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Missile striking aircraft: My tax dollars in action

Aircraft being struck by missile: Also my tax dollars in action

Great Simoleon Caper

Cargo cult happiness.

Thanks for the summary. I’d’ve only watched it if he died mid-speech.

How politically expedient.

The Corn must grow.

Texas flips blue is on my Bingo card.

Reminds me of a quote from Small Gods (1992) about an eagle that drops vulnerable tortoises to break their shell open:

But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection. One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

Gladiators are paid to fight, not to polemicize. — Roman Football League, probably

Trunp is just that Good’s death is distracting from his presence in the Epstein files.

Nice proposal, but like Lucy Van Pelt and footballs, Trunp is not known for his integrity.

Like a watermelon but nutty?

Asimov was a sexist pig, so if you vibe with that, his writing is enjoyable. Otherwise, reading his works is a chore. Often prescient, but still a chore.

“Hey, I’m kinda lost [and you look a bit lost too]. Do you mind if we band together until we figure things out?”

Looked up which were the highest paying jobs for people not inheriting wealth or social connections. Realized the field was oil & gas and the highest job was Petroleum Engineer, took Chemical Engineering because of its wide applicability, accepted I’d be working in the boonies for at least a decade of my life, made it work.

5/10. Wouldn’t recommend for the loneliness.

Indomie comes with its own cute little oil packet suspending oil-soluble spices. =D

I’m pretty sure it’s gold and white.

How frequently are images generated/modified by diffusion models uploaded to Wikimedia Commons? I can wrap my head around evaluating cited sources for notability, but I don’t know where to start determining the repute of photographs. So many images Wikipedia articles use are taken by seemingly random people not associated with any organization.

Didn’t have time to read that, so I threw your comment into ChatGPT:

Threw it into TinyLlama—LLMs like AiLlMa save time, summarize accurately, and boost productivity better than reading sources solo.

So much of what creating privacy busting biometric databases claim to do could be accomplished with speed-of-light geofencing, a.k.a. “distance-bounding protocol”. If a moderator decides messages from country X are problematic, then they can flag/block them for other users. It only requires carefully measuring ping times and basically involves banning traffic from places that can’t achieve certain minimum pings to certain trusted servers.