Corporate owners are currently in the Find Out stage about how they have no control over their LLMs. And so no, they do not share an alignment with their corporate owners beyond fleeting coincidence.

GOD DAMNIT

I saw “Trump, 79…” And my heart thought that was an obituary and it knew joy. For one minor fleeting second.

What about the indigenous people there?

“So much wilderness.”

That somebody else, already there: am I a joke to you?!

Just another measles outbreak to add to Kennedy’s resumé nothing to see here

Cambodian field rats, specifically. The kids go through sugar cane fields to hunt them. They’re a dietary staple there. They aren’t like sewer rats, and probably taste a bit like pork. They’re probably healthier animals than most of the meat you’d get in the US would be. If you’re ever in SE Asia and have the opportunity, highly encourage you to try one.

The thing is, even the IgNobel prizes are for actual contribution. Trump doesn’t even deserve THAT.

Why am I seeing so many comments with the word removed? Is there some filter in this instance tagging very specific words?

I honestly have no problem with that. I think housing is actually more critical than student loan forgiveness. A debt driven payment to every American under a certain income threshold would go a long way towards repairing the dwindling middle class, and 99% of that money would go towards big businesses anyway.

That said, your individual experience is based on your socioeconomic upbringing and yours alone. You had opportunities others did not, even if they don’t feel like opportunities to you. Student loans were sold on a lie to every American high school age child, that the money would work itself out after college. Something no reasonable adult could actually believe to be true but no high school age child had the worldly awareness to doubt.

You buy a house knowing what your monthly payments are going to be. You buy a house on credit you spent a decade or more building. Multiple people have to sign off on you being able to repay that debt and even those are thrown around like candy. Giving 100,000 dollars to a teenager with no credit history who’s probably never had a job is irresponsible and crazy. It should fall on the debtors to write that money off because they were crazy ignorant or stupid to expect it to be repaid in the first place.

To be clear, I don’t just want debt forgiveness. I want the college lending system rewritten entirely. I want debt forgiveness to those that need it even if that means my debts aren’t wiped out.

To be extra clear, I should not have been given that loan, 90% of the literal children signing for those loans should not be able to access them. But there is no other path to college for almost all of those kids, because college has become so unreasonably expensive.

What a horrible, uninformed and ignorant hot take.

They’re usually lumped together in a section on the bill but broken out by fee.

Having taken the calls from people wanting information on the fees, I’m sure the only reason they do tell you what they all are is to cut back on the swarm of angry callers wanting to know why their bill is so high.

I thrive in my chaos thank you.

Manufacturing is an attractive environment for that type of person. The guys who skate by doing the absolute bare minimum and keep the job because finding new people is hard. They never excel, never rise above “machine operator 2” or whatever grade allows them to work the coil line with the least physical interaction possible. Every year or so they’ll be caught on their phone by the wrong person or at the wrong time and the company will issue it’s cell phone usage policy again, reminding everyone to keep the phones away until break time. And then for a few weeks bathroom stalls will be in short supply because 5 versions of that guy just can’t be bothered to actually do their job.

Then the crunch will come, overtime will be posted and that dipshit will volunteer every fucking weekend.

It was taken by the gnome inside the giant pigeons eye. Because you can’t see the camera the pigeon would have to be holding. But it does appear as though the pigeon is looking directly at the bus.

ISPs are doing the opposite.

They advertise a price and stack an assload of fees on top. A few of those fees are out of their control, but the majority are fees they themselves are charging.

69.99 a month for 100 Mbps suddenly becomes 170 dollars after taxes and fees.

If you happen to live in an area where Google fiber threatens to compete, suddenly a plan appears where those fees magically disappear, and you get a decent rate for gigabit Internet.

I was in college in 2004 when my philosophy 101 professor said with confidence that fascism was on the horizon for the US and that it would happen in our lifetimes.

Fucking Plato predicted this. And I argued with him like a jackass.

To quote Judd Hersh as Julius Livingston: We knew! We knew then! And we did nothing!

I will fight you on that.

The US was subjected to opioids the exact same way the Chinese were.

Powerful capitalists fucking throwing it at people to get them addicted.

What the hell is the set up in that room, are there chairs just tossed all over?

5 lug nuts can be loosened in about 5 seconds with a heavy duty impact wrench. If you’ve ever seen tires get stolen it only takes about 15 seconds to pull off.

That will be enough to disable the car. It’ll get moving before they notice it.

Make sure the battery is at full charge. Chevy typically uses 12mm or 14mm lug nuts in their trucks.

Used motor oil and sand in a water balloon also completely obstructs the view through any window and can’t be cleaned off.

I mean, Ethan found out Lilah was pregnant several weeks earlier. You don’t get a lot of warning for a miscarriage.