Yes. This prevents someone from using your thread to continue trolling your followers for engagement.
Yes. This prevents someone from using your thread to continue trolling your followers for engagement.
Do editors ever get hazard pay? 😁
Using a wiki to do your homework is going to seem like peak academic integrity soon.
Yes, of course! ... If this were 10 years ago and I did not have the past 10 years of experience with roadmaps. 🤔
Bears are very good QA testers when it comes to methods of securing food items.
(Now, would I go back and politely suggest GRRM *not* blog about how Winds is almost done each year? Sure, that I might do. Kidding. Mostly. Maybe. 😁)
Does it bother parts of my brain that I'll likely never get a GRRM ending to the series? Yes. If I could, would I go back and tell my past self not to start it because of that? No. Most of the series was too much of a reading adventure to just erase it.
That's a good point. If some people want an ending no matter what (which I assume is the case if they are asking Sanderson to finish it while GRRM is *sitting right there*), the HBO series already has one. They keep asking, they might just get a novelization of that! 😁
Molds tend to like dark, rotting places. Normally I think of this in terms of damp basements, but I guess it applies to souls as well. Who knew.
This is why I like "may you have the day you deserve". It isn't exactly wishing ill on someone, but it gets the job done all the same. 😁
I had gotten the impression that "puts up with" is mostly "didn't know about until "the incident"". 🤔
It has been mostly feeling like 'They Live', but the monsters learned they don't even have to try to hide what they are doing.
It isn't even that, though. In broad strokes, one of the problems is that wishing ill on *a* person is apparently breaking the rules, but wishing ill on *all* trans people is a protected opinion or something.
I am probably glad to have mostly given social media a miss today. My usual response on ASoIaF, though, has been if he never finishes it, he never finishes it. I'm not "owed a book" because I read the others. That said, I *do* wish he wouldn't pop up every year with a post saying "almost done!" 😏
Being loud while riding an ATV seems like a very "white" behavior. I wonder if there may have been other visual factors making this person label it as criminal. 🤔
Assuming Google is actually doing this and it isn't some weird error, my guess is the corporate-->human translation would be something like, "Our lawyers tell us that other countries have laws against what we want to do with your data, so for legal purposes, your account is now in the U.S."
Your dogs have always looked so outrageously happy in photos, I'd be more likely to ASK for advice than think I could ever give it. 🙂
Based on some of the horror content aimed at the younger crowd today, it seems like the way to scare them is to have haunted social media apps. 😏
This is what I was thinking. He is definitely planning multiple Trump statues.
It'll be glorious. Sitting outside, baking in sunlight filtered only by increased pollution, enjoying a tall glass of raw milk...what could be better.
Pigeon mitosis.
But, but...what if we anger the voters who were never going to vote for us anyway? We might lose what we never had and were never going to get. What then, huh?! 🙃
You just have to understand what "crime" is. Saying mean things about him that hurt the rudimentary feelings bubbling up from his primordial soup brain? CRIME! Not bowing to every "alternate fact" he spews? CRIME! By that metric, crime is, I hope, on the rise.
I'm guessing there are loopholes for adultery, too, when it is a man doing it? "You commited adultery! You shall be executed!" -"My wife made me do it! She's a witch!"- "Well then, you are free to go. Bring in the witch!"
This is the opening scene of a horror movie to set up how humanity set lose a supervirus, isn't it.
Sounds fair. When it comes to understanding what's going on in the country, my mind can't reconcile that the "I don't want this, so you can't have it either" people are also "this is what I want, so I'm allowed to force it on you" people. It breaks me that anyone can think that way and not implode.
The "games aren't art" and the "genre fiction is lesser than literary fiction" groups seem like they would have a significant overlap. I don't know why we should have to argue with either of them, but both still come up quite a bit.
I'm unclear on the public/private status of the location. You may have the right to protest a store while on public property outside the store, but I don't believe you can if on store property. Heck, the vendors might get *more* business if he stands aside and tells people they won't serve him. :)
Spite is an underrated resource when it comes to powering motivation and creativity. 😁
Same. There is an old A1 steak sauce commercial that almost resulted in broken television sets. And it is the reason I still think LOTRO has one of the best QoL features in any MMO...the ability to turn off individual sounds. Like chewing.
*looks at all the ads pushed to me online to see how marketing is done* "The SECRET BOOK the publishing industry doesn't want you to know about!! This book, developed by an award-winning beetle will revolutionize..."
Robert Carlyle is great, but the show might need more help than he can provide. I was shocked it got a renewal.
Do you make screeching/growling sounds when you attack? Those seem very important based on my extensive research*. (*growing up in the 80s watching every monster movie of the week)
Yep. This flew under my radar because they were targeting things outside of my purchases. They get a foothold, then start expanding the scope. LGBTQ is a standard follow-up target. Eventually something generic like "anti-christian themes". They want to control what everyone can buy, see, and think.
"Forced to turn to books" gives off "I use chatbots to summarize novels rather than reading them" vibes. 🙃
Investigating a rich person: "Well, they won't cooperate, so there is nothing more we can do." *shrug* Investigating a poor person: "Break into their house and lock 'em up just in case. We'll find something eventually."
True. I was thinking the traditional discrimination that benefitted the "default white male".
As I have with other things like this, I question what "DEI policies" mean and assume "no discrimination" will actually result in orders to "re-implement the kind of discrimination that benefits the majority".
I'm starting to think we went wrong when the traditional source of power wasn't "the support of the people".
That's the point. It doesn't have to be obvious to everyone. If the people who study it and know what they are looking at stay away from some of the uses of it, that should be enough to get you wondering what they know that you don't see.
I'm just saying, if CBS/Paramount are claiming that management is *so* bad, even their highest-rated late night show that's been around for 3 decades is a 40 million dollar loss that needs to be scrapped, maybe Skydance should reconsider how much this lemon is worth.
With all the information available to show how government ID requirements for websites will do harm, I believe there is a 0% chance the people voting for this haven't just sold their vote to some tech company. The only security this is about is the balance in someone's offshore bank account.
Makes perfect sense he prefers the guy who thinks "reclaim the word Nazi" is a genius idea.
As much as I want to know more, too, we won't be able to test the specs for a month, then it is still another 2 months to the expansion launch. Sounds like we will have more detail on 3 specs a week for the next 3 weeks. Plenty of time for hype (and I'm sure some complaints :p ).
I mean, on *that* part it looks like we're not too far off the mark at the moment.
I agree on the surveillance and facial recognition. I just think the example you are using is not that and distracts from rather than illustrates the larger point. The fact this kisscam story gets more traction than one about ICE using facial recognition, though, *that* could make a good point.
When the "bike lane" is so narrow even the graphic for the bike lane gets clipped. It is like foreshadowing. 🤦
Makes me wonder if the delivery method for the free copy will be rapid air travel toward the asker of the question. 😁
Some see this as horror. Me? I see it as hope. The last decade might just be a dream caused by incurable brain parasites? I'll take it! 🤔
In Children of Memory, @aptshadow.bsky.social asks a very important question...How many times can a reader's mind be broken and rebuilt in the span of 480 pages? (Spoiler: many many times😁) Given the trajectory of this series, I don't know if I'll survive the next one, but I'm definitely reading it.
My fear...how long before they decide it should be opt out (or is no longer optional at all)?
YMMV, but for *this* arachnophobe, reading Children of Time WAS the therapy. 😁
I mean, reductio ad absurdum might be my go-to strategy if I were to attempt a serious debate with one of the "debate me" bros, but when their positions are already absurd and they see that as a feature and not a bug...yeah, just a waste of time even trying.
That this even has to be explicitly stated in a court order says quite a bit about where we are at the moment. (And when the SCOTUS rules that shooting reporters is a 1st amendment right or somesuch, it will tell us even more.)
Congratulations! The Lies of Locke Lamora is one of those books where I bought multiple copes to loan out from my "you have to read this!" list. And now it turns out to be the answer to life, the universe, and everything, too? I should have known.
I suspect some people might be actively looking for an Assassin icon after the teaser in the post the other day seemed pretty clearly to be Paragon and Ritualist.
Looking at the direction our *tech giants* want push things it is like if Little Red Riding Hood made kids think "the woods off the path sound like a great place to play and meet friends! let's go!"
I am making full use of the "muted words and tags" feature here today. Amazing how you can get a reprieve from almost all of the current horrors by excluding one name.
"But the bigger question is whether it matters." 🤔...No. Wow, that could have been a MUCH shorter article! 😁 On a more serious note, though, an increasing diversity of authors, stories, and characters should be celebrated. The constant push from some people to see it as a threat is disappointing.
Is this related to the unexpected fountain you had in the yard, or is that a separate water thing going on?
Not only do they not seem to do much different, these days "raid mechanics" are becoming the norm even in non-raid content. CC and other mechanics are shoved aside in favor of "more enemies with more health".
And the problem with "correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent" is that it seems like those patterns will be changing if this goes on for long. As more and more slop gets added to an already murky environment of "facts" these days, it might just reinforce misinformation.
I'm sure some of the millionaires and billionaires who are benefitting from taking all of our money are citizens. But I'm pretty sure that should not count.
I hope things go well for this! (I admit, as much as I'm enjoying the "Children of Time" series, I'm not sure I'd be ready for space spiders on screen just yet. 😁)
So, just to be clear, to them Brett Kavanaugh's history is just fine, but steal one table as a college kid and you are obviously an unredeemable criminal who can not hold any public office and should be...*checks notes*...investigated to see if they can have you denatutralized and deported? Got it.
Don't give them a reason to sit it out again for the next election.
Some of them are apparently deciding "well, a LITTLE islamophobia can't hurt us, right?" is the look they want to go with. 🤦
I was going to say something about not seeing the forest for the trees, but then you somehow made the trees more disturbing than the forest as a whole. 🤔
Growing up in the U.S., guns are such a big part of media, fight scenes, and especially police dramas, I found it fascinating to compare the show 'High Potential' to the French original, 'HPI'. In HPI, gun use is so scarce that one (non-lethal) shot became a major plot focus for most of a season.
So, The Onion is just reporting straight up news now? 🤔
I appreciate that it looks like this person is handling the book with protective gloves. You know, just in case. 😁
What isn't scary about sparkles? Have you ever tried to clean glitter out of a house after kids have had a craft party? Terrifying.
While I completely understand the desire to believe that, all I need to do is walk outside and listen to a couple of people in my county to be like, yeah, humans are dumb enough to have done this all on their own.
I am not in that industry, but those 3 unpaid "tests" sound a heck of a lot like unpaid *work* to me.
Out of curiosity, how would you have wanted it to "identify itself"? To me, it seems fairly obvious as is, but maybe you see a better way. If so, you can write up a modest proposal for how to deliver sarcasm properly and let us all benefit from the knowledge.
Right? Good thing that one guy proved it is all a hoax by...*checks notes*...holding up a snowball in the senate.
I somehow think I have a better connection to this after reading @aptshadow.bsky.social 'Children of Ruin'. 🐙
I've spoken to some of them and there is always another person or people to blame. And if they run out of other people, they would probably blame themselves for not believing strongly enough in Trump before they ever admit what he and those around him are doing is on purpose.
The eyeball-to-eyeball grin, maybe.
Given how wealth inequality has trended, I'd say it never works like they claim it will, but always works like they want it to.
Exactly what I was thinking. Why read a book or even watch the movie when you can just have a chatbot ooze out some word sludge "summary" for you?
Phew. Joke. But wow. With all that is going on, I was prepped to just toss these puzzles on the trash heap.
What the artificial idiocy is going on here? (I have not yet looked at solving the puzzle, so maybe it is a joke? I hope.) @nytimes.com
Exactly. I mean, I'll take the genuine support of anyone in the protests if they want to give it, but I'm not going to count on their support for anything else. Many of them voted for Trump and these policies THREE TIMES. On some level they knew what would happen and did it anyway.
Probably qualified immunity because no one had ever shot that specific reporter on this specific day with that specific bullet before, so without a precedent how was anyone supposed to know NOT to do it? 🤦
Math obviously has Trump derangement syndrome. Or something.
Is that the look of a cat who knows *something* happened, isn't quite sure what, but wants to be sure it doesn't happen again?
This was my thought. Nothing secret about it. Some people just don't want to see it, don't want to believe it, don't want to do anything about it, or actually want it to be done.
But how would that advance our goal of making every episode of Black Mirror a reality? (That is their goal, right? I'm just working off of context clues.)
It is like a game dev version of the LLM "AI" thing where lots of data is mulched and then reconstituted without understanding what made the original work in the first place. Without the "human" part included.
The times a big "surprise" hit does come along it seems to be because it was a small studio working on a shoestring budget. Then that studio gets scooped up, ground down into its component parts while business people look for the "secret" they can exploit for more money.
I picture private equity execs sitting with these big studio CEOs on their yachts counting millions in bonuses while laying off low paid devs because the latest "live-service" trend did not make them all the money in the world, so was a failure.
Maybe this is the wrong/simplistic way to look at it, but I feel like if we could just give game development back to, you know, game developers, we wouldn't be in such a deep pit. It is a business, sure, but single-mindedly chasing the money doesn't seem to be working.
I, a lifelong arachnophobe, finally started reading the book and darn if I wasn't cheering on the spiders almost immediately. Went right to the 2nd book and have the 3rd on order.
If the past few decades haven't moved the needle for them, I don't see how this would.
Given the ethical standards ("take first, make excuses later") that have been shown by many companies using or creating "AI", I think pepole have the right to be very skeptical here. At the very least, I'd hope it is spelled out clearly in contracts and not just "we have no plans".
I am not sure I'm even clear on what it means, let alone how it works as an argument. (Although, if anyone using the argument is a renter, good odds they've ripped at least one eviction notice off a door in their lifetime.)
How do we even have a legal framework where businesses (because this is not the first time I've heard of something like this) can just be sold as a means of escaping their obligations to clients/customers? Like, I can't change my name and be, yeah, those credit card debts? Not my problem anymore.
