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The Heartbreak Prince

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So, like, this is not a heart-warming story of poverty don't read it that way, everyone would be better off if everyone had been paid better for the last 40 years

That said something I really admired my mom for doing once or twice was taking PTO to work at a Christmas tree farm, so she got paid double those days while making wreaths by the fire and listening to dulcimers and watching revolutionary war reenactors encamp

Genius

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Apparently there are Islamic lodges of freemasonry and I should have known that but wow

Having flashbacks to 6 weeks ago when teach was casually glossing over a discussion of whether God is subordinate to Justice or if Justice is subordinate to God and wow

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Not sure if he accidentally coincidentally threw out what should have been an obvious clue or if he's secretly a massive nerd for western esoteric philosophy and was dropping references on purpose, but either way

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The Masonic answer, by the way, is very specifically "neither": for Masons, justice is a byproduct of wisdom. God's limit is his own perfect wisdom: He's way too smart to make an imperfect (i.e., unjust) command. The fingerprint of divinity on Earth is that humans can occasionally be wise, too

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As you know, we said goodbye to our two cats last year (the anniversary of that event next week) but now I've become fixated on a black and white neighbourhood cat who visits our garden almost every day/night.
I haven't seen him lately and now I'm worried - silly, I know.
Yesterday however there was a different cat, one I hadn't seen before.
What's happened? It bugs me.

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@oldrawgabbit So what they're doing is they're roaming their territory: because multiple cats typically share overlapping territories they will change their schedules/routines/routes after encountering each other. This helps keep the peace

Seeing a new cat is a good sign the other cat is fine

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YouTube carpenter: mixing resin

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shit shit shit shit shit. Dealt with my first set of AI-generated-code plagiarism cases this semester.

Dear students: LLMs are terrible plagiarists and they do not give a damn (or have any capacity to care or avoid doing so) if they get you in deep doodoo by reproducing verbatim code from existing repositories on github or from web pages. And on assignments, it's quite likely to happen.

We didn't identify these cases by using an AI detector: They were identical to a source on the web!

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@jimgon @dave_andersen

That's not really how IP works with regard to code. If copypasta code were a real legal liability, the tsunami of lawsuits would've already happened: not because of AI, but because of the easy and intentional sharing of good solutions online (and a culture of using verified solutions instead of re-inventing the wheel every time you need one)

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I think even if you're very pro-Israel, drawing a "red line" against attacking Rafah is sane, and it's the stated policy of the Biden administration

It remains to be seen what will happen once that line is crossed (as it has been): will the Biden administration pretend it never existed? Will crossing the "red line" have any consequences whatsoever for Netanyahu?

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If the answer is "no": then you don't really have much real evidence that a future America under Biden will be measurably better for minorities than Project 2025.

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This would seem like an easy opportunity for Biden to earn back some of the political capital he's lost with his base, and yet we've got radio silence from the president and liberals running counter-messaging

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Why would the octogenarian President of the United States be reluctant to halt a US-funded genocide in the middle east

Could it be it's because he's a fucking racist? Like we've been saying since 2016?

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Covert white supremacy is not less dangerous than overt white supremacy: it's slower but much harder to stop

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@tmstreet Exactly: choosing to go against the politics and the morality now is nothing less than a principled stand in favor of genocide.

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@tmstreet I don't really think it parses out that way: you can't support Israel committing genocide and not be a racist - not only does it require you to devalue Palestinian lives, you would be actively supporting a racist project

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@tmstreet Probably

My point is that if you're trying to parse out which candidate is "safer" for US minorities, the obvious choice is really not looking very obvious right now

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I'm going to continue to insist that one of the richest men ever to live, and a critical US Defense contractor, literally being in the business of mainlining and spreading Nazism is a bigger issue than anything being chanted on any college campus. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/i-read-everything-elon-musk-posted-for-a-week-send-help/

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@lolgop "Bigger than anything being chanted out on college campuses"?

By definition it isn't, and this is incredibly disrespectful and unnecessary

"Also an important topic"? Yes
"A topic lolgop wants to talk about"? Yes
"Bigger than anything being chanted on any college campus"
Do you respect the chanters? Do you value their contributions? Do you think their protest is important? Maybe don't casually throw them under the bus to promote a different story

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@nlpbot @lolgop If that's what he was trying to say*, he didn't say that. If that's what he was trying to say*, I don't think that's a "misread" at all: I think that's bad writing

*which is a real big if, given

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@nlpbot @lolgop I'm over-reacting, and yet here you are just spitting out every possible excuse for why I'm supposed to think it means anything other than what he wrote

Fuck off, troll

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@nlpbot @lolgop

Who's adding things? You have to imagine it must have meant something other than what he wrote in order to even talk to me

Yeah I'm thinking "every possible excuse" is in your toolbag, tool bag.

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@nlpbot @lolgop

  1. You obviously care, because here you are

  2. I didn't misread him

Have fun gaslighting someone else

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@cy @lolgop I admire your imagination

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Actual spam: in my inbox
Important Vendor Conversations: going to junk for some reason

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Dear VR developers:

If your app requires me to use my physical keyboard while wearing a headset it's not ready for the public yet

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General Reminder To My Generation:

the way 00s emo and alternative bands describe relationships and love is generally not ideal, it's more like the opposite of ideal, that was kind of the whole genre was ideals of anti-idealism

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Also it was super sexist because Clear Channel pushed all the girl rockers off the air, so like please I'm begging you let's develop a new culture

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