I remember damage. And escape. Fan of #crows, #StarTrek and the #Japanese language, among many other things. Currently posting one frog species per day. If I keep this up, I should be done in about 20 years. My toots are searchable.
Experiment: consider a question to which you yourself know the answer, and which requires some amount of explanation. Let's say a question in your professional field of expertise.
Now ask this question in two places: one, on reddit, in an appropriate subreddit; two, on ChatGPT.
#foodtoot I may need help with this: I splurged on some nice ravioli, filled with ricotta and artichoke, at the Italian deli, but I don't know what kind of sauce to make with it. Any suggestions?
In my mind, I'm the CEO of a company that handles the print distribution of those glitzy yearly reports that charitable organizations like to put out. The company would be called No Good Deed Goes Unpublished.
#DraculaDaily Imagine you get an email from a female friend who tells you she's been proposed to by 3 different men in one day.
Man #1 runs a lunatic asylum and plays with a lancet while proposing.
Man #2 is American and uses what she calls "slang." Here are his exact words: "Won't you just hitch up alongside of me and let us go down the long road together, driving in double harness?"
The friend explains that she went for Man #3, without really explaining why.
Many a 14-year-old girl has been known to exclaim, "I'm so random!" But how random ARE people really?
Well, as it turns out, you can test your randomness. Go to https://roadtolarissa.com/oracle/ and hit your left arrow and right arrow keys as randomly as you can. The webpage shows you how good it is in predicting your next move. Can you get the percentage below 50%?
#DraculaDaily "I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall [...] I saw the fingers and toes grasp the corners of the stones, worn clear of the mortar by the stress of years, and by thus using every projection and inequality move downwards with considerable speed, just as a lizard moves along a wall. [...] What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man?"
Here's the building that Bram Stoker may have been thinking of when he mentioned the property called "Carfax" that Count Dracula wanted to buy in Purfleet, outside London. Look at it. Doesn't it just ooze mystery, gothic romance and vampirism? #dailydracula
Source: https://ianfarrington.wordpress.com/2021/11/08/draculas-purfleet/
This was an actual 1911 court case in the Netherlands.
A man called Willem Markus catches the suspect, Johannes Beek, stealing city money. Markus reports Beek, who is fired. Beek bakes a cake full of rat poison (arsenic) and sends it to the Markus home. Markus doesn't eat it, but his wife does, and she dies.
Beek is tried for murder of the wife. Defense argues that Beek did not intend to kill the wife, only the husband. No intent means no murder; it's manslaughter at most.
Swatra just showed me a case where someone claimed an insurance payout after a burglary where a bunch of stuff got stolen, including a radio-controlled toy car.
The insurance company sent them a letter saying that the toy car wasn't covered by the insurance because it met the definition of a "motorized vehicle."
The customer's lawyer had to write a response explaining that if this was a "motorized vehicle," it would need mandatory car insurance, license plates, and be used for transportation.
