Rhaedas

Sometimes fan fiction takes an idea and does a better job, expanding it, fills in gaps, or simply goes places the author didn’t even think of. Some can stray too far from the core but still have some valid contributions. Some take a single line and tell their own exceptional story.

Boy, this whole shutdown and all it’s causing is doing the opposite of what the goal was - to forget about those Epstein files. There must REALLY be something they don’t want us to see. This makes the Streisand effect pale in comparison.

Martian. Or a maybe a Belter.

If anything the rest of our family has taken the lesson to heart to put into place things to protect their loved ones. And like you said, they could have done even a little to help themselves before it got too far, but for some reason they procrastinate, avoid or refuse help, and even lie and say they have everything worked out.

I hope your mom’s situation changes for the better to protect her, and you. If their relationship with each other is still good (some get toxic) I would push it hard and use some guilt and hypotheticals to get him to do something official if he cares for her at all. And if not… now might be a better time to cut loose than it being forced on her.

Some places are like that, and it makes sense. Others do not, and if there isn’t some formal paper connecting the two then they don’t get the benefits or penalties of making such commitment. I have a relative that lost their home of 35+ years because when the partner passed there was no mention in a will or any document of them contributing. Suddenly it wasn’t their place to live.

The best version of peer-reviewed.

They all have different personalities. Even among the ones like this that are bent on attacking everything, some do it more playfully and even with minimal clawing, while others are nightmare devils that are in kill mode. Who later are curled up in your lap all lovable.

I would speculate that almost all people have either a general version or have part of it in specifically tech funds, so almost everyone has “contributed” to this. Even better are people who have typical a 401k though a company that have very limited ways to change how the investing is done.

“Just get me a turkey club… uh… coleslaw, I guess… I’m not even going to eat it.”

Wonder what coleslaw does on impact?

Doesn’t seem like an arrest when it’s on Illegal grounds. I call it kidnapping. Which is where the actual authorities should be stepping in to do something about it, but I guess they’re seeing them as also officers in uniform and hey, got to support the blue, right? No matter what they’re doing to people.

Seems more of a “thump”, since it didn’t come open as the agent lied it did. Also, it certainly survived. Still wrapped, seems good enough to eat still. Doesn’t even need a 5 second rule.

Was it the sandwich itself, or the mustard and onions? I’m not clear on where their fear lies. PB&J, foot long subs, open face grilled cheese… we need to know the optimal offensive here. Eh, just bring a variety, and whatever doesn’t make them cower can be lunch.

Did anyone ask the sandwich how it felt?

I’ve only found success in LLM code (local) with smaller, more direct sections. Probably because it’s pulling from its training data the most repeated solutions to such queries. So for that it’s like a much better Google lookup filter that usually gets to the point faster. But for longer code (and it always wants to give you full code) it will start to drift and pull things out of the void, much like in creative text hallucination but in code it’s obvious.

Because it doesn’t understand what it’s telling you. Again, it’s a great way to mass filter Stack Overflow and Reddit answers, but remember in the past when searching through those, that can work well or be a nightmare. Just like then, don’t take any answer and just plug it in, understand why that might or might be a working solution.

It’s funny, I’ve learned a lot of my programming knowledge through the decades by piecing things together and in the debugging of my own or other’s coding, figured out what works. Not the greatest way to do it, but I learn best through necessity than without a purpose. But with LLM coding that goes wild, debugging has its limits, and there have been minor things that I’ve just thrown out and started over because the garbage I was handed was total BS wrapped up in colorful paper.

Yes, but there are far easier and cheaper ways to go. Dude must have just read about using things from space to control sunlight input and thought he’s such a genius surely he can figure it out. I guess he skipped over all the debunking that such ideas get.

And crucially, once we jump on the geoengineering train, we better not stop. It will only slow things and buy more time, but if we stop after beginning, the spike will be catastrophic (probably, there’s still so much we learn, but it won’t be a solution). But we will go that route, because economic health is far more important than anything else, and never plateaus by its very nature. There must be growth, or it all crashes down.

Some of us are old enough to remember how cats and other creatures would get killed by old car engine designs with the large open fan driven by a belt. They would sleep on that fan housing and not realize the danger when the car was started. So there have been improvements that have helped, maybe not necessarily for that reason. For what it’s worth, I’m on the side of minimizing cars for so many reasons, but it has been worse for animals in the past.

Shorting isn’t the problem as much as metal against metal bending things. Those contacts are fragile. Plastic or wood and being gentle won’t hurt anything.

Heinlein wrote about this very topic in “Job: A Comedy of Justice”.

Meanwhile that little block at the bottom is still doing its best to keep it all together. For now.

Mine is worse. I’ll tell them “Hey”, when they were clearing asking wtf was up about the food or some other situation that I’ve negligently ignored. They may meow again to clarify, and I’ll give them another “Hey”, which really annoys them.