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shoq, 1 minute ago to random

I am flummoxed. @Green_Footballs keeps warning me that ChatGPT can write really borked code. I get that, but it also does pretty well on simple BATCH files. BUT THIS flusters: No matter how many times i tell it the three periods are causing an error and should be removed, it salutes, then regens the exact same error. It does this over and over again, no matter how many times I modify the prompt. WHY?

shoq, 1 hour ago to random

Is it any wonder Donald Trump has never had pets? If by some chance he ever did, it would have been very briefly. He probably ate what was edible, and threw the carcass in his neighbor’s yard.

shoq, 1 hour ago to random

Why did they elect @kristiNoem governor anyway? Was Hannibal Lecter too fictional to hold office at the time?

shoq, 1 hour ago to random

The only thing that skeeves me more than MAGA-grade conservatives, is any conservative who says something critical, but largely true, about liberals, liberalism, and their combined foibles, excesses and hypocrisies. It doesn’t hit home often, but when it does, it always leaves a bruise.

shoq, 1 hour ago to random

If the always reprehensible @KristiNoem can shoot a puppy because it annoys her, imagine what her kids must have felt like growing up if they got a failing grade or wet the bed?

Yes, please choose her, Mr. Trump. Please?

shoq, 2 hours ago to random

Such heartwarming humanity in this woman. Just imagine what she’ll do for the poor, the disadvantaged, and the mentally ill.

shoq, 2 hours ago to random

My friend @ben Werdmuller (@ben) is always on-point, no matter the point, but this essay is exquisite.

We need to be discussing our “social contract” in so many contexts. Let it begin here.

“Where I’m coming from”
https://werd.io/2024/where-im-coming-from

shoq, 2 hours ago to random

I’ve lived through this Middle-East drama for my entire life. Let me tell you how this story (doesn’t) end ⏵

Israel will end military operations in Gaza

Israel will vote out Netanyahu

International efforts will be pledged to rebuild Gaza until memories fade.

Palestinians will go right on allowing Hamas to use them for their own political ends.

Hamas terrorism will continue for years to come.

Israeli reprisals, oppressions and occupations will continue for years to come.

The end, not.

shoq, 2 hours ago to random

Pretending active measures don’t or won’t happen, merely because you approve of a particular cause, or are habitually wary of any claims of interference by anyone, is simply denying things we’ve experience first hand for the last 8 to 100 years.

shoq, 3 hours ago to random

Autocracy and fascism are threatening the American Experiment and perhaps the Enlightenment itself, but at least Beyoncé is saving country music.

shoq, 3 hours ago to random

I am getting the sense that if this is encouraged to build any larger, all that will be achieved is a lot of commencements, if not graduations themselves, will be delayed or canceled outright, denying tens of thousands of students that hard-earned once in a lifetime moment.

shoq, 3 hours ago to random

#alivelshi While many of these protests started out sincerely enough, this has morphed into performative political stunts by a) opportunistic grifters who show up at any fire to throw gasoline on it, and b) foreign adversaries who know how to skillfully enable and program them.

shoq, 4 hours ago to random

Every year that I get older, college students seem to get a year younger. Weird.

shoq, 4 hours ago to random

I’m old enough to remember when only crackpots wanted to lecture you on how “America is a Republic, not a democracy.” They had no idea what either word meant, but it sure made them feel smarter saying it. Now the entire Republican party is crackpots and they’re all saying it. So it goes.

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shoq, 5 hours ago to random

#BreakGlassMoment #UrgentReformsMovement

shoq, 5 hours ago to random

It’s still unsettling to see people join threads and already have 5000 or more followers, because they had them on Instagram. There’s nothing really wrong with that, but lots of worthless accounts had thousands of IG accounts. It just contributes to still more inauthenticity. I just loathe Meta, and it will always make liking Threads a challenge for me, no matter what good is “appears” to bring in the short term.

shoq, 5 hours ago to random

Good morning! Performatively speaking, anyway. Any chance it’s remotely accurate this time?

shoq, 16 hours ago to random

Kristi Noem defends her account of killing own dog in new book.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/kristi-noem-defends-account-killing-dog-new-book-rcna149631

BlackAzizAnansi, 17 hours ago to random

What does resistance look like under a GOP government?

shoq, 18 hours ago to random

There should be a special (often postumous) Darwin Award for people who stand their ground, capturing killer tornados not more than a half mile from their position.

shoq, 20 hours ago to random

Outside the Fort Lauderdale courthouse earlier, was a small Palestinian demonstration. One was chanting “Palestinians need ‘their’ land back.”

I asked him if he understood that that’s how many Jews have felt for about 20 centuries. He started screaming at me, called me a “Jew-loving fascist” who was “ignorant of history.”

That sort of blithering isn’t helpful.