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Writer (unpublished), Egyptologist (unfinished), migraine (continuous), human (probably). Extra-large liminal space. Always add marinara. He/him. Profile thingy is a penglion by HumanDescent.
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It's not about Schadenfreude because a horrible man fell down. I don't mind that, we can all enjoy it when the evil suffer misfortune. It's about all the people mocking age and disability in general. It always happens. "Ha ha, Trump fell" becomes "Ha ha, Trump is old and can't walk."
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And in case I'm somehow not clear here, Trump is evil because he is full of hate, not because he has mobility issues. You can't defeat fascist bigotry with bigotry that pretends it isn't fascist.
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If you're as dyslexic as I am, it doesn't even say that, it just gives you a headache. 😵💫
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And he did this for a silly monster movie where he wasn't even second fiddle, just a tertiary antagonist. He always makes movies better, but they're so rarely HIS movies.
(Skipping Pulp Fiction because I have issues with a white director so in love with the N-word, but he was amazing there, too.)
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This is what I mean by underutilized. In Kong, he Acted. He showed us a commander battered by war and loss and horror, ordered to abandon the field and render his and his soldiers' sacrifices meaningless, facing an implacable force of nature and refusing to back down again. An Ahab character.
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And for the military to remember their oath. And to remember that "just following orders" has never been a valid excuse or a defense under the UCMJ.
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I mostly grew up in Frederick. I feel your pain. For a while we had an actual New York pizza place run by an actual New York Italian family, but it closed. And we were down to just Roy Rogers for authentic cuisine. 😅
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Why is the ranking color-coded to put the universal colors for danger and caution at the top, and the color for good or go at the bottom? If I were looking at that without knowing which candidate is most popular on BlueSky, I would think you meant "absolutely DO NOT RANK Mamdani."
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I've been saying since Trump was elected the first time that we're going to need our own Nuremberg trials to move past this. Finally becoming signatories to the ICC and just handing everyone over would be a good start.
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Simone Biles called for segregation of trans athletes in that very post. Also the "would ironically be a male" comment sounds like what transphobes say about trans women. This is not a win. At best, this is a loss to unquestioned internalized societal bigotry.
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By being paid for sanitizing the evil of a man who profited from spreading CSAM, you now profit from CSAM. You spent so much time with monsters that you became one, and you think it's funny.
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Simone Biles and you, arguing in favor of segregation. 🧐
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It says "puzzle platformer," which are two things I'm bad at, but it basically describes Thief: The Dark Project (and sequels), which was something I was very good at. Looking forward to playing this, thanks!
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The fight started because the Nazi who bought the election and expects to dictate policy was angry that the bill would not murder enough people. That seems relevant, doesn't it? You absolute pillock, you pointless posting poltroon, you ambivalent stein of lukewarm porridge.
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In their very best possible incarnation, they will still rob people of the ability to write, research, and think for themselves, while destroying creative jobs. So it's always punching down.
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My grandfather was in Germany right after the war as an intelligence officer, and my mother as well (as a child). I would never claim 100% support for the Nazis, but they were in the majority. The people did not view the Allies as liberators, they despised them as conquerors.
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It is very important, if you are going to comment on something like this, that you understand that the Nazis are not well-liked in Germany *now*. At the time, the Nazi government was adored. Hitler was a romantic hero. The German people wanted every horror the Nazis inflicted... except defeat.
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I've been feeling entirely Rëvolfed for years.
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Also why are they all wearing half-corduroy turtlenecks and why do they all look like sex pests? 🧐
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I know it's a joke, but damn, I would love to see this become reality. I'll bet it would be more effective than pesticides, too. With everything we're learning about how many forms of life communicate, I wouldn't be surprised if roaches spread the word about The House of Flying Death.
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And the Death Star wasn't even the size of a large moon! 🧐
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Woops, I didn't realize I hadn't mentioned that. I had been following you because of fountain pens and such for a while before you posted something about where you live, and I periodically mentally wave and think "howdy neighbor," but I guess I forgot to say it. 😅
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I'm a bit west of you, near Coralville, and lately the heavy stuff has all been missing us. We've had maybe half an inch of rain today. Which is nice for keeping the electricity on, but now I have to wonder if the sump pump is dead or the soil is too drought-dry to need it.
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And they know they're not in danger, or they'd get inside and CLOSE THE DOORS.
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Of course the next day we descended on the local video rental place's one aisle of "Japanimation" like locusts. The next thing we saw was Fist of the North Star, with exploding heads and a guy breaking falling skyscrapers in half with his face. Finding out about anime in the early '90s was wild.
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I was introduced to anime when some friends invited me to a screening of Akira at tiny art house theater, and yes it was called "Japanimation." Ft. Lauderdale, 1990. I was 17. We stumbled out of the theater, looked at each other, and said, "What the HELL was that?" almost in unison. 😁
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Looking forward to his consternation when instead of buying his book, people tell AI to write it for them for free.
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So people who are underpaid should be happy to do the work of their better-paid colleagues? 🧐
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I've seen this comparison twice today, and now I really want to write a mystery with nothing to solve. 😁
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Oh, that's interesting. I had seen references suggesting they couldn't do it indefinitely without visiting the sea. Thanks!
...And I'm definitely never going swimming in that lake now. 😁
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I will absolutely be respectful... toward all the other people being disrespectful.
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Seriously, though, they probably didn't breed. Bull sharks can live in freshwater, but I don't know if they can breed there, and there may be health complications long term. I think if there were a thriving population someone would have seen one between when I was there in 1985 and today.
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Yup! It's Deep Creek Lake, in Maryland. I found out from the owner of a general store. He said a couple of years before they'd caught a really big one, so there were probably others still in the lake. They were dumped there in 1973, though, and I doubt any are left. Unless they had SHARK BABIES! 😱
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Oh, and to make it weirder, the lake had been stocked with BULL SHARKS because some fool introduced invasive grass carp to control the aquatic vegetation, and now they needed something to control the grass carp. So if the house had been perfect we still might have been eaten. 😅
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We got it inspected and were told to get out because the roof could collapse at any moment, and the walls would go with it. The house wound up being condemned. The inspector wanted us to press charges, but they'd returned our money and we didn't need vengeance. Plus they had kids.
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It turned out the owners had built it themselves and had no idea what they were doing, and had falsified an inspection report. They'd used wood for the floors that was only good for non-load bearing walls. They'd used cheap wood instead of roofing struts. And on and on...
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When I was 13 I almost got to live in a lake resort town in the Appalachians, in a really neat house a short distance up the mountain from the lake. But when we moved in, we noticed some strange things, like the floor *bending* under the weight of our furniture, or my window falling *into* the wall.
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I forgot they made a movie adaptation of "All You Zombies..."! Dangit! Is it good? It's a good choice even if the movie's bad, but apparently the only way I can see it is to buy it, so what do folks generally think of it?
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This isn't about forgiving or absolving anyone. We all bear responsibility for our choices. But we need to acknowledge that the news media lied incessantly until they got the outcome they wanted, and there are probably millions of people who are just finding out they were misled.
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I'm absolutely not suggesting trying to reach the people who actually want all of this. Discard them, they're Nazis. But people who get their news from NBC and CNN and the NY Times, and voted based on what the "real" non-Fox news told them... We need a strategy for reaching them if we want to win.
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If you program an LLM to say it is self-aware, how can you tell if it really is? But you're right that the Turing test is useless. I first read about programs winning the annual competition like 20 years ago. Hell, ELIZA even fooled people. We're preprogrammed to see agency.
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I think the leopard seals locked in the contract on skill. Have you ever seen one peel and eat a penguin? 😬 No bear can compete with that.
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Everything you say is true, but how are people to know that the government and national news media are lying to them all the time? I got here largely by luck. I'm not sure there's a standard replicable method for getting people to understand how completely the information ecology has been poisoned.