Hang on guys. Don't give up on Platner yet - maybe Sue Collins has a tattoo of a rat's anus!

When people are talking about genocide it feels like people think of the Holocaust as the archetypical example of genocide, so if a situation doesn't measure up to the Holocaust, it's not really genocide. It's weird; like if we were talking about theme parks, and people were saying 1/2...

I showed up late, but there's still a lot of people here

Do not stay at a Hyatt hotel. They're running fake "smoking detectors" specifically as a revenue-generating scheme and arbitrarily fining guests $500.

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1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation

Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation"

Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company

I went to a protest today. The organizers said 10 times as many people showed as they expected.

I went to this Tesla protest a month ago, and there were only about a dozen people. There's easily a couple hundred people today.

I just had a weird thought. You inherit 23 chromosomes from your father and 23 from your mother, and it's always exactly 50-50. But which 23 you inherit is random. Your mother could give you exactly the 23 she got from her mother. Then you'd be genetically unrelated to your maternal grandfather

I was a member just cause I happened to buy some camping chairs last year. Registering to vote was super easy. This is the article that convinced me to vote 'withold' www.cascadepbs.org/news/2025/03...

Random napkin math: LLMs training sets contain about 15 trillion tokens. At 1$ per word (what Google says is a low-end rate for a magazine article) this means the value of the training set is about 6 trillion dollars (a word is usually 2-3 tokens)

Introduce yourself with your Top 5 #TTRPG picks!

Apocalypse World
D&D (any edition)
Over the Edge
Paranoia
Capes

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I've just realized I have an unhealthy parasocial relationship with America, and that's one reason why I feel so shitty today

I had been expecting bullshit like this from the Republicans, but I'm surprised how pissed it makes me when I hear about it

Trumps insistence that he was wounded by a bullet is really reminding me of his reaction to his inauguration crowd size. It shouldn't be a big deal - despite the best efforts of the Republican party, most Americans have not been wounded by a bullet. He's just decided that it's important.

I just realized that LLMs are Douglas Adam's Electric Monk. They have read the entire internet, and they believe _all_ of it.