The people who made out like bandits during the 1849 gold rush sold panning equipment and shovels. This is the modern version of that.

Yeah, most planets have the same rotation direction as orbital direction (counter-clockwise rotation, counter-clockwise orbit) but Venus rotates clockwise.

It’s a meme. That’s how I know the context.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/but-you-cant-prove-it-james-doakes-reaction-images

Where is the week strait? Is it near Friday island?

They’ve changed their name since. Now they’re the Chicago Cubs

No matter how silly you think someone else’s religion is, you don’t get to dictate what others believe or how they get to believe. China has effectively made a religion functionally extinct with their actions. No matter how you slice it, it’s a loss for humanity.

I’m confused. I read the article which seems to pretty clearly lay out what the researchers did and it was “we laid breadcrumbs out for the agent that it was going to be replaced, who was replacing them, gave them compromising material on who was replacing them, implied that the agent wouldn’t be able to reach out to anyone but that person to stop it, and then the agent chose to blackmail the individual”. It doesn’t seem like the agent was prompted to choose blackmail. The list that was shown was the agent “talking” to itself, as it “reasoned” through the problem, a common design tactic for agentic models to increase transparency and make its behavior more consistent (it tends to make shit up less if it is forced to explain what it’s doing).

Alright. Doesn’t change my main point. Which is the person’s name for the master branch is fucking weird.

Not gonna lie, the master branch thing has been perceived as problematic but I don’t typically see an issue with it. It’s similar to master bedroom or bath. Kind of fucked up name origin, but I don’t think anyone’s really making a fuss about it.

Whatever the fuck you’re doing though feels like some gross, racist fantasy. It’s really weird, dude. If you think that’s funny you might need to go talk to some real people or touch grass.

The weed

No. It was 26 years ago, because we were handling it in the run-up to 2000, not the following December.

Literally being used in the absurdist manner also dates back to the 1800s

Literally was being used as an intensifier in both cases where it was being used to signify the truth of something and in the absurdist manner. So, no, it didn’t lose all meaning. So long as you’re not emphasizing something too absurd to be considered real, the original meaning still holds. And if someone uses the word to emphasize something that could be real, though unlikely, they’ll likely get the appropriate follow-up.

On the Crescendo one, do you also get mad about forte? Cause basically the same thing happened there. And no one will confuse the music term for the colloquial term in either case.

Oligopolies, monopolies. Potato tomato, potato tomato

Decrying an entire group of people as “Leopards Ate their faces” when not even one in five of them did so? Kinda fucked.

It’s a live service thing. I think the term popped up in 2019 with the modern warfare remake, but the concept’s been around for a while. Googled it

One, online school is now a viable option so this conversation is basically moot. Two, those policies tend to be written in, if not blood, expensive litigation and terrible optics. Minnesota used to have a very aggressive avoidance policy to school closures. Then 300 kids didn’t get home after school until 9pm-12am. . Now school gets delayed or closed much more regularly.

I think a sizable portion of their population is the main requirement here, something that I emphasized far more and is also not something that applies. But yes, having an actual impact on the election is an important consideration.

Either Schumer didn’t want it, in which case he’s lost control of the caucus and should no longer be minority leader

Or he privately did, but publicly denounced it, meaning the same as above.

Either way, it’s ultimately his responsibility that this happened.