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- Comment on These used to popular 1 week ago:
Yeah, but look at the switch! If God made you that way, you’d all be pissing in your faces!
- Comment on Choose wisely lemmings 1 week ago:
Chip
- Comment on Language model 1 week ago:
And for every single one of them, the ‘gh’ at one point described a phlegmy hissing sound. Modern English spelling is sometimes closer to Chinese than we might think.
- Comment on Space jazz music plays in background 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Uhm 2 weeks ago:
If you haven’t spent as much time refining the prompt as you would have to take an art class and do the medical research, have you really used the AI properly at all?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Law school can be eye-opening. Con law in particular was an interesting one. If you can make it through Marbury v Madison in your first semester of your first year and not realize that the entire American system is held together with chewing gum and baling wire and it’s a miracle it ever enabled a functional government at all, or get through Dred Scott v Sandford or Plessy v. Ferguson later on and not realize that the law should always seek justice in as far as said chewing gum and baling wire even halfway plausibly permit, then you’re either an idiot or an asshole, and probably both.
Slavish devotion to your generation’s “plain reading” of increasingly distant legalese written by – to put it euphemistically – deeply conflicted men who were indeed clever and motivated, but were also the half-educated elites of a cultural backwater, is how you end up with our current mess.
- Comment on Anyone know why this weird CD won't fit in my CD drive? 3 weeks ago:
Yup. Really nice bearings. I also have a few HDD magnets that work well as hold-downs for laser cutting.
- Comment on Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More 3 weeks ago:
The biggest biggest technology change has been the AR wall… You can’t use the camera the same way, but when you see the see the opportunity, it literally captures what the a camera is watching.
When you do it right, you get “how did they do that on a TV budget!?” When you do it wrong, you get whatever the hell THIS was.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Please select from the following:
[ ] Sir, this is a Wendy's... [ ] i ain't reading all that. i'm happy for u tho. or sorry that happened. [ ] TL; DR [ ] <Homer returning to bushes>
Thank you for your consideration.
- Comment on I did not look up how progressive lenses really work before getting some. 4 weeks ago:
I don’t remember exactly what I ordered, but it was from an independent shop and I think I picked the middle out of five options. I’m going to give it the full three weeks, but the narrow intermediate distance band, the swimmy effect on the near band when I move my head, and the dead zone in the lower corners are all very irritating.
The prescription itself seems spot on; it’s just how the progressive is laid out. It’s on me for not realizing that aren’t just sort of linear, but it is — well — mildly infuriating.
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- Comment on Just got this today. 'The Last Days of Magic' should be on one line. 4 weeks ago:
Fair enough. I think it’s also pretty annoying that Doctor Strange there looks like somebody just gave him a handful of ass pennies.
- Comment on Wow… Only in America… 5 weeks ago:
That is mildly infuriating.
- Comment on My foot found the worst Lego that can be stepped on. 1 month ago:
Wow, Joanne just really hates everybody, doesn’t she?
- Comment on Hong Kong beef balls and boiled hotdog with chilli sauce 1 month ago:
Maybe it tastes better than it looks. I certainly hope so.
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 1 month ago:
Dennis Miller
- Comment on American ambassador to Italy refuses to live in the official US residence in Rome. Instead, he stays on his super yacht moored 60 miles from the capital 1 month ago:
And maybe even a reasonably sized staff of skilled and dedicated public servants who can help this and other burdensome tasks without being corrupted by the stream of grifters!
- Comment on Sad but true 1 month ago:
I kinda like this as a way to market based on the potential for affirmative defenses.
- Comment on Is there gospel music minus the gospel? 1 month ago:
Choirs accompanying soul artists is not unheard of, but yeah, it does seem to be more of a tool that’s leveraged when the sound feels right for a track, rather than being a core part of the act. The linked song is verging pretty close to “regular” gospel, but the lyrics are a bit too modern and on the nose for church, I’d think.
- Comment on Is there gospel music minus the gospel? 1 month ago:
Try Ray Charles’s Self-Titled album from 1957. Some of feels literally like Gospel songs with Jesus subbed out for a girlfriend.
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 1 month ago:
One of the recurring themes I keep coming back to in all this is that the US has a uniquely bad situation with regard to its Constitution. We worship it as an infallible and complete guide to running a democratic republic, but really it’s extremely old, extremely vague, and depends on goodwill and sensible interpretation to function. We have neither the explicit understanding that everything is old AF and cobbled together and dependent upon custom and moderating tyrannical sensibilities like the British, nor the unwieldy but straightforward comprehensiveness of EU treaties and certain other lengthy modern written constitutions.
To me, him just telling Pamela Bondi what to do in such a delicate matter feels just wrong, as in lacking the due seriousness on the matter, utterly sloppy and populist in a bad manner.
This feeling you have is exactly how presidents of either party would have felt for the last 80-100 years. The idea of a largely independent Department of Justice was considered eminently sensible and moral and even to the realpolitik set it provided outer bounds of what was politically possible and so they would nudge and tug at the edges, but never blow right past it, lest they suffer Nixon’s fate. I think we make a mistake to say that Trump is stupid in a binary yes/no sense, but he is deeply uncurious about things that donm’t interest him, so when people tell him “The Constitution doesn’t actually say that,” his eyes gleam and he just does whatever he might get away with. And because we have a Supreme Court dominated by the idea that the US Constitution is more akin to a piece of computer code than a framework for sensible governance, they simply throw up their hands and say, “whelp, it didn’t SAY that the administration of justice should be handled with integrity, so guess we makin’ a fascism now.” Better vote them out, except oh wait the Constitution also doesn’t say you can’t fuck with the elections either.
One of my anxious worries lately is that at the end of this term, Trump will look at our term limits amendment and parse the verbiage with a simple literalism and Clarence Thomas et al will back him up. It says you can’t be elected president more than twice, so why not simply run for VP and then have your patsy resign five minutes after swearing in? After all, we’re mindless textualists now. We didn’t want an FDR type getting overly entrenched in the machinery of power, but we clearly meant to allow loopholes that are significantly less democratic!
- Comment on I was laughing too hard to think of a title. 1 month ago:
She just needed a massage!
- Comment on If you turn the Chicago Bulls logo upside down, it looks like a robot is doing a crab. 1 month ago:
The robot looks… determined.
- Comment on I dropped more food. 1 month ago:
Well, if your dog is anything like mine, make sure you remember to pick up the clean and perfectly intact broccoli after they’re done.
- Comment on Filter feeder behavior 2 months ago:
In case you wanted to know, he’s a former executive for the NFL’s Tennessee Titans.
- Comment on If you don't own one you will never understand it 2 months ago:
We lost our older guy a couple of weeks ago, and he hated them, as did our three other dogs over the last twenty years. The younger one and the new puppy didn’t seem to care that much, only getting a little jittery when we were outside and a particularly loud one went off.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
3, but the pajamas erasure here is unfortunate.
- Comment on I'm all for ingenuity. 2 months ago:
Sorry, I’ve just seen this one often enough and seen the comments that I may have assumed too much. I’ll take my downvotes.
- Comment on I'm all for ingenuity. 2 months ago:
Yeah, yeah, stupid fat maga, whatever. Looks like they’ve both got a pretty big batch of laundry, and looking at the totality of the picture these are not likely to be wealthy people, and it being rural/suburban America, lord knows how far the laundromat is. This strikes me as unironically clever, and they’re both keeping that mower deck out of the landfill and travelling using electric power.
- Comment on The new new testament 2 months ago:
Looks like Teenjus to me.