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Long worthwhile article... You Are Not a Parrot And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html Excellent pick, thanks. It sets ou...

Early comment is that the shooter phoned in warnings and is a 14-year-old boy.

Holy fuck, what a world.

At least 4 dead: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/527091 ... in-custody

Shooter in custody - I expect it to be the traditional former student.

A priest, a minister, and a rabbi want to see who’s best at his job. So they each go into the woods, find a bear, and attempt to convert it. Later they get together. The priest begins: “When I found the bear, I read to him from the Catechism and sprinkled him with holy water. Next week is his First...

A priest gets a haircut and a shave, and asks the barber, “How much do I owe you?” The barber says, “For a man of the cloth like yourself, father, no charge!” The next morning when the barber opens the shop, he finds a bouquet of 12 flowers on his doorstep. Later that day a Buddhist monk is in gett...

Meadmaker wrote: ↑Sun Sep 01, 2024 2:48 am From the Washington Times.

There's your problem.

sparks wrote: ↑Sat Aug 31, 2024 7:42 pm Delusional about one thing, probably delusional about a lot of things.

Poor miserable (infected) bastards.

I have the odds of the pastor being caught with a rent boy at some stage at 5/13.

Guys like that are always about self-hate.

President Bush wrote: ↑Sat Aug 31, 2024 1:36 pmAsked him if he was trying to be funny when he said I needed to be more objective.

Proves my point that there's no use trying to reason with them - MAGA is another religion, and no argument makes any difference to belief.

Nice church and pastor: https://www.advocate.com/religion/dillo ... belltitem1

Amazingly, they're anti-vax, too. https://sbckjv.com/

At lunch there was a Boliviano sitting across from us going on and on in English about how much he loves Donald Trump. While acting like a total dick can every so often be a revolutionary act successfully pulling that off requires wit and originality. He has fans all over - I've seen (old white) Ki...