else gets to just like what they prefer!' I should do a long list of all the shit that made people freak out that I liked...
They literally aren't even handing over trans people for that level of deal, either. Just a vague implied promise. And we've all seen them back out of explicit promises, so why is a slight nod supposed to bind more than a contract.
They're really stretching for that deep performative bit. And like ... nobody is taking your wonder bread away from you. Honestly they're so insecure that the second what they're used to isn't the only option, they get.... terrified.
Honestly sounds lovely, I always enjoy euro train trips.
It's wild that they seem perfectly happy letting cis men attack and molest women without any problems, or punishment, even when clearly shown, but claim that's the goal of trans women.
He set a floor, so everyone else should step past his awful transphobic homeless hating ass. Everyone who keeps talking about him like he's an heir apparent definitely seems to just want the transphobia as a feature, though, and tries to pretend he doesn't visibly get excited harming homeless.
Was I the only one who also missed genre (gen-air)?
God I love this movie.
Honestly if you have to do a supply run to get proper celebration materials, that's going to be one of the best shopping trips ever.
Typically when you say 'she's coded as a straight character' it's code switching as the reference, though. It's character modeling terminology, and has been in use for describing traits and characteristics. Adding in 'hard' there pulls the other definition instead, 'hard coding' as immutable refs.
But basically everything that has a shot showing 'this is obviously AI and wrong and stupid!' there's actual like, real shots of the same signs, same people, etc, from different angles, with human faces and more clearly defined. It's a lot more like 'compression artifacts', but with LLMs
So there's actually a lot more to this, which is interesting. The premise of the article (that video is pure fabrication) is wrong, from my understanding. It's a composite (lots of signs and scenes, badly spliced together with AI), and YT's doing some MAJOR smoothing stuff (new, all over the site)
Upscaling is when you go from a waffle house to a 'brunch locale'. I will not be taking questions at this time.
I'm 100% sure he'll come back with 'and that's why it's so important to not be anti-semitic' or something similar.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-sw... Linguistic, not programming, though it's been expanded out. But people see coded and go with that ( hence, hard coded). I think it's the same origin structure, but vastly different forks that might have swung back to near congruent forks.
I love, love that he thinks that 'hard coded' is related to 'coded' and comes from programming (probably).
Means testing is just bad. I am done pretending that it's in good faith, when the primary purpose is to give a salve to people who could have benefited in the past, and to make up a strawman to attack.
Honestly I don't have any plans tonight.
It's all part of the same package. When they can't argue with the content, they argue with the style. When they can't argue with either, they complement the style to distract from the message. 'protest in an appropriate safe manner' -> 'he was articulate and well spoken'. Disengage with message.
The entire bit with the pot made me cackle. The movie overall wasn't really my speed, but what a great job setting up and subverting tropes with that intro scene.
Trump hasn't been seen in days, and people are noticing, even though the big news stations aren't saying anything. Here's why this is bad for Biden.
I think those pardons have already been done, months ago, but I also think they're missing the dates, and I don't think trump knows about them. But I am pretty sure he's alive, just like, being sedated for health for a bit. Confident he's sick, don't think we're getting weekend at Bernie's.
I dunno, I am concerned about getting my hopes up?
Hilariously, Thomas. Everything he's talked about enjoying doing relies (HEAVILY) on imports, up to and including his RV insistence. But counting on him to go against Trump is...uh..unlikely.
I have heard, but don't have any real confirmation on this, that sci fi is currently having a lot more female or NB writers than cis men, which roughly correlates to my currently TBR pile (heap, mountain...) but I have no real data. For all I know, patterns in the noise level, though cool if so.
Literally I think he has a better case on the perogies.
Oh it's not even links, it's what I had assumed was a pig butchering scam but it's just her sending rather more desperate ones for actual months, with no reply. 'the owner said he would be willing to take off 100 from the first month ', all rentals, all in Austin, different addresses.
Making a blind bet that she discontinued meds due to finances, but that will be completely ignored.
Everyone else gets more interesting spam than me. I get research polls that are either phishing or push polls from Rs( both?), tolls on a car, or an RV company that is getting desperate. Oh and some lady in Texas who -really- wants to show me apartments. Very badly.
Hide the noise, lord I hate phone typing
No, I meant something highly specific, a la the hide the noise, you should free yourself from the earthly burdens, here's how to...I don't want to be specific but I do want to clarify that the person in question is
Also this is neither here nor there, but on the places I briefly looked at (New York, Cali), suicide does not seem to be a crime ( though has been in the past), but promotion of same is. So I assume you think that simply is an anti constitutional law ( not quibbling, just clarifying).
Okay. I would like to spin a hypothetical- if a teacher at a school, who is not a teacher of a specific student (nor ever has been), but is reasonably well liked/regarded by others, praised suicide and promoted it, where does that land? Do you think that could be curtailed, legally?
So the one I keep coming back to with the liebot is that in at least a large number of states it's explicitly against the law to promote or convince someone to commit suicide. Do you think those laws are faulty under 1A? If not, why is it not a criminal issue? Mens rea?
But it would be a different picture if the lighting was different (more/less sun, reflection, shadows), with more or less people. The framing of the people almost looking like they are in greys, matching the architecture shot, highlights the symmetry while contrasting it a bit.
By most standards, the picture itself is art, because it's not the abstract concept but the light, positioning, the moment captured in time, an instant grasped. The artistic expression is the knowledge that this is a glimpse. That's my understanding, in any case
Maybe if I buy something, it will motivate me to do a thing!
First you seed the ring (spam), then you die...
I feel like 'reality tv' fundementally broke people's brains in a very basic way, the idea that these weren't weren't actors and not following a script (forget that we've established that both of those are untrue), people just now think everyone is the characters they play.
Okay, time for whoever had the monkey paw and wished for the cdc to not have RFK or someone equally as incompetent running it, you really need to start using 'equally or more'.
(by the way, if you DO want to know, reply and I'll share the one I was thinking of, which is not a cinematic masterpiece, but still)
I agree wth your wife. That said, I know a number of queer guys who would be 100% into this specific 'vibe', so...
So actually, I had (half?) forgotten, there is, in fact, a movie like this! But I don't know if there's a reasonable way to spoiler something on bsky, since it's a medium-recent. But I sadly didn't conjure this whole cloth, apparently.
I feel it's pretty likely he let a tense slip at some point.
Clearly Stargate! Actually I wonder if there's a good movie where there's a mcguffin about an ancient civilization and it turns out it was literally just made up by someone else in the plot and the actual thing was something else entirely. Feels like that would be a fun subversion.
I could use you to come clean MY house now!
I mean, if it's not 'I AM SCREAMING AND BLEEDING' it' snot a lego, so that's...something.
Oh have we downgraded it to just hanging now? *sigh* Well, fine, but this feels far too kind.
I was thinking I was going to post something about how dare you not have fixed a law that isn't in a state you're in and makes no sense at all, but honestly I'm just...so tired. And I'm not even someone who has to deal with this professionally! So instead, I send you sympathy.
There's a quote I can't quite place, I feel like it might have been in Thud, something about 'Oh great table, without which we are naught' about the experience of believing in gods that you know are real.
They are just interested in legislating it's illegal to be mean to me just because of my decisions and personality.
You said 'enough' but I am sure you meant 'the minimum legal threshold '
If you pretend you have already won, the onus shifts to others to defy your narrative
If you need to give up your bathroom so kitty may sleep there, that's simply a cost you must bear.
Going through med school just lowers your innate sense of disorders of the energy flow in their bodies, which can often tell you if their humors need balancing. But sometimes people don't respond well when you leap at a child with a knife for an emergency blood letting, the ignorant savages.
Hmmm. I have an odd one, because I am one of the few who really enjoyed it, but- John Carpenter's Tank Girl. I think we should go back to funny horror in general!
Muerte from Undercover Blues is always a standout role, imo.
I think a lot really didn't think he was serious about this, because he perfected the whole 'oh I didn't REALLY mean it' to the point where people just assumed anything he didn't like was not going to happen. That said, I don't think nearly enough are...bothered by it happening, either.
Literally already saying they're 'investigating it as an anti catholic hate crime'.
Imagine someone actually having that level of power, reaching out to me, a fledgling author!
I clicked in to watch this with the mental state of 'well how bad is it really-' Just some WILD racism going on there (and why does he sound like a 90s stay in school bit with 'gangbangers'). I also question him picking Baltimore, but I guess he's trying to pretend it's a city in decline?
Oh nobody sane believed it, but the timeline is still wild.
Hey remember when he insisted that the FDA was going to allow any adult who wanted to to continue to get vaccines? Gosh what a crazy time, one month ago.