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Thank you. 👍
Since you brought it up. Any thoughts on The Good Place?
I support you. Manifest it.
Kim Jong-Il hit 11 holes in one en route to his record 38-under in his only round of golf ever. Surely a club champion could hit at least 12.
It's a beautiful track to look at, and I am sure that it is quite fun to drive around. But the racing certainly isn't filled with great overtaking.
It's so awesome that one can say "he" and "his", and there is no doubt about who is being referred to. Unless he's unconscious, he's got to be *the worst* patient.
There are some pretty great commercial aerospace companies. In my position, I've had gotten to know some wonderful engineers at them. If you want to stay in the field, it should be possible. (I'm not including SpaceX in that list, because they don't talk to commercial software vendors.)
This movie is spectacular. It was even more perfect for me, as I had my son's watch it with me. And the younger is currently doing campaigns in his college game group. He kept exclaiming with joy about all of the details they got right.
Thinking about it, you could probably add "smelling like excrement". 💩
It was probably "trying to grab a woman" in his case. He strikes me as a bottle baby. It's still perfect, as written. 10/10.
According to something I found, you can also export to PowerPoint and save the images from there. Which seems like an incredibly egregious oversight from Microsoft. Which should surprise no one. I'd use the snipping tool personally, as that's pretty easy to use.
Promises made. Promises kept. 💯
As is proper for a Batman sound effect!!
So great. Though as a young man who enjoyed many a Stroh's Beer in my mis-spent youth, it's weird not seeing the 's. "Stroh!" is a better Batman sound effect, so I can't complain. Though a little weird, I got over it. Sad that I've drunk all of these. Too much of all of these.
You will always be cool. Don't ever close. 🙂 Sorry to hear about the pool closing.
I can never pronounce his last name properly. But I don't think that's a qualification for voting for him, North Carolinians.
UTRGV has 27,000 undergrads and Sul Ross State has 1400. I'll take the D-I school with 19 times as many potential athletes that can offer D-I scholarships in its first year over the school that was recently D-III.
They reversed the one on the right for the folks watching from south of the equator. It's obvious. Alabama education at its finest.
I'd imagine the worst fans were indeed the ones who left. The remaining ones were the least bad.
I was half expecting them to be dicks when Danny was being carted off. The bar is so low for them that I was surprised by respectful silence.
Me, the first time: Oh, I like this song a bit, and the commercial is moderately cute. Me, each and every time after the third time: Kill me. Kill me, please.
That Saturday-Tuesday-Friday stretch starting September 27th is going to need Burton to start one of those. It might be the away match at Leicester City on Tuesday, September 30th, unfortunately.
Arthur is going to be great. That last save was pretty spectacular. The international break will help for one weekend, anyway. I don't feel too bad about Callum Burton as backup, either.
I want Macca to score three today.
My colleague who is a long-time MK Dons fans told me about this over a year ago. I didn't believe him completely when he said that the Millwall fans relished their reputation. I now realize that he was quite accurate.
My neurodivergent son and I start each of our daily walks with Mr. Blue Sky. We both love our tradition. 💙
They saw your gif and got right on it. Obviously.
Engineering. Some of this was around his C++ class, too. Where A.I. can be useful, but not helpful to help one learn how to develop software.
Peak mid-tier B1G. The middle tier is a huge percentage of the conference, IMO.
I just decided to mute it. If mute works properly, this could be one of the last normal mentions I shall see. But there will always be screenshots.
FIFA doesn't even have to look far. Canada and Mexico can just host more matches. Sure the venues will be smaller, but the infrastructure is already there. Changing the Olympics would be a bigger endeavor.
Combining cruelty and grifting seems to be something of a theme, doesn't it? Some people made A LOT of money on this concentration camp grift.
I have a feeling it will help. My son in community college has been talking about A.I. with his friend group, and there seems to be a sense of solidarity against it. I know it's anecdotal, but it is a data point. Having upfront discussions feels right.
Why no ALT? Almost all of the other photos you share are accessible.
She is magnificent. Boop.
The ALT made my evening. 10/10.
Huzzah for Sallie!!! Was the cone of shame burned with great ceremony?
Oh, I didn't know that. Thank you. 😍
I hope Marriott gets a nice ovation. And that he DOESN'T score the game-winning spot kick. 😉
Yes. I hate him so, so much.
If that was the main deficiency, you made a perfect cake. It looks perfect to me.
Edward Kennedy had a brain tumor and Robert Byrd was in the hospital most of the time. They had 58 potential votes, mostly. That's not rewriting history. That's accurately telling history. It took until late December to get the 60 votes to pass Obamacare. And a lot of wrangling.
Unable to be passed because of the senate made-up rule of needing 60 votes to do anything because of the filibuster. Which the GOP usually ignores. And even if passed, the Supreme Court would overturn any legislation, because SCOTUS has been majority-conservative since 1969.
I'd bet that not many people even knew Barack Obama was the junior senator from Illinois in August, 2005. We won't have a real front-runner for the primaries for 16 more months.
Even as someone without Dobbo's ponytail in my user name, I must agree with you. He was outstanding in the second half.
Aw, Squeaky just made my evening. It was such a long, grueling day, and those wishes were perfect. Thank you Squeaky & SK.
Jodl could have just negotiated a bit harder for better terms. "Unconditional Surrender" does have a bit of a ring to it, though. At least his surrendering gave him a long and happy retirement. Wait, I'm getting some late-breaking news. Alfred Jodl apparently did NOT have a long & happy retirement.
I had a really banger of an email ready to go out yesterday, on a Sunday. I didn't delete it, as I needed the To: and Cc: addresses, but I did completely re-write the body to be business-appropriate. But the scorched-earth banger was fun and cathartic to write.
Thank you for all that you do. Hopefully others will thank you. My wife just got out of the hospital after a 4-day stay, and the healthcare workers were all angels. Underappreciated angels, but angels nonetheless. We thanked them all profusely. 🏥
Would you like to be popular to the same people who read and rate quantum bigfoot, though?
I have lived my entire life without hearing about quantum bigfoot. Now I can't unsee the 4.7-star tome on Amazon. 4.7 stars. Seriously?
Surely Canada and Mexico have enough stadiums between them to have enough capacity. They might not be ideal venues, but I can recall some less-than-ideal stadiums in prior World Cups.
I had to look up the glorious baked bean bucket hat because of you. Is is indeed beautiful. Please keep it from flying away.
According to our local news station, we'll be forcibly redistricted from TX-5 to a very weirdly drawn TX-32. All in an attempt to remove Julie Johnson, Colin Allred's successor who flipped the old TX-32. If this new TX-32 is even R+10, I'm all-in for Julie. She can do it.
Weirdly, Vermont is worse. No age restrictions at all with a parental note, and 16 without. "Vermont law allows any person age 16 or older to possess a handgun without the consent of a parent or guardian. There is no minimum age to possess a rifle or shotgun in Vermont." -giffords.org
A Texas judge just ruled this week against the prohibition against people under 21 carrying firearms. From Thursday's ruling per the Texas Tribune: "U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman wrote that the Second Amendment does not specify an age limit and protects adults under 21 years old." Sigh
Not "defend himself against a teenager". That implies the teenager started it. He can't stop from harassing teenagers as a grown man, and couldn't handle the consequences of them defending themselves. In a stand your ground state, he could have been legally shot in self defense.
O.M.G. 💯
My lovely wife taught me how lovely her hair looks without washing it daily. She and I endorse you. (Not that our opinions matter in any meaningful way...)
Man, unexpected shishitos would make my day. A 50/50 split with jalapeños would be kind of ideal. And anchos. 👨🍳 Congrats.
They seemed nice watching from afar. Hope they fix things soon.
That's how it looked watching it on streaming
See Knightley, Keira. I believe common wisdom says Ms. Knightley is more than moderately attractive.
If you are pushing multiple updates per day to any software platform, you are in the middle of a massive bug crisis. I'd guess they've got some instability. That's panic.
That gif makes me hate life quite a bit less.
That person seems astute. Don't you know someone at Rolling Stone? Tell them thanks from a random fan.
The people who fundamentally get it use ALT text. It's a small act, but it shows that someone cares. Thank you.
The CNN headline calls it "a controversial logo change". I'd link to the article, but they don't deserve any clicks.
This squad could be sitting on 4 points, with just one or two things breaking slightly differently in the first two matches. I am pretty darn excited.
Wait. The Newsmax morning program is called Woke?
I hear it from you first, quite appropriately. This means that we've seen the last match from one of our defenders on the 2024-25 roster. Maybe 2 of them. I can guess who.
As it should be. 💕 Y'all are just so cute.
BASH: Weren't those files sealed until early 2024? If Biden had released them in an election year, wouldn't you have screamed bloody murder? And probably moved to impeach him? Dana Bash has never asked a pertinent follow-up question to a Republican in her entire life. Prove me wrong.
Someone whom you might not think will speak up might very well speak up. Though probably not a vegetarian or vegan person. You wouldn't think that they'd speak up, and they still probably would not. Because meat...
That didn't use to be politics. But it certainly seems politics-adjacent today, doesn't it?
I've read so many historical books leading up to the Civil War that nothing should appall me. And yet I constantly read and see content that makes me learn how little I know. I just finished Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi and I cried at almost every chapter. Slavery was worse.
I could never master that letter appropriately. In either cursive or standard drafting style. I truly bow to you.
Frankly, I think the actual real train is simply lovely. I don't know why anyone would share an A.I.-generated photo rather than the real, beautiful train. But maybe that's just me.
Thank you, kind stranger. You made my day a bit better.
Awwww. ❤️
Yes. Hence my response of "I'll be quiet and let you do your job". I've learned from my stupidity (fortunately many years ago for the most part), though continue to learn.
This means that frontier models are also foundation models but not all foundation models can be considered as frontier models." WTAF... (2/2)
I looked up "frontier" models. Just kill me. "Both foundation models and frontier models can be considered large general-purpose AI models. The main difference between the two is that the latter can also be regarded as cutting-edge and next-generation models. (1/2)
It could have worked for some people. My wife who used to be a nurse would have probably chuckled, also while giving an eye roll. I've "joked" many times in the past and have since realized that they weren't funny, or worse. Learning with age is useful.
Probably because I've worked at a hospital, but my normally dad-joke-making self behaves itself around medical types. My go-to line is typically, "I'll shut up and let you work", or equivalent. Younger son had an operation, and I said that line a lot when I stayed with him.
I would trust advice from literally any Pagliacci employee over advice from a "frontier" chatbot. Mostly because any pizza chain worker might answer "Uh, maybe see a doctor?" for just about any medical question. I know that's my default answer, as I am *not* a doctor, nor a chatbot.
You can still wear one. You'll look dorky, most probably, but I bet no one stops you. 😜
I'm thinking that some of the respondents might simply want him to have a lighter skin color. Just sayin'.
It was a plotline on Boardwalk Empire, with a mother with ?six? other kids without access to contraception intentionally doing so. The fictional storyline was in 1923, by the way.
I just checked Common Sense Media, and my memory is correct. Most reviewers say 9 to 11 year-olds are fine with it.
I'm pretty sure that there wasn't. I remember one scene of an unclad male butt (walking around, I think?), which was played for laughs.
I think A Knight's Tale is probably more fun. It's been a while, but I remember Clue being a bit too sure of its own cleverness. But all the actors in Clue were pretty great. So maybe you can't go wrong with either?
I must report that it's exceptionally difficult to read anything at all about the modern military without coming across the phrase "force multiplier". It appears that you've managed to (?luckily?) avoid using your talents for that particular type of military writing.
It would be really difficult to do so with a Bluetooth-compliant device. But a wire has way more bandwidth than any RF technology. As a guy who worked for a Bluetooth company for six years, I normally use wired headphones/headsets, for instance. 😉
You could try updating the headphone's firmware. (It's been over a decade since I worked for a Bluetooth company, but that sometimes helped.) Windows updates have messed with my headphones, but re-pairing fixed it every time. My Androids haven't ever had a problem. Best of luck.
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As a proud father of two boys born healthy at 35 & 36 weeks, there are probably quite a few conceived from Thanksgiving through the end-of-year holidays. Especially those born late in August could easily be Christmas babies. (I occasionally win the company baby pool by guessing 4 weeks early.)
Without Great British Bakeoff, I would not know about aubergines. Entertaining and educational.