I agree that a mold of their vagina isn’t going to help.
However… Have you ever met someone whose OCD compulsion is Kegel exercises? Can’t really get a replica.
Sometimes, it is, indeed, what’s in their pants. Sometimes, it’s not what’s in their partner’s head.
Bill pay through your bank. Fuck their payment processor.
When an old landlord pulled some bullshit on me, I paid a month’s rent with 31 paper checks, delivered once a day, direct from my bank.
I’m more interested in the technology itself, rather than its current application.
I feel like I am watching a toddler taking her first steps; wondering what she will eventually accomplish in her lifetime. But the loudest voices aren’t cheering her on: they’re sitting in their recliners, smugly claiming she’s useless. She can’t even participate in a marathon, let alone compete with actual athletes!
Basically, the best AIs currently have college-level mastery of language, and the reasoning skills of children. They are already far more capable and productive than anti-vaxxers, or our current president.
very articulated persons
I know there’s a joke here about “getting bent”, but I can’t quite articulate it.
Wait… I think I just did…
In my experience, homework is garbage. It’s busywork. The intent of homework is fine: repeat exposure of what you have previously learned. The execution of that intent is generally a piss-poor waste of time and energy.
The single best way I know of to retain information is to teach it to someone. Tutor someone, or group study. Or, in the absence of actually teaching it, plan a lesson, as though you intend to teach it to someone.
It found 51% of all AI answers to questions about the news were judged to have significant issues of some form.
How good are the human answers? I mean, I expect that an AI’s error rate is currently higher than an “expert” in their field.
But I’d guess the AI is quite a bit better than, say, the average Republican.
Using an unabridged dictionary instead of my 4th-grade textbook’s glossary.
Every new unit in social studies had a vocabulary box with about a dozen “new” words. The teacher’s first assignment in each unit was to write out each word, then the complete definition of that word from the glossary. Each assignment was worth 10 points. Anyone who “failed” the assignment (less than 7 out of 10 points) was given a lunch detention: no recess.
Some units had only a handful of words; the assignment would end up being 2 or 3 pages. Some units had a lot more. They would end up being 5 or 6 pages.
She took off points for each misspelled word, missed punctuation, bad handwriting. The assignment had to be completed in ink, and she prohibited corrections of any sort. No erasable ink: If you made any error anywhere on the page, she expected you to rewrite the entire page. If the ink stopped flowing in your pen, and it produced an interrupted line, that was a point off.
It had to be turned in on standard ruled paper. Using college rule was an instant failure.
Once, I found a nice pen. It was a 1mm ballpoint. It produced nice, thick, clean, dark lines. It wrote smoothly. It was the first pen I found that I actually liked writing with.
Points knocked off immediately: she called it a “marker”, and the assignment was supposed to be completed with a “pen”.
One night, I had forgotten my social studies textbook at school. I decided against even attempting the assignment, and resigned myself to another lunch detention. Dad had other ideas. He insisted that I was exaggerating; the the teacher would be reasonable and accommodating. He said that she would appreciate the effort, and might even give me extra credit for going above and beyond.
He called around, and got the vocabulary list for me. He sat me down with the list and his big, unabridged dictionary, and told me to start writing. I remember that I filled two whole pages with the definition of a single word, and that I turned in 15 pages.
When she was grading my assignment, she called me up, and asked me what I had done. I explained that I had used a dictionary. She pulled out a big red marker, wrote a giant “F” across the first page, and gave me two lunch detentions for my obstinance.
She fucked me up for a few years. All I learned from her was that if I couldn’t achieve absolute perfection, there was no point in even trying.
New Mexico? You mean “South America”, right?
(Everything south of the Rio Grande is now “Mexico”. Except for the Panama America canal.)
I think that’s for the best.
Check out Rai stones.
Although the ownership of a particular stone might change, the stone itself is rarely moved due to its weight and risk of damage. Thus the physical location of a stone was often not significant: ownership was established by shared agreement and could be transferred even without physical access to the stone. Each large stone had an oral history that included the names of previous owners.
In one instance, a large rai being transported by canoe and outrigger was accidentally dropped and sank to the sea floor. Although it was never seen again, everyone agreed that the rai must still be there, so it continued to be transacted as any other stone.
You can’t out-auth a fascist without becoming a fascist.
If you’re going to do something like jail subversive elements, you best make sure you can’t be considered a subversive element yourself.
Correct. Orthogonal to both the prograde/retrograde and the radial/anti-radial axis.
AFAIK, “normal” follows the right-hand rule. If you point your straight index finger prograde, and your thumb points radially, your middle finger, bent perpendicular to the other two, is “normal”.
I wouldn’t be so quiet to discredit sacrifices
What the fuck are you talking about? I haven’t discredited anybody. I’m about to start, though: That was fucking uncalled for. Pull your fucking head out of your ass.
With the exception of that last sentence, I haven’t insulted or degraded anyone in the slightest, and I only used that degrading tone to get your attention. I don’t intend to continue that disrespectful tone past this point.
I can’t say that I would consider the National Guard to be a Civil Service
I never said the National Guard was a civil service. I never described it as a civil service. It is not at all a civil service. The National Guard is an armed service. It is Militia, not Military, and I tried to describe the difference. I hold both in high esteem. Any insult you may have perceived did not originate with me. You should examine your own prejudices.
When an 18-year-old Texan joins the military, they can expect to be assigned to a post somewhere on the planet, per the needs of the service. He will be garrisoned wherever the military needs him, for as long as they need him there. He might remain on the same base his entire career; he might be bounced around the planet every 12-24 months.
When an 18-year-old Texan joins the militia, they can expect to be assigned to a post somewhere in Texas, and remain assigned to that post for the duration of his career.
Yes, they can both be deployed. Yes, they can both TDY. Yes, they will both be sent for training which may not be in state. But when they come back from any of these, the guardsman will always be sent back home, while the active duty serviceman can be sent anywhere.
In the context of this thread, mandatory military service would put the individual directly into federal service, with the implication that the conscript will be trained and sent anywhere on the planet.
Mandatory national guard service implies they will be trained, then sent home in state service, until and unless they are activated into federal service.
AI is far more than just image generation.
I think you’re looking for words like:
Prograde - In the direction of spin.
Retrograde - Against the direction of spin.
Nadirial or Anti-radial - Toward the center of rotation; “Up” in your centrifugal graviation model
Radial or Anti-Nadirial - Away from the center of rotation; “Down” in your model.
Throwing a bowling ball “prograde”, it will experience greater “gravity” than normal. If you throw it retrograde, it will experience less gravity than normal, unless you throw it more than twice as fast as the prograde velocity, in which case it will experience more gravity.
Not at all.
Companies issue their own stock. They don’t own it. The shareholders who buy it or otherwise acquire it are the owners. And if those owners have more than $10 million worth of it, they can afford to pay 1% of everything they own beyond that first $10 million.
I won’t prohibit companies from owning other publicly traded companies, but they don’t get special status when they do. That status is reserved for natural persons, and only $10 million of the the stock owned by such a person is exempt from taxation.
The point is the ultra-wealthy pay very smart people to work out loopholes.
Correct. The securities tax I’m talking about is not the actual solution. The loopholes they use to avoid that securities tax is the solution. The actual solution is for them to actually spend their wealth and enjoy their lives, rather than treating the economy like some idle clicker.
I served in the military from '99 through '05.
In California, the only military members I knew of who had California drivers licenses were people who had grown up in California. Nobody else in considered themselves a “resident” of California.
We were briefed on how to obtain absentee ballots from our home states, because most of us didn’t qualify as residents at our post.
We were advised to file taxes in our home states, not the states where we were living and working.
The parking lots on base had more out-of-state license plates than in-state.
Military members and their dependents are guests of the local community. Visitors. Tourists. Not locals. We aren’t in their communities long enough to become locals.
If they are holding shares that can be traded in US markets, the SEC knows about those shares, and ultimately controls those shares. They don’t need your Panamanian shell company to release them. You’ll wake up one morning to find that a portion of the shares formerly in your shell company’s portfolio are now in the IRS’s portfolio. The SEC just ctrl-x’d them from your portfolio, and ctrl-v’d them to the IRS.
Your Panamanian shell company is not a “natural person”. Only “natural persons” are eligible for the $10 million dollar exemption. Your shell company pays the tax on its entire portfolio, not just the excess above $10 million.
Didn’t even realize it was a Facebook link I pulled. My bad. Fixed.
Sure, but no need for combs, hair product, trips to the barber… I shave my face in the shower, and just keep going.