Husband found Frank like this and came and handed me my stethoscope to go check for proof of life. We went in the room and I clapped , Frank turned his head & opened his eyes . I said yep he's alive. And hung up the stethoscope. He was so mad.
Muni driver, rabid union activist, Factorio player, gay as fuck. Over 40 so I don’t have time for your bullshit anymore. 😘 (Opinions are my own, I do not speak for my employer)
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Husband found Frank like this and came and handed me my stethoscope to go check for proof of life. We went in the room and I clapped , Frank turned his head & opened his eyes . I said yep he's alive. And hung up the stethoscope. He was so mad.
FFS, not every damn thing needs AI. (this message brought to you by having to yeet a chatbot out of my browser [thanks mozilla] and then seeing an article about using it in drive-thru restaurants)
Sure, Jan.
Republicans care more about erasing a rainbow crosswalk memorial than kids dying to gun violence. Make it make sense.
Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,
Ah yes, the sky whales. Very sad.
No wonder it’s taking so long to develop affordable nuclear fusion. They’ve been running it on steam power!
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
What's your favorite cruising spot? I'll go next.
I am still amused that NetEase's US client and/or servers for Marvel Rivals follow Chinese censorship guidelines, but only in Pinyin, not Wade-Giles. This message brought to you by "roflmao tse-tung", which is allowed, and not "roflmao zedong", which is forbidden.
I know "the cruelty is the point", but how did we get to such a place that approximately half the voting population in this country is so fucked in the head that they actually look forward to seeing people die of COVID/measles/whatever else?? 3/3
There are so many people in this country who cannot afford to just drop everything for a weekend and go to a foreign country to pay out-of-pocket for medical treatment, or who are afraid to leave the country because they aren't citizens or aren't white and thus fear re-entry through US customs. 2/
I also realize the immense privilege I'm demonstrating by off-handedly mentioning I can leave the country without the fear of not being able to get back in, not to mention the fact that I can afford such a thing (with difficulty on short notice, but still, can afford). 1/
The only problem is we can't necessarily go together if I'm back on the platform, which I need to do before the general signup...
I cannot believe I am going to have to go to Canada or Mexico for my shot this fall. I guess a weekend trip to Vancouver isn’t a total waste of time.
That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.
Mmm, tasty.
Using ChatGPT
Oh, yeah, no. Although if I were running convention X, I would probably want to roll my own pages about A, B, etc to ensure consistent branding.
Alternatively, I would argue that winning a Hugo or equivalently prestigious award is sufficient to presume notability for a Wikipedia article, which should have the same sort of information.
Cars back on Market Street‽ Recall the fucking mayor. It's been >6 months, so he's legally eligible.
This.
“BART’s General Manager Bob Powers, who also chairs the Clipper Executive Board, told Cubic that they had “zero credibility,” as this was the third meeting that the timeline had been pushed back.” thevoicesf.org/bay-area-tra... It’s been bad.
The blame here is largely to be placed on Cubic, which is the vendor selected by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (the multi-county agency responsible for coordination between transit agencies). Cubic has been a horrible partner since original Clipper and now Clipper 2.0 testing.
That’s so dumb, you should be able to have different kinds of cards on the same account. That makes managing a family’s worth of cards that much harder. 🙄
Wait, you can’t register your kid’s Clipper card on your own account?
This delay was 24h minimum for vehicle-mounted readers when the system was implemented, because the original readers updated via WiFi when the vehicle was at the depot, which is usually at the end of the service day. This is also why it used to take 1+ days to see your bus taps in your Clipper acct
If you can think of a way to allow deliberate multiple taps without allowing mistaken taps or requiring a station agent to come over and help, I’d love to hear it (and so would BART, I expect).
I don’t disagree that it causes awkward problems at the fare gates, and may discourage some people/families from riding. System-wide though, the problems that allowing multiple taps would cause would be a much bigger headache for BART as a whole, because the vast majority of riders are alone.
Really? I’ve visited a few cities in the US that use prepaid cards and have run into similar limitations. If you can think of any examples, I’d love to look into how they do it so I can suggest similar methods to Muni while they’re struggling with the Clipper vendor Cubic who’s stuck in 2002.
Unfortunately, this kind of constant, reliable mobile connection was just not even a remote possibility when the system was designed in ~2002. Even today, data reception challenges underground or in remote areas makes the idea of a fully server-side system problematic.
If they had implemented the card as just a secure identifier, à la credit cards, and kept the balance authority on a server, then such things would be instant. This would require every reader (on every bus and train in the Bay Area) to have a constant reliable data connection to validate every card
Specifically, because the chip in the card itself is authoritative re: its balance, any kind of card-not-present transaction (like adding money online or by phone) *requires* a communication delay to disseminate the “when you see this card, tell it to add $20” transaction to readers and fare gates.
Today’s challenge: resisting the urge to over-explain to internet randos that the most annoying traits of the Clipper Card system stem from the choice to implement the cards as self-authoritative finite state machines.
Seems like the CPSC should have recalled them sooner…
If you could tap again to charge 2nd fare, the error rate would be astronomical: “I didn’t hear the beep so I did it again”, “I don’t know how to tap so I do a weird jerky motion and tapped twice” etc. Also, it would mean there would be no way to allow you to transfer for free to another vehicle.
The “why” is almost entirely to prevent double charges (at all agencies), but also to allow the free transfer process to work (at agencies like Muni with unlimited transfers within a set time). The only reasonable way to allow multiple charges on one card would require manual intervention by agent.
If you plan to take BART more than once, you should absolutely get a Clipper card for each family member, but this a reasonable workaround for tourists and infrequent riders. Getting a physical card for each person at the machine costs $3+adult fare and -2 min per person. If you have a group of 6…
Families that live locally should already have youth Clipper cards for their children, especially since most (all?) transit agencies offer a youth discount — 50% off BART. “Unreasonably difficult” applies to visitors and those who have failed to plan.
Ad hominem again, you’re 2 for 2 when speaking directly to me. Do I need to explain what that means, or what it implies? I’m starting to think you don’t realize how that behavior makes you look. As for tying myself in knots, you’re the one who’s been doubling down all the way down. I’m done. 🤷🏻♂️
Ad hominem again. What exactly am *I* hallucinating? I said your “source” for the quote seems like a large language model’s generating something plausible but non-existent to satisfy a prompt, because multiple people couldn’t verify the treatise or its author. If we are wrong, give us more data.
Instead of attacking people, man up and say you got it from an AI or just made it up yourself, or show proof of where you got it from.
You keep falling back to ad hominem claims instead of producing a link or a /verifiable/ source, or admitting you or an AI bot made it up. The fact remains that you claimed the quote came from a treatise nobody can find, written by a person nobody can verify exists. That screams AI hallucination.
As long as he can work the scoop, that’s fine.
You could invite them inside…
“There is dust on your chairs.” “Tomorrow,” said Toad. “Your windows need scrubbing,” said Frog. “Your plants need watering.” “Tomorrow!” cried Toad. “I will do it all tomorrow!”
Watery tarts throwing a sword is seeming like a pretty good way to pick a system of government right about now.
You're probably going to have to be slightly more specific than this.
This is not how corporations respond to an ineffective protest. This is how they respond to a protest that they would like to have go away. So don't let it go away. Keep it going. In fact, Streissand Effect this shit. Call attention to how much they want this to go away.
She is sending you a hug! 🤗
@jai-dit.bsky.social to me: youtu.be/zDKVO23comY
This is the most depressed looking kitten in the history of kittens. She clearly has anhedonia. She is me.
Hey, so, TOTALLY not suggesting that RFK Jr. BACKS DOWN when we PUSH BACK, BUT if you’d like to call… HHS Toll-Free: 1-877-696-6775 HHS Direct Line: 202-690-7000 PLEASE share and consider calling your senators and representatives as well. NONE of this is okay. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
to cook salad
which can be found next to the awning of the cage of asparagus
Ah, yes, whirled peas.
I have decided that i will no longer have episodes of “ennui”. Instead, I will occasionally experience “non-Mui”.
The nine most terrifying words in English are: "I'm from the Govery8eb, and I'm here to help."
Surely there can’t be an American who doesn’t know what recycling is in Anno Domini two thousand twenty-five (which can also be written Anno Greenpeace fifty-four).
Someone keeps putting (used) cat litter in the shared recycling bins at our apartment, and I can’t come up with any explanation other than malice.
The only thing I think of when you use “terminal emulation” and “AT” in the same sentence is “ATDT555-1212”
The moon haunts you.
We’ve secretly replaced Justin with Lesbian’s Crystals. Let’s see if anyone notices.
corporations on july 1st:
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
“I have a meeting with Admiral Nagura which will not take more than one hour.”
Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless
That’s not Walt Disney, that’s Alec Baldwin.
Bitter lumpy presidents
Walrus cloudy, now it’s clear
Ebb Tide roses in Golden Gate Park
this makes me so incandescently, humorlessly furious, LLMs know how to do things like parallel structure and em-dashes bc they trained on real writers’ work without those writers’ knowledge or consent, and now those same writers are being told not to write that way bc “it makes you sound like AI”
O.o I don’t recall Southern Bell charging extra for that.
"Grok is not an anomaly; it is a mirror. It reflects, with algorithmic fidelity, the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the ideology it was designed to serve." www.thedissident.news/the-algorith...
That might also explain the weird gaps in bus predictions (Transit app predicts an hour gap on the 14??)
DoorDash sent me a push notification to suggest I try something new, like … Taco Bell? Thanks for the amazing suggestion, I’ve never had that in my entire life.
Oh no, it’s always hard to say goodbye to a family member, even the furry ones. 😿
Part Great Dane, that would explain a lot.
Looks like chislic to me.
pollled pork and chislic, my favorite
instead of spending over $100 billion to build a high speed rail network, we’re getting ICE concentration camps god I fucking hate republicans
Naptime is best
mondays, am i right?
Passenger: Why is this bus late? Me: Don’t make me tap the sign. The sign:
… maybe it’s Maybelline?
I don’t think that’s quite it. It’s more that these types of people want to have control over the way LGBTQ people are portrayed to their children; that is, they want control of the narrative their children see and hear. They don’t want their kids to see gay or trans people as “normal”.
#BookWormSat Thomas Paine, "Common Sense", February 14, 1776 "The present state of America is truly alarming to every man who is capable of reflexion...Nothing is criminal; there is no such thing as treason; every one thinks himself at liberty to act as he pleases"
What I don’t get is bags of dog poo that are littered/left behind on the sidewalk or street. You did more than half the work by picking it up in the first place, just bin it!
Drunk chess 🤣
This may be the worst Pikachu merchandise I've ever seen
The four genders:
I’m dubious that anyone has said either of the latter. 🧐
"I cast an affirmative vote to prevent an impeachment inquiry into Donald J. Trump" is the kind of thing you really want to spend primary season explaining to enraged Democratic voters, in my opinion
The KittySpout works well for our kitty, it’s all dishwasher safe (except the pump) and does a faucet-like stream.
Chicory is making his debut in the all-cat production of Black Swan. Chicory will be heading to his new home this weekend!
